Past Events

Rescheduled! Speak for Change: Mimi Tempestt

Mimi Tempestt is a multidisciplinary artist and poet

Dirty Looks: City of Lost Souls

this 1983 trans punk musical is the instant cult classic you’ve never seen!

Tamara Duplantis: Creating Sound Art with GB Studio Workshop

In this hands-on workshop, learn a simple game engine and how to hack it to create musical work.

Allen Riley: Synchronization Station Workshop

Synchronization Station is a participatory performance created by Allen Riley that examines practices of synchronization among people and digital systems

Rodrigo Barriga Ensemble + Myles Morgan

Exploring ensemble interaction and communication through the use of openness and structured improvisation

Tatsuya Nakatani: Nakatani Gong Orchestra

Tatsuya Nakatani’s non-traditional contemporary sound art project, the Nakatani Gong Orchestra (NGO)

POSTPONED: Feldenkrais Somatic Bodywork Workshop for Improvisers with Meerenai Shim

movement workshop for musicians

Roberto Fatal: Screening & Talk

Three films exploring Latinx Indigenous Mesrize identity, sexuality, the body and the cultures, desires and histories it contains.

Anna Friz & Gabriel Saloman Mindel + Cole Pulice

A concert that listens for risk and regeneration, drought and the hints of persistent moisture in burn scars

Improv Synth Jam

Bring your acoustic or electronic instrument and plug in for shared sync, signal processing

Ryan Nestor + Concert Talk with Charissa Noble

multimedia works exploring sound and imagery of wartime and violence

Sarah Buckius: If (x = Robot), Then (y = Move fast and break things) ...

an investigation into the female-coded personae of robots

John P. Hastings & Benjamin Mayock: Traces + Olivia Ronan: subversive topiary

Traces is a meditation on the Southern American landscape and how those lands affect its inhabitants.

Hinge: Clockworks

blurring the lines between contemporary classical and avant-garde rock

Ben Krasner & Clare Bathum S.C.U.M. x Indexical: Forest Walk (offsite)

sonic and sculptural exercises inspired by Deep Listening

AV Club: Algorave

exploring improvisational and curious possibilities of technology and algorithms

2023 Volunteer Orientation

come get involved in the community at Indexical (and have some coffee & pastries!)

Weekly Exploring Improvisation Space with Kumi Maxson

striving to create an accessible space for non-hierarchical participation and experimentation

[POSTPONED] Workshop: Handcrafting Soft Circuits with Niki Selken

ways to learn about circuits via paper crafts

Faults with Gabby Wen & Andrej Hronco + mb

improvising trio of Jorge Bachmann, Kevin Corcoran and Jaroba, joined for this performance by Gabby Wen & Andrej Hronco

Object Collection: HOUSECONCERT

A two-day residency by a leading Brooklyn-based experimental opera and theater company

LANDING Presents: Wendy Jacob: Little Jiggling Particles

a performance featuring a brass band and giant balloons

Black Sound Symposium Opening Reception

Roundtable: Carolyn Jean Martin + Aaron Samuel Mulenga

Black Sound Symposium: discussion of Black portraiture and the racial imagination

Screening and Discussion with Madre Guía (Stephanie Hewett)

Black Sound Symposium - Screening and Artist Interview

Gabriel Solis - Against Erasure: Jazz, Blackness, and the Global Imagination

Black Sound Symposium: keynote lecture on global jazz's deep relationship to Black aesthetics

Anthony R. Green & Gabriel Solis -- a Conversation

Satellite Event to the Black Sound Symposium held at the UCSC Music Department

DeForrest Brown, Jr. + Madre Guía (Stephanie Hewett) with introduction by Xavier Livermon

Black Sound Symposium: DJ sets amplifying the Black histories of Detroit Techno and Chicago House music

Stephanie Hewett: Groove Sermon Workshop

Black Sound Symposium: an exploration of the body's response to the African rhythms and vocals inherent in Chicago House music

DeForrest Brown, Jr.: Speaker Music Lecture

Black Sound Symposium: lecture reframing techno from a Black theoretical perspective

Anthony R. Green: Zoom In with Samantha Bounkeua + Bill Solomon

Black Sound Symposium: concert on the Black experience in the United States + chamber works for percussion by Black composers

Embodiment Workshop for Creativity and Activism with Nicol Hammond

Black Sound Symposium: embodiment workshop to shake off the fatigue that comes from activist work

Akwasi Papa Abrefah: Histories of Protest, Resistance, and Joy in Trinidadian Steel Pan

Black Sound Symposium: lecture/performance on the political sociality of steel pan, past and present

Mark Lomanno - Breath Work: Comping, Coping, Crisis, and Listening for Kin

Black Sound Symposium: discussion examining practices of breathing, listening, and improvisation as modes of radical kinship in critical times

Mark Lomanno -- Modulating Bodies and Intimate Incorporations: Trauma, Improvisation, & Belonging

Satellite Event to the Black Sound Symposium held at the UCSC Music Department

Workshop: Analog Video Processing with Sean Russell Hallowell

learn how to process analog video signals and display the results on cathode-ray tube televisions

Bala Raghavan: At Odds With Even Love + Roco Córdova

an evening of poetry and prose: the amorous song of the courtesan and queer stories from the Indian Subcontinent

Dirty Looks: Brontez Purnell: The 100 Boyfriends Mixtapes

writer, musician, dancer, filmmaker, and performance artist

Baba Commandant and the Mandingo Band at Felton Music Hall

a contemporary world music group from Burkina Faso

Nicholas Deyoe: R/S + Joshuah Maya Garcia: Derealization: Love, & Jealousy

ambient guitar solo written for a custom-built double neck guitar

Beyond the Grave: Writing Ghosts

performances evoking the personal and the sociological, the historical and ever-present hauntings

Ami Dang + Beast Nest at Kuumbwa Jazz

The already evocative vocal harmonizations transmit a gut-wrenching mixture of mourning and hope

Ghost Ensemble + Tasting Menu at Wind River

Ghost Ensemble performs Sky Macklay & Ben Richter

Ghost Ensemble + Laura Cetilia at Wind River

Ghost Ensemble performs Catherine Lamb

Anna Friz & Gabriel Saloman Mindel: Between the Fires

Late Night @ the MAH

KZSC x Indexical: End-of-Year Dance Party

come out and support student-run radio with kzsc djs

Seven Cups Echo + Memory Leaks Onto The Rug

participatory installation and performance that explores sound in the context of an intimate tea ceremony

Ben Neill & Ralph Abraham + Headboggle

meditative, atmospheric music emanates from Neill’s self-designed Mutantrumpet

Kumi Maxson: Exploring Community Liberation through Collective Improvisation

micro-residency project cultivating long-form improvisation locally

Desert Magic: The Valley Spirit + Cecyl Ruehlen: Tethered Air Zones

a new song cycle that uses Ursula Le Guin's version of the Tao Te Ching

Kuumbwa Jazz & Indexical Present: dragonchild x Sunken Cages

ethio-american debo band leader d.a. mekonnen joins forces with drummer-producer sunken cages aka ravish momin

MSHR: Mesh Manifold

a new body of work by audiovisual collective MSHR, incorporating hybrid analog-digital systems in a complex and unruly feedback system

TENGGER + Perfect Deleted Futures

pan-asian couple making new age drone music with their 10 year old child on a world tour

Workshop: Introduction to Live Visuals with Phase Shift Collective and special guests Denise Gallant and Allen Riley

learn the fundamentals of live performance with video and light

TAK Ensemble: Work by Michelle Lou and Eric Wubbels

nyc-based chamber music quintet performs immersive works by michelle lou and eric wubbels

Oceans Roar 1000 Drums + Jordan Paul

berlin-based improvisation trio with opening set by jordan paul

Playstructure Dreamcast: XyxyNyxyX

an unfolding bardic exploration of existential nonsense woven with equal measures of storybook whimsy, cosmic foolery, carefully composed nuance, and psychonautical dream theater

Agriculture + Æ

listen to the spiritual sound of ecstatic black metal by the band agriculture

Jack Callahan & Jeff Witscher: Music Songs + alex cruse: 0th Aubade

new work sharing sensibilities with radio art, A.A. meetings, group therapy sessions, formalist and fluxus generative poetry experiments, and Q&A formats

Dirty Looks: Hardcore Home Movies

a program of explicit, Queercore shorts from luminaries of the scene

Speak for Change: Consuelo Alba - The Power of Storytelling

Conversation with Consuelo Alba of the Watsonville Film Festival

JJJJJerome Ellis + Briana Marela

artist, composer, and multi-instrumentalist explores intersections of blackness, music, and disabled speech