Bora Yoon

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Name = Bora Yoon


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Born = 1980
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Genre = Avant-garde, Contemporary classical
Occupation = Singer-songwriter
performance artist
multi-instrumental sound architect
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URL = http://www.borayoon.com/
Notable_instruments = mobile phones, vox, electric violin, musicbox, Tibetan singing bowl, water, keys, guitar, live samples and loops

Bora Yoon (born 1980) is an American musician who uses unconventional instruments in her music.

Early life

Yoon grew up in the United States outside Chicago, Illinois. [ [http://www.baltimoresun.com/technology/bal-cellmusic0604,0,7648146.story?coll=bal-technology-headlines Topic Galleries - baltimoresun.com ] ] 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, with a first love of choral music.

Musical genre

Yoon's eclectic musical style uses unconventional sources (everyday found objects, chamber instruments and digital devices) to generate music.

he explores where sound connects to the subliminal through the timbre languages offered in the voice, violin, water, ancient Tibetan singing bowls, cell phones, music boxes, glockenspiel, guitar, found sounds, and electronics.

She uses a sound designer’s approach to performance composition with song form, and can ably tune to sizzling bacon fat and harmonize to the whir of a G5, to create music that plays with sensory associations and spatial idiosyncrasies, with much spontaneity and little regard to the classifying genres of instrumentation.

The Ithacan said "Yoon is a remarkable talent..." Noise Art Magazine wrote "...operatic and intense, genre-scrambling and iconoclastic... smart and different... a cut or three above the rest." Her work and musical innovations have been featured on the front page of the Wall Street Journal.

Multi-disciplinary Achievements

Musical work and tours

As a performer, Yoon has toured her experimental soundwork internationally, presenting her works at Lincoln Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, the KBS/Nam June Paik Museum in Seoul, the Melbourne International Arts Festival, the Guggenheim Museum, Tonic, Roselee Goldberg’s PERFORMA Arts Biennial, John Zorn’s Stone, the annual Pop!Tech conference, MTV Networks, and in universities across the country, including residencies at Bard College and the Walker Art Center. Additionally, she has curated experimental music for the SummerScreen series in the historic McCarren Pool, premiered a one-woman experimental opera by Paul Steven Ray, and created new vinyl-pressed works in collaboration with Reykjavik-based sound artist Ben Frost (Bedroom Community) for the Journal of Popular Noise (Spring/Summer Issue 08).

Yoon’s wide-ranging talents have led to collaborative performances with electronics giant SAMSUNG, media philosopher DJ Spooky, and the late poet Sekou Sundiata in the America Project and multimedia swansong: The 51st (dream) state. She has performed with Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble, Maestro Helmuth Rilling, members of Bang On A Can All Stars, guitarist Kaki King, multimedia artist Luke Dubois (Harvestworks, Columbia), tabla artist Suphala, beatbox artists Adam Matta and Taylor McFerrin, and Voices of Ascension choir.

patial Composition & Sound Design

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 convert|55000|sqft|m2|abbr=on, empty McCarren Pool for the site-specific dance piece Agora II, and created and performed the multi-speaker live sound score for the aerial dance piece Rapture, reverberated off the dynamic curves of Frank Gehry’s Fisher Center (Bard College) as part of a collaboration with award-winning choreographer Noémie Lafrance.

On April 27, 2008, the Young People's Chorus of New York City presented the world premiere of Semaphore Conductus, a spatial acoustic choral sound installation inspired by the conduction of energy, signals, and sounding devices (conch, gramophone, megaphone, cell phones) commissioned for, and sung in surround-sound by, the Young People’s Chorus of New York at Columbia University's Miller Theatre.

Film work

Bora Yoon stars in Samsung Anycall commercial film for the "Talk Play Love" advertising campaign, broadcast in South Korea in 2007-8.

Bora Yoon has appeared on "Womyn Unsilenced", an award winning documentary on the lives of 5 women, and on the "Molten Lava" music video which was broadcast on MTV Networks and MTV Labs. She has also provided the musical score for the films "Flower of a Girl", "Joy", and "Heute Nacht".". [ http://www.gingerkroll.com/media/Killing_Mr._Right_Press_Kit_3.6.06.pdf ]

Honors and awards

*2002 International John Lennon Songwriting Contest [ [http://www.bmi.com/news/entry/233118 BMI.com | BMI Foundation Announces Winners of 5th Annual John Lennon Scholarship ] ]
*11th annual Billboard Songwriting Contest (Jazz Division)
*award recipient of the Arion Foundation

Discography

*"Bora Yoon" (1999), Debut solo album
*"JAAM" (2000), Mutant Soul Records, an experimental jazz/trip-hop album, featured track with Access 58 (UK) and Gerd (Netherlands).
*"apArtments" (2001), local compilation of great and varied artists in Upstate New York.
*"Proscenium" (2003), award winning 2nd full-length solo album
*"Sons Nouveau" (2006), EP, Kaki King tour 2006
*"Dreaming of Revenge" (2008), featured on violin in "Air & Kilometers", Kaki King (Velour Music).

References

External links

* [http://www.borayoon.com Bora Yoon official website]