In this intense global moment, emotions can feel like overwhelming noise. Audium residency alumni Alex Abalos & Roco Córdova explore identity and the struggle for justice in this timely reprise of their residency works.
Playing every Friday & Saturday – April 17- May 16, 2026.
Roco Córdova
Things You May Find Hidden in my Ear
Roco blends voice and recordings from daily life in Things You May Find Hidden in my Ear. They confront the ongoing humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, connecting the realities of occupied Palestine with their own Puerto Rican heritage.
Alex Abalos
Soliloquy of Chaos
Alex Abalos presents Soliloquy of Chaos, an “encyclopedia of sound” drawn from San Francisco’s Filipino community, weaving historic city recordings around the story of the International I Hotel eviction and the activist movement it sparked.
Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Roco Córdova (they/them) is a vocalist, composer, producer and improviser based in the Bay Area. Their music has been described as “slow-boiling, apparently timeless” with “an odd momentum of its own” (The Washington Post). Roco’s work fuses diverse influences with electronic media, chance operations, gradual processes, noise, improvisation, and timbral techniques of composition. Voice is at the core of their music making: they incorporate extended techniques like throat singing, overtone singing, falsetto, and vocal clicks and pops into live performances that emphasize the electronic processing of these sounds. Roco has toured with The Art Ensemble of Chicago and Dorian Wood’s Canto de Todes. They are also part of part of Blood Is Here, along with vocalists Carmina Escobar and Dorian Wood.
Alex Abalos is an electrician, musician, sound artist, instrument fabricator and synthesizer nerd who enjoys piecing together unlikely partners, instruments, found sounds, and venues, creating unique and meaningful experiences that help neighborhoods think outside of their barriers and boundaries. Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay to a working class, immigrant family with a mentality of “working with what you got,” Alex attributes his success to his DIY attitude. Realizing later in life that he could use this as a tool to connect with people, he brings his passion for music to alternative educational spaces where he can bridge the gap between the avant garde music that he loves and the street culture that he grew up in.