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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Max Jaffe: You Want That Too! + Burden of Dreams

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

In a trio formation with some of the core rhythm section players from the record, Max Jaffe, Gavin Gamboa, and Logan Kane reimagine the music from Jaffe's 2025 release You Want That Too!

Max Jaffe is a drummer, producer, composer, and technologist based in Los Angeles, CA. His work expands the possibilities of composition and collaboration through the drum set.

In 2025, Jaffe released "You Want That Too!" on Colorfield Records. Eclectic and tuneful, the album received praise from Pitchfork and is being followed with a series of special live performances in varying formations.

Max is a founding member of experimental rock collective JOBS, Amirtha Kidambi's Elder Ones, and several others. He has toured, performed, and recorded with many diverse artists including Wild Up, Steph Richards, Nels Cline, Ava Mendoza, Cass McCombs, DARKSIDE, Normal Love, Jeff Parker, Vinny Golia, Peter Evans, and many others.


Burden of Dreams is the latest band from Oakland composer and multi-instrumentalist, Nathan Clevenger. Along with Clevenger on electric bass, the ensemble features Brett Carson (Hammond organ), Mark Clifford (vibraphone), and Jason Levis (drums). The band's music is dark and dense, drawing from 20th Century classical, doom rock, and jazz.
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Songs, Sermons & Sacred Voyeurism

Doors 7:30pm / Show 8pm
Free | RSVP Optional

A live activation in The Chapel of Becoming, organized by Chani Bockwinkel in collaboration with Leila Weefur

Songs, Sermons & Sacred Voyeurism extends the aesthetic and spiritual inquiry of The Chapel of Becoming into the body, the voice, and the act of witness. Part performance, part ritual architecture, the work draws on the long tradition of sacred song as a technology of transformation, and on the peep show as a structure of longing, obscured presence, and controlled revelation.

Performers move through the space using techniques of visual obstruction and partial disclosure, making themselves available to be seen and not, extending the exhibition's meditation on thresholds, devotion, and what it means to become. Simultaneously, visitors are invited into sound experiences where vocal performances unfold in intimate isolation, a format of auditory voyeurism where listening borders on lustful and asks listeners to receive the voice as an act of devotion.

Together these modes, the body in motion and the disembodied voice, produce a devotional space that refuses the separation of the sacred from the sensorial.

Featuring performances by Maxe Crandall, Elya Piazza, Snowflake Arizmendi-Calvert, Alma Carmina Marquexz, Styles Alexander, B Dean, Hands, and Mudd the Two Spirit, with additional performers to be announced.
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Jeremiah Chiu + r beny

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

Jeremiah Chiu is a synthesist in the broadest sense of the word—a craftsperson of the modular synth and other musical instruments and tools, as well as an artist, designer, and educator whose work continually brings disparate forms of knowledge into new relationships.

r beny is the ambient electronics outlet of Bay Area-based musician Austin Cairns. Through the use of synthesizers, samplers, and other electronic instruments, r beny weaves intricate threads of texture, timbre, and melody as an expression of emotions, ideas, and memories that live in the edges beyond words.

https://www.thelab.org/projects/2026/12/3/jeremiah-chiu
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