Thrilled to be making our Scandinavian premiere overseas at the MADE Festival in Umea Sweden! Featuring performances by Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Ikue Mori & Koichi Makigami, The Inbetweens, Sibille Attar, Bora Yoon & many more. Curated by David Moss.  Tickets and more info >>
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Hyundai Gallery of Seoul presents the remarkable work of kinetic sculptor, Uram Choe.  His first show in South Korea in 10 years, this exhibit features new works of mythical proportions, and is now featuring the music of Bora Yoon as the surrounding immersive sound installation, in its final days.  Open now through Sunday, December 9th.
Friends in Seoul: please go experience these living breathing machinations of otherworldly dimensions, before this very special exhibit ends.  Featured tracks include new works of forthcoming record Sunken Cathedral, co-produced by R. Luke DuBois.   Stay tuned for exciting developments, as Sunken Cathedral unveils in full, in 2013!   more info

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Ann Hamilton’s newest work ‘the event of a thread’ premieres at the Park Avenue Armory — a site-specific work for the vast drill hall space.  Featuring 42 swings from 4-story pendulums, readers / writers from Anne Bogart’s SITI Company, homing pigeons, and nightly vocalists from NYC’s finest from Meredith Monk Ensemble, Einstein on the Beach, Philip Glass Ensemble, Steve Reich ensemble, Voices of Ascension and M6, performing a new work by David Lang.  Featuring Bora Yoon on Sun. January 6th, end of day (6:45p).  Join us for this exciting event and truly unique and remarkable experience.  Exhibit open from Dec 5th ~ Jan 6th, noon til 7pm.     more info
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The Park Avenue Armory presents the Under Construction Series — an intimate salon series of work-in-progress works by the city’s critically acclaimed artists: Meredith Monk, Helga Davis, soprano Lauren Flanagan, Bora Yoon, Somi, and string quartet ETHEL.  On Saturday 9/22, Bora Yoon will present a work-in-progress showing of her developing 1-woman music / theater work “Weights & Balances”. Video design by Adam Larsen. Join us for this very special event!  tickets | more info
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Asian American Arts Alliance proudly presents the 1st annual Locating the Sacred Festival – a 12-day, citywide festival, celebrating the vibrancy and voices of Asian America today!

Opening night concert by Bora Yoon & RIYAAZ Qawwali (mystic Sufi chant) group — featuring  a very special opening blessing by Burmese monks from the All Burmese Monks Alliance.   Join us for this remarkable event of spirit and song.

Hosted by the gorgeous and newly renovated Church of Ascension, on 5th Avenue & 10th.  Grab your tickets today!   more info >>>
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SYMPHO presents its new 2012 commission, at the unique architectural structure of Ann Hamilton’s Tower in Geyserville California.  Co-composed by Paul Haas, Christopher Bono and Bora Yoon. Staging design by Ruth Pongstaphone.   Performances June 16th & 17th.  Get your tickets today!   Supported by the Oliver Ranch Foundation.
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ccrreeaaaakkk!  The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle heads to the Singapore Arts Festival for its Asia premiere this May!

Adapted from the award-winning novel by Japan’s most celebrated writer, Haruki Murakami and directed by Stephen Earnhart.  Co-written with Greg Pierce, Set and Puppet Design by Tom Lee, Lighting Design by Laura Mrockowski, Sound Design and Music by Jane Shaw, Choreography by Kota Yamazaki, Costume Design by Oana Botez-Ban, Video Projection Design by Adam Larsen, Music and Live Performance by Bora Yoon.  Performances May 25 & 26th, 8pm & 3pm.  Solo performance by live musician Bora Yoon 5/27 at 9pm.

Supported by the Asia Society, Japan Foundation, Greenwall Foundation, NYSCA, Saison Foundation, Asian Cultural Council, Baryshnikov Arts Center, 3LD, Under the Radar, GOH Productions, the Embassy of the United States of America, London, and the Edinburgh International Festival Director’s Circle.

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Asia Society presents special APAP performance and premiere of DIS/ORIENTED: ANTONIONI IN CHINA is conceived by choreographer Yin Mei as a dance theater “conversation” with Italian film director Michelangelo Antonioni’s rarely-seen documentary film Chung Kuo (China). Traversing the line between the historical and the personal, the past and the present, DIS/ORIENTED: ANTONIONI IN CHINA reflects the experience of a generation of artists raised during the Cultural Revolution.  In collaboration with avant-garde Korean-American composer/performer Bora Yoon,  Fei Bo of the Chinese National Ballet, and Huang Sha providing “live cinema” camera work.  Directed by Hansol Jung.   One performance only!  Join us, Sunday January 13th, at 7pm. Asia Society New York, 725 Park Avenue (btw 70th & 71st street) | map | Voices of Ascension Chorus & Orchestra performs “Semaphore Conductus” — a unique choral surround-sound work in the stunning newly renovated Church of the Ascension.  Directed by Dr. Dennis Keene.
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Join us this next Thursday, April 19th, at 8pm — for this unique program of SPIRITUAL VOICES — old and new.  Featuring Gustav Holst’s Rig Veda Hymns with women’s chorale and harp, Haydyn’s Theresiennemesse, and new work by Sorel winner, Dobrinka Tabakova!   Tickets | more info
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Bora Yoon named the 2012 Gulf Coast Community Foundation Hermitage Artist in Resident at the Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida >>>

Read recent review of lecture / performance with longtime collaborator R. Luke DuBois at the Historic Asolo Theater, sharing new works and technological developments underway to score and execute one-woman show WEIGHTS & BALANCES, slated for January 2014 {HERE Art Center | Beth Morrison Projects | Prototype Festival}.  Special thanks to Patricia Caswell, Bruce Rodgers, Steven High and Linda S. Golding.
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Developing one-woman show “WEIGHTS & BALANCES” underway at HERE Arts Center. Produced and presented by HERE Arts Residency Program (HARP), a co-production with Beth Morrison Projects, slated to premiere at PROTOTYPE in January 2014!  Stay tuned…

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“PLINKO” released as a wax cylinder!  Aleks Kolkowski presents a unique audio archive of contemporary wax cylinder recordings, featuring a wide range of musicians, improvisers, composers, writers and artists. All the entries have been recorded and reproduced mechanically and acoustically, using horns and early 1900s Edison phonographs >see Recording the Archive >>. . Phonographies aired weekly on Resonance 104.4 FM!  The entire first series of eight half-hour programmes devoted to the Phonographies archive will be repeated on Mondays to Fridays from 19th until 28th of December 2011. Many unpublished wax cylindersthat are not featured in the archive are also played during the shows, along with the occasional historical treat.

creeaaakk! World Premiere of Haruki Murakami’s “Wind Up Bird Chronicle” heads to the international stage for the Edinburgh International Festival this August!  For six performances and five nights, this multimedia ‘theatre of dreams’ comes to life. View trailer >> Currently the #1 selling show at the EIF >> Grab your tickets today!

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Festival of World Cultures presents Bora Yoon and Luke DuBois, with the Baltic Sea Cultural Centre.  Window to the World Festival, July 2011.  Curated by Aleksandra Kminowski, and Zenial at Audiotong.  more info | photo gallery

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River to River Festival, and Harvestworks Digital Media Center present the 3rd biannual New York Electronic Arts Festival!  Bora Yoon and Luke DuBois perform at the historic St. Paul’s Chapel of Trinity Wall Street, featuring new custom gesture technology The Body Electric, developed through a residency at Harvestworks with new groundbreaking Kinect technology. Learn

more & hear Harvestworks’ 1st-ever audio podcast by Ness Smith-Savedoff here >>.  As part of the Artist Fellowship awarded by the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) to Yoon in Music/Sound, this performance is co-sponsored by Artists & Audience Exchange, a NYFA public program, funded with leadership support from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA).

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Minneapolis St. Paul’s Walker Art Center & Target Free Thursdays present SOUND HORIZON: an experimental in-gallery sound series exploring the interstitial spaces btw live sound and visual art.  Featuring 30-minute performances of ( (( PHONATION )) ) at 6, 7, and 8pm this Thursday March 10th.  Free and open to the public >>
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World premiere of ARCO, site-specific symphonic work composed by Paul Haas, Paul K. Fowler, and Bora Yoon to open theinaugural Tune In Festival at the historic Park Avenue Armory‘s vast 55,000 sq. ft drill hall space:  Wednesday February 16th at 7:30pm. Featuring SYMPHO, bass-baritone Charles Perry Sprawls, and early music quartet New York Polyphony, and the three composer/performers.  Opening night of the 5-day Tune In Music Festival, curated by eighth blackbird.  What WQXR names the Top New Music Event of 2011!   >>> more info | tickets
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( (( PHONATION )) ) goes to Savannah Georgia! Telfair Museum presents the PULSE Art and Technology Festival [Jan 20th ~29th] Saturday 1/22 features Bora Yoon and live visualist R. Luke DuBois with experimental audiovisual performance ( (( PHONATION )) ) in full steampunk musicbox fashion within the 19th century Rotunda Gallery of the historic Academy of Arts and Sciences.  Telfair Museums. 121 Barnard Street, Savannah Georgia. more info | map and directions

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“g i f t” by Bora Yoon featured in the NYFA Collection by Innova, label of the American Composer’s Forum.  A 5-disc time capsule of maverick Americana selected from those who have won the New York Foundation for the Arts fellowships in Music/Sound over a quarter of a century.  Worth six hours of your life and an inch on your CD shelf.
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Dafna Napthali + Bora Yoon spatialize sound through sound designer Stephan Moore’s innovative 15.1 Floating Points speaker installation. 15 suspended speakers, within a high-ceilinged room.  Live visuals by Luke Dubois.  Wed. July 14th, at 8pm.Issue Project Room | 232 3rd Street, Brooklyn.  more info
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Bora Yoon performs at TED@Cannes.  A TED salon cohosted by Microsoft and Starcom MediaVest Group, kicking off the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival.  A deep dive into media and community, and how the past two decades have changed them. The lineup mixes TED favorites and new faces: Hans Rosling, Nicholas Christakis, Stefana Broadbent, Clay Shirky, Stefan Sagmeister, Wired contributing editor Gary Wolf, Foursquare cofounder Naveen Selvadurai, and experimental musician Bora Yoon.
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PBS Thirteen‘s Bijan Rezvani interviews Bora Yoon. From the how, to the why, tracing ( (( PHONATION )) )’s evolution, and integration in an interdisciplinary world, and multimedia production“Wind Up Bird Chronicle”…
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UNSOUND Festival and the Electronic Music Foundation co-present ( (( PHONATION )) ) by Bora Yoon w/ live visuals by R. Luke DuBois in “Eastern Promises” featuring Polish producer Zenial, Ukrainian electro artist Zavoloka, and NYC’s Bora Yoon and Luke DuBois at Issue Project Room.  Check out videos and photos — from what Feast of Music calls, “a beautiful and shattering performance”
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A new cut from friends over at Blunted Funk! “On This Side” featured on The Shift’s newly released ‘SPIES’ record — now available in 7 different flavors and styles: from deep house dub, disco-sleaze, sublime house, to industrial dubstep.  Featuring remixes by Courtney Nielson, Mike Dextro, Bookworm, Onur Engin, and Anthony Mansfield & SneakEPete at iTunes.  Atari-crunked out remix by Bookworm — ready to funk you bluntly :   MP3 >>  On This Side (Bookworm Remixx)

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SUBLIMINAL SEDUCTION:  Ellen Pearlman of Brooklyn Rail reviews Bora Yoon + Luke DuBois, live at Roulette Intermedium.

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New York Polyphony remix by Bora Yoon and Brian McKenna (Btoven Music).  “Surrexit Cristus”, by Andrew Smith, featuring text by Emily Dickinson, found sounds, and the ghost remnants of phonograph remains.  Tudor City, Avie Records.  Now out on iTunes.
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Harold Rolnick of Concerto Newsreviews My end is my beginning — a unique co-bill and collaboration between classical vocal quartet New York Polyphony and experimental composer/ performer Bora Yoon presented by the New York Art Ensemble. Exploring the cyclicality of human expression —pairing Medieval compositions with experimental new music and culminating in the convergence of ancient and modern melodies.

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Music by Bora Yoon scores The Faces of Seoul – premiering this September at the 66th Venice Film Festival, as part of the 2009 Venice Biennale.  A new independent documentary film by acclaimed Korean filmmaker Gina Kim (Never Forever).

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WIRE magazine‘s Kurt Gottschalk reviews Bora Yoon and recent Stone performance with Brooklyn’s League of Electronic Musicians & Urban Robots:  UK publication dedicated to all things avant / experimental / noise / jazz / minimal / maximal / undefineable.

Check out WIRE web exclusives: MP3 download of choral sound installation + performance work “Semaphore Conductus“ – and video footage of “O viridissima virga” at NYC’s Church of Ascension with Reykjavik sound artist Ben Frost (Bedroom Community), pianist Paul Corley, and vocalists Hilary Ryon & Karen Goldfeder on cups & diamonds — along with other personal choice selects.

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( (( PHONATION )) ) digitally available worldwide on iTunes and Other Music.  Hardcopies available to pickup locally in NYC at Other Music  &  SoundFix.  Otherwise, homegrown & delivered from yours truly with love, here.  Ringtones available on iTunes w/ MP3 purchase.  Support your local Bora. <3

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Bora Yoon + Ben Frost (Bedroom Community) featured in the Journal of Popular Noise – a unique semi-annual audio magazine, letterpressed and cut unto 7″ vinyl 45′s.  Recorded at the pristine Greenhouse Studios in Reykjavic.  Limited edition of 600 finely-crafted vinyl copies.   Get your very own here — or download digitally with iTunes

“a brilliant mix of whispers and moistly aggressive-ambient electronic whatsis…” –WIRE Magazine

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“//” from ( (( PHONATION )) remixed & featured in DJ Spooky’s Sound Unbound [MIT Press] — in compilation with Brian Eno, John Cage, Steve Reich, Phillip Glass, Pierre Boulez, Pauline Oliveros, Ryoji Ikeda, Terry Riley, Iannis Xenakis, and many other beautiful minds.

Introduction by Steve Reich.

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Photo 1 & 5 by Leslie Van Stelten
Photo 2 by Gil Seo | Locating the Sacred Festival, Asian American Arts Alliance
Photo 3 by James Ewing, courtesy of the Park Avenue Armory
Photo 4 by The Times,”Wind Up Bird Chronicle”, Edinburgh International Festival
Photo 5, design by Matias Corea