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
Amelia Earhart, Emily Dickinson, Matmos, Messiaen, gudrun gut, Sekou Sundiata, the Books, Andrew Bird, the Shins, Twiin, Ratatat, late Bjork, DJ Krush, Photek, Sugar Shortwave, Radiohead, Amiina, Laurie Anderson, Brian Eno, Sigur Ros, Sufjan Stevens, Syrup, Meredith Monk, Morten Lauredson, Eric Whitacre, Drepulung monks, Steve Reich, Stieglitz's b+w photos of Georgia O'Keefe, Gondry's gravitational axises, Paik Nam Jun, Durafle, Ray and Charles Eames' Powers of 10, anything innovative and well-crafted that still has a soul.
Sounds Like
whatever makes sound and makes (subconscious) sense:
Bora Yoon is an experimental multi-instrumentalist, composer and performer, who creates architectural soundscapes from everyday found objects, chamber instruments, digital devices, and voice.
Yoon—who’s been featured in WIRE magazine and on the front page of The Wall Street Journal for her musical innovations—explores where sound connects to the subliminal and its performance environment 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, antiquated audio technology, and acoustics.
Using a sound designer’s approach to performance composition that is steered by a penchant for a song, she creates music that plays with sensory associations and spatial idiosyncrasies, with much spontaneity and little regard to the classifying genres of instrumentation.
An interdisciplinary 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. She also 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).
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 musicians Dj Spooky, Ben Frost, Kaki King, data artist R. Luke DuBois, multimedia theatre companies Ridge Theatre and Dhamma Theatre West, site-specific choreographer Noemie Lafrance, composer Michael Gordon, poet Sekou Sundiata, and the League of Electronic Musicians & Urban Robots (LEMUR).
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 Billboard, BMI, and the Arion Foundation; and published by Swirl Records, MIT Press, 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 instrument design and performance collaborations with the League of Electronic Musicians & Urban Robots (LEMUR); recording remix projects with DJ Spooky, Meredith Monk, and early music group New York Polyphony; a wax cylinder record for UK phonograph artist Aleks Kolkowski’s museum collection - while ( (( 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
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 +++
