Composer, guitarist and performance artist Kaki King has created DATA NOT FOUND -- a gripping meditation on the data we live with, and the data we leave behind. 

In DATA NOT FOUND, King reimagines her guitar to immerse the audience in a world that is both sonic and visual. Inspired by elements of nature, DATA NOT FOUND incorporates lush, often responsive technical theater and projection work, using the stage as a canvas. The piece invites the audience to contemplate the nature of love, loss, alienation and rebirth, and how we as humans attempt to create meaning from the vast endless patterns of our world.

Featuring King’s virtuosic musicianship punctuated by sparse, theatrical monologue, DATA NOT FOUND offers highly personal and poetic storylines that serve as an elegy to the traces of things that are lost, and found

DATA NOT FOUND is a joint co-commission made possible by the The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi; International Festival of Arts & Ideas, New Haven, CT; the Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech; ARTS@TECH at Georgia Tech; Krannert Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; and Ovation Guitars. Developmental support provided by MASS MoCA. Technical support provided by POTION Design.

Created and performed by Kaki King

Production Designer/Video Designer - Max Bernstein

Sound Designer - Bobby McElver

Lighting Designer - Ryan SeeligAssociate

Sound Designer - Chloe Alexandra Thompson

Associate Video Designer - Attilio Rigotti

Directorial Consultant - Annie Dorsen

Text by Kaki King, Anne Wasburn and Annie Dorsen

Wardrobe by threeASFOUR

Produced by Greg Kastelman and Vickie Starr

about kaki king

Hailed by Rolling Stone as “a genre unto herself,” composer and guitarist Kaki King has released 8 albums over the past 13 years. She has presented her work in prestigious arts centers around the world, including Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, MoMA, LACMA and The Met. She has created music for numerous film and TV soundtracks, including “August Rush” and Sean Penn's “Into the Wild”, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination.

Kaki’s most recent multimedia work, “The Neck is a Bridge to the Body”, has been touring internationally since 2015, including performances throughout North America, Europe, Australia, Turkey, Japan and Brazil. In addition to her own solo work, Kaki has collaborated with the string quartet ETHEL, and recently recorded “Live at Berklee” with a chamber ensemble, commissioned by the Berklee School of Music.