Indexical, 1050 River Street #119, Santa Cruz, CA (2025)

02/07/2025

Coming Soon! ‼️

Friday, March 28
Ever-touring cybernetic audiovisual duo MSHR ( and ) return to Santa Cruz with Bay Area electronic music artist Shatter Pattern.

Saturday, March 29
Bennardo-Larson duo ( and ) perform works by Anthony Vine and Maya Bennardo at our favorite mountainside venue–Wind River.

Tickets available via indexical.org or link in bio/stories

02/04/2025

Join us for an evening of improvised and composed music with LA-based ensemble Gneiss and Chicago sound artist Jeff Kolar.

Gneiss + Jeff Kolar
Sat., Feb. 8, 2025
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
tickets via indexical.org

GNEISS (pronounced "nice"), a band from Los Angeles consisting of JEONGHYEON JOO (haegeum) JOSHUA GEROWITZ (guitar, composition), ETHAN MARKS (trumpet, composition), and GEORGIA E. BELL (bass, composition/design), brings a set of composed and improvised music themed on the formation and transition of rock. This is a concert in support of their upcoming self-titled album developed and recorded throughout 2023.

Jeff Kolar (b. Chicago, USA) is a composer, sound artist, and curator. He is the Founder and Artistic Director of Radius, an experimental radio broadcast platform established in 2010. His work, described as “wonderfully strange” (John Corbett) and “characteristically curious” (Marc Weidenbaum), activates sound in unconventional, temporary, and ephemeral ways using appropriation and remix as a critical practice. His solo and collaborative projects, installations, and public performances often investigate the mundane sonic nuances of everyday electronic devices. He has ongoing collaborations with Anna Friz, Jennifer Monson, Zeena Parkins, jonCates, and among others.

01/30/2025

Insane convergence of noise legends at Indexical on Feb. 6 with "Queen of Japanese Noise" Mayuko Hino, glass shard noisemaker Lucas 'Granpa" Abela and Bay Area experimental electronics from Thomas Dimuzio. Not for the feint of heart!

Mayuko Hino + Lucas ‘Granpa’ Abela + Thomas Dimuzio
Thu., Feb. 6, 2025
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm

Mayuko Hino
Founder of celebrated Japanese noise collective C.C.C.C. in 1989, she continues to perform her cathartic and ecstatic sound through a custom made set of oscillators.

Lucas ‘Granpa’ Abela
Visceral performer and recent Death Grips collaborator, Abela has been performing their signature instrument; shards of amplified glass for over 20 years.

Thomas Dimuzio
Bay Area experimentalist pilots the Buchla Skylab on an immersive sonic excursion.

01/28/2025

📣Indexical is pleased to present Still House Plants with Kathryn Mohr in March!

UK-trio Still House Plants’ ( ) music fuses R&B-inflected vocals, jazz-like fractured rhythms, club-influenced repetition, and angular guitar into an essential art rock. Oakland-based artist Kathryn Mohr ( ) makes atmospheric and brooding experimental pop. She joins us on the heels of her new release, “Waiting Room.”

Still House Plants + Kathryn Mohr
March 22, 2025
Tickets 🎫 via indexical.org

01/25/2025

“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

Roger Beebe: FILMS for ONE to EIGHT PROJECTORS
Sun., Feb. 2, 2025
Doors at 6:30pm | Show at 7pm

Roger Beebe is a filmmaker whose work since 2006 consists primarily of multiple-projector performances and essayistic videos that explore the world of found images and the "found" landscapes of late capitalism. He has screened his films around the globe at such unlikely venues as the CBS Jumbotron in Times Square and McMurdo Station in Antarctica as well as more likely ones including the Sundance Film Festival and the Museum of Modern Art with solo shows at Anthology Film Archives, The Laboratorio Arte Alameda in Mexico City, and Los Angeles Filmforum among many other venues. Beebe is also a film programmer: he ran Flicker, a festival of small-gauge film in Chapel Hill, NC, from 1997-2000 and was the founder and Artistic Director of FLEX, the Florida Experimental Film Festival from 2004-2014. He is currently a Professor in the Departments of Art and Theatre, Film, and Media Arts at the Ohio State University.

Tickets via indexical.org

01/21/2025

Just Announced: In remembrance of filmmaker David Lynch, we’re offering a screening of “Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me” followed by a conversation with Supervising Sound Editor Douglas Murray and UC Santa Cruz Film & Digital Media PhD candidate Allen Riley. All ticket sales for this event will go toward emergency relief for artists and arts workers via the LA Arts Community Fire Relief Fund.

Screening & Talk: Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
Fri., Jan. 31, 2025
Doors at 6:30pm | Screening at 7pm
Suggested Donation: $5–$50

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
In the town of Twin Peaks, everybody has their secrets—but no one more than Laura Palmer. In this prequel to his groundbreaking 1990s television series, David Lynch resurrects the teenager found wrapped in plastic at the beginning of the show, following her through the last week of her life and teasing out the enigmas that surround her murder. Homecoming queen by day and drug-addicted thrill seeker by night, Laura leads a double life that pulls her deeper and deeper into horror as she pieces together the identity of the assailant who has been terrorizing her for years. Nightmarish in its vision of an innocent torn apart by unfathomable forces, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me is nevertheless one of Lynch’s most humane films, aching with compassion for its tortured heroine—a character as enthralling in life as she was in death.

Douglas Murray
Douglas Murray, AMPAS, MPSE, is a retired sound editor, sound designer, and sound mixer for feature films primarily based in Santa Cruz, California, and sometimes in Ireland. He was nominated for an Oscar in 2023 for his sound work on The Batman. He won an Emmy for Hemingway and Gellhorn and Golden Reels for sound editing for War for the Planet of the Apes, and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. He has also been nominated for eleven Golden Reels and three Emmys, and for two Cinema Audio Society awards for outstanding sound mixing. He has worked on dozens of feature films in his forty-year career, including Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me.

01/17/2025

On Friday, January 24, Indexical presents Los Angeles based composer Gregg Kowalsky and fellow Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College (CCM) alumni RISA (Brendan Glasson and Mitch Stahlmann).

Gregg Kowalsky + RISA
Fri., Jan. 24, 2025
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
$16 General / FREE or discounted for Members
https://www.indexical.org/events/2025-01-24-gregg-kowalsky-risa

Raised in South Florida and trained at Mills College under Fred Frith and Pauline Oliveros, Kowalsky (b. 1975, New York City) first came to prominence during the mid-2000s as a member of the thriving experimental music scene in the Bay Area. In addition to composing solo works, pieces for large ensembles, film soundtracks, and site-specific installations over the past twenty years, during the 2010s Kowalsky concentrated his energies as one half of the critically acclaimed duo Date Palms. On his most recent album, "Eso Es," Gregg plunges headlong into the Yamaha DX-7 synthesizer and overdriven MIDI data, his first solo outing since 2017's "L'Orange, L'Orange."

While working together at the end of the Center of Contemporary Music at Mills College, Brendan Glasson and Mitch Stahlmann began their collaboration inspired by more fringe pieces and composers of the Mills College canon. The composer Phil Harmonic’s piece “Timing” became a pivotal compositional model that perpetuated the body of work as heard on I (pronounce one), in which change is imposed upon relatively static music. The foundational sound of the record comes from a neglected Oberheim Xpander and Octave-Plateau Voyetra-8 controlled simultaneously by both composers via custom software.

01/14/2025

Andy Guthrie joins Lia Kohl on Feb 19th!

Acoustician, composer, and French horn player Andy Guthrie joins the bill with Lia Kohl on Wednesday, Feb 19th. Their music combines their knowledge of acoustics and contemporary composition/improvisation through examination of architectural space, non-musical sound, and speech.

https://www.indexical.org/events/2025-02-19-lia-kohl-andy-guthrie

01/14/2025

After a short winter break, Indexical returns with our ongoing film series TILT-SHIFT, featuring this month’s guest filmmaker Em Butler.

TILT-SHIFT: Em Butler
Fri., Jan. 17, 2025
Doors at 6:30pm | Show at 7pm
$10 General / FREE or discounted for Members
https://www.indexical.org/events/2025-01-17-tilt-shift-em-butler

Indexical welcomes Em Butler, a Social Documentation MFA student in the Film & Digital Media department at UC Santa Cruz. Butler received a BS in Human Biology at UC San Diego, with a minor in Visual Arts. She is a community organizer, writer, and filmmaker from Long Beach, California whose work struggles through the relationships between land, culture, embodied memory, and anti-imperialist movements. Alongside her work, Em will also screen Tsai Ming-liang's “The Skywalk is Gone” (2002), a mystery that unfolds against the backdrop of Taiwanese urban development. These will be followed by the 1996 short, “Blight,” which in the words of director John Smith, "revolves around the building of the M11 Link Road in East London, which provoked a long and bitter campaign by local residents to protect their homes from demolition."

TILT-SHIFT invites guest filmmakers to screen their work alongside a film that helped inspire it, and discuss with audiences how their work connects to longer lineages of radical cinema and anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist struggle.

Tannery Arts Center

01/09/2025

Indexical is pleased to announce our new partnership with the Santa Cruz Synth Cooperative (Santa Cruz Synth Co-op).

Founded as a supportive and all-inclusive group for users and appreciators of hardware and software synthesizers, the SC Synth Co-op hosted their first event in 2016 as a way to connect with like minded users and share knowledge of electronics in music applications. Since then, SC Synth Co-op has become the preeminent resource for discussion, education, and sharing in the Santa Cruz electronic music community.

Beginning in January, Indexical will host regular meetups and Electronic Music Open Mic (.sc) events at our Tannery Arts Center venue.

| Upcoming Events |
Thursday, Jan 9, 7pm - SC Synth Co-op Monthly Meetup
Thursday, Jan 23, 7pm - Electronic Music Open Mic (EMOM)

See all upcoming SC Synth Co-op programming via our website: indexical.org

12/30/2024

A couple of our favorite moments from 2024...

Slide 1: Zekarias Musele Thompson ( ) - Spatial Facilitation #10 at the MAH ( ) (November 9, 2024)

Slide 2: Stephanie Cheng Smith (.world ) - Life Cycles (March 23, 2024)

Slide 3: Michelle Moeller ( ) (January 12, 2024)

Slide 4: Foodman ( ) (December 13, 2024)

Thanks + love to all who make our work possible ✌️🕊️💘

See you in 2025

12/30/2024

A look back on the last 12 months in Indexical programming.
https://mailchi.mp/indexical.org/2024-rewind?e=473131e972

Includes top picks and essays from Indexical’s personnel and reflections from Indexical artists. As a bonus, we’re sharing a couple videos from our favorite events of the year!

12/24/2024

Just Announced!

Friday, Jan. 17, Indexical’s ongoing film series TILT-SHIFT welcomes Em Butler, a Social Documentation MFA student in the Film & Digital Media department at UC Santa Cruz.

Sunday, Feb. 2, filmmaker Roger Beebee () presents “FILMS for ONE to EIGHT PROJECTORS.”

Thursday, Feb 6, Australian noise musician Lucas ‘Granpa’ Abela () joins Mayuko Hino and Thomas Dimuzio for a stacked bill of noise!

Tickets and more info at indexical.org/events

12/17/2024

DAMN! What a banger to close out the year!! 🔥🔥🔥

Thank you to all who showed up to our last concert of 2024 with Foodman ( ) , Nathan Ho (.w.ho ) and kinch ( ).

Much love and we'll see ya in 2025! 🙏☮✌💝

12/08/2024

🎉 Indexical is thrilled to close 2024 with Nagoya's one and only FOODMAN (Hyperdub / Orange Milk / Palto Flats)!!! SF-based experimental electronic musician NATHAN HO and KINCH open the night.

Foodman + Nathan Ho + kinch (dj set)
Fri., Dec. 13, 2024
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm

Takahide Higuchi a.k.a Foodman, creates music that defies categorisations –and is one of the few artists that actually fit this overused description. There are traces of almost every electronic music genre, from juke, footwork,ambient, house, techno, to noise, but those elements are dissected and morphed together then driven to extreme without giving you a second to come up with a definitive genre. The noisy technicolour of these borderline versatile or schizophrenic collages is borne out of his experiments (or accidents) and has titillated, confused, and enchanted music obsessives far and wide. After releasing his debut album from NY/OH experimental label Orange Milk, his music has been released from international labels including Diplo's Mad Decent and its offshoot Good Enuff. His ever-evolving and mutating musical vocabulary draws from every kind of music he stumbles across, from Chicago footwork to Okinawan folk music of his roots, ambient to J-pop, Talvin Singh's Indian classical music/drum 'n' bass fusion to classic video game soundtracks, then twists them all with his playful psychedelia.

12/03/2024

Double ✌️Your Impact on Giving Tuesday

Thanks to generous support from the Moore Family Giving Fund and an anonymous donor, every dollar you give will be matched up to $15,000!

From Giving Tuesday till the end of the year, consider making a tax-deductible donation to double your impact and help Indexical sustain operations, support artists, and keep programming affordable. Direct support from individuals like yourself allow us to continue to preserve, nurture, and present radical, risk-taking artistic work into the new year.

A heartfelt thank you to all who make our work possible. ✨

12/03/2024

❄️ WINTER 2025 ❄️

Jan 24. Gregg Kowalsky + RISA

Feb 6. Mayuko Hino + Thomas Dimuzio

Feb 8. Gneiss + Jeff Kolar

Feb 15. John McCowen & Madison Greenstone

Feb 19. Lia Kohl

Tickets, updates, and more info: indexical.org

11/29/2024

Indexical is pleased to present NYC musician Dominic Coles and vocalist and producer Cruel Diagonals. For this performance, Coles will share a new piece using a type of listening he calls "alphabetic listening," attempting to establish an alphabet through the association of a word and an abstract, synthetic sound. Cruel Diagonals presents new voice-centered electronic music compositions.

Dominic Coles + Cruel Diagonals
Fri., Dec. 6, 2024
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
$16 General / FREE or discounted for Members

Dominic Coles is a musician based in Queens, NYC. Through composition and improvisation he investigates the interactions of place, personhood, and power as they are articulated in sound and speech. Documents of this practice have been presented by Edition Wandelweiser, Tripticks Tapes, Spricht Editions, and performed at Café OTO (London), KM28 (Berlin), Les Ateliers Claus (Brussels), Shift: FourOneOne (NYC), Alyssa Davis Gallery (NYC), Casa Del Popolo (Montreal), Indexical (Santa Cruz), and in DIY spaces throughout the US and Europe. Dominic has been a resident artist at Baldwin for the Arts and a Qubit Innovator Lab Fellow. He also runs the record label Party Perfect! with collaborator Hunter Brown.

Since 2016, Los Angeles-based multimedia artist, Cruel Diagonals (aka Megan Mitchell), has been creating critically acclaimed experimental electronic music and intriguing visuals. Though classically trained as a vocalist and well-versed in jazz standards as a youth, Cruel Diagonals applies her brilliant voice to compositions and improvisations that are the antithesis of staid tradition or arid academic exercises. Rather, she optimizes her minimal gear setup with an instinctual adventurousness and an acute sense of the most chilling and moving atmospheres and timbres, favoring fluidity of tones over the grid-like modes of much electronic music. Cruel Diagonals augments these elements with exquisite vocalizations, informed by ancient folk musical traditions, as well as contemporary classical ones, thereby forging a unique sonic palette.

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