Karsten Wallace

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Karsten Wallace. Photo Credit: Addie Symonds

Karsten Wallace is a junior at Bob Jones High School in Madison, Alabama. He loves playing piano and guitar, singing, and songwriting in his free time. His favorite artists are Childish Gambino and Tyler, the Creator and his favorite musical theatre composers are Alan Menken and Robert Lopez. His favorite musicals are The Book of Mormon, Newsies, and Hamilton.
 

 

 

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Karsten Wallace rehearsing with mentor. 

Photo Credit: Addie Symonds

“Hello World"
Music & Lyrics by Karsten Wallace
Program Mentor: Timothy Huang 
Orchestrator: Faye Chiao  
Featuring: Luke Islam & Michelle Dowdy

A duet between a female robot infused with AI and its male creator, “Hello World” would serve as the final song in Act I of a larger musical as the song ends on a cliffhanger with the female AI Robot powering back on after her creator unplugged her because she wished to be free and did not love him. The song shifts back and forth between the female AI’s cries for liberation and its creator’s descent into madness as he slowly realizes that he has lost the only thing that he loves.