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Indexical is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in Santa Cruz, California, dedicated to experimentation in music. Indexical has presented over 70 performances, artist talks, participatory workshops, and large-scale public art events, and during the COVID-19 pandemic has presented a dozen online events, including work by over 20 artists.
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Next: Jaron Lanier + Shango B'Kongo-Rayo
Fri., Nov. 1, 2024
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
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Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
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$16 General / $12 Members
Jaron Lanier plays a pathological number of rare acoustic musical instruments, a malady you can read about in one of his pieces for the New Yorker Magazine. Since the pandemic, he has played with Les Claypool, John Zorn, Laurie Anderson, T Bone Burnett, Sara Bareilles, Sean Lennon, Stanley Jordan, Will Calhoun, Harper Simon, Bill Frisell, String Cheese Incident, and many others. Before the pandemic he wrote orchestra music and played with tons of other people like Philip Glass and Ornette Coleman. He’s also a writer of books like You Are Not a Gadget and Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now. He’s won literary awards like the German Peace Prize for Books, one of the world’s highest lit honors. He’s that guy on Social Dilemma on Netflix. He’s also a scientist and technologist, known for his work initiating the field of Virtual Reality among other things. He won a Lifetime Career Award from the IEEE. He’s also the Prime Scientist for Microsoft, against all odds.