Sunday October 11th brings us Joe Westerlund, student of Milford Graves, drummer with Califone, Megafaun, The Dead Tongues, a practitioner of something I would describe as narrative meditation drumming. It’s “chill” but propulsive. Descriptive and lush without being insipid. • • • • • • • • Opening are Domenica Lingg and Joe Shatzoff premiering […]

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Remarkable NYC/Costa Rica vocalist Isabel Crespo Pardo returns to the Red room! Opening is local fave, mandolin/sax/video artist/mathematician Corey Thuro!!! Presenting material based around their new solo album “tanto te he querido”. Merging field recordings, poemsongs, and familial voices from their home in Costa Rica, iiisa builds memory portals for the kindling of transformation. With a “pliable […]

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Brilliant modular synthesist Matthew Ryals comes back to us. Opening will be another kind of synthesist (non modular): Ida Dierker! In an all improv set we have paired her with two flute players, Dan Conrad and Jason Charney. Please come and enjoy all these experiments! Experiments by people who practice at experimenting. • • • […]

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progressive improvisational chamber quartet from New Orleans & New York City

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Quentin Tolimieri is a pianist, composer, and improvisor currently based in Berlin. His recent music is generally extremely minimal and reduced, sitting closer to a kind of sound sculpture than to traditional concert music. Through the removal of various syntactical structures from his music (for example harmony, melody, counterpoint, or rhythmic gesture) his work attempts […]

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The Red Room is a volunteer-run space in Baltimore dedicated to mind-expanding experimental culture, headquartered at Normals Books and Records.