Musical Genre
Yoon's eclectic musical style uses unconventional sources (everyday found objects, chamber instruments and digital devices) to generate music.
She explores where sound connects to the subliminal through the timbre languages offered in the voice, violin (now viola), water, ancient Tibetan singing bowls, cell phones, music boxes, glockenspiel, guitar, walkie talkies, metronomes, shortwave radios, kitchenware, found sounds, and electronics.
Using a sound designer’s approach to performance composition with song form, she can ably tune to sizzling bacon fat and harmonize to the whir of a G5, to create music that plays with sensory associations and spatial idiosyncrasies, with much spontaneity and little regard to the classifying genres of instrumentation.
UK's WIRE magazine noted Yoon's "nuanced timbre and careful of space enchanting attributes of her airy and almost disembodied performance." The Ithacan said "Yoon is a remarkable talent..." while Noise Art Magazine wrote "...operatic and intense, genre-scrambling and iconoclastic... smart and different... a cut or three above the rest." Her work and musical innovations have been featured on the front page of the Wall Street Journal.
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