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.

Can't join us for the performance? The installation will also be open to view during gallery hours:

Sat., Jan. 10, noon-5pm
Sun., Jan. 11, noon-5pm
https://www.indexical.org/exhibitions/thadeus-frazier-reed-oud

Thadeus Frazier-Reed is a composer, instrument designer, and creative technologist exploring the effects of movement, dynamic and stochastic processes, error, and instrument form on sound creation. He is interested in the ways in which the time, place, and audience change the context and content of a composition and uses these variables to explore emergent behavior of complex systems with simple rules. He views each new instrument design as an opportunity to discover the unique voice of that instrument.

This program is supported in part by The Live Music Society Music in Action Grant.