Heart Trio (William Parker, Hamid Drake, Cooper-Moore)

Doors 7:30pm / Show 8pm
$40 adv / door
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Heart Trio is William Parker, Cooper-Moore, and Hamid Drake – three of the most important figures in creative music, united by over thirty years of deep collaboration. Their debut album, Heart Trio (AUM Fidelity, 2024), was received with critical acclaim across the international press. Parker plays guembri, shakuhachi, bass duduk, Serbian flute, and ney flute. Cooper-Moore plays his hand-crafted ashimba and hoe-handle harp. Drake plays frame drum (primary), drums, and percussion. All music is collectively improvised at the moment of creation.

https://www.thelab.org/projects/2026/9/11/heart-trio-william-parker-hamid-drake-cooper-moore
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Michelle Lou / Stefan Maier + 100,000,000 Unread Messages

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

Michelle Lou and Stefan Maier, longtime friends working the field of electroacoustic performance and composition, perform a multichannel duo project at The Lab. Fusing Lou's multichannel computer synthesis with Maier's work on modular synthesis, the duo explores shifting clouds of spectral densities, angular textures, throbbing drones and pintillistic interjections. Their live recording, titled simply "Live at UCSD," was released on Dinzu Artifacts in 2024.

Approximately 100,000,000 Unread Messages is the duo of Connor Tomaka and Isabelle Waldner Kalb, investigating the tactility at the edges of electroacoustic instrumentation through compositions for guitar and computer. Their collaboration reproduces the music of the way people communicate today, unfolding fugues from countless minute inputs towards an endless implosive metastasis. Distinct in approach yet parallel in palette, together they produce a disjunctive synthesis, every touch updated and restated into circulation without destination.
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SFEMF celebrates 25 years of groundbreaking electronic music Sept. 24-26. Presented in co-production with The Lab and with support from the Italian Cultural Institute and InterMusic SF, the festival features three nights of live electronic performances by an exceptional roster of internationally acclaimed and emerging artists.

Spanning a remarkable breadth of contemporary practice, this year's program explores electronic sound as science-fiction fantasy, sonic ecosystems, technologically realized fugues, acousmatic dramaturgy, patient listening, sonic theater, and deeply liberating ritual.

The festival opens on Thursday, September 24, with Blevin Blectum (Bevin Kelley), whose vibrant audiovisual performance creates a technicolor sonic fever dream. IDHAZ & Emily Bouton follow with a hybrid of scored and improvised music for harp, violin, voice, and visuals that invites openness, flight, and spontaneous self-expression. The evening concludes with Rrose's Helicopter Mass, an immersive work exploring the intersection of hypnotic techno, experimental composition, and psychoacoustic phenomena with meticulous precision.

Doors 7:30 pm, Show 8:00 pm

Tickets $23, festival pass $60

Ticket link: https://dice.fm/bundles/san-francisco-electronic-music-festival-2026-589l

More info: https://www.sfemf.org/
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SFEMF celebrates 25 years of groundbreaking electronic music Sept. 24-26. Presented in co-production with The Lab and with support from the Italian Cultural Institute and InterMusic SF, the festival features three nights of live electronic performances by an exceptional roster of internationally acclaimed and emerging artists.

Spanning a remarkable breadth of contemporary practice, this year's program explores electronic sound as science-fiction fantasy, sonic ecosystems, technologically realized fugues, acousmatic dramaturgy, patient listening, sonic theater, and deeply liberating ritual.

Friday's program begins with Albert Yeh, who presents four voice fugues performed using MIDI and modular synthesizers, demonstrating timeless musical processes realized through contemporary technology. Stefano Pilia follows with solo performances from his recent works Spiralis Aurea and Lacinia, adapted for electric guitar and electronics to create an acousmatic dramaturgy suspended between logos and chaos. The Gleaners—Laetitia Sonami and Matt Robidoux—continue the evening, combining Sonami's pioneering electronic instruments with Robidoux's distinctive "corn synth" practice to create immersive performances that blur the boundaries between composition, installation, and sonic theater. Friday concludes with Paul DeMarinis, whose experiments with sound objects and electronics transform performance into a ritualistic theatrical experience.

Doors 7:30 pm, Show 8:00 pm

Tickets $23, festival pass $60

Ticket link: https://dice.fm/bundles/san-francisco-electronic-music-festival-2026-589l

More info: https://www.sfemf.org/
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SFEMF celebrates 25 years of groundbreaking electronic music Sept. 24-26. Presented in co-production with The Lab and with support from the Italian Cultural Institute and InterMusic SF, the festival features three nights of live electronic performances by an exceptional roster of internationally acclaimed and emerging artists.

Spanning a remarkable breadth of contemporary practice, this year's program explores electronic sound as science-fiction fantasy, sonic ecosystems, technologically realized fugues, acousmatic dramaturgy, patient listening, sonic theater, and deeply liberating ritual.

The festival concludes on Saturday with Thomas Carnacki (Gregory Scharpen, Cheryl Leonard, and Gregory Hagan), who conjure dreamlike sonic environments from found sounds and unconventional materials, including rocks, glass vessels, and even live scorpions. Seth Cluett follows with quiet, patiently unfolding music that explores the liminal space between the senses through an acute attention to perception. Closing the festival is Moor Mother (Camae Ayewa), whose powerful performances fuse free jazz, noise, hip-hop, and Afrofuturism to examine memory, displacement, Black histories, and alternative futures through sound, text, and performance.

Doors 7:30 pm, Show 8:00 pm

Tickets: $23 single night, $60 festival pass

Ticket link: https://dice.fm/bundles/san-francisco-electronic-music-festival-2026-589l

More info: https://www.sfemf.org/
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