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Weights and Balances • Bora Yoon
Show Description
Forces are at play -- global, cultural, personal. A constellation of strings, pulleys, sound-makers, turn-tables and interactive found objects trace common laws of physics, cause and effect, and the invisible economy. These elements will sculpt and indicate a larger system at play -- revealing the complex system of pulleys and strings that hold the fine tuning and balance of this world together – much akin to how a body is hinged, and held, and maintained in balance. Weights and Balances is a one-woman narrative musical event, tuning into the zeitgeist of this ever-changing world.
New performance technology is being custom built to resonate this metaphor and analogy of a body – with artist and programmer Luke DuBois and Harvestworks Media with the new groundbreaking Kinect technology. Using infrared technology to wirelessly control audiovisual elements, this instrument will be used to illuminate the inner world of thoughts, the subconscious, and the dreaming body.
Through a panoply of live instruments, found objects, visuals, and poetic narrative -- a live musical sound design score and performance piece is composed and performed, to depict a dynamic sonic narrative that accompanies each set of poetic observations, and resonate the literary, emotional, and cultural space of each chapter. Instrumentation to include: voice, viola, taps, theremin, found sounds from the venue stage, stethescope, contact mics, body sounds, metronomes, turntable, electronics, and field recordings.
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Artist Bio
Bora Yoon (Lead Artist) is an experimental multi-instrumentalist, composer and performer, who creates architectural soundscapes from voice, everyday found objects, chamber instruments, and digital devices. Featured in WIRE magazine and on the front page of The Wall Street Journal for her musical innovations—Yoon explores where sound connects to the subliminal in an art form that is part radio foley, part musical sound design, and movement - creating music that plays with sensory associations and spatial idiosyncrasies with much spontaneity and little regard to the classifying genres of instrumentation.
Yoon has toured her original soundwork ( (( PHONATION )) ) internationally, at Lincoln Center, the Nam June Paik Museum in Seoul, Patravadi Theatre in Bangkok, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Roulette Intermedium, the Bang on a Can Marathon, and universities across the globe. Collaborators include programmer and live visualist R. Luke DuBois, early music quartet New York Polyphony, Iceland-based producer Ben Frost, site-specific choreographer Noémie Lafrance the League of Electronic Musicians & Urban Robots, multimedia theatre companies Ridge Theatre and Dhamma Theatre West, composer Michael Gordon, and the late poet Sekou Sundiata. Her music has been presented by the Electronic Music Foundation, TED conference, Microsoft, and Samsung; commissioned by the Young Peoples Chorus and the SAYAKA Ladies Chorale of Tokyo; awarded fellowships by the New York Foundation for the Arts, and Asian American Arts Alliance; supported by the Sorel Music, Billboard, BMI, and the Arion Foundation; and published by Boosey and Hawkes, Innova Music, SubRosa, Swirl Records, and the Journal of Popular Noise.
Yoon is currently scoring and performing the live music for Haruki Murakami’s Wind Up Bird Chronicle- an interdisciplinary multimedia theatre adaptation, directed by Stephen Earnhart. Presented by the Barshynikov Art Center and Asia Society, and to premiere the world stage at the Edinburgh International Arts Festival in August of 2011. www.borayoon.com
Luke DuBois (Programming, Kinect sensor design, Visuals) is a composer, artist, and performer who explores the temporal, verbal, and visual structures of cultural and personal ephemera. He holds a doctorate in music composition from Columbia University, and has lectured and taught worldwide on interactive sound and video performance.
Stemming from his investigations of “time-lapse phonography,” his recent work is a sonic and encyclopedic relative to time-lapse photography. Just as a long camera exposure fuses motion into a single image, his work reveals the average sonority, visual language, and vocabulary in music, film, text, or cultural information. Exhibitions of his work include: the Insitut Valenci€ d’Art Modern, Spain; 2008 Democratic National Convention, Denver; Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis; San Jose Museum of Art; National Constitution Center, Philadelphia; Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art, Daelim Contemporary Art Museum, Seoul; 2007 Sundance Film Festival; and the Sydney Film Festival. His work and writing has appeared in print and online in the New York Times and Esquire Magazine.
An active visual and musical collaborator, DuBois is the co-author of Jitter, a software suite for the real-time manipulation of matrix data developed by San Francisco-based software company Cycling’74. He teaches at the Brooklyn Experimental Media Center at NYU’s Polytechnic Institute, and is on the Board of Directors of the ISSUE Project Room. His records are available on Caipirinha/Sire, Liquid Sky, C74, and Cantaloupe Music. His artwork is represented by bitforms gallery in New York City. www.lukedubois.com
Artist Statement
My purpose as a sound artist, musician, and composer– is to make visible the invisible, and to make visceral, the intangible.
My work is a kind of musical sound design, that is performed live — part music, part foley, part dance, perhaps even a kind of audio Butoh – a morphing experiment of language, beyond the literal to the abstract, and visual, that trigger associations in the mind, making dynamic use of music’s rarefaction of inner space, and outer space.
Being a contrarian most all of my life, I have come to arrive at the experimental work that I do by closing in on the negative spaces of existing forms, to form a hybrid of sorts.
I am applying to this residency to primarily develop and bring back the direct core of my writer's voice within the abstract musical fabric I have established over the last 6 years with experimental soundwork (((PHONATION))), to culminate a larger work of meaning and identity.
Through this residency, I hope to harness and culminate the many facets of my creative outlets: composing, performing, movement, gesture, and poetry to create a substantive work of meaning and significance.
-- Bora Yoon
Press
- “"totally unique." ”
- — KoreAm Magazine
