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!
Sat., Jan. 14, 2023
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
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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
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
Sat., Jan. 28, 2023
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
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Tatsuya Nakatani: Nakatani Gong Orchestra
Tatsuya Nakatani’s non-traditional contemporary sound art project, the Nakatani Gong Orchestra (NGO)
Sat., Feb. 11, 2023
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
Tannery World Dance and Cultural Center
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Tannery World Dance and Cultural Center
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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.
Fri., Feb. 17, 2023
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
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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
Sat., Feb. 18, 2023
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
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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
Sat., Feb. 25, 2023
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
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$18 General / $14 Members / $9 Students
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Sarah Buckius: If (x = Robot), Then (y = Move fast and break things) ...
an investigation into the female-coded personae of robots
Fri., Mar. 10, 2023
Sat., Mar. 11, 2023
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
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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.
Fri., Mar. 17, 2023
Sat., Mar. 18, 2023
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
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Sat., Mar. 18, 2023
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
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Hinge: Clockworks
blurring the lines between contemporary classical and avant-garde rock
Fri., Mar. 24, 2023
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
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$22 General | $16.50 Members | $11 Students
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Ben Krasner & Clare Bathum S.C.U.M. x Indexical: Forest Walk (offsite)
sonic and sculptural exercises inspired by Deep Listening
Sat., Mar. 25, 2023
Doors at 12:30pm | Show at 1pm
Fall Creek Unit Parking Lot, Henry Cowell State Park
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$5 - $20 Sliding Scale
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Fall Creek Unit Parking Lot, Henry Cowell State Park
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AV Club: Algorave
exploring improvisational and curious possibilities of technology and algorithms
Sat., Mar. 25, 2023
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
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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
Mon., Mar. 27, 2023
Mon., Apr. 3, 2023
Mon., Apr. 17, 2023
Mon., Apr. 24, 2023
Mon., May 1, 2023
Mon., May 8, 2023
Mon., May 15, 2023
Mon., May 22, 2023
Mon., May 29, 2023
Doors at 5:30pm | Show at 6pm
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Mon., Apr. 3, 2023
Mon., Apr. 17, 2023
Mon., Apr. 24, 2023
Mon., May 1, 2023
Mon., May 8, 2023
Mon., May 15, 2023
Mon., May 22, 2023
Mon., May 29, 2023
Doors at 5:30pm | Show at 6pm
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[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
Sat., Apr. 1, 2023
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
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Object Collection: HOUSECONCERT
A two-day residency by a leading Brooklyn-based experimental opera and theater company
Fri., Apr. 14, 2023
Sat., Apr. 15, 2023
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
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Sat., Apr. 15, 2023
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
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LANDING Presents: Wendy Jacob: Little Jiggling Particles
a performance featuring a brass band and giant balloons

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
Fri., Apr. 21, 2023
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
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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
Sat., Apr. 22, 2023
Doors at 10:30am | Show at 11am
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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
Sat., Apr. 22, 2023
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
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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
Mon., Apr. 24, 2023
Doors at 12:50pm | Show at 1:20pm
UCSC Music Department, Room 131
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UCSC Music Department, Room 131
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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
Sat., Apr. 29, 2023
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
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$16 General / $12 Members / $8 Students
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Dirty Looks: Brontez Purnell: The 100 Boyfriends Mixtapes
writer, musician, dancer, filmmaker, and performance artist
Thu., May 4, 2023
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
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$22 General / $16.50 Members / $11 Students & Underemployed
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Baba Commandant and the Mandingo Band at Felton Music Hall
a contemporary world music group from Burkina Faso
Fri., May 5, 2023
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
Felton Music Hall
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Felton Music Hall
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Nicholas Deyoe: R/S + Joshuah Maya Garcia: Derealization: Love, & Jealousy
ambient guitar solo written for a custom-built double neck guitar
Sat., May 6, 2023
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
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$16 General | $12 Members | $8 Students/Underemployed
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Beyond the Grave: Writing Ghosts
performances evoking the personal and the sociological, the historical and ever-present hauntings
Fri., May 12, 2023
Sat., May 13, 2023
Fri., May 19, 2023
Sat., May 20, 2023
Doors at 4:30pm | Show at 5pm
Evergreen Cemetery
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$25 General / $15 MAH & Indexical Members
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Sat., May 13, 2023
Fri., May 19, 2023
Sat., May 20, 2023
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Evergreen Cemetery
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Ami Dang + Beast Nest at Kuumbwa Jazz
The already evocative vocal harmonizations transmit a gut-wrenching mixture of mourning and hope
Thu., May 18, 2023
Doors at 7pm | Show at 7:30pm
Kuumbwa Jazz
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$21 Advance / $26.25 Day-of / $13 Student
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Kuumbwa Jazz
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Ghost Ensemble + Tasting Menu at Wind River
Ghost Ensemble performs Sky Macklay & Ben Richter
Fri., May 19, 2023
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
Wind River
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$26 General / $19.50 Members / $15 Student/Underemployed
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Wind River
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Ghost Ensemble + Laura Cetilia at Wind River
Ghost Ensemble performs Catherine Lamb
Sat., May 20, 2023
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
Wind River
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Wind River
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Anna Friz & Gabriel Saloman Mindel: Between the Fires
Late Night @ the MAH
Sat., May 27, 2023
Doors at 6:30pm | Show at 7pm
Museum of Art and History
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Included with Museum Admission / Free for MAH members
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Museum of Art and History
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