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

Lea Bertucci + Michelle Moeller

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

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

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.

Workshop: Generative Visual Programming in TouchDesigner

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

AL-EK + Later Days

Bio-inspired visualizations and synchronized soundscapes

Sean Russell Hallowell + Tim Thompson

Live audiovisual performance with custom-built electronics

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.

Dawuna presents: Beau Travail

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

Dawuna [Live]

Framed Listen - Smoulldering R&B flex

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

Speak for Change: Cannabis Unveiled - Cannabis in Contemporary US Culture

Eric Frye + Mitchell Keaney

Dissociative synthesis // Fuzzy saturated drone

Rachel Beetz + Anne Hege + Julie Herndon

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

Screening + Talk: Lucy Liyou

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

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.

Tara Jane O'Neil & Jmy James Kidd + Marcia Bassett & Samara Lubelski

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

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.

Stephanie Cheng Smith + Matt Robidoux

Performance inspired by the periodic life cycles of cicadas.

Derek Monypeny + Kyle Bradshaw

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

John Davis + Anna Geyer & Kevin Corcoran

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

SCUMsessions: Listening Lounge

Indexical transforms into a comfortable listening lounge for intentional listening.

Andrew Moses + Eliot Burk

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

Dreamcrusher presents: Altered States

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

Dreamcrusher [Live]

Framed Listen - ☥ NIHILIST QUEER REVOLT MUSIK ☥

TRANSMUTE: Roda + ANTE PERKOV

techno / leftfield / jungle / experimental

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

Setting + Zekarias Musele Thompson / Peaces

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

Workshop: Granular Synthesis in Pure Data

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

Claire Rousay + Shanna Sordahl

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

Carlos Giffoni & Alex Pelly + RM Francis

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

Sarah Saviet at Wind River

Sarah Saviet performs A Coiled Form by Bryn Harrison.

Cel Genesis presents: Last and First Men

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

Cel Genesis [Live]

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

Dirty Looks: We All Feel Better in the Dark - The Bathhouse as Queer Utopia

A visual lecture by Dirty Looks’ Bradford Nordeen

Stefan Maier + Sharkiface

An evening of forward-thinking live electronics

Workshop: SCUMsessions - Contact Microphones

An introductory workshop to contact microphones

Workshop: Cyanotype 16mm Filmmaking

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

TRANSMUTE: mothbot + Adra + resident djs

Driving industrial techno and hypnotic rhythms

Workshop: SCUMsessions - Field Recording pt 1

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

Workshop: SCUMsessions - Field Recording pt 2

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

Shapes & Sounds of Freedom: Community Conversation

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

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.

Chuck Johnson + Mind Mirage

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

Valerio Tricoli + Dean Fraser

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

Devin Gray + Stevie Richards & Mike Meanstreetz

Performances of contemporary and improvisatory jazz for percussion and electronics

Bill MacKay + Livia Charman

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

Olivia Block + leshy

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

Joy Guidry: concert + talk

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

Will Guthrie + Cheryl E. Leonard

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

Jaron Lanier + Shango B'Kongo-Rayo

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

Ann Altstatt - Why is There Something Instead of Nothing? (Closing Reception)

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

pent + Dovetail

examination of the phenomena of synthetic sound, dissecting and reconstructing how the concept of the “unnatural” replicates the organic world and vice versa.

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.

Natacha Diels + Steph Richards

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

TILT-SHIFT: Mary Jirmanus Saba

Discussion and screening highlighting radical cinema and anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist struggle.

Dominic Coles + Cruel Diagonals

New compositions exploring language and voice

Mississippi Records presents: A People's History of North American Music

A new lecture / film / slideshow that attempts to tell the entire history of North American music in ninety minutes!

Foodman + Nathan Ho + kinch (dj set)

schizophrenic collage // deconstructed club // juke // footwork // computer music