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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.

Oct 17th, brings a slimmed down version of the expanded Nathan Clevenger Group that recorded Astrolabe(2025). Expect n...
10/13/2026

Oct 17th, brings a slimmed down version of the expanded Nathan Clevenger Group that recorded Astrolabe(2025). Expect newly arranged versions of works from the album and the premiere of ‘Astrolabe Apocrypha.’

Nathan Clevenger is an Oakland-born composer and multi-instrumentalist, working on the margins of modern composition, jazz, and free improvisation. Since 2003, Clevenger’s primary ensemble has been the Nathan Clevenger Group, which has ranged from 5 to 12 players and released four albums, most recently Astrolabe (2025). For Astrolabe, Clevenger expands his long-running Group to a 12-piece pocket chamber orchestra, featuring a five-member wind ensemble, cello, and a complement of three mallet percussionists augmenting the piano-bass-drums rhythm section. The seven-movement suite weaves together sounds and influences from 20th century concert music, jazz, film scores, collective and free improvisation, and percussion ensemble music, filtered through Clevenger’s singular compositional aesthetic.

Beth Schenck: alto & soprano saxophones
Cory Wright: Bb & bass clarinets, alto flute
Ian Carey: trumpet
Lisa Mezzacappa: bass
Jon Arkin: drums, percussion
Jason Levis: percussion
Nathan Clevenger: keyboards, percussion

💥 Nathan Clevenger Group + Marc Perez
📅 Sat., Oct. 17, 2026
🕧 Doors at 8:00pm | Show at 8:30pm
🎟 $16 Adv / $18 Door
📍Indexical, 1050 River St #119, Santa Cruz, CA

SPAM New Media Festival kicks off tonight! Discover the full program and RSVP at link in bio.All SPAM events are FREE to...
10/09/2026

SPAM New Media Festival kicks off tonight! Discover the full program and RSVP at link in bio.

All SPAM events are FREE to attend!

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Abram Stern
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SPAM 2026 is organized in collaboration with and

26/27 Indexical Artist-in-Residence Abram Stern and Dorothy R. Santos return to Indexical this weekend for the . On Fri...
10/06/2026

26/27 Indexical Artist-in-Residence Abram Stern and Dorothy R. Santos return to Indexical this weekend for the .

On Fri., Oct 9, they share a bill with Jean Carla Rodea and EPOCH for the opening night of the festival.

On Sat., Oct 10, at 2pm, they join Rodea and Nathan Corder for artist talks.

All SPAM events are FREE to attend!

Abram Stern, MFA. Ph.D. (they/he) is an artist and scholar whose work builds upon collections of government-produced media and metadata. They interrogate the material produced by public bureaucracies and the infrastructures that mediate our experiences of them. Their artwork has been exhibited at / (Slash), the Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art and Design, Real Art Ways, the Beall Center for Arts and Technology, Works|San Jose, and New Langton Arts.

Dorothy R. Santos, Ph. D. (she/they) is a Filipino-American writer, artist, and media scholar. She earned her Ph.D. in Film and Digital Media with a designated emphasis in Computational Media from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is an Assistant Professor of Teaching focused on Art, Justice, and Digital Media in the Art Department and Core Faculty for the Creative Technologies program at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Indexical presents an evening with the Nathan Clevenger Group and composer/improvisor Marc Perez. The Group performs new...
10/06/2026

Indexical presents an evening with the Nathan Clevenger Group and composer/improvisor Marc Perez. The Group performs new arrangements from 'Astrolabe' (2025), a large-ensemble suite, and debuts a piece from the developing 'Astrolabe Apocrypha.' Perez performs "Present/Out Of," a multimedia work on sound, text & community, asking: "how much of yourself can you give in order to be present and active, listening within a space?"

📍 Sat., Oct 17, Doors 8:00pm
🎟️ Tickets link in bio.

THIS WEEK: Join us for an audiovisual performance from research-based artist Jean Carla Rodea on Oct 9 and artist talk, ...
10/06/2026

THIS WEEK: Join us for an audiovisual performance from research-based artist Jean Carla Rodea on Oct 9 and artist talk, "The Archive is a Body," on Oct 10.

Jean Carla Rodea is an artist originally from Mexico City and currently based between San Francisco, CA, and Brooklyn, NY. They draw from shifting identities, immigration, ritual, performance, ecology, construction work, and improvisation, engaging deeply with time-based media and the diverse spaces where these interactions take place. A central focus of their practice is the exploration of critical socio-political issues, including the politics of the body, gender, memory, and imbalanced human relationships. They are particularly invested in how time is constructed through memory, and how those memories—whether embodied or embedded within spaces—are recorded, fragmented, and continually reconstructed. This investigation opens pathways for fiction and speculative dimensions to disrupt and challenge dominant narratives.

joins a lineup also featuring Abram Stern, Dorothy R. Santos, and EPOCH for the opening of two SPAM New Media Festival nights.

All events are FREE to attend!

Presented as part of SPAM New Media Festival and curated by , "Art in the Age of Allaboration" is a workshop series on...
10/04/2026

Presented as part of SPAM New Media Festival and curated by , "Art in the Age of Allaboration" is a workshop series on collaboration under conditions of AI, time scarcity, and asynchronous work.

Through drawing, mail art, collective improvisation, filmmaking, and idea reconstitution, participants examine questions of labor, infrastructure, and authorship in an era of computational culture.

ALL EVENTS ARE FREE TO ATTEND

Reflective Devices: a Drawing and Mail Art Workshop w/
Sat., Oct. 10, 10am

Collective Improvisation Workshop w/
Sat., Oct. 10, noon

Is Co-authorship a Luxury in a Time of Fascism: Making films on nothing to navigate the economies of leisure, pleasure and urgency in s*x work, political organizing and collaborative filmmaking w/
Sun., Oct. 11, 11am

The Theatre of Abandoned Ideas w/
Sun., Oct. 11, 3pm

TONIGHT! founder and Max developer David Zicarelli opens the night and breaks in our new spatial audio system with Emi...
10/02/2026

TONIGHT! founder and Max developer David Zicarelli opens the night and breaks in our new spatial audio system with Emiacra, a new performance piece that dissolves jazz, R&B, and pop into drifting sonorities.

Zicarelli shares the bill with . Doors at 8pm, music starts at 8:30pm.

Tickets in bio or at indexical.org

Join us next weekend at for a performance [Oct 10] and artist talk [Oct 11] with artist Ava Koohbor. Ava Koohbor works ...
10/01/2026

Join us next weekend at for a performance [Oct 10] and artist talk [Oct 11] with artist Ava Koohbor.

Ava Koohbor works between sculpture and instrument, poetry and circuitry, memory and electronics, Tehran and San Francisco. Her practice explores sound as a field of relations, where listening, making, and material continually reorganize one another. Her work takes shape through instruments, performances, installations, exhibitions, and books. Her latest book, Of Flesh and Frequency: A Poetics of Sound Making, was published by Lithic Press in 2026.

joins a lineup also featuring and & for the second of two SPAM New Media Festival nights.

RSVP and more info at: indexical.org

Rohan Chander and Scott Li bring their individual practices in new media, music, film, and performance together as an au...
09/30/2026

Rohan Chander and Scott Li bring their individual practices in new media, music, film, and performance together as an audiovisual duo, taking to Indexical's stage for a hypersensory experience on October 10 for the

Rohan Chander is a media artist, electronic musician, and performance artist with an interest in recombinatory approaches to sound and aesthetic. Rooted in political and personal inquiry, he often draws from sample-based artforms, performance art, speculative fiction, and historical research.

Scott Li is a NYC-based violinist, composer, producer, improviser, filmmaker, and electroacoustic sound artist blending the Romantic classical chamber music tradition with deeply emotive, boundary-pushing electronic music. Li‘s music is first and foremost epistolary—love letters to the world and the people around us, the memories we share, and the feelings we carry with us.

& join a lineup also featuring and for the second of two SPAM New Media Festival nights.

Tickets at: indexical.org

Indian-born drummer/electronic music producer Sunken Cages returns to Santa Cruz on October 10 for the . Sunken Cages i...
09/30/2026

Indian-born drummer/electronic music producer Sunken Cages returns to Santa Cruz on October 10 for the .

Sunken Cages is the solo-project of electronic drummer/producer Ravish Momin. Inspired by Mumbai’s street-drumming ensembles and underground global dance music, he creates cinematically charged tracks using live-looped percussion arrangements and pre-composed melodies.

Sunken Cages joins a lineup also featuring & and for the second of two SPAM New Media Festival nights.

Tickets at: indexical.org

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