BORA YOON is an experimental multi-instrumentalist, composer and performer, who creates architectural soundscapes from voice, everyday found objects, chamber instruments, and digital devices. 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 in an art form that is part radio foley, part musical sound design, and movement – creating music that plays with sensory associations and spatial idiosyncrasies with much spontaneity and little regard to the classifying genres of instrumentation. Yoon has toured her original soundwork internationally, at Lincoln Center, the Nam June Paik Museum in Seoul, Patravadi Theatre in Bangkok, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Roulette Intermedium, the Bang on a Can Marathon, and universities across the globe. Collaborators include programmer and live visualist R. Luke DuBois, early music quartet New York Polyphony, Iceland-based producer Ben Frost, site-specific choreographer Noémie Lafrance the League of Electronic Musicians & Urban Robots, multimedia theatre companies Ridge Theatre and Dhamma Theatre West, composer Michael Gordon, and the late poet Sekou Sundiata. Her music has been presented by the Electronic Music Foundation, TED conference, Microsoft, and Samsung; commissioned by the Young Peoples Chorus and the SAYAKA Ladies Chorale of Tokyo; awarded fellowships by the New York Foundation for the Arts, and Asian American Arts Alliance; supported by the Sorel Music, Billboard, BMI, and the Arion Foundation; and published by Boosey and Hawkes, Innova Music, SubRosa, Swirl Records, and the Journal of Popular Noise. Yoon is currently scoring and performing the live music for Haruki Murakami’s “Wind Up Bird Chronicle”- an interdisciplinary multimedia theatre adaptation, directed by Stephen Earnhart. Presented by the Barshynikov Art Center and Asia Society, and to premiere the world stage at the Edinburgh International Arts Festival in August of 2011. www.borayoon.com
