Yoko K. Sen
Yoko K. Sen – sound artist. Yoko produced the albums, “012906” (2016, Asahra Music), which was nominated for “Best Album in Electronica” by the 6th Independent Awards (2006), and “Heaven’s Library” (2011), for which she received the Washington Music Association Awards for “Best Electronica Artist” (2011, 2012).
Yoko was an artist-in-residence at Strathmore, The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, and Saga Artist Residency (Eyrarbakki, Iceland), and a Citizen Artist Fellow at The John. F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Yoko’s work on transforming the sound environment in hospitals has been featured in BBC, Fast Company, and US News and World Report, and her initiative “My Last Sound” was selected as “Top Idea” by Open IDEO End of Life Challenge, presented in India, Brazil, Romania and Netherlands. As a self-proclaimed “sound alchemist,” Yoko aspires to create music, which is, to quote Beethoven, “the mediator between the spiritual and sensual life.” http://www.yoko.mu http://www.sensound.space
Yoko Sen performed music for Maida Withers and the Dance Construction Company, Fifty Years: Dance on the Edge OPENING – PUBLIC EVENT, September 23, 2022, Flagg Building, North & South Atrium, Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, Washington, DC. Yoko Sen performed with the duet performed throughout the Flagg Building North and South Atrium by Jen Clark Stone, and Megan Thompson.https://maidadance.com/works/Legacy/
Yoko Sen performed music for Maida Wither and the Dance Construction Company, RedWhiteBlueBlack&Orange: The Art and Dance of Resistance, at The Center for Contemporary Political Art, January 20, 2019, Washington, DC. https://maidadance.com/works/red-white-blue-black-orange-resistance/