Bora Yoon

Bora Yoon is a Korean-American composer, vocalist, and sound artist who conjures audiovisual soundscapes using digital devices, voice, and instruments from a variety of cultures and historical centuries to formulate a storytelling through music, movement and sound. Featured on the front-page of the Wall Street Journal, WIRE magazine, TED, and the National Endowment for the Arts podcast for her unusual instruments and everybody found objects as music, she evokes what George Lewis describes as "a kind of sonic memory garden", using voice, viola, Tibetan singing bowls, vocoder, Bible pages, bike bells, turntable, walkie-talkies, chimes, water, and electronics. Yoon has presented her work at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, BAM, Visiones Sonoras (Mexico), Festival of World Cultures (Poland); and provided the live score for Haruki Murakami's Wind Up Bird Chronicle - an interdisciplinary theater adaptation, co-commissioned by Asia Society, Baryshnikov Art Center, Edinburgh International Arts Festival, and the Singapore Arts Festival. Most recently, Yoon's work was featured in the Zainichi epilogue of Apple TV+'s PACHINKO Season 1, created by Soo Hugh, based on NY Times bestselling novel by Min Jin Lee. // www.borayoon.com