Keke Hunt

Friday, March 13th, at 8pm, ISSUE presents a two-part evening featuring interdisciplinary artists MV Carbon (2010 AIR) and Keke Hunt (2023 AIR). 

Opening the evening, Keke Hunt premieres new material alongside earlier work in a pop-electronic performance. Over the course of her 2023 residency, Hunt developed a tech-forward music video and live performance for her long running solo project, Just The Right Height, in collaboration with digital artist Ben Mendelewicz. Hunt’s residency was also realized through an ongoing partnership between ISSUE and Harvestworks’ Technology Immersion Program, supporting artists’ creation of new work using evolving and innovative technologies.

Keke Hunt’s work spans songwriting, live performance and technology. Hunt has released numerous record and cassette editions under the project name Just the Right Height, while touring as a mainstay of the contemporary underground music scene. Hunt’s Just The Right Height project combines blistering samples with algorithmically arranged fragments of existing songs lyrics, in a vocal centered performance that speaks to the tension between the production of market driven pop products and the universal power of pop music. Hunt develops short motifs utilizing recognizable era-specific stock drum samples which reference textures from Top 40 hits and dance music of the last 30 years. Using a standard verse-chorus format, she constructs songs where rhythms depend on the vocal cadence and phrasing, inverting the expectation that the vocal should follow the meter of its rhythmic backing. Coarse samples are triggered in real time in correlation with a piercing deadpan delivery. Hunt's deconstructed lyrics teeter between broken syntax and salient moments of clarity where essential pop sentiments are distilled. Hunt is currently working on her third album, I Love Everything.