Bora Yoon
Bora Yoon is an experimental sound artist, composer and performer, who creates architectural soundscapes from 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 has presented her original soundwork ( (( PHONATION )) ) internationally, at Lincoln Center, the Nam June Paik Museum in Seoul, Patravadi Theatre in Bangkok, the Bang on a Can Marathon, BAM, and John Zorn’s Stone. Her music has been presented by Samsung and the Electronic Music Foundation; commissioned by the Young People’s Chorus Chorus of NYC and SAYAKA Ladies Chorale of Tokyo; awarded by Billboard, BMI, the Arion Foundation and the Asian American Arts Alliance; and published by Swirl Records, MIT Press, and the Journal of Popular Noise. Upcoming plans include scoring and performing in the staged production of Haruki Murakami's acclaimed "Wind Up Bird Chronicle"; custom instrument design and performance with LEMUR; recording and remix projects with DJ Spooky, Meredith Monk, and early music group New York Polyphony; and a wax cylinder record for UK phonograph artist Aleks Kolkowski’s museum collection— while ( (( PHONATION )) ) continues to resonate and rarefact in concert.
