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22 The Peerless Kaki King SAT, SEP 16 | ROLLINS STUDIO THEATRE | 8PM Guitarist Kaki King Creates Supersonic Magic With Multimedia "The Neck Is A Bridge To The Body" Hailed by "Rolling Stone Magazine" as "a genre unto herself," guitarist Kaki King says that she's a veritable "blank slate" when it comes to her instrument of choice. She decries the word "mastery," instead insisting that the unimaginable tones, textures and tunings for which she has become legendary are not of her own creation, but the result of her guitar's trusted guidance. She does what she's told, and her devoted following loves her for it. Famed for her technique, King's unique approach to solo guitar has taken her from shaky adolescence to defined personhood and on to nine fascinating studio albums that have culminated in a total reinvention of what solo guitar really means. Calm and collected, King is undeniably cool in her most recent project "e Neck Is A Bridge To e Body," the latest in a line of increasingly mixed-media works incorporating elements of visual arts. But in "Neck," King's artistic vision finds a home. Here her guitar—a stark white Ovation Adamas 1581-KK of her own design—is a literal blank slate that serves as a canvas for projections created as the sound of her live performance is interpreted through collaborator Glowing Pictures' visual software, changing and transforming with every strum and pluck. In "Neck," "the Guitar is a shape-shifter," says King, deconstructing the instrument's boundaries as projection mapping explores texture, nature and creation. King has been a favorite of guitar culture for decades, but in this project her whole body of work comes together with a natural overarching and evolutionary theme that is impossible to overlook. LONG CENTER PRESENTS 22 2017 S U M M E R/FA L L S E A S O N KAKI KING (PHOTO BY SIMONE CECCHETTI)