Serving the San Francisco Bay Area New Music Community

                 
The Lab
2948 16th St
San Francisco CA   

The Lab is a catalyst for artistic experimentation. Our projects ignite critical dialogue amongst individuals, organizations, and communities. We support diverse and underserved artists, providing them with essential resources, time, and space to develop work that takes risks and pushes the boundaries of the non-profit platform. As a site of constant innovation and iteration, our programming exposes the elements of art making and transforms the creative process here and abroad.

We are W.A.G.E. Certified. W.A.G.E. Certification is a program initiated and operated by working artists that publicly recognizes non-profit arts organizations demonstrating a commitment to voluntarily paying artist fees that meet a minimum standard.

The Lab does not accept unsolicited submissions.
http://www.thelab.org

Upcoming Events:
Saturday, June 14 2025 8:30 PM
John Davis / Keith Evans + Beige + Linda Izcali Scobie / Zekarias Musele Thompson
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Thursday, June 19 2025 8:30 PM
Lisa Mezzacappa 5(ish) + Fred Frith

Bassist and composer Lisa Mezzacappa premieres a new set of music at the Lab with the latest incarnation of her stellar improvising ensemble (Aaron Bennett, Kyle Bruckmann, Mark Clifford, Brett Carson, and Jordan Glenn), exploring the concept of worldbuilding as a way to envision new kinds of musical interaction, storytelling, structure and play.

Fred Frith

Fred Frith is a pioneer of the extended electric guitar. He learned to compose in Henry Cow, developed his song-writing skills in Art Bears, explored his multi- instrumentalism in Skeleton Crew, rocked the house with Massacre and is still doing all of those things, having been in one band or another continuously since 1964!
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Friday, June 27 2025 8:30 PM
Moons: Judith Berkson, Laura Cetilia, Katie Porter, and Christine Tavolacci

Doors 8pm / Show 8:30pm
$17 adv / $20 door / free or discounted for members
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Moons is a new collective of four fascinating composer-performers: vocalist/keyboardist Judith Berkson, cellist Laura Cetilia, clarinetist Katie Porter, and flutist Christine Tavolacci. Although they all have discrete practices, in Moons they coalesce around shared concerns for sustained, meditative sounds, often with unusual tunings. Each member brings a composition to their eponymous debut album, but by joining forces they’ve demonstrated how community can project a unified vision.

--Peter Margasak "Best Contemporary Classical on Bandcamp"
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Saturday, June 28 2025 7:00 PM
Aine Nakamura: hands on tape

Performance: Saturday, June 28, 2025, 7pm
Duo performance with Kanoko Nishi-Smith & collaborative work with Hyeyung Sol Yoon
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Saturday, July 12 2025 7:00 PM
Aine Nakamura: hands on tape

Closing performance including a duo with Jacob Felix Heule
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