This is a 21+ event w/ valid ID at Soda Bar - San Diego. Kayo Dot is less a band than a twenty-year act of radical composition. Led by composer and multi-instrumentalist Toby Driver, the project has evolved through ten full-length albums, each one a rupture and a reinvention. Since its founding in 2003, Kayo Dot has functioned as a mutable vessel for Driver’s search for form, intensity, and transformation—its output spanning chamber-metal, spectral jazz, gothic synthscapes, and genreless music that critics have struggled to define but which has left deep marks on underground music culture. Working closely with librettist and conceptualist Jason Byron, the band’s work blends philosophical themes, mythic architecture, and violent emotionality into what amounts to a long-form, evolving autobiography—a sonic document of the artist haunted by his own past. Presented by Soda. This is a 21+ event