The Lab
2948 16th St SF
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Kara-Lis Coverdale + Theresa Wong

Doors 7pm / Show 8pm
$23 adv / $25 door / free or discounted for members

Kara-Lis Coverdale performs material from her recent album A Series of Actions in a Sphere of Forever (Smalltown Supersound), with an opening performance by cellist-vocalist Theresa Wong, utilizing The Lab’s open space and quadraphonic surround sound setup.

Kara-Lis Coverdale composes and performs musical works across acoustic and electronic mediums to create works that transcend reality. Driven by a devotion to sonic afterlife, memory, and material curiosity, Coverdale’s work occupies new planes built upon a borderless understanding of electronic music rooted in the interlocking pathways of musical systems and languages. Steadfastly committed to developing and expanding her vivid understanding of music as an immersive, tunable, and listening world rich in emotion and sensitivity, she is heralded as “one of the most exciting composers in North America” (The Guardian), and named unique navigator of the digital frontier with an ease and emotive sensitivity “we cannot yet comprehend” (FADER), Coverdale’s work has been met with consistent critical acclaim.



As a solo performer, Theresa Wong illuminates the vast sonorities of the cello and voice, unearthing raw vibrations that draw upon the primal sentience of the natural world and sensations of genetic sonic memory. Described as “…at once transcendent and firmly rooted to the sensuous earth” (A Closer Listen), her work draws upon the question: "how can I rediscover the core of the cello as wood and string and hair, or even simply as a tree?" Exploring the areas of amplification, extreme detuning, and just intonation, Wong reveals the intricate microcosms of the cello and voice as expansive fields of possibility. Her recent album, Journey to the Cave of Guanyin (room40) was included in the The Best Experimental Music on Bandcamp in April 2025. Her solo performances have been presented at Roulette Intermedium in Brooklyn, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, and Cafe Oto in London.

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