The first of two in the LABORATORY series concerts on this season presents an array of works with electronic or visual components as the backbone of their compositional concepts. Multi-instrumentalist, improviser and composer Zeena Parkins starts the conversation with a work for solo cello, sound diffusion and fixed media, while student composers from SFCM’s Technology and Applied Composition program continue with new sonic avenues for solo instruments and electronic resources. Celebrated Bay Area artist Fred Frith joins the stage in a performance of his work with SFCMP virtuoso William Winant. And enfant-terrible Alexander Schubert enthralls with a visually-based reactive composition for flexible ensemble, juxtaposed with the Minimalist strands of an early work by Steve Reich at his most contrapuntal.