Participants will meet at Indexical to share and manipulate their previously recorded material, as well as demo any material they may have produced over the week. Using computers, DAWs, and open source softwares, we will work with different methods for manipulating field recordings to interpolate and access found sound as means for improvisation, composition, and sound design.

No prior recording, musical experience, or equipment is required.

SCUMsessions:
A series of hybrid study groups, workshops, and gatherings that aim to facilitate a collaborative space for the exploration of a topic or modality under the umbrella of Sound Studies. These get-togethers are experiments in how to learn, play, and listen in collaboration with one another. Rather than the traditional format of teacher/student, the aim is to create a generative communal environment fostered through curiosity and safe space. In other words, being together in a place about a thing.
S.C.U.M. (Santa Cruz Underground Music) is the revival of an old anagram to rekindle a collectivized effort towards performance and skill-share across various experimental art spaces and mediums.