Bora Yoon is an experimental multi-instrumentalist, composer and performer, who creates architectural soundscapes from everyday found objects, chamber instruments, digital devices, and voice.
Featured in WIRE magazine and on the front page of The Wall Street Journal for her musical innovations—Yoon explores where sound connects to the subliminal and its performance environment, creating music that plays with sensory associations and spatial idiosyncrasies - forming new languages with technologies of different eras with much spontaneity and little regard to the classifying genres of instrumentation.
Yoon has toured her original soundwork ( (( PHONATION )) ) internationally, at Lincoln Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Nam June Paik Museum in Seoul, Patravadi Theatre in Bangkok, the Bang on a Can
Marathon, John Zorn’s Stone, the annual Pop!Tech conference, and universities across the globe.
Collaborators include musicians DJ Spooky, Ben Frost, Kaki King; data artist Luke DuBois; site-specific choreographer Noémie Lafrance; multimedia theatre companies Ridge Theatre and Dhamma Theatre West;
composer Michael Gordon; poet Sekou Sundiata; and the League of Electronic Musicians & Urban Robots (LEMUR),
Her music has been presented by the Electronic Music Foundation and Samsung; commissioned by the Young People’s Chorus of NYC and the SAYAKA Ladies Chorale of Tokyo; awarded by the John Lennon Songwriting Contest, Billboard, and the Arion Foundation; and published by MIT Press, Swirl Records, and the Journal of Popular Noise.
www.borayoon.com
