CARBON II: A Solo Guitar Concert By Konarak Reddy

This very special solo guitar concert has been composed and curated by Konarak Reddy, to offer the audience a meditative and transportive experience.

Konarak’s compositions for CARBON emerged from wondering about the frequencies of joy and consciousness, the romance of darkness and light. Memories of Isaac Albéniz’ Asturias. Chick Corea’s Spain and Bill Evans’ harmonic explorations in Blue in Green.

Perhaps you might remember the lines “We are stardust, we are golden, billion year old carbon…" Or, Craig Santos Perez’s riff on Pablo Neruda’s Sonnet XVII “I love you like this because we'll only survive / in the nitrogen rich compost of our embrace, / so close that your emissions of carbon are mine, / so close that your sea rises with my heat.”

Perhaps the darkness of carbon can awaken new mysteries for us.

"Felt blessed indeed for being privy to this ~ letting Kuki's music & musicality wash over us with such finesse & intricacy ~" - Parveen Sikand

"Thank you Kuki for your generosity and magic. The songs were personal, you let us into your process of creation, into your mind and its glorious journeys. Still humming a couple of tunes." - Rajeev Ravindranathan

"It was a magical and sublime experience. Love, creativity, and music flowed into the entire space and enveloped us."- Leenatha Reddy