Indexical presents the culminating performance project of 2025–26 Artist-in-Residence Thadeus Frazier-Reed: a series of compositions created for his custom-designed Starfield system—an array of small sound-making objects suspended from the ceiling of the performance space. Each object is controllable by the composer in real time, allowing for dynamic exploration of timbre, spatialization, and movement. Ther performance will be followed by a post-concert conversation with the artist.

Thadeus Frazier-Reed is a composer, instrument designer, and creative technologist exploring the effects of movement, dynamic and stochastic processes, error, and instrument form on sound creation. He is interested in the ways in which the time, place, and audience change the context and content of a composition and uses these variables to explore emergent behavior of complex systems with simple rules. He views each new instrument design as an opportunity to discover the unique voice of that instrument.