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.  $10 ($9 in advance, $8 members)  tickets | more info

Bora Yoon and Brian McKenna (Btoven Music) remix the rapturous modern day / early music group, New York Polyphony.  A new work by Andrew Smith, entitled “Surrexit Cristus”, released in its original form on full-length record “Tudor City” — now in its 3rd week in the Top Ten on the Classical Charts on Billboard!

A lush sound collage, propelled by rhythmic pulses and bass sweeps, that melds Smith’s chilling harmonies with whispered excerpts from Emily Dickinson’s “Because I could not stop for Death,” found sounds, and the ghost remnants of phonograph remains.  A true definition of a ghost track.  Additional tracks include the original mix of Surrexit Christus from New York Polyphony’s acclaimed 2010 Avie Records release Tudor City (AV2186) and the previously unreleased Beata progenies, a composition by the 15th century English composer Lionel Power.”   Get it now on iTunes!

Bora Yoon performs at TED@Cannes.  A TED salon cohosted by Microsoft and Starcom MediaVest Group, kicking off the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival taking 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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Bora Yoon and Pamela Z :: with New York Polyphony and Luke DuBois ::  an evening of vocal improvisation, audio sampling, looping, multimedia, and experimental sound design.  Presenting a vast repertoire of sounds, sights and experience, including YPC choral commission “Semaphore Conductus” with New York Polyphony - for this final Tribeca New Music Festival blow-out! >>> .
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SUBLIMINAL SEDUCTION:  Ellen Pearlman of Brooklyn Rail reviews Bora Yoon + Luke DuBois, last month at Roulette Intermedium.

Opening for Moritz Von Oswald Trio (DE) and Kranky’s Keith Fullerton Whitman — this Thursday at Warsaw in Greenpoint Brooklyn.   Presented by the Bunker and live visuals by R. Luke DuBois.  8pm doors | 9pm we hit.   Lookin’ fwd to seeing you there!! .

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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Under the Radar Festival presents The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle based on the internationally acclaimed novel by one of Japan’s most renowned writers, Haruki Murakami.  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, Costume Design by Oana Botez-Ban, Video Projection Design by Adam Larsen and Shawn Duan, 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, and GOH Productions.

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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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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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