SCHOOL GROUPS: Bugs with Kaki King – 1:00 PM Show

A novel instrumental guitar performance for young audiences, with projection mapping and drum-triggered light and sounds.

BUGS is a multimedia show for young audiences featuring Kaki King’s signature guitar projection mapping and drum-triggered effects in a fun-filled story of bugs, beetles, critters, and all things sugar.

Audiences experience magically synched visuals, emotionally rich music, playful effects, and recorded insect sounds. The show is engaging and interactive, encouraging audiences to participate and dance along. They’re invited to shout out their favorite bug, dance like one of the insect characters jiggling around on the guitar, and interact with Kaki as they discover the show for themselves.

The visual world created by GLITCH features insects, spiders, and other invertebrates, along with melting ice cream, friendly characters, bundles of candy, exploding lego jelly, bouncing toys, and more. The audio combines King’s live guitar performance, sound samples, and field recordings from nature, all triggered in real time. Adults can enjoy the rich audio-visual experience and sophisticated music. The show is intended for children and anyone who is a child at heart!

Kaki King is a guitarist, composer, artist, and teaching performer. For over 20 years, she has created music for performance, recorded albums, and cinema, and has combined guitar compositions with visual art, projection mapping, sound design, and theatrical production.

GLITCH, co-founded by multidisciplinary artists Orsolya Szantho and Attilio Rigotti, is a multimedia theater company creating work that combines digital mediums with new forms of physical storytelling. GLITCH has collaborated with King on projection and interactive design for years; BUGS is their first full partnership with her.

The La Jolla Music Society is the lead co-commissioner of BUGS and hosted a residency and performance series in spring 2024. The Harris Theater in Chicago is also a co-commissioner and presented a performance in November 2024.

Additional showtime: 10:15am. Tickets and more info HERE.