Past Events

Speak for Change: Summer Red - The Role of Music in Modern Culture

A live music performance and discussion with local music producer, curator, and musician Summer Red

Thu., Jan. 11, 2024
Doors at 7pm | Show at 7:30pm
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Lea Bertucci + Michelle Moeller

NYC based experimental musician, composer and performer Lea Bertucci. Opening electroacoustic set by Michelle Moeller.

Fri., Jan. 12, 2024
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
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Workshop: An Introduction to Making Music in VCV Rack 2

a practical and fun introduction to modular synthesis and electronic sound creation using VCV Rack 2

Thu., Jan. 18, 2024
Doors at 6:30pm | Show at 7pm
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SISTERS WITH TRANSISTORS

The untold story of electronic music’s female pioneers, remarkable composers who embraced machines and their liberating technologies to utterly transform how we produce and listen to music today.

Fri., Feb. 2, 2024
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
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Workshop: Generative Visual Programming in TouchDesigner

Learn how to build generative, simulation-driven, real-time visual effects

Sat., Feb. 3, 2024
Doors at 2:30pm | Show at 3pm
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AL-EK + Later Days

Bio-inspired visualizations and synchronized soundscapes

Sat., Feb. 3, 2024
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
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Sean Russell Hallowell + Tim Thompson

Live audiovisual performance with custom-built electronics

Sat., Feb. 10, 2024
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
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Dirty Looks: No Credit, Cash Only: Cookie Mueller in Film and Video

A visual lecture of images and clips from Cookie Mueller's always fervent and sometimes-fleeting roles in film and video.

Fri., Feb. 16, 2024
Doors at 7pm | Show at 7:30pm
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Dawuna presents: Beau Travail

Framed Listen - Screening + talk with Ian Mugerwa (Dawuna)

Fri., Feb. 23, 2024
Doors at 4:30pm | Show at 5pm
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Dawuna [Live]

Framed Listen - Smoulldering R&B flex

Fri., Feb. 23, 2024
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
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Jay Afrisando x thingNY - [opera captions]

[opera captions] reimagines what captions as an “actor” can do beyond functioning as a communication conveyor and sound interpreter in audiovisual media

Sat., Feb. 24, 2024
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
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Eric Frye + Mitchell Keaney

Dissociative synthesis // Fuzzy saturated drone

Fri., Mar. 1, 2024
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
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Rachel Beetz + Anne Hege + Julie Herndon

auditory pareidolia // analog live-looping // electroacoutic composition

Thu., Mar. 7, 2024
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
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Screening + Talk: Lucy Liyou

Framed Listen - Lucy Liyou shares a collection of various TV programs, experimental video, and films in connection to her work.

Sat., Mar. 9, 2024
Doors at 4:30pm | Show at 5pm
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Lucy Liyou [Live]

Framed Listen - Field recordings, text-to-speech readings, poetry, and elements from Korean folk opera are synthesized into sonic narratives that explore the implications of Orientalism and westernisation.

Sat., Mar. 9, 2024
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
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Tara Jane O'Neil & Jmy James Kidd + Marcia Bassett & Samara Lubelski

An evening of somatic listening, investigative movement, and improvised long-form drone.

Fri., Mar. 15, 2024
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
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Katie Porter / Werner Dafeldecker / Lucio Capece

Experimental bass clarinetist, Katie Porter, with inimitable friends, perform Phase to Phase for two bass clarinets, Tape 231 for two bass clarinets & tape, New Hemispheres Ratios for electronics, and minimalist improvisational trios for two bass clarinets & bass.

Fri., Mar. 22, 2024
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
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Stephanie Cheng Smith + Matt Robidoux

Performance inspired by the periodic life cycles of cicadas.

Sat., Mar. 23, 2024
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
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Derek Monypeny + Kyle Bradshaw

An evening of psychedelic sirocco swirl and atmospheric dark-folk.

Fri., Mar. 29, 2024
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
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John Davis + Anna Geyer & Kevin Corcoran

An evening of expanded cinema exploring the interplay of film and live sound performance.

Fri., Apr. 5, 2024
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
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SCUMsessions: Listening Lounge

Indexical transforms into a comfortable listening lounge for intentional listening.

Thu., Apr. 11, 2024
Doors at 6:30pm | Show at 7pm
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Andrew Moses + Eliot Burk

A performance that situates covert sonic military apparatuses in feedback and includes four custom wheel-based polyphonic string instruments.

Sat., Apr. 13, 2024
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
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Dreamcrusher presents: Altered States

Framed Listen - Screening of Ken Russell's haunting sci-fi classic.

Sat., Apr. 20, 2024
Doors at 4:30pm | Show at 5pm
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Dreamcrusher [Live]

Framed Listen - ☥ NIHILIST QUEER REVOLT MUSIK ☥

Sat., Apr. 20, 2024
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
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TRANSMUTE: Roda + ANTE PERKOV

techno / leftfield / jungle / experimental

Fri., Apr. 26, 2024
Doors at 7pm | Show at 7pm
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Opening Reception: Ann Altstatt - Why is There Something Instead of Nothing?

Join us for a First Friday opening reception of Ann Altstatt's new site-specific installation at Indexical

Fri., May 3, 2024
Doors at 5pm | Show at 5pm
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Setting + Zekarias Musele Thompson / Peaces

Indexical is pleased to present improvisational trio Setting and Oakland-based artist Zekarias Musele Thompson.

Sat., May 4, 2024
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
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Workshop: Granular Synthesis in Pure Data

S.C.U.M. hosts an introductory workshop to microsound synthesis

Thu., May 9, 2024
Doors at 6:30pm | Show at 7pm
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Claire Rousay + Shanna Sordahl

A meditation of the poignant emotional terrains of loneliness, nostalgia, sentimentality, guilt, and sex.

Fri., May 10, 2024
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
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Carlos Giffoni & Alex Pelly + RM Francis

No Fun founder Carlos Giffoni presents his hypnagogic take on European electronic music traditions

Fri., May 17, 2024
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
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Sarah Saviet at Wind River

Sarah Saviet performs A Coiled Form by Bryn Harrison.

Sat., May 18, 2024
Doors at 7pm | Show at 7:30pm
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Cel Genesis presents: Last and First Men

Framed Listen - Screening of Jóhann Jóhannsson's posthumous feature film debut.

Fri., May 24, 2024
Doors at 4:30pm | Show at 5pm
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Cel Genesis [Live]

Framed Listen - An aggressive mixture of hardcore and electronic themes under the guise of a dystopic megacorporation.

Fri., May 24, 2024
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
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Dirty Looks: We All Feel Better in the Dark - The Bathhouse as Queer Utopia

A visual lecture by Dirty Looks’ Bradford Nordeen

Fri., May 31, 2024
Doors at 7pm | Show at 7:30pm
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Stefan Maier + Sharkiface

An evening of forward-thinking live electronics

Sat., Jun. 8, 2024
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
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Workshop: SCUMsessions - Contact Microphones

An introductory workshop to contact microphones

Thu., Jun. 13, 2024
Doors at 6:30pm | Show at 7pm
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Workshop: Cyanotype 16mm Filmmaking

An introduction to creating cyanotype images on various outdated or new 16mm film stocks.

Sat., Jul. 20, 2024
Doors at 1:30pm | Show at 2pm
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TRANSMUTE: mothbot + Adra + resident djs

Driving industrial techno and hypnotic rhythms

Fri., Jul. 26, 2024
Doors at 7pm | Show at 7pm
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Workshop: SCUMsessions - Field Recording pt 1

Engage with your surroundings through field recording, listening, and site specific exercises.

Sun., Jul. 28, 2024
Doors at 1:30pm | Show at 2pm
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Workshop: SCUMsessions - Field Recording pt 2

Explore improvisation, composition, and sound design through manipulated field recordings.

Sun., Aug. 4, 2024
Doors at 1:30pm | Show at 2pm
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Shapes & Sounds of Freedom: Community Conversation

A conversation on collective liberation and the concepts behind the Shapes & Sounds of Freedom project

Wed., Aug. 21, 2024
Doors at 6:30pm | Show at 7pm
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Yayah & Thomas Sage Pedersen with Micha Scott - Shapes & Sounds of Freedom

An audacious exploration of liberation, brought to life through a compelling short film and a dynamic, genre-defying performance.

Fri., Aug. 30, 2024
Sat., Aug. 31, 2024
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
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Chuck Johnson + Mind Mirage

California-based artists Chuck Johnson and Mind Mirage kick off the Fall 2024 Season at Indexical

Fri., Sep. 13, 2024
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
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Valerio Tricoli + Dean Fraser

Electro-acoustic compositions, hovering in the shady domain of memory, simultaneously present and distant

Fri., Sep. 20, 2024
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
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Devin Gray + Stevie Richards & Mike Meanstreetz

Performances of contemporary and improvisatory jazz for percussion and electronics

Sat., Sep. 28, 2024
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
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Bill MacKay + Livia Charman

Explorations into folk and avant-garde compositions for guitar with Bill MacKay and Livia Charman

Fri., Oct. 4, 2024
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
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Olivia Block + leshy

Olivia Block performs her new album Mountains Pass with Jon Mueller on drums and Paige Naylor on keyboards

Fri., Oct. 11, 2024
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
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Joy Guidry

Bassoonist and composer Joy Guidry performs her album AMEN, experimenting with various forms of southern Black American music, from jazz, to gospel and ambient.

Thu., Oct. 17, 2024
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
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Will Guthrie + Cheryl E. Leonard

Solo drums and percussion with rhythmic sophistication, unashamed virtuosity and undeniable physicality

Fri., Oct. 25, 2024
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
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Jaron Lanier + Shango B'Kongo Rayo

Prolific technologist and multi-instrumentalist Jaron Lanier with guitarist Shango B'Kongo-Rayo

Fri., Nov. 1, 2024
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
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Ann Altstatt - Why is There Something Instead of Nothing? (Closing Reception)

A conversation with the artist and live performance by Kite Hands Glowing

Sat., Nov. 2, 2024
Doors at 6:30pm | Show at 7pm
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pent + Dovetail

immersive sound sculptures that defy realities & transverse stream of consciousness narratives

Fri., Nov. 8, 2024
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
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MAH x Indexical: Zekarias Musele Thompson - spatial facilitation #10

A ritual practice of situating ourselves in space together through walking, noticing, the breath, and sound.

Sat., Nov. 9, 2024
Doors at 7pm | Show at 7:30pm
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Natacha Diels + Steph Richards

Composer and digital artist Natacha Diels performs a recent three-act composition "Somewhere Beautiful", with trumpeter Steph Richards opening

Sat., Nov. 16, 2024
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
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