Kings Place is honoured to present a remarkable double bill featuring the legendary American composer and electronic musician Carl Stone, alongside the ambient electro-acoustic duo Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer, fresh from their latest International Anthem release ‘The Closest Thing to Silence’.

Carl Stone is one of the pioneers of live computer music, and has used computers in live performance since 1986. He was born in California and now divides his time between LA and Japan. He studied composition at the California Institute of the Arts with Morton Subotnick and James Tenney and has composed electro-acoustic music almost exclusively since 1972.

A winner of numerous awards for his compositions, including the Freeman Award for the work Hop Ken, Carl Stone is also the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Foundation for Performance Arts. His 3-LP release Electronic Music from the Seventies and Eighties on the Unseen Worlds label placed #1 in The Wire Magazine’s “Best of 100” 2016 Archival category (the follow up release the next year ranked #3).

‘The king of sampling…. one of the best composers living in (the USA) today.’ The Village Voice

The combination of modular synthesizer and viola is an uncommon one, but Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer manage to create a distinctive dyad that comes together with grace and truth. They’ve accomplished this by bringing much more than their respective axes to the table. Years of collaboration, cohabitation, shared experience, and separate but equally inspired commitments to utilitarian cultural work bind the ir disparate timbres together into a singular aesthetic reality. The two artists met, appropriately, as members of a large ensemble performing Terry Riley’s In C, for an annual concert organized by Bitchin Bajas at Chicago modern music hub Constellation.

Honer & Chiu had been living and working in Chicago for a long time, both active members of the notoriously inter connected improvisational and experimental music scenes, but they were somehow previously unintroduced. Chiu’s musical CV to that point included work with bands like Icy Demons and Chandeliers, but he was mostly known for his visual and graphic design work as Some All None. Honer had primarily worked as an instructor in Chicago, as well as a member of the ensemble Quartet Datura. In 2014, a year after their first collaboration, together, they decided to migrate to Los Angeles to continue developing their respective careers and crafts in sunnier climes.

This event will last approximately 2 hours, including an interval.