7pm Doors / 7:30pm Performance
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"Chris Mann is really a composer of extreme rhythmic complexities that have deeper meaning than words can ever deliver." —Alvin Lucier

Chris Mann is an Australian poet, writer, performer and improviser specialized in the emerging field of compositional linguistics, which the artist describes as "the mechanism whereby you understand what I'm thinking better than I do.” Mann's works for voice are based on complex texts, freely composed to allow a play of wit and humor. He explores the textures and gestures of speech, with its rhythms and qualities of color, pitch, intonation and emphasis.  Mann's unique style of reading these incredibly dense, parenthetical texts at a high speed has brought him recognition as a unique performer and recording artist. 

$15 general / free for members of The Lab
7:30pm doors / 8pm music
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James Fei and Laetitia Sonami started their improvisational collaboration in 2013. While the materials and techniques used by the two musicians differ significantly, both employ tactile interface coupled with electronic systems that exhibit complex behavioral response. Sonami performs with her most recent instrument, the Spring Spyre. Constructed around a web of springs whose signals are analyzed through neural networks which in turn control the audio synthesis in real time, the Spring Spyre can exhibit a wide range of sonic behaviors depending on its training terrains. Fei's setup consists of a mix of old modular equipment and homebrewed circuits. The system is driven by multiple feedback loops, often on the brink of instability. Signals are recursively routed through microphones, spring reverb, and converted between audio and control voltages. Circuit elements are also modified by touch, integrating the non-linearities and the immediacy of the body with the electronic processes.

$15 General Admission / $12 for Members of The Lab
SOLD OUT - 25 standing room only tickets will be released at 7:15pm

Muted Cinema is a roving sound and film series. Bringing together distinctive sounds from different sonic subcultures, selected silent/muted films are presented with live scores performed by ensembles and projects of the experimental, chamber, electronic, and improvisational genres of the Bay Area’s vibrant avant-garde scenes.

The dream-like states. Shadows, mirrors, self/other. The spectral lens of Maya Deren will be (re)visited through the prism of sonic responses.

$15 General / Free for Members of The Lab
7:30 pm Doors / 8pm Music
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Greg Kelley: trumpet, amplifier, pedals
Bill Nace: electric guitar, amplifier, pedals

Greg Kelley (nmperign, Heathen Shame, The BSC) and Bill Nace (Body/Head, x.o.4, Vampire Belt, Ceylon Mange, Northampton Wools) first played together in Anna Rampage with Paul Flaherty & Ben Karetnick in 2006. Since that time they have performed in trios with Jake Meginsky and Chris Corsano, in quartets with Corsano & Paul Flaherty and Wally Shoup & Greg Campbell, and, starting in 2011, as a duo. They toured the East Coast/Mid-West in 2012 with Matt Krefting and released a split cassette with Krefting for the occasion on Nace's Open Mouth imprint. Open Mouth also released an LP of their quartet with Wally Shoup & Greg Campbell in 2015. Utilizing an array of extended instrumental techniques, amplification and effects pedals, Kelley and Nace have allowed themselves an extensive palette to work with and set no boundaries as to where it will bring them. Delicate sound fields may slowly unfold only to then disintegrate into waves of tumult. Tumult may then bore itself into a maze of soft refrigerators.