Cherub Dream Records x The Lab: Tricky FM "Twin Star Fantasy" + Edgar + Tugboyz

Doors 8pm / Show 8:30pm
$17 / free or discounted for members

Tricky FM is the music project and "electronica star" alter ego of Hana Freed. Based out of San Francisco, she self produces all her own music, while being a staple in clubs, venues and punk bars throughout the Bay Area and beyond. On stage, Tricky FM is known for her energetic and almost performance-art interpretation of the 'pop star'. At home, behind her computer, she's crafted her own brand of euphoric sounding electronica. Her work centers on the complex terrain of navigating contemporary womanhood: trust, intimacy, fulfillment and ultimately the relationship with the self. Her 2023 debut Peace, Love, Unity, Rave (Cherub Dream Records) arrived from a place of urgency and anger—a sampled-based Ableton-coded reckoning with the ways misogyny runs through every facet of life. This album led her to share stages with Alice Glass, Molly Nilsson, Mechatok, Otha, Spellling, Salami Rose Joe Louis and more.

Her forthcoming album Twin Star Fantasy finds Tricky FM on the other side of this reckoning. Where PLUR was forged in chaos, Twin Star Fantasy was built in stillness. What fantastical things can be brought forth from the seemingly everyday and mundane? This album weaves reflections on stability and the relationships that shaped her—an homage to the past, a document of the present, and a prayer for the future. It shows an artist at the fullness of her potential, stepping into a sound that she has been perfecting on her own. Hana produced Twin Star Fantasy herself, and it was mixed/mastered by her friend Taylor Bivens. The record drops September 2026 via Cherub Dream Records.
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Tyondai Braxton + Matt Robidoux

Doors 8pm / Show 8:30pm
$23 adv / $25 door / free or discounted for members

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Tyondai Braxton’s Splayed Werks is his fifth album and first full-length release since the recording of his 2018 symphonic work Telekinesis. A co-founder of acclaimed experimental rock project Battles, among many other achievements, Braxton’s work spans electroacoustic projects and contemporary composition.

Matt Robidoux (they/he) is a San Francisco based composer, improviser, and educator interested in sound-gesture causality and the convergence of movement and sound as it relates to free improvisation and accessibility. Their primary instrument is the “corn synth” (Kinetically Operated Randomness Network), a modular system that interprets physical input from two “ears of corn” sculptures cast in aluminum.
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Eternities (Bob Bellerue / Katie Porter) + Antimatter

Doors 8pm / Show 8:30pm
$17 / free or discounted for members

Eternities (Katie Porter & Bob Bellerue) unfold their collaboration of sustained tones on bass clarinet, with zither, harmonica, whistling, and electronic feedback. Inspired by deep presence, resonant feedback, melodic drone, and overtone magic, their work is an intuitive exploration of sound. Bellerue will also perform a solo set utilizing electronics and resonant feedback through The Lab’s grand piano. Photo of Eternities by Peter Gannushkin.

Antimatter, the solo performance project of Xopher Davidson, grew out of a childhood building radios and soundmakers, and developed into a practice built from industrial oscillators and military surplus equipment. An associate of Zbigniew Karkowski, Maryanne Amacher, and many others, Davidson has released records on Asphodel, Daydream Library Series, Sub Rosa (with Karkowski), and others.

https://www.thelab.org/projects/2026/11/7/eternities-bob-bellerue-katie-porter-antimatter
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Dorian Wood: Canto de Todes + Roco Córdova

Doors 7:30pm / Show 8pm
$29 / free or discounted for members

Weaving together chamber classical, folk, torch song, and experimental music, Dorian Wood’s Canto de Todes is a 70-minute distillation born from Wood’s acclaimed 12-hour composition and installation. The title—Spanish for “Song of Everyone”—is inspired by a lyric of the late Chilean singer and songwriter Violeta Parra. Canto de Todes emphasizes the urgency of music as a vessel for social change, and honors the ancestral trajectory of Wood’s Costa Rican-Nicaraguan family and their experience in the U.S.

Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Roco Córdova is a vocalist, composer, producer and improviser based in the San Francisco Bay Area. They possess a B.Mus. in Composition from the Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music and an M.A. in Composition from Mills College in Oakland, California. They have studied under the guidance of Carlos Carrillo, Manuel Ceide, Roscoe Mitchell, Zeena Parkins and James Fei.
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