Dorian Wood, Micaela Tobin, Brad Rose, Baseck

For Dia de los Muertos, join us for a special night of vocal incantations with visiting artist Dorian Wood, joined by vocalist Micaela Tobin, and electronic musicians Brad Rose and Baseck.

"The performer, who bends genres as much as [they] bend gender, in performances that are a little bit torch song and a lot avant-garde, delivers vocals that offer sublime beauty and pain." - Los Angeles Times

Saturday, November 1

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Doors Open: 6:30 PM

Tulsa Artist Fellowship Project Space

205 E Archer Street, Tulsa, OK 74103

Free Event

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:

Dorian Wood (b. 1975, pronouns: she/her/they/them) is an anti-disciplinary artist based in the U.S., whose practice seeks to “infect” spaces and ideologies in order to challenge traditions and systems of marginalization. Wood has performed at The Broad, REDCAT, Museo Nacional Del Prado, Teatro de la Ciudad Esperanza Iris, and Museum Folkwang, and at festivals including Pacific Standard Time, Fusebox Festival, WorldPride Madrid, Moers Festival, and Cully Jazz Festival. From 2019–2020, Wood toured internationally with XAVELA LUX AETERNA, a chamber orchestra tribute to Chavela Vargas. Subsequent works include LHASA (2022), a collaboration honoring Lhasa De Sela; Mares Ocultos (2022), a multimedia project on male heterosexuality; Canto de Todes (2023), a 12-hour composition/installation at REDCAT; and a 2024 tour interpreting Sinéad O’Connor’s I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got. In this period, she also expanded her visual art practice through exhibitions and short films presented internationally. Wood is a recipient of awards from Creative Capital, NALAC, Art Matters, and others, and they have held residencies at MacDowell, Loghaven, and Building Bridges. Wood has released over a dozen recordings, most recently You are clearly in perversion (2023) and Excesiva (2023).

Composer and sound artist Micaela Tobin wields her soprano voice against the confines of convention, specializing in experimental and contemporary realms of opera and noise. Her work bridges the physical and “inner” voice as a means of empowerment, challenging colonial stories and systems. Integrating electronics, ritualized gesture, and amplified object-symbolism, she creates alluring and dynamic music through projects such as White Boy Scream, dissecting operatic techniques across extremes of noise, drone, and sound walls to explore her diasporic identity as a first-generation Filipina-American. Her album BAKUNAWA (Deathbomb Arc) draws from sonic ritual, ancient myth, and ancestral memory—praised by The New Yorker (“Opera would do well to pay attention”) and ranked #9 Release of 2020 by The Wire. Her forthcoming album APOLAKI continues this thread, hailed by Passion of the Weiss as “a brilliant showcase in the evolution of her art.” Tobin made her cinematic debut as director/composer at REDCAT in 2021 with BAKUNAWA: Opera of the Seven Moons and premiered her second opera, APOLAKI: Opera of the Scorched Earth, in July 2023 at the historic Zorthian Ranch. Micaela is a proud recipient of the 2025–27 Tulsa Artist Fellowship Award and is excited to bring her immersive practice from Los Angeles to Tulsa.

Brad Rose is a multidisciplinary artist based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, whose work spans sound, visual art, writing, and participatory practice. Engaging themes of memory, place, and ecological transformation, he creates immersive experiences that blend experimental composition, field recording, material-based visuals, text, and community exchange. Rooted in listening as a form of care, his practice draws from sonic and material traces to shape spaces for reflection and ritual. Over two decades, Rose has developed a place-based approach shaped by Oklahoma’s shifting landscapes, working with reclaimed objects, organic processes, and found sound to hold space for grief and renewal. His visual work combines salvaged materials, earthen textures, and light-formed imagery, intertwining with language and sound to make memory tactile. His installations often extend through workshops, zines, and informal gatherings centered on shared authorship and open storytelling. Treating sound and memory as living materials, Rose listens as a way to survive, remember, and imagine otherwise. Founder of Foxy Digitalis and co-founder of The Bird House, a backyard micro-gallery supporting Tulsa’s creative communities, he continues to explore how art can bridge what’s lost with what’s yet to take root.

Baseck is a Los Angeles-based electronic musician on a lifelong mission to freak the frequency. Raised in the high desert, his fascination with sound brought him to turntablism at an early age, followed by an obsession with audio manipulation using hands-on hardware, from small battery-powered toys to drum machines to modular synthesizers. His roots run deep in L.A.’s underground rave scene since the mid-‘90s, and the danger, euphoria, and raw beauty of that time continually inspires his visceral productions and kinetic live sets. He melds precision-crafted breakbeats and blissful melodies with a DJ’s collage sensibility and eye for the dance floor. Baseck moves seamlessly between musical and art worlds, collaborating with envelope-pushing cultural influencers like Alessandro Cortini (NIN), Genesis P-Orridge, AG Cook, Caterina Barbieri, and Boys Noize, with whom he created the Eurorack module company BII Electronics. His approach to synthesis and drum programming, at once visionary and punk AF, has led him to contribute presets and designs for synth companies like Sequential Circuits and Noise Engineering. He records for John Frusciante’s EVAR Records label, Boysnoize Records, as well as his own Hyped-On Experience imprint.

ABOUT TULSA ARTIST FELLOWSHIP

Established in 2015, Tulsa Artist Fellowship was created as a place-based initiative by the George Kaiser Family Foundation (GKFF) that addresses pressing challenges faced by contemporary artists and arts workers living in and joining Tulsa, Oklahoma. Tulsa Artist Fellowship believes the arts are critical to advancing cultural citizenship and supports community-invested practitioners who intentionally engage with our city.

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VISITOR EXPERIENCE

Project Space accommodates wheelchairs and strollers. Variable seating is provided in addition to areas for distanced standing. Family-scale private washrooms are available to support visitors with disabilities and caregivers who need access to increased square footage. Street-side parking is available using the Park Mobile App and is free after 5 pm and all day Saturday-Sunday.

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