Indexical

Engaging in radical and unfamiliar artistic work

https://linktr.ee/indexical Indexical is a composer-run organization dedicated to experimental music.

Indexical produces record releases, concert series, and publications. Indexical is dedicated to supporting music by composers who work outside of mainstream contemporary music institutions.

09/04/2026

Join us Sat., Sept 19 for our season opener! A very special collaboration with , highlighting work from their inaugural film commissioning project. We'll screen works from the three commissioned filmmakers — Tijana Petrović, Amy Reid, and TT Takemoto — alongside films from the Canyon Cinema collection selected by the Print Generations cohort.

A conversation with the Print Generations filmmakers follows the screening.

📅 Sat, Sept. 19, 2026
🕧 Doors at 6:30pm | Show at 7pm
🎟 $12 Adv / $14 Door
📍Indexical, 1050 River St #119, Santa Cruz, CA

07/13/2026

Indexical and Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music invite you to a solo percussion performance with composer/performer Sarah Hennies. Scholar and educator Madison Heying will lead a post-concert conversation with the artist.

📅 Mon., Jul. 27, 2026
🕧 Doors at 6:30pm | Show at 7pm
🎟 $16 Adv / $20 Door
📍Indexical, 1050 River St #119, Santa Cruz, CA

07/08/2026

💕✌ THANK YOU! ✌ 💕

Indexical has been awarded a project grant for small-scale organizations from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

Since 2011, Indexical has sustained a commitment to experimental art and culture, centering the voices of artists working across discipline and genre. The Warhol Foundation’s support has been a crucial building block in our work, enabling ambitious, career-defining projects for artists in Santa Cruz County.

We're deeply grateful to for its ongoing support of our work.

07/06/2026

❤❤ Thank you to everyone who joined us for “Hidden Labors, Sonic Tensions,” a performance and installation by 2026 Indexical Artist-in-Residence Abram Stern and collaborator Dorothy Santos.

“Hidden Labors, Sonic Tensions” is an ongoing project between the artists in which they respond to one another's work through iterative exchange. As part of this residency, the duo poetically process materials that include 911 dispatch, slow scan television, medical image metadata, FBI aerial surveillance, emulated breath, and a love letter to caregivers.

06/15/2026

We hope you can join us this Friday, June 19, from 5 to 7pm for the opening reception of "Hidden Labors, Sonic Tensions," an ongoing dialogic collaboration between 2026 Indexical Artist-in-Residence Abram Stern and Dorothy R. Santos .
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In this iteration, the artists' reciprocal exchange take the form of sound, installation, and performance as the artists assemble artifacts at the interface of their research and artistic practices. As part of their residency, the duo poetically process materials that include 911 dispatch, slow scan television, medical image metadata, FBI aerial surveillance, emulated breath, and a love letter to caregivers.
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Learn more about the artists at indexical.org

📆 Friday, June 19, 2026
🕣Reception: 5–7pm
📻Performance: 6pm
📍Indexical, 1050 River St #119, Santa Cruz, CA

06/10/2026

Dima Mabsout is a multidisciplinary, Lebanese artist working in photo, social performance, installation, and material processes, currently based in Santa Cruz.

In Lebanon, between 2019-2023, during the uprising, economic collapse, port explosion and pandemic, she co-founded Zayraqoun, a collective centered around street theatre that collaborated with educational, cultural and political sectors. She started her land-based research with the Museum for the Displaced, exhibiting at the Municipal Gallery of Almada, Portugal and joined the Environmental Art and Social Practice Program at UC Santa Cruz to deepen and diversify her approaches to community actions and social movements that center land and ecology.

She currently is an active member of the Greenhouse Project Collective and initiated the community art project Limbs with her partner Rami Chahine.

⛰ Dima Mabsout + Tyler Rai - STONE SOUP
📅 Sat., June 13, 2026
🕗 Doors at 5:30pm | Show at 6pm
📍 Indexical, 1050 River St #119, Santa Cruz, CA
🎟 at indexical.org

06/09/2026

Working across the fields of geo-humanities, visual art, and performance, Tyler Rai investigates processes of earthly transformation. Through material studies of stones, sediments, and soil, her research draws connections between human and geologic embodiments, ancestral memory, and ecological attention.

Her installations and performance works have been shown nationally across the U.S, most recently alongside artists Athena LaTocha and Mary Mattingly in To See This Place: Awakening to Our Common Home at The Museum of Contemporary Religious Art (MI) and the Fairfield University Art Museum (CT). She is currently an MFA candidate in Environmental Art and Social Practice at UC Santa Cruz.

⛰ Dima Mabsout + Tyler Rai - STONE SOUP
📅 Sat., June 13, 2026
🕗 Doors at 5:30pm | Show at 6pm
📍 Indexical, 1050 River St #119, Santa Cruz, CA
🎟 at indexical.org

06/07/2026

Join us as we close out "The Day That Never Came / El Día Que Nunca Llegó” at with Joy Schendledecker's performative lecture "Common Ground, No Ground," which traces the Riverlands of San Lorenzo Park (the Benchlands) as a site of layered erasure: land violently cleared of its original caretakers, marked ever since by cycles of removal, exclusion, and return. We'll conclude the evening with a Q&A with contributors to the exhibition.

Sun, June 7, 2026
Doors 5:30pm
Indexical, 1050 River St #119, Santa Cruz, CA

***All ticket sales and contributions benefit and includes a CD & vinyl copy of the record.

Img 1. Common Ground, No Ground
Img 2. Joy Schendledecker (img courtesy of the artist)
Img 3. Pajaro Loaves and Fishes
Img 4. Vinyl release. Img courtesy of Michael Baba
Img 5. Exhibition at Indexical

06/02/2026

Saturday, June 13, Dima Mabsout and Tyler Rai present STONE SOUP, a communal gathering working through ritual, storytelling, sound, and performance, to explore lithic material as a source for transformation and renewal.

Dima Mabsout is a multidisciplinary, Lebanese artist working in photo, social performance, installation, and material processes, currently based in Santa Cruz. In Lebanon, between 2019-2023, during the uprising, economic collapse, port explosion and pandemic, the crises formed the creative imperative to uplift the imagination and reclaim collective narratives. There, she co-founded Zayraqoun, a collective centered around street theatre that collaborated with educational, cultural and political sectors.

Working across the fields of geo-humanities, visual art, and performance, Tyler Rai investigates processes of earthly transformation. Through material studies of stones, sediments, and soil, her research draws connections between human and geologic embodiments, ancestral memory, and ecological attention.

📅 Sat., June 13, 2026
🕗 Doors at 5:30pm | Show at 6pm
📍 Indexical, 1050 River St #119, Santa Cruz, CA
🎟 at indexical.org

04/28/2026

This Week! Apmonia String Quartet perform a series of contemporary experimental music works at Radius Gallery. Morton Feldman's Three Pieces for String Quartet (1956) present us with an interplay of plucked and sustained tones, creating a tapestry of interconnected sonic worlds. Rarely performed, Tony Conrad's microtonal piece Minor (1995), exhibits his characteristic drifting sustained tones as it explores unorthodox minor harmonies. Chiyoko Szlavnics' Gradients of Detail (2021), utilizes a graphic score to produce fluttering moire-like glissandi. Finally, Anthony Braxton's Composition No. 17 (1971) utilizes the composer's "Language Music" system, a symbolic notation allowing for performer interpretation.

📅 Sat., May 2, 2026
🕗 Doors at 6:30pm | Show at 7pm
📍 Radius Gallery, 1050 River St #127, Santa Cruz, CA
🎟 at indexical.org

Apmonia String Quartet is a freshly formed group featuring .art and Sabrina Salamone on violins, on viola, and .j.borden on cello. Based in NYC, the group’s ethos hinges on a rigorous commitment to both interpretation and improvisation in contemporary experimental music. With longstanding individual commitments to a wide array of practices across the spectrum of contemporary music, this group is excited to bring their collective experience to bear in future collaborations and program curation.

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