Deep Listening IV
Kevin Kenkel’s electronic and experimental live music series
Doors 7pm
Deep Listening IV: Break All the Bones in Your Heart Record Release
Kevin Kenkel, Adam Tendler
KEVIN KENKEL:Kevin Kenkel’s second album Break All the Bones in Your Heart comprises elegiac compositions for synthesizer and sampler, filled with pathos, heady atmospheres of longing and loneliness, unanswered calls, and missed connections. The album’s eleven tracks evoke the familiar sense of alienation experienced when the desire for human contact is mediated by apps and AI chatbots. Yet, at the album’s farthest end, it soundtracks dawn breaking over a far-away city, and to borrow one of Kenkel’s track titles, offers the tentative promise of “a different way to live.” Kevin is an artist and musician based in Brooklyn, originally from Los Angeles. His method of composition is inspired by aleatoric or chance methods, having studied the works of composers including John Cage, Henry Cowell, Brian Eno, Paul Lansky, Elodie Lauten, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, and Laurie Spiegel. The exploration and exploitation of developing technologies — especially chatbots and other AI-powered systems for communication — are of paramount interest in his work, complementing his use of analog synthesizers, analog mixers, outboard equipment, and tape recorders.
ADAM TENDLER: Grammy-nominated pianist Adam Tendler is a recipient of the Lincoln Center Award for Emerging Artists, the Yvar Mikhashoff Prize, and "currently the hottest pianist on the American contemporary classical scene" (Minneapolis Star Tribune), a "remarkable and insightful musician" (LA Times), and a "relentlessly adventurous pianist" (Washington Post) "joyfully rocking out at his keyboard" (New York Times). He has become one of classical music's most recognized and celebrated artists, commissioning major works from composers as diverse as Christian Wolff and Devonté Hynes, and appearing as soloist with the London Symphony Orchestra, LA Philharmonic, and on the main-stages of Carnegie Hall, the Barbican Centre, and BAM.
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