Kaki King: storytelling guitar-projection performance [Crowdfunding]

Kaki King is putting together a multimedia show where her music will be interpreted as animation and projected onto her guitar. It’s the latest guitar innovation from a Brooklyn-based musician who’s already reinvented the instrument’s sound. Now, she’s doing it visually.

Support her campaign on Kickstarter. She has eight days left and she’s well past her goal, but you get your name included in the credits of her show.

This reporter remembers the very first time he ever heard Kaki King play. It must have been 2003 or 2004. I was driving through Iowa on my way back to Wisconsin from Kansas. She came on Minnesota Public Radio‘s Prairie Home Companion via whatever NPR affiliate I was driving by, and I could tell — anyone could tell — that she played guitar like no one else.

If you go to a Kaki King concert, you can see why she’s different. She uses the instrument in every possible way. She plucks all over the strings. She uses it for percussion. She holds her hands in very weird ways. She also tends to show up with about 10 wildly different guitars and eventually play something on all of them.

She sees a guitar like no one else. This is one of her videos where you can really see her in action:

And now she’s reinventing guitar performance again. The Kickstarter video below gives you some idea of what it’s going to be like, but the suggestion in the video is that they are only midway through the process. With lots more to do, our guess is what looks cool now will be unforgettable by the time she gets on stage. See it debut at BRIC House on March 6th.

Some incentives to support:

• $10 gets you a digital download of the album based on the show.
• $30 gets you a vinyl album, only available to Kickstarter backers.
• $500 a ten person group guitar workshop with Kaki King in NYC in June.
• $800 learn how to perform with visuals over three months. Taught by David Lublin.