echoes, layers, people who understand negative space-- how to arrange it, be coy with it, and let the silences resound into one swank of a swerve
Influences
Matmos, Messiaen, gudrun gut, Sekou Sundiata, the Books, Andrew Bird, Fiona Apple, the Shins, Twiin, Ratatat, DJ Krush, late Bjork, Photek, Sugar Shortwave, Radiohead, Amiina, Laurie Anderson, Brian Eno, Sigur Ros, Sufjan Stevens, Ani Difranco, Syrup, Mark Farina, Meredith Monk, Morten Lauredson, Drepulung monks, Steve Reich, Stieglitz's b+w photos of Georgia O'Keefe, Gondry's gravitational axises, Paik Nam Jun, George Crumb, DJ Spooky, the Powers of 10, global design chainletters, anything innovative and well-crafted that still has a soul.
Sounds Like
musical sound design w/ whatever makes sound and makes sense. from spatial acoustic, to tactile visceral. so long as it moves the heart, and turns the mind.
Bora Yoon is a multi-instrumentalist, composer and performer, who creates architectural soundscapes from everyday found objects, chamber instruments, digital devices, and voice.
Yoon—who’s been featured on the front page of The Wall Street Journal for her musical innovations—explores where sound connects to the subliminal through the timbres of the human voice, viola, water, Tibetan singing bowls, radios, cell phones, metronomes, music boxes, glockenspiel, guitar, found sounds, custom-built instruments, electronics, and antiquated audio technology. Using a sound designer’s approach to performance composition that is steered by a penchant for a song, she can ably tune to sizzling bacon fat and harmonize to the whir of a G5, creating music that plays with sensory associations and spatial idiosyncrasies, with much spontaneity and little regard to the classifying genres of instrumentation.
An accomplished composer, Yoon addresses the dimensionality of space and sound in her original works: she conceived the stereophonic sound mural “Doppler Dreams” for seven sopranos on bicycles in Brooklyn's 55,000 sq. foot, abandoned McCarren Pool for the site-specific dance piece Agora II - and composed Semaphore Conductus, a choral work sung in surround, inspired by the conduction of energy and signals, featuring an antiphonal of sounding devices through time (conch, gramophone, megaphone, cell phones) that premiered at Columbia University with the Young People’s Chorus of NY.
As a solo performer, Yoon has toured her experimental soundwork and new record
( (( PHONATION )) ) internationally, presenting 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.
Yoon’s wide-ranging talents have led to collaborations and performances with sound artist Ben Frost, Ridge Theatre, site-specific choreographer Noemie Lafrance, guitarist Kaki King, media philosopher DJ Spooky, multimedia artist R. Luke Dubois, beatbox artist Adam Matta, Dhamma Theatre West, and the late poet Sekou Sundiata in the 51st (dream) state and the America Project.
Yoon’s music has been presented by the Electronic Music Foundation and electronics giant 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.
A graduate of Ithaca College’s Conservatory of Music and creative writing program, she is classically trained in the school of studied thought and improvisational sciences, and is steeped in a first love of choral music, acoustics and frequencies. She is endlessly fascinated by the intersection of space and sound, maps, human Venn diagrams, handsome sounding kitchenware, and the pulleys and strings that hold everything together.
Upcoming plans include custom original instrument design and performance collaborations with Brooklyn’s League of Electronic Musicians & Urban Robots (LEMUR), collaborations with motion graphics artist Joshue Ott, and new works and performances with the America Project, as ( (( PHONATION )) ) continues to resonate and rarefact in concert.
www.borayoon.com
// IMG Artists // BMI //GRAMMY // Asian Arts Alliance
"Nuanced timbre and careful use of space... enchanting." --WIRE magazine "Analog and digital" --THEME magazine "Totally unique." -- KoreAm Journal
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We’re playing a collaborative
concert with Greta Gertler next
Tuesday, 6/23 at Joe’s Pub, one of our very favorite venues in New York. It’s
going to be a special night with lots of new music. We hope you can make it…
Happy New Years!!! Wish you the best of luck in the new year.... love and miss ya was going to join you guys down there but been working really long hours and the freakin' snow. it's ok b/c this is my last ny winter!!!
Exclusive bonus track edition of new digital single The Hook (feat. Spleen & Celena Glenn), with remixes by DJ Spinna and Stefan Rogall – mpathiq, available from August 12 on DancetracksDigital. com.
To my dearest, dearest B. Here's to you on your birthday. Let's hope this works:
You are the love of my, love of my, li-hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiife!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this works are actually recorded in the nice tourist town Dresden where Jan lived for 4 years and on several places in germany/thuringia and denmark/sjaeland +++ Jan recorded all with an old 4-track, one old minidisc-recorder, two old guitars and some old pedals and a brand new notebook+++Enrico Wuttke aka Flim helped him out with some Fieldrecordings and beautiful Piano Pieces+++ new tracks are growing every day on his minidisc-walkman he records woods, highways/autobahnen, shopping centers, farms, children rooms, camping sites, rehearsel rooms and roofgardens ...etc and himself and his friends and familys+++ since spring 2007 he lives on a farm in thuringia, germany+++to be continued +++
