Beyond studying audio engineering and music production, IAR’s students are avid music goers, musicians, songwriters, producers, performers, and DJ’s. They know the latest and hottest music playing on the radio and in the clubs and which popular artists and producers are working together. IAR student Ken Jones a.k.a. Kernel Panic, started a new show on IARadio called Kernel Panic Radio. The show’s format is geared towards profiling IAR students on what they are doing, learning and applying, and their goals and plans after graduation. Kernel Panic intends to cover IAR events as well and has begun a regular ‘Freestyle Friday’ series where students have the opportunity to freestyle live on-air during the show.

Kernel Panic is no rookie to radio DJing. In 2005, he was a co-host on Grindhard Radio 91.9FM WHUT, an independent Hip Hop radio station broadcast in Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and New Jersey. He also composes music and has a licensing deal with Warner Brothers Music, DSM Composers, which distributes his material out to television and film. Kernel Panic attended the Center for Media Arts for Audio Engineering but decided to come to IAR to “Upgrade my skills and learn the aspects of the business that I didn’t get previously. I have a better understanding of sound and equipment and it has changed my life. I’m older than most students and I gave up for a minute, but realized this was my passion and I went for it. It is paying off.”