Thursday October 10, 2019 | 7:00 pm
October Volunteers’ Collective
You are cordially invited to come play free music! Every month, the Red Room hosts the Volunteers’ Collective. It’s a free session of experimental and improvised music. In this cordial, informal setting, we focus on listening and collaboration. Players of all skill levels participate. Try out a new technique or new instrument in a non-judgmental setting. Meet new and veteran improvisers. […]
Tuesday October 08, 2019 | 8:30 pm
Ghost Trance Music & Adam Rosenblatt
Brussels based guitarist Kobe Van Cauwenberghe will perform an entire set of works by Anthony Braxton, titled Ghost Trance Solos. Ghost Trance Music explores the full extend of Anthony Braxton’s Ghost Trance Music-compositions in the context of a solo performance. To do this I developed an intuitive set-up of loops and live-electronics to generate what Braxton refers to […]
Saturday September 21, 2019 | 5:30 pm
High Zero Symposium: Improv in Composition [Red Emma’s]
Composers discuss how they use improvisation Moderated by Jessica Keyes. Here’s an exciting opportunity for the fans of improvisation, experimental music, and composition to query composers on their practice. A panel of composers will discuss the diverse ways in which they incorporate elements of improvisation and performer choice into their compositions. Many of these composers […]
Thursday October 03, 2019 | 7:30 pm
Fred Frith Trio · Jamal Moore
Red Room and Space 2640 are delighted to present Oakland’s Fred Frith Trio and local luminary Jamal Moore. The trio (Fred Frith, guitar; Jordan Glenn, drums; and Jason Hoopes, bass) will be joined by a sexret musical guest and live visuals by Heike Liss. Note that this event is not at the Red Room but […]
Sunday October 06, 2019 | 8:30 pm
In Defense of Memory (Ortman, Santistevan, Trammell) w/special guests Corduroy (Barlow, Burt, Purdy)
A trio formed in the rarified, purified, sanctified air of the High Zero Festival, In Defense of Memory makes its Red Room debut. Laura Ortman is a Brooklyn, NY composer, multi-instrumentalist and artist, and a riveting performer. She produces and performs as a soloist and with collaborators including Tony Conrad, Jock Soto, Raven Chacon, Nanobah […]
Thursday September 12, 2019 | 8:30 pm
Anteloper // Black Myths
The Red Room is pleased to host Anteloper and Black Myths, two duos featuring High Zero alumns Jaimie Branch and Luke Stewart, respectively. ANTELOPER is the electric brain child of JAIMIE BRANCH (fly or die, high life) and JASON NAZARY (little women, helado negro, bear in heaven). Branch and Nazary have been playing together […]
Thursday September 09, 2021 | 7:00 pm
ONLINE – High Zero Volunteers Meeting! Sept 9th!
The 23rd Annual High Zero Festival will be held on September 23rd – 26th! We’re looking for awesome folks like you to help run this amazing festival! Come to the Volunteers Meeting Thursday 9/9, 7:00 pm ONLINE via ZOOM (The Red Room is in a bit of disarray with piles of books taking up the […]
Saturday November 09, 2019 | 8:30 pm
Diffusion Festival for Multichannel Electronic Music Night 4 of 4
The last night of this year’s mini-DIFFUSION festival we present longform multichannel works by Shawn Greenlee, Bonnie Jones and Mark Cetilia. Shawn Greenlee is a composer, sound artist, and Associate Professor at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). He has performed extensively across the United States and Europe, appearing on several conferences, festivals, and tours. […]
Friday November 08, 2019 | 8:30 pm
Diffusion Festival for Multichannel Electronic Music Night 3 of 4
High Zero’s DIFFUSION Festival presents the artists below, who pleasured us by simply asking for a show…we asked them to play the Music Easels in two separate stereo fields and we could call it quadrophonic and it could be part of DIFFUSION, and so it is! Here is information about this amazing trio : MARCIA […]
Sunday November 03, 2019 | 8:30 pm
Diffusion Festival for multichannel Electronic Music Night 2 of 4
Sunday November 3rd (doors at 8:30pm a 10 dollar donation) High Zero’s DIFFUSION Festival presents work by an old hand at multichannel work and a first multichannel work by someone who is no stranger to music making, electronic or otherwise. Marcin Pietruszewski (born 1984) a composer and researcher. He is engaged in sound synthesis and […]
Saturday November 02, 2019 | 8:30 pm
DIFFUSION Festival for Multichannel Electronic Music Night 1 of 4
Saturday November 2nd, 8:30PM High Zero’s DIFFUSION Festival invites you immerse your ears in a soundbath of new synthesis techniques, and then, if you like, hear a talk about the hows and whys of these techniques. This first evening of DIFFUSION is free, but High Zero always needs help presenting things, and donations are gladly […]
Sunday August 25, 2019 | 8:30 pm
Thomas Dimuzio and John Wiese
Veteran electronic music composers Thomas Dimuzio and John Wiese happened to be coming to visit me at the same time and I thought it would be a shame if I didn’t make them pay hospitality rent by playing a show at the Red Room. What’s more is that I insisted they both do it multichannely. […]
Sunday September 22, 2019 |
High Zero Festival Night 4
Sunday September 22nd (7:30pm doors, 8:30pm showtime) Solo Jayve Montgomery woodwinds, percussion, and electronics The Night of Randomization As an ongoing tradition, the High Zero Festival will leave Sunday Night’s sets up to chance. Fifteen performers will be divided into four sets, randomly. What kind of wonderful, unplanned, musical collisions will happen this year? Musicians […]
Saturday September 21, 2019 |
High Zero Festival Night 3
Saturday September 21st (7:30pm doors, 8:30pm showtime) Solo Charmaine Lee vocalist Set 1 Nik Francis percussion, electronics Forbes Graham trumpet, laptop computer Jayve Montgomery woodwinds, percussion, and electronics Steve Baczkowski saxophone, multi-wind instrumentalist CK Barlow live sampling, electronics Set 2 Bonnie Jones electronics Sarah Hennies vibraphone, percussion Biliana Voutchkova violin, voice Le Quan Ninh surrounded […]
Friday September 20, 2019 |
High Zero Festival Night 2
Friday September 20th (7:30pm doors, 8:30pm showtime) Solo Owen Gardner guitar, cello Set 1 Charmaine Lee vocalist Bonnie Lander soprano Danishta Rivero voice, electronics Kristen Toedtman voice, violin, piano Biliana Voutchkova violin, voice Ledah Finck violin, viola Samuel Burt daxophone, clarinets Set 2 Tom Boram harpsichord, synthesizer Forbes Graham trumpet, laptop computer Set 3 Susie […]
Thursday September 19, 2019 |
High Zero Festival Night I
High Zero returns after last years 20th Anniversary Tour! High Zero is the premier festival of Improvised, Experimental music on the East Coast, being fully devoted to new collaborations between inspired musicians and performers from Baltimore and around the world. Unlike many related festivals, High Zero is not narrow in terms of sensibility or subculture, […]
Friday August 23, 2019 | 8:00 pm
NO LAND// JOANNA MATTREY//JARRET GILGORE//MIKE KUHL
No Land and Joanna Mattrey are incredible artists from New York City. Their work inspires us to feel and open our hearts. Join them for their Baltimore debut. They will perform with locals Jarrett Gilgore and Mike Kuhl. Khristian Weeks will open. No Land (NYC) is an artist, poet, and photographer. She fled school to convene with the […]
Sunday September 01, 2019 | 7:00 pm
Volunteers’ Collective September 1st
You are cordially invited to come play free music! Every month, the Red Room hosts the Volunteers’ Collective. It’s a free session of experimental and improvised music. In this cordial, informal setting, we focus on listening and collaboration. Players of all skill levels participate. Try out a new technique or new instrument in a non-judgmental setting. Meet new and veteran improvisers. […]
Sunday August 04, 2019 | 7:00 pm
Volunteers’ Collective August 4th, 2019 – copy
You are cordially invited to come play free music! Every month, the Red Room hosts the Volunteers’ Collective. It’s a free session of experimental and improvised music. In this cordial, informal setting, we focus on listening and collaboration. Players of all skill levels participate. Try out a new technique or new instrument in a non-judgmental setting. Meet new and veteran improvisers. […]
Thursday August 01, 2019 | 8:30 pm
Sally Decker + Carey/Borax
Come to the Red Room and welcome August and therefore welcome the slide into a hot Baltimore Summer’s welcome conclusion. We are extremely pleased to present the voice and electronics talents of SF, CA’s Sally Decker. Opening the evening will be the duo of Tom Borax and Jeff Carey, a confluence of technical noise, two […]
Wednesday July 24, 2019 | 7:30 pm
Oddstruments at the Red Room | Fishkin, Strong, Burt, Franklin, Moore
New Rituals for Invented Instruments, Daxophones, Reeds, and Percussion Attention lovers of wooden sound-making contraptions. Daxophonists Daniel Fishkin (New York City) and Sam Burt (Baltimore) collaborate with friends in this first performance of a two-city event. Expect bowed wood, springs, thrums, eldritch near-human utterances, clatters, clacks, and whistles evoked by seasoned intuitive improvisers. Daniel Fishkin […]
Thursday July 25, 2019 | 8:30 pm
Daniel Meyer-O’Keeffe & Rob Cosgrove / Other Plastics / Steve Olson & Rose Hammer Burt
Daniel Meyer-O’Keeffe & Rob Cosgrove (Joshua Tree, CA) Rob and Dan play guitar and drums. They make sounds that are chaotic and intimate. Their collaboration has spanned improvisation, composition, and installation works. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDCGA5fKf5E&feature=youtu.be https://soundcloud.com/danielmeyer-okeeffe/duet Other Plastics (NYC) noise duo https://soundcloud.com/dominiccoles/sets/kernel-panic Steve Olson and Rose Hammer Burt are both originally from different regions of […]
Saturday July 20, 2019 | 1:00 pm
High Zero presents: WORLDS IN COLLUSION at UB Student Center
THESE EVENTS ARE ON THE FIFTH FLOOR of the UB Student Center! Saturday, July 20th <—————————- 1PM – Ultrafaux Baltimore-based Ultrafaux, led by guitarist/composer Michael Joseph Harris, performs original music with elements of Balkan folk, gypsy swing, be-bop, trad swing, funk, and French musette. 2PM – BLK TAG+ is an ominous, brooding, industrial soundtrack to […]
Thursday July 11, 2019 | 8:30 pm
Alcorn / Alvarez + Lander / Dierker / Neidhardt
A rare duo performance of local pedal steel guitarist Susan Alcorn and Chilean guitarist Luis “Toto” Alvarez. The trio of Bonnie Lander, John Dierker, and Paul Neidhardt open the show! Thursday 7/11, doors at 8:30pm $5-10 @ The Red Room 425 E. 31st St. Baltimore, MD
Friday July 12, 2019 | 8:30 pm
Bill ORCUTT Chris CORSANO Bonnie JONES
Powerhouse improvisational duo with guitarist Bill Orcutt and drummer Chris Corsano. Rumour has it that Mr. Orcutt will also play a “laptop set”! What will this mean? We are very excited to hear. Please join us to find out. Local electronic-music heroine Bonnie Jones, fresh from her recent foray into installation work opens the evening. […]
