As Baltimore as Oujia, Jikkhulang and Relabi—John Berndt takes all comers, leaves no stone enmeshed, drops no axioms, takes no shortcuts, transgiversates no fates, and postulates determinacy only IN REVERSE. Remember, “a watched pot only boils twice a day.” New, and near-new experiences are preferred and exonerated.

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Unfortunately Nate Wooley is sick and can no longer perform 🙁 but we still have our lovely locals willing to play for you, with the addition of Sam Pluta to the mix 🙂 Sam Pluta, Dave Ballou, John Dierker and Mike Kuhl! 8pm Doors, 8:30 Music 🙂

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progressive improvisational chamber quartet from New Orleans & New York City

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We have a red-room worthy show… but needed a piano!! So please mosey on over to 2640 SPACE for this one!

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New Works by: Lee Fraser Obie Feldi and M.C. Schmidt Shuo Xin Tan Sam Burt Fabien Lanzmeier and ELEPHANT by John Hoegberg As this is the 10th year of DIFFUSION, we wanted to present favorite pieces from the last decade. As such, local sound artist John Hoegberg’s early (2018?) live-spoken-word and multi-channel playback piece came […]

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Incredible Multidimensional Audio Works by: iDm Theftable “Experimental music artist id m theft able is an enduring figure in the American weirdo noise century, specializing in a homespun voice and junk-object sound. To observe his practice as being a gummy skateboard ambling down a wild side street of glossolalia from the art-historic freeways of sound […]

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Every year DIFFUSION has hosted a sound artist representing a different nation’s work in multi-channel electro acoustic music. • • This year electronic/computer musician Marcin Pietruszewski will diffuse music of POLAND. “A Diffusion of Historical Electroacoustic Music and Sound Art from Poland” ••••••••••••••••• ÷÷ ••••••••••••••••• Marcin Pietruszewski is an artist working with synthetic sound, a […]

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A SPECIAL PROGRAM IN THE AFTERNOON! (1pm or 3pm) FREE at 2640 St. Paul St. Wavefield Afternoon In line with DIFFUSION, this concert presents diffusion in a line — A line of 32 speakers, to be exact! This diffusion concert features a wavefield synthesis speaker array. This novel array allows for sound spatialization for an […]

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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.