DÍA DE MUERTOS: VOCAL INCANTATIONS WITH DORIAN WOOD, MICAELA TOBIN, BASECK & BRAD ROSE
Saturday, November 1, 2025
Door 6:30 pm | Performance 7:00 – 9:00 pm | Tulsa Artist Fellowship Project Space
For Día de Muertos, join us for a special night of vocal incantations with special guest and powerhouse performer Dorian Wood, joined by vocalist and Tulsa Artist Fellow Micaela Tobin, and electronic musicians Baseck and Brad Rose. Wood and Tobin's voices intertwine in collaboration while Baseck and Rose craft the sonic terrain beneath them. It's an evening of grief and celebration where sound becomes the offering.
"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 on Dorian Wood
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, as well as 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, dynamic music through projects such as White Boy Scream, dissecting operatic techniques across the 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.
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 inspire 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 such as Alessandro Cortini (NIN), Genesis P-Orridge, AG Cook, Caterina Barbieri, and Boys Noize, with whom he founded 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, and his own Hyped-On Experience imprint.
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.
VISITOR EXPERIENCE
The Tulsa Artist Fellowship Project Space (205 East Archer Street, Tulsa, OK 74103) is wheelchair- and stroller-accessible. It offers flexible seating options and designated standing areas. A family-sized private restroom is available to assist visitors with disabilities and caregivers needing extra space. Street parking is accessible via the Park Mobile App and is free after 5:00 pm and all day on Saturday and Sunday.