Bora Yoon, Sunken Cathedral
Pete McCabe interviews composer and sound artist Bora Yoon about her multimedia performance Sunken Cathedral, developed as part of the HERE Arts Residency Program. Designed as an architectural and archetypal journey through a house, Sunken Cathedral utilises diverse instrumentation such as voice, viola, taps, ancient Tibetan bowls, water, radios, music boxes, gramophones, phasing metronomes, electronics, samples and field recordings to create a metaphoric journey through memory and cultural identity.
Bora Yoon is a Korean-American composer, vocalist and sound artist who creates immersive audiovisual soundscapes. Classically trained, her works have been presented by Lincoln Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Nam June Paik Museum (Korea), Singapore Arts Festival, MADE Festival (Sweden), Festival of World Cultures (Poland), Park Avenue Armory, and the Walker Art Center. Yoon is a 2014 TED fellow.
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