Sunday April 27, 2025 | 8:00 pm
Lauren Sarah Hayes/Carey & Ballou
Brilliant composer performer Lauren Sarah Hayes (Arizona/Scotland) returns to Baltimore. One of the finest solo live electronics performers we’ve ever seen – this is a true treat. Lauren uses a complex system of computer control signals and analog hardware that form a symbiotic relationship into a dizzying swarm of sounds that is full of life […]
Wednesday April 16, 2025 | 8:00 pm
Emily Rach Beisel returns to Balt
Come and see brilliant bass clarinetist and electro-acoustic improvisor Emily Rach Beisel solo and in combos with local aces Paul Neidhardt (percussion), John Dierker (reeds) and Tom Borax (synthesizer). Emily Rach Beisel is a Chicago-based improviser, composer, educator, curator, and woodwind specialist whose work is celebrated for its visceral intensity and innovative blend of techniques. […]
Wednesday April 09, 2025 | 7:30 pm
Volunteers’ Collective March 2025, shifted schedule
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 […]
Sunday April 06, 2025 | 7:30 pm
THINKING, NOT THINKING, IMPROVISING
(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 […]
Thursday April 03, 2025 | 8:00 pm
Laubrock, Rainey, Pluta, Ballou // Lander, Dierker
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, […]
Thursday March 20, 2025 | 8:00 pm
(good old) Tongue Depressor wi M.C. Schmidt and Obie Feldi
Red Room regulars Tongue Depressor play on Thursday. In their own words, “this time it’s tapes plus bagpipes and harmonicas”. Come on down to the homestead and hear Zach and Henry ply their own kind of hypnotic staring into the fire of sound. Opening will be collective members M.C. Schmidt and Obie Feldi doing live […]
Sunday April 13, 2025 | 8:00 pm
C. H. of Hirsche Nicht aufs Sofa wi / TBA
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 […]
Thursday May 01, 2025 | 8:00 pm
Argentinian Turntable and Synthesizer / CK Barlow, Lexie Mt., Bonnie Lander
B.T. and Cecilia Lopez are two of the most radical and unique voices coming fromthe Buenos Aires improvisation scene. Both artists have been active musicians in South Americaat least over the last two decades but their collaboration as a duo started in 2023 in NY whereLopez has been based since 2014. The combination of Tog’s […]
Thursday May 08, 2025 | 8:00 pm
Roger C. Miller (ex of Mission of Burma) / Breath of the Magi
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 […]
Sunday March 16, 2025 | 8:00 pm
Marcin Pietruszewski/Tom Borax multi-channel electronic music!
Experience a very wild night synthetic noise and sound with Polish inventor and programmer Marcin Pietruszewski and local synth maestro Tom Borax. Both will be in multi-channel surround sound! Marcin Pietruszewski (1984, Poland) is a composer and researcher. He is engaged in soundsynthesis and composition with computers, exploring specific formal developments in thetradition of electroacoustic […]
Saturday April 05, 2025 |
Susan Alcorn Memorial
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 […]
Sunday March 02, 2025 | 7:30 pm
Volunteers’ Collective March 2025
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 […]
Saturday March 15, 2025 | 7:30 pm
Community Modular Meetup: Jess Keyes and Tom Boram
Synthesizer meetups can be a great place to talk about what equipment people are using, but modules will only get you so far! Tonight, we will host a discussion with two Baltimore area Eurorack artists about their aesthetic approaches. If you’ve ever been just on the edge of a music scene and wondered why there […]
Tuesday February 25, 2025 | 8:00 pm
Towson University hosts students, faculty, & High Zero Collective
Improvised music collaboration between Towson University students and faculty with High Zero Collective members. Featuring: Dave Ballou, Mike Kuhl, John Dierker, Ruth Lacey, Devin Ostendarp, Wesley Blood, Rachel Beetz, Bonnie Lander, and, Max Gong. The experimental improvised music community of Baltimore runs deep and reaches into area academic institutions. Many of our performers are also […]
Sunday February 23, 2025 | 8:00 pm
A Night of Duos
Interstellar Duo: Jamal Moore and Warren Crudup III – reeds, percussion and electronics Orlando Johnson and Peter Redgrave: reeds, brass, percussion and strings King Solomon and mystery GUEST: reeds, keyboards and electronics As with almost all Red Room shows, 100% of the door money goes to the players. Please bring 10 dollars in cash (or […]
Tuesday March 04, 2025 | 8:00 pm
multi-channel electroacoustic AND conceptual movement
All the building blocks of a healthy mind and body. Multi-Channel Electro Acoustic music and Conceptual Performance Movement Action. Obie Feldi and M.C. Schmidt! Jeff Carey! Alex Wu! John Hoegberg! Visiting Professor from Carnegie Mellon in Electronic Music Composition, Freida Abtan!! AND KHRISTIAN WEEKS and PETER REDGRAVE! •••••••••••••••••••• Four pieces in quadraphonic or octophonic and […]
Wednesday February 26, 2025 | 8:00 pm
Jacques/Cornell Duo, Adrian Wood, DeLaurenti/Goeringer Duo
Amazing night with Anne-F Jacques/AJ Cornell of Quebec, Adrian Wood (VA) and Chris Delaurenti and Lyn Goeringer (Balt!). Expect inventions, electro-acoustics, analog synths, radios, cassettes, theremins, noises, abstractions, motors, machines……… A gleaner of sonorities, AJ Cornell transforms and transmits sonic material over radio channels and through live performance. Her approach employs dense layers of macro and micro sounds evolving […]
Saturday February 22, 2025 | 8:30 pm
Horizon Overflow (Baltimore area super-group)
A selection of Baltimore’s finest sound-smiths together for one special night. HORIZON OVERFLOWJohn Berndt electronics, invented instruments, saxophoneRose Hammer Burt saxophoneSamuel Burt bass clarinet, daxophonePatrick Crossland trombonePaul Neidhardt percussionNate Scheible timpani
Sunday February 02, 2025 | 7:30 pm
Volunteers’ Collective February 2025
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 […]
Thursday February 27, 2025 | 8:30 pm
Killick and Rose Burt | Simone Baron and Eric Franklin
Two duos featuring unlikely combinations of instruments! Killick Hines on unusual stringed instruments performs with Rose Burt on saxophones. Simone Baron plays accordion with Eric Franklin on theremin. What happens when you combine the overtones of a baritone saxophone with shimmer of sympathetic strings? What vibrations will fill the room when a warbling theremin tone […]
Friday February 28, 2025 | 8:00 pm
Chuck Bettis/Jerry Lim/Mick Barr/Breath of the Magi
Entirely great night!!! High Zero alums and wayward, beloved musicians Chuck Bettis and Jerry Lim return to Bmore with an all new duo project. Guitar wizard and legendary shredder Mick Barr is also with them! Bmore local supergroup Breath of the Magi (Peter Redgrave, Orlando Johnson, Che Davis) open!!! What a night!! Active since the […]
Wednesday March 12, 2025 | 7:00 pm
High Zero Night at Fadensonnen
7pm Wednesday March 12th, 20253 W. 23rd St., Baltimore Halfway between festivals, we want to keep the High Zero spirit alive in Baltimore! Local luminaries will perform experimental improvised music for you in a cozy tavern setting. Fadensonnen is generously hosting us for this fundraising event. A portion of the (upstairs only!!) tavern profits will […]
Wednesday February 05, 2025 |
Bashi Rose // Rebecca Lloyd-Jones: Sarah Hennies’ Thought Sectors
Wednesday February 5th, 8pm Doors, 8:30pm Show Incredible musical night abounds! Bashi Rose, founder of Konjur Collective is a theatre artist, musician, and filmmaker. He was raised in West Baltimore and nurtured by the Baltimore Arts Community. He has performed and has had work produced in numerous venues including the High Zero Festival of Experimental Improvised Music, […]
Monday February 03, 2025 |
Michael Jones // Ida Dierker + Brandon Gouin
Monday February 3rd – 8pm doors, 8:30pm show. We welcome new music percussionist Michael Jones to the Red Room all the way from San Diego, CA. Joined by local duo Ida Dierker & Brandon Gouin. Michael Jones Michael is a percussionist and conductor based in Southern California. He has beendescribed by Fanfare Magazine as a […]
Friday January 31, 2025 | 8:00 pm
Tony Malaby’s FIREBATH Baltimore
Dave Ballou Tony Malaby’s FIREBATH Baltimore! Please join us for an open rehearsal at Towson University at 4pm followed by a concert at the Red Room at 8:30pm Tony Malaby Dave Ballou Mike Kuhl John Dierker Adam Hopkins Friday, Jan 31st Open Rehearsal at Towson UniversityCenter for the Arts room 20754pm, FREE! –Red Room Show at […]
