I wouldn’t be surprised if there were a ghost myth or two hanging around in her ancestral background.Īt Roulette, Yoon described one of her pieces as “a wind of a dark purple evening breeze in Thailand.” Watching her and DuBois go at their collaboration is an extremely intimate experience, as they admit you into the private confines of their laboratory to explore along with them what the nature of sound can be. Her use of elements like tings, clicks, and even gas escaping from a seltzer bottle conjures images of the weird sounds at Grandma’s house in the middle of the night that one remembers from one’s childhood. She is acutely attuned to timbre, pacing, and echo, a very different approach from the fashionable recursive feedback loops of the electronic music world. There is an unmistakable sense of memory and poignancy in her performance, whether she uses Tibetan singing bowls filled with water, a needle on a scratchy LP, or her alternately soft and husky breath. Using John Cage’s dictum that anything can be a source of music, Yoon overlays processed sound with haunting throttling of her larynx. Yoon coined the word “phonation” (the title of one of her works) to refer to the way sound connects to the subliminal through timbres, languages of voice, found sounds, new and antiquated instruments, and electronic devices to form a spatial sound geography. Her stereophonic sound mural “Doppler Dreams” was written for seven sopranos who rolled through the cavernous space on bicycles. Many Rail readers may be familiar with Yoon’s work from Noémie Lafrance’s seminal dance piece “Agora II” in the 55,000-square-foot McCarren Pool in 2006. Entries from Not An Exit By Bill Berkson.Hudson to China: Toy Theater in a Concrete Temple By Amy Rose Marsh.
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