BORA YOON

BORA YOON

A Korean-American composer and interdisciplinary artist fostering innovation of form in the arts and its resonance in society

Bora Yoon is an award-winning, Korean-American composer, vocalist and sound artist who creates immersive audiovisual soundscapes using digital devices, voice, found objects and instruments from a variety of cultures and historical centuries. Classically trained and steeped in a first love of choral music, Yoon is fascinated by the intersection of space and audio, maps, human Venn diagrams, handsome sounding kitchenware, sonorities and the strings that hold everything together.

Yoon premiered PHONO KINETIC at EMPAC in 2023. This one-woman performance and z-space poem traces the journey of a carbon atom, articulating the many cycles, scales and recombinant alchemical forms life takes, with spatial audio, interactive projections by Joshue Ott, and gestural, digital and acoustic instruments. Yoon continues to tour ((PHONATION)), an ever-evolving multimedia concert featuring Yoon with live video manipulations, exploring where sound connects to the subliminal using found audio, new and antiquated instruments, electronic devices and voice. Yoon is currently developing 아가씨 Handmaiden, a new opera based on the 2016 South Korean psychosexual hit film directed by Park Chan-took, with libretto by E.J. Koh. Handmaiden is the recipient of the Opera American Discovery Grant, supported by the Virginia B. Toulman Foundation and Princeton Sound Kitchen. Yoon’s debut orchestral score The Wind of Two Koreas is available on SozoMart, and her television debut film score for Pachinko season 1 finale is available on Apple TV. Her current record Sunken Cathedral is available everywhere through Innova Recordings.