Indira Edwards is a violist and composer whose work centers improvisation, arts access and community building in new music. Their viola work draws from folk rock, punk, blues, electronic, and classical techniques, and their compositions engage minimalist principles, implement unconventional instrumentation, and include experimental performer backgrounds. In and outside of Detroit, they regularly perform with Mike Khoury’s Spite of Darkness, field kitchen, Iron Joy (duo with John Pablo Rojas), Dick Texas (Valerie Salerno), and Heavy Gift (duo with Fred Thomas). Edwards is an educator with the Sphinx Organization, an urban farmer, and a former techno and ambient resident artist at Submerge/Underground Music Academy in Detroit.