Kevin Kenkel

Kevin Kenkel is a Brooklyn-based composer and performer whose most recent album “Break All The Bones in Your Heart” was released by Soap Library in June 2024. His music comprises elegiac compositions for analog synthesizers and sampler, filled with pathos, heady atmospheres of longing and loneliness, unanswered calls, and missed connections. The exploration and exploitation of developing technologies — especially chatbots and other AI-powered systems for communication — are of paramount interest in his work and performance. Additionally, he plays synthesizers and electronics with the performance artist Christeene, with recent performances in Oslo, Rome, Berlin, and London. Kevin curates Deep Listening, a performance series for experimental electronics at Parkside Lounge in NYC’s Lower East Side. He has collaborated with Grammy-nominated pianist Adam Tendler, Colin Self, Eve Essex, Phong Tran, and Das Audit as a drummer and synthesist.