MULTIMEDIA // Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

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.

MUSIC // My End Is My Beginning w/ New York Polyphony

My end is my beginning — a co-bill and collaboration between classical vocal quartet New York Polyphony and experimental composer/ performer Bora Yoon.

This unique musical program, explores the cyclicality of human expression, pairing Medieval compositions with experimental new music and culminating in the convergence of ancient and modern melodies.

Presented by the New York Art Ensemble in the pristine acoustics of the Church of Ascension, NYC (Nov. 5th, 2009).   Programmed for sacred spaces.   (more…)

MULTIMEDIA // LEMUR residency & custom instrument design

Brooklyn’s League of Electronic Musicians & Urban Robots (LEMUR) and I designed and created custom musical instruments to use in performance in collaboration with their musical Bots and Trons. (more…)

COMPOSITION // CPS/RPM

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RECORDING ( (( PHONATION )) ) (2008)

There’s a kind of boom and bust cycle in modern music (kind of like there is in modern everything) in which certain varieties of music — especially popular and “new” music — are periodically characterized as “dying” or “already dead,” only to then be miraculously resurrected by one or another savior figure/band/composer/whatever, which starts the whole process over again. As with the boom and bust cycle in economics, there also seems to be a law of diminishing returns with each reiteration. Each new claimant to this imaginary musical throne (more…)

MULTIMEDIA // Lightning at Our Feet // Michael Gordon & Ridge Theatre

“I Went to Heaven” from Lightning at our Feet:

“the Day Came Slow” from Lightning at our Feet:

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COMPOSITION // Telemegaphone Concerto

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RECORDINGS // Journal of Popular Noise w/ Ben Frost

“Funcomfortably Yours” - fucked up spine-cracking audiophile fun : (more…)

COMPOSITION // Semaphore Conductus

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FILM // Samsung Anycall (Korea)

Bora broadcast in Korea — starring in Samsung Anycall commercial film for nightly 9pm news timecheck.  Posted below for your amusement & multi-culti bemusement.

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DANCE // RAPTURE

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MULTIMEDIA // The 51st Dream State // by Sekou Sundiata

“New American Theatre” by Sekou Sundiata & Bora Yoon:

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DANCE // Agora II

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