Past Events

Santa Cruz Synth Cooperative: Monthly Meetup

A fun, free, and open to the public monthly get-together for rousing discussions, live demonstrations, impromptu jams, show-and-tells, and all things synth related.

Thu., Jan. 9, 2025
Event at 7pm
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TILT-SHIFT: Em Butler

Explores the relationships between land, culture, embodied memory, and anti-imperialist movements

Fri., Jan. 17, 2025
Doors at 6:30pm | Show at 7pm
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Santa Cruz Synth Cooperative: Electronic Music Open Mic

A sign-up based Open Mic night for electronic musicians

Thu., Jan. 23, 2025
Event at 7pm
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Gregg Kowalsky + RISA

Minimalism and Maximalism in one performance

Fri., Jan. 24, 2025
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
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Screening & Talk: Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

In remembrance of David Lynch, we’re offering a screening of “Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me” followed by a conversation with Supervising Sound Editor Douglas Murray.

Fri., Jan. 31, 2025
Doors at 6:30pm | Show at 7pm
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Roger Beebe - FILMS for ONE to EIGHT PROJECTORS

"Beebe’s films are both erudite and punk, lo-fi yet high-brow shorts that wrestle with a disfigured, contemporary American landscape." -- Wyatt Williams, Creative Loafing

Sun., Feb. 2, 2025
Doors at 6:30pm | Show at 7pm
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Mayuko Hino + Lucas ‘Granpa’ Abela + Thomas Dimuzio

Rare US appearance from the ‘Queen Of Japanese Noise’

Thu., Feb. 6, 2025
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
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Gneiss + Jeff Kolar

metamorphosis /composition / improvisation / sound art / electronics

Sat., Feb. 8, 2025
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
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Santa Cruz Synth Cooperative: Monthly Meetup

A fun, free, and open to the public monthly get-together for rousing discussions, live demonstrations, impromptu jams, show-and-tells, and all things synth related.

Thu., Feb. 13, 2025
Event at 7pm
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John McCowen & Madison Greenstone

Akin to the rolling waves of tectonic activity

Sat., Feb. 15, 2025
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
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Lia Kohl + Andy Guthrie

Work centered on curiosity and patience, an exploration of the mundane and profound possibilities of sound.

Wed., Feb. 19, 2025
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
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Santa Cruz Synth Cooperative: Electronic Music Open Mic

A sign-up based Open Mic night for electronic musicians

Thu., Feb. 27, 2025
Event at 7pm
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Santa Cruz Synth Cooperative: Monthly Meetup

A fun, free, and open to the public monthly get-together for rousing discussions, live demonstrations, impromptu jams, show-and-tells, and all things synth related.

Thu., Mar. 13, 2025
Event at 7pm
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Blake Andrews - I Seem Agical

A live show at the intersction of experimental performance, comedy, and interactive gaming.

Fri., Mar. 14, 2025
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
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Still House Plants + Kathryn Mohr

"Still House Plants are the most vital band in Britain today"- The Guardian

Sat., Mar. 22, 2025
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
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Santa Cruz Synth Cooperative: Electronic Music Open Mic

A sign-up based Open Mic night for electronic musicians

Thu., Mar. 27, 2025
Event at 7pm
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MSHR + Shatter Pattern

sculptural and sonic forms are formally linked in an ever-mutating composition.

Fri., Mar. 28, 2025
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
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Bennardo-Larson Duo

Indexical is pleased to present the Bennardo-Larson Duo (violin and piano) at Wind River performing works by Anthony Vine and Maya Bennardo.

Sat., Mar. 29, 2025
Doors at 7pm | Show at 7:30pm
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Erma Fiend - Screensaver / ScreenSaveHim: Animation and the fluidity of time, gender, & embodiment

Ambiguously oscillating between lecture and performance, this event will showcase the concepts and techniques behind non-linear animation as a medium for exploring fluid states that exist between artist and muse, self and other, past and present, man and woman, humans and technology, etc

Fri., Apr. 4, 2025
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
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Elliott Sharp + Abe Gibson & GTAR Ensemble

Saturday, April 5th, Indexical is pleased to present multi-instrumentalist and composer Elliott Sharp and GTAR Ensemble performing the work of Abe Gibson

Sat., Apr. 5, 2025
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
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Santa Cruz Synth Cooperative: Monthly Meetup

A fun, free, and open to the public monthly get-together for rousing discussions, live demonstrations, impromptu jams, show-and-tells, and all things synth related.

Thu., Apr. 10, 2025
Event at 7pm
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NowhereLab x Indexical: Workshop - AST PEAR Enclosed Anomalous Inference Receiver

Build your own random number generator through soldering, circuit assembly, and code

Fri., Apr. 11, 2025
Event at 4pm
UCSC Digital Arts Research Center (DARC), Room 313
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NowhereLab x Indexical: Alan S. Tofighi

Events, musical, electronic, and mechanical are activated and made visible by the synchronization between performer and a random event generator.

Sat., Apr. 12, 2025
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
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Taku Hannoda - Sound Sculpt / Sound Compose

An evening-length program of moving image works from artist and musician Taku Hannoda

Fri., Apr. 18, 2025
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
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Santa Cruz Synth Cooperative: Electronic Music Open Mic

Celebrate the 1 year anniversary of EMOM with performances by Pale Bu Dot, OMINO, Special Thoughts, Trimpot, Creature Crenshaw, Kinch, and visuals by BenBen

Thu., Apr. 24, 2025
Event at 7pm
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Santa Cruz Synth Cooperative: Monthly Meetup

A fun, free, and open to the public monthly get-together for rousing discussions, live demonstrations, impromptu jams, show-and-tells, and all things synth related.

Thu., May 1, 2025
Doors at 6:30pm | Show at 7pm
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Nina Sobell - GammaTime

A real-time participatory brainwave drawing performance

Sat., May 3, 2025
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
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Limbs: Exhibition Opening

Join us for an opening reception of the new exhibition Limbs by the Unidentified Body Parts Collective

Fri., May 9, 2025
Event at 5pm
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In Absence of Vivien Sansour - Tea Ceremony

Through hot tea and tender spaces, this workshop will take us through a short but profound trip into our own spirits, the spirits of other people, and the seeds that help us weave stories to navigate a world that is in a state of hospice.

Thu., May 15, 2025
Doors at 3:30pm | Show at 4pm
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Tyler J. Borden & Mari Kawamura: Patterns in a Chromatic Field

A rare local performance of Feldman’s entrancing long-form work for cello and piano.

Sat., May 17, 2025
Doors at 7pm | Show at 7:30pm
Wind River
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workshop: habitus

A two-day investigation of new music technologies, creative coding, and field recording

Sat., May 24, 2025 at 12pm
Sun., May 25, 2025 at 10am
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Workshop: Limb Memorials

Using the Limbs installation as a catalyst, we will give life to the sculptures through storytelling activating our own capacities of reimagining history and reality and completing the natural cycle of life and death.

Sat., May 31, 2025
Doors at 1:30pm | Show at 2pm
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