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.

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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$10 General / FREE or discounted for Members

Santa Cruz Synth Cooperative: Electronic Music Open Mic
A sign-up based Open Mic night for electronic musicians

Gregg Kowalsky + RISA
Minimalism and Maximalism in one performance
Fri., Jan. 24, 2025
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
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$16 General / FREE or discounted for Members

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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Suggested Donation: $5–$50

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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$10 General / FREE or discounted for Members

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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$16 General / FREE or discounted for Members

Gneiss + Jeff Kolar
metamorphosis /composition / improvisation / sound art / electronics
Sat., Feb. 8, 2025
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
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$16 General / FREE or discounted for Members

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.

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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$16 General / FREE or discounted for Members

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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$16 General / FREE or discounted for Members

Santa Cruz Synth Cooperative: Electronic Music Open Mic
A sign-up based Open Mic night for electronic musicians

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.
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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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$16 General / FREE or discounted for Members

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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$20 General / FREE or discounted for Members

Santa Cruz Synth Cooperative: Electronic Music Open Mic
A sign-up based Open Mic night for electronic musicians

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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$16 General / FREE or discounted for Members

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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$20 General / $10 Student / FREE or discounted for Members

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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$16 General / FREE or discounted for Members

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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$20 General / FREE or discounted for Members

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.

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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Sliding Scale | FREE for UCSC students
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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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Sliding Scale | FREE for UCSC students

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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$10 General / FREE or discounted for Members

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

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.

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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$16 General / FREE or discounted for Members
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Limbs: Exhibition Opening
Join us for an opening reception of the new exhibition Limbs by the Unidentified Body Parts Collective
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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.

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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$20 General / $10 Student / FREE or discounted for Members

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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Suggested Sliding Scale $100–$500
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