Indexical presents an evening concert with Amy Reed and Matt Wellins. Amy Reed performs Bibwika, a song cycle for heavy guitar. Matt Wellins opens with a set for live electronics.

Amy Reed is a guitarist, improviser, painter and composer. They came up through the Bay Area and Central Valley hardcore, noise, freakfolk and creative music scenes. They carry the experience of music as a force of good (Oliver Lake). Their new release Bibwaka (sing) is a live studio session of solo song cycles layered in heavy guitar feedback. They have a trio with Biggi Vinkeloe (flute, Saxophone) and Peeter Uusklya (Percussion) with a 2023 release Cedar Smoke. New Paintings and Scores are published by Susie Ibarra’s Label, Habitat Sound (2026, Berlin).

They recently worked on field in Sikkim, India with Susie Ibarra’s Himalayan sound team. Performed with Rhythm and Nature Orchestra in Ibarra’s Four Meditations on impermanence premiering at PS21 Open Air Pavilion Chatham, NY.

They lead MA Ensemble, performing original compositions and also Pauline Oliveros’ Arctic Air and Six for New Time with IONE Live performance, audio and visual scores have been presented at CRISAP’s Wild Energies: Live Materials; Unearthed: A Festival of listening and environment. Arab.AMP, NowNet Arts International Conference, The Center For Deep Listening Premier Festival RPI Troy, NY, IONE’s Dream Festivals. Women and Roots Fellowship; GAC – Göteborg, West Sweden, and Words of the People language rematriation retreat, Tulsa, OK. Their writings and paintings are published in Adult Skateboarding Zine session 1-19 edited by Josh Kline.

Matt Wellins, found most frequently at transfer stations, dollar stores, and internet forums for bootlegged films, otherwise resides in New Haven, CT. His work is broadly occupied with the ways that material objects resist control, the snafus of live performance, and how difficult it is to do very simple things. Insomuch as any of this can be heard, he generally works with analog circuitry, field recording, and computer programming. He has released music on What the…? Records and presented work at Anthology Film Archives (with Sarah Halpern) and the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center in Troy, NY.