Indexical presents the culminating performance project of 2025–26 Artist-in-Residence Thadeus Frazier-Reed: a series of compositions created for his custom-designed Starfield system—an array of small sound-making objects suspended from the ceiling of the performance space.Each object is controllable by the composer in real time, making the installation fully performable and allowing for dynamic exploration of timbre, spatialization, and movement.

In the first half of this six-hour workshop, we'll apply fundamentals of object-oriented programming in JavaScript to live code electronic dance music with Charlie Roberts' Gibber web platform (gibber.cc); we'll sequence drum machines and synthesizers, tune up filters and envelopes, and route signals to effects and effect busses. In the second half of the workshop, we'll learn to synchronize generative visuals to our sounds; we'll combine and light solid geometry, hack together and transform synthesized and external video sources in Hydra, and map custom animations in p5.js. 

Bring your wi-fi-enabled laptop, your headphones, and your beginner's mind.

Indexical is pleased to present pioneer of extended-technique electric guitar Fred Frith alongside Phipps Pt., the acid-folk-meets-avant-electronics duo of Lovage Sharrock and Wobbly.

Indexical presents an evening of music for electric guitar. Composer/performer Marguerite Brown performs "tuning to", a piece exploring the electric guitar as a celestial body utilyzing planetary tuning forks, hardware, and unconventional performance techniques. Electric Guitar Ensemble opens the evening with works by Catherine Lamb, Zoe Pupo, Eliot Burk, and Rodrigo Barriga.

Indexical is pleased to celebrate a double record release show with blurness and Sean Keenan (with Mark Perez). Bay Area composer Shanna Sordahl opens the evening.

In 2023, Giacomo Fiore commissioned a new work for his just intonation National steel guitar and live electronics from New York composer Matt Sargent. Their collaboration resulted in a concert of new works for guitar, all of which are computer-generated variations on the Shaker hymn, Simple Gifts. Composer and performer Chris Pierandozzi Everingham opens the evening.

New Jersey rapper Fatboi Sharif – aka The Garden State Gargoyle – joins producer Icky Reels for a headlining set of abstract beats and experimental hip hop. Additional experimental club sounds courtesy of kinch (live) and Inharmonic (DJ).

Using contact microphones, electromagnetic pickups, and tactile transducers, attendees will learn techniques for combining these elements with various materials to make their own custom musical instruments. You will leave the workshop with a kit of electronic components that will allow you to continue combining these elements to explore the acoustic properties of the materials around you and build your own unique electro-acoustic voices. The workshop will be presented as a lecture/demonstration followed by a hands-on play session and group improvisation.