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Friday February 11, 2022 | 8:00 pm

THE RETURN OF NEW WORKS

New Works | 2 Screenings! Same each night  | February 11th and 12th – 8pm (7:30pm doors) | $5-$10 at the door THIS EVENT IS AT 2640 SPACE New Works is a screening series dedicated entirely to Film and Video artists based in Baltimore, MD. Our mission is to foster community among local image-makers and […]

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Thursday February 24, 2022 | 8:30 pm

The Red Room in Your Room Returns!

Starting Jan 27, and continuing everything Thursday evening, The Red Room in Your Room returns to your room and might even return to the Red Room, omnicron allowing. Exclusive sets of experimental and improvised music streamed deluxx 4 U. t witch.tv/highzerofoundation. FEB 24TH Kenta Nagai is a Japanese-born sound artist who has resided in the […]

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Wednesday December 29, 2021 | 8:00 pm

Microkingdom’s John Dierker’s Twenty-Somethingth Annual Holidaze Explosion

Wednesday December 29th  at the Red Room. Microkingdom’s John Dierker’s Twenty-Somethingth Annual Holidaze Explosion Featuring John Dierker, Marc Miller, and Will Redman, with special guest Chris Pumphrey Emerge from your cave in time to celebrate 15 years of Microkingdom and 20-odd years of the Dierker Holidaze Explosion then retreat to your cave again. Sets at 8:00pm […]

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Tuesday May 10, 2022 | 8:30 pm

Jessica Pavone, Aimée Niemann & Abby Swidler | The Compositions

Tuesday May 10th  at the Red Room. Doors will open at 8:30, music begins at 9pm. $5-10+ all monies go to the performers. …of Late, is the third release for the J. Pavone String Ensemble, an unconventional trio consisting of Pavone on viola, Abby Swidler on violin and viola, and Aimée Niemann on violin. Founded […]

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Sunday September 19, 2021 | 8:00 pm

Kick-off HZ week at Fadensonnen with: Jeron White, Allison Clendaniel, Bonnie Lander & Shelly Purdy!

Jeron White bass Baltimore bassist Jeron White, has been very progressive on the jazz/anvant garde scene. As a leader, as well for his group “Polarity”, and trio Jeron has recorded with several recordings. “Polarity” opened for Michael Formanek “Ensemble Kolossus” April 2017 at NYU Theater. Discography include Jamal Moore “Organix Trio Ancestral Communion​”, and Theljon […]

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Thursday September 23, 2021 |

High Zero Festival!

Now, back and in person! Baltimore’s High Zero Festival of Experimental Improvised Music is in its 23rd year and as we all rise from our isolation, we seek connection through music. This year we play it safe while taking ever greater risks! Friday and Saturday we will return to the Baltimore Theatre Project for live […]

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Thursday April 15, 2021 | 8:30 pm

Series – Executive |RRiYR| Summary – Finale

Series Finale of The Red Room in Your Room Executive Summary Takeover Edition featuring short sets from the likes of… John Berndt Bromp Treb Stephanie Barber Tania Chen David Serotte Bryan Collins Nik Francis John Hoegberg John Weisse Kate Soper Lasse Marhaug Negativeland + Sue C & CO Olivia Block Martin Schmidt ID M Theft […]

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Thursday April 08, 2021 | 8:30 pm

| The Red Room in Your Room | Tatiana Castro Mejia – Danishta Rivero – Tetuzi Akiyama, Ayako Kataoka & Kiyomitsu Odai

TATIANA CASTRO MEJIA Pianist, improviser and composer (Colombia). Since a very young age she always had an interest, a curiosity for the creative, to build and unbuild. Fundamentally she has used sound, but she has worked connecting it with another kind of languages: dance, writing, drama… Today, more than 20 years after having decided to […]

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Thursday April 01, 2021 | 8:30 pm

| The Red Room in Your Room | Carrie Fucile – Leila Bordreuil & Tamio Shiraishi – Christine Abdelnour

Carrie Fucile is a Baltimore-based interdisciplinary artist. Her works in performative sound use found objects, instruments, voice, and field recordings. She considers these events to be journeys through space and time. Leila Bordreuil is a Brooklyn-based cellist and composer working in the realm of improvisation, noise music, and sound art. She accesses concepts as diverse as […]

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Thursday March 25, 2021 | 8:30 pm

| The Red Room in Your Room | claire rousay, Clint McCallum, Primitive Tongues

claire rousay is based in San Antonio, Texas. Her music zeroes in on personal emotions and the minutiae of everyday life — voicemails, haptics, environmental recordings, stopwatches, whispers and conversations — exploding their significance. rousay has released music on a range of labels, most notably Astral Spirits, Second Editions, Longform Editions and American Dreams, who […]

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Thursday March 18, 2021 | 8:30 pm

| The Red Room in Your Room | Sharif Sehnaoui – Deaf Beef – Jennifer Walshe

(photo above by Tony Elieh) Sharif Sehnaoui is a free improvising guitarist. He plays both electric and acoustic guitars, focusing on expanding the intrinsic possibilities of these instruments without the use of effects or electronics. He now resides in Beirut, his hometown, after more than a decade in Paris, where he started his career as […]

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Thursday March 11, 2021 | 8:30 pm

| The Red Room in Your Room | David Serotte – Bashi Rose – Thomas Dimuzio

David Serotte is a non-vocal mouth artist based in Baltimore. _____________ (Photographer Credit:  Kyle Pompey) Bashi Rose is a Baltimore-based filmmaker, teaching artist, theatre artist, and musician. His work has been produced or screened at venues including Centerstage in Baltimore, Theatre Project, Creative Alliance, the Schomburg Center in Harlem, VH1 Soul, the Lafayette Theatre in […]

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Thursday March 04, 2021 | 8:30 pm

| The Red Room in Your Room | Nava Dunkelman – Jenny Graf – Ian Power

Nava Dunkelman is a Bay Area based percussionist and improviser. Born in Tokyo, Japan and raised in a multi-cultural environment by an American father and Indonesian mother. Her musical interests span the globe from Japanese taiko to Indonesian gamelan to American marching band, and from classical to contemporary to the avant-garde. Nava’s current projects are electro-percussion experimental noise duo IMA with Amma […]

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Thursday February 25, 2021 | 8:30 pm

Executive |RRiYR| Summary

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Thursday February 18, 2021 | 8:30 pm

| The Red Room in Your Room | John Berndt – DJ Sniff – Sam Burt & Company

At 53, John Berndt has been a Baltimore musician, visual artist and writer whose primary subject matter can be summed up as “disorientation as positive content”—a domain he approaches with nonstandard sensibilities and through a wide range of different vehicles and media. He is a longtime saxophonist, free improvisor and electronic composer; and also as […]

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Thursday February 18, 2021 | 8:30 pm

The Red Room in Your Room Continues: February/March 2021!

The Red Room In Your Room Continues 2021 The return of our web-based series! TRRiYR arose last Spring in response to the COVID quarantine and the discontinuation of our regular Red Room events (continuous since 1996!!!).  We’re having a go again to make the best of the winter isolation and ongoing pandemic. The new run […]

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Thursday January 28, 2021 | 8:30 pm

The Red Room in Your Room Returns: Winter 2021!!!

The Red Room In Your Room Returns 2021 The return of our web-based series! TRRiYR arose last Spring in response to the COVID quarantine and the discontinuation of our regular Red Room events (continuous since 1996!!!).  We’re having a go again to make the best of the coming winter and ongoing pandemic. The new run […]

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Monday December 21, 2020 | 6:30 pm

Jovial Saturnalia: Live Pipe Organ at Planetary Convergence

Pipe Organ at the Gates of the Dawning of the Age of Aquarius By Jove, Monday the 21st of December is an astronomical event unlike any other, a convergence of Jupiter and Saturn at proximity unseen since 13th century AD, all the while upon the Winter Solstice occurring at exactly 0 degrees in the constellation […]

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Tuesday December 15, 2020 | 6:30 pm

David Moré new release listening party

David Moré has been the stage manager for the High Zero Festival for over 15 years. He is a seemingly unstoppable force of nature in this role and we appreciate him greatly! His new release is coming out via Bandcamp on December 15th. Not coincidentally, this is also his birthday. To celebrate both occasions we […]

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Friday December 11, 2020 | 8:30 pm

Adam Schwartz’s AmbiX Series, Damian Catera, and High Zero Outtakes

The Red Room (in your room) is pleased to host the Goucher College MFA in Art & Technology thesis concert for Adam Schwartz. Schwartz has developed a series of virtual reality environments that focus on ambisonic “surround” sound and explore the history of sound in media. For this concert, he’ll perform two pieces within these […]

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Saturday October 24, 2020 | 5:00 pm

Performance on Stony Run Trail

Patrick McMinn is back performing Samuel Burt’s Wyman Park Dell at a new location! Join us in autumn’s colors on Stony Run trail in the tunnel beneath Remington Avenue. This composition features a solo trumpet part accompanied by a burbling ensemble of wind instruments. This will be an extended version of the piece, with more […]

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Friday October 09, 2020 | 8:30 pm

Jeff Carey’s Imaginary Network Topologies

In the weeks following the High Zero Festival before resuming the Redroom in Your Room streaming shows at regular intervals, we’d like to point out some High Zero adjacent / related events.  Jeff Carey has created a virtual tour called Imaginary Network Topologies with friends from around the globe and will be streaming the shows […]

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Sunday September 27, 2020 | 8:00 pm

HIGH ZERO FESTIVAL of EXPERIMENTAL IMPROVISED MUSIC -online –

Baltimore’s High Zero Festival of Experimental Improvised Music is in it’s 22nd year!  We are undaunted by the bizarre situation we are all in, and it has motivated us to do something audacious with our 4 day festival of all new music. The High Zero Festival is partnering with like-minded festivals throughout the country. One of […]

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Saturday September 26, 2020 | 8:00 pm

HIGH ZERO FESTIVAL of EXPERIMENTAL IMPROVISED MUSIC -online –

Baltimore’s High Zero Festival of Experimental Improvised Music is in it’s 22nd year!  We are undaunted by the bizarre situation we are all in, and it has motivated us to do something audacious with our 4 day festival of all new music. The High Zero Festival is partnering with like-minded festivals throughout the country. One of […]

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Friday September 25, 2020 | 8:00 pm

HIGH ZERO FESTIVAL of EXPERIMENTAL IMPROVISED MUSIC -online –

Baltimore’s High Zero Festival of Experimental Improvised Music is in it’s 22nd year!  We are undaunted by the bizarre situation we are all in, and it has motivated us to do something audacious with our 4 day festival of all new music. The High Zero Festival is partnering with like-minded festivals throughout the country. One of […]

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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.