This week: WEIGHTS & BALANCES  Thurs-Fri, 8:30pm.  Work-in-progress showings @ HERE Arts Center of what’s been brewing in the incubator. BORA YOON (music/sound) with LUKE DUBOIS (video / performance controller design).  On a shared co-bill with composer/performer CHRISTINA CAMPANELLA and PETER NORRMAN (film/video) – presenting PARTS ARE EXTRA – w/ special guests Joe Diebes, guitar (Thursday), and Erich Schoen-Rene (Friday)   Tickets & more info  >>>
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SYMPHO unveils 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.  Hosted by the Oliver Ranch Foundation.
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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 Many unpublished wax cylindersthat are not featured in the archive are also played during the shows, along with the occasional historical treat.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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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is 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 and Nick Ryckert, 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.

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 Director’s Circle.

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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 >>

Bora Yoon is a 2010 Artist Fellowship recipient by the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) 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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Festival of World Cultures presents Bora Yoon and Luke DuBois, with the Baltic Sea Cultural Centre.  More info | Photo gallery

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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 the inaugural 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, last month 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 News reviews 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 by Leslie Van Stelten
Photo 2 by Stephen Earnhart, “Wind Up Bird Chronicle”, NYC
Photo 3 by The Times,”Wind Up Bird Chronicle”, Edinburgh International Festival
Photo 4 by James Ewing, Park Avenue Armory, Tune-In Festival
Photo 5 by Mallory Glaser, UNSOUND Festival, NYC