New York/Baltimore super-group quartet featuring Ingrid Laubrock (saxophone), Tom Rainey (drums), Sam Pluta (electronics), and Dave Ballou (trumpet) will tickle your ears and melt your faces with their unique electro-acoustic blend of noise and nuance. ChatGPT says, “Four fearless innovators—Ingrid Laubrock, Tom Rainey, Sam Pluta, and Dave Ballou—shatter expectations with an uncompromising blast of chaotic, […]
Saturday, April 5, 2025 at 2640 Space Please join us for an evening of music and remembrances in honor of Susan Alcorn. Her time in Baltimore may have been short, but her presence was immense! If you would like to provide a musical offering or participate in anyway please reach out to Shelly Purdy at […]
(A personal lecture about the meaning, phenomenology, and practice of free improvised music.) Since 1989, Baltimore experimentalist and Red Room / High Zero / Volunteer’s Collective founder John Berndt has performed a huge arrange of truly freely improvised music—–across 600+ concerts , collaborating with over 400 other artists, including many that he met at the […]
You are cordially invited to come play free music! 7:30pm, Free Every month, the Red Room hosts the Volunteers’ Collective. It’s a free session of experimental and improvised music. In this friendly, informal setting, we focus on listening and collaboration. Players of all skill levels participate. Try out a new technique or new instrument in […]
This legendary sound artist has made albums with Nurse with Wound, Merzbow, Charlemagne Palestine, Lee Ranaldo, Jim O’Rourke and Brunhild Ferrari, to name a few. We are very flattered to have had him ask for a show here. Opening is Matt Krefting is a writer and musician based in Holyoke, Massachusetts. His writing has appeared […]
Language may never be the same for you after this evening. Do not bring children learning to speak to this show! What are words, anyway? Language? Communication itself becomes fraught with leutestimmen gepluud. Que mas phillasteriademalidemphorousklemdide. Izmatrid glent? I dunno. Did these artists claim this? No. So don’t blame them. But knowing what I know, […]
JOIN US the evening of May 8th for two very special musical experiences. As usual the bookstore re-opens it’s doors at 8pm and the music begins at 8:30. Please bring cash for the show, 100% of your entrance fee goes to the musicians. First come first served by the numbers. Breath of the Magi is […]
