Kai Kight: Violin
Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais
Dr. Michael Gervais
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2015
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Some conversations will be with those who summit the pinnacle of their profession —or break molds attempting to scale untold peaks. In this conversation, I was fortunate to sit down with a contemporary composer & innovator, Kai Kight. His background is anything but typical. Sports, Design, Stanford, Violin, Composing. He holds an engineering degree from Stanford University’s d. school where he was introduced to the innovative culture of Silicon Valley. As a Kleiner Perkins Design Fellow and Mayfield Fellow, Kai got an early start in entrepreneurship. Kai began playing the violin when he was 3 years old, was classically trained, and studied under the concertmaster of Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra. His music has brought him to perform in venues such as the White House and the Great Wall of China. Today Kai composes his own music using an innovative style on the violin which blends classical technique with rhythms and textures from popular genres such as hip hop and jazz. His favorite composer is Bach, because of the soul riveting harmony and improvisational rhythms. He is thoughtful, articulate, and working to let his heart be felt.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone. In this episode I sat down with Kai Kite. He is a classically trained violinist and composer who's been able to perform around the world sharing his craft. |
| 0:18.0 | He graduated from Stanford University where surprisingly he didn't study music. |
| 0:23.0 | He graduated actually from the School of Engineering, |
| 0:25.0 | where he was selected, eventually, as a design fellow for the venture capital firm, Kleiner Perkins. |
| 0:30.0 | I first met Kai White, he and I were both presenting at a conference called Wisdom 2.0 and if you haven't had the chance to check out the conference, it's definitely worth a quick search. |
| 0:39.0 | It's a conference where mindfulness and technology intersect and it's definitely a switch-down community. |
| 0:44.2 | So when he was performing, he dropped into this version of Michael Jackson's smooth operator. |
| 0:50.2 | It was just so good. |
| 0:51.4 | And he goes on to explain in his presentation of his path toward being able |
| 0:55.9 | to allow his music to speak. I think that we capture in this interview how much he really loves |
| 1:01.5 | music and how his practice his love for practice and |
| 1:05.0 | figuring out how to get better and how that has led him to this quest and this |
| 1:10.2 | interest in innovation. |
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| 1:14.0 | I've always had a deep appreciation |
| 1:16.1 | for witnessing how people express and share their craft. |
| 1:19.6 | And I know we have a lot of creators |
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