The Egg Presents: BUGS with Kaki King

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

BUGS is a multimedia show 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 synchronized visuals, emotionally rich music, playful effects, and recorded insect sounds. The show is engaging and interactive: audiences are invited to shout out their favorite bug, dance like the insect characters jiggling around on the guitar, and interact with Kaki as they explore. The visual world, created by GLITCH, includes insects, spiders and other invertebrates, 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 audiovisual 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, combining 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 combining digital mediums with 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 and hosted a BUGS 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 showtimes for school groups: Friday, March 19 at 10:15 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. Tickets and more information: HERE.