BORA YOON: Bora Yoon

Bora Yoon

Bora Yoon

© 1999 Bora Yoon (634479751028)

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award-winning singer/songwriter -- a mix of folk, classical, and electronic, served straight up with a twist.

tracks

1 Sip
2 Time and Space
3 Ledger Lines
4 The Map
5 Ode to Memory?
6 One All Alone
7 Eyes Held Hands
8 This Garland
9 Writing In Red
10 Pockets To Fill

notes

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{1999} Self-titled debut album of acclaimed award-winning composer, sound architect, and multi-instrumentalist songwriter Bora Yoon. Now an ancient gem of where the schizo roots of her music has taken her, discover where it all began with the zygotes of folk, neo-classicism, spoken word, SSA choral, and electronica.


Current Biography {2007}
. : b o r a y o o n (vox, electrocuted violin, guitar, keys, musicbox, Tibetan singing bowls, foundsound, electronics) is a musical architect and multi-instrumentalist sound artist with a twisted penchant for innovative and iconoclastic resonance. She is currently on tour with Sekou Sundiata as a citizen of the 51st (dream) state (BAM NextWave Festival, Melbourne Intl Arts Festival), unfurling sound alongside Kaki King (Sony, Velour Music), site-specific choreographer Noemie Lafrance and media philosopher DJ Spooky--premiering Subliminal Strings in Paris at Festival Sons D'Hiver.

She's collaborated with members of Meredith Monk's vocal ensemble, multimedia artists Luke Dubois and Emile Bennett (DCA, STEIM), NY Fringe, circus performers to beatbox bike sculptor Adam Matta, performing her original work internationally from the Guggenheim Museum and Carnegie Hall, to abandoned public spaces, MTV Networks, and John Zorn's experimental STONE -- garnering awards from the John Lennon Songwriting Contest, Billboard, and the Arion Music Award committee.

Recent projects include the live acoustic sound design of AGORA II with site-specific choreographer Noemie Lafrance in the historic 55,000 sq. ft empty McCarren Pool, the sonic curation of the experimental music/film SummerScreen series (Elliott Sharp, Kaki King, Miya Masaoka, Todd Sickafoose, Todd Reynolds, Allison Sniffin), choral work with German Bach conductor Maestro Helmuth Rilling at Carnegie Hall, and premiering new works by composers including a one-woman experimental opera by Paul Steven Ray.


"... she's like music...with a body." --Allison Sniffin (Meredith Monk Vocal Ensemble, multiphonic phonator)

"... a digital wonderwoman.." -- Sekou Sundiata

"...my new favorite thing in the whole world." -- Kaki King



Website
http://www.borayoon.com

Discography
Sound Nouveau [2006] -- soundscape EP -- Kaki King tour, December 2006

Proscenium [2003]*-- Award winning 2nd full-length solo album

apArtments [2001] -- local compilation of great and varied artists in Upstate New York.

JAAM [2000] -- Mutant Soul Records, Experimental jazz/trip-hop album, featured track w/ Access 58 (UK) and Gerd (Netherlands).

Bora Yoon [1999]* -- Debut solo album

* available at Apple iTunes and www.cdbaby.com.


M E D I A

.: 'Molten Lava' Music Video [Yellowbird Productions, NYC]
--broadcast on MTV Networks and MTV Labs.


.:Womyn Unsilenced: Award winning documentary on the lives of 5 women


H O N O R S & A W A R D S

.: Winner of the 2002 International John Lennon Songwriting Contest

.: Winner of the 11th annual Billboard Songwriting Contest (Jazz Division)

.: Finalist of Telluride Troubadour Contest

.: Arion Award Winner

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  • very pleasing
    author: peter yoon

    and makes you think about yourself and another you

  • beautiful.
    author: Jillian

    this cd was amazing, as soon as i discovered it i listened constantly for days. bora is an incredibly gifted singer and songwriter.

  • New form of spoken word, thought-provoking, illumining
    author: Danika Maclellan

    Bora's poetry is intense, stong, and true to herself. She provokes feelings in listener and takes spoken word to a new level of poetic art. From knowing Bora from Ithaca College, she is a strong writer, and captivating singer.

  • A musical Genius
    author: Rinni

    I love this cd. Her spoken word "Ledger Lines" is beautiful. The way she says the words grip into your soul and make you think. I love it and I'd recommend it to anyone

  • brilliant
    author: Andy Sabin

    absolutely brilliant, a must buy. brilliant in every aspect - especially the recording

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