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Wednesday July 10, 2019 | 7:00 pm

Volunteers’ Collective July 10th, 2019

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. […]

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Wednesday June 26, 2019 | 8:30 pm

HEVM // Andrew Bernstein

The Red Room is pleased to host HEVM, a trio comprised of three distinct voices that hail from disparate parts of New York’s experimental music landscape: MV Carbon, Eve Essex, and Hunter Hunt-Hendrix.   Local saxophonist Andrew Bernstein will open the show.   Wednesday, June 26th, 2019 @ The Red Room Doors at 8:30, show […]

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Friday June 28, 2019 | 8:30 pm

SAM NEWSOME////// SUSAN ALCORN-ORLANDO JOHNSON

A night of cosmic creative music presented by Sam Newsome -solo soprano saxophone and duet of Susan Alcorn and Orlando Johnson. Sam will be presenting music from his latest project and seventh solo recording, entitled Chaos Theory: SongCycles for Prepared Saxophone. this was just release on June 9th. The CD was recently in DownBeat Magazine’s […]

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Sunday June 09, 2019 | 8:30 pm

Chris Pitskiokos // PHOBODEIMOS

The Red Room is pleased to host an evening with New York based saxophonist Chris Pitsiokos and Baltimore’s own Phobodeimos, featuring Dan Conrad, Jenny Moon Tucker, Eric Franklin, and Pony Payroll Bones. Sunday June 9th 2019 Doors at 8:30, show at 9:00 $5 – 10 @ The Red Room, 425 E. 31st St   Chris […]

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Wednesday June 12, 2019 | 8:30 pm

IT FOOT, IT EARS | Gram Hummell | Aeschylus & Sam Burt

It Foot, It Ears is a chamber/garage music duo using electric guitar, voice, and percussion to create intricate studies in rhythm and texture. Their music plays against the expectations of the humdrum instrumentation of electric guitar and drums — while also celebrating its history.  They’ve developed performance practices that embrace microtonality, isorhythm and polyrhythm, extended […]

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Saturday June 08, 2019 | 8:30 pm

Sinetones & Sandwiches: Electronic, acoustic, vocal nourishment

An extraordinary pleasure to bring together for one evening, the enormous talents of percussionist claire rousay (TX) and trumpeter Jacob Wick (CDMX) in duo, electronicist, artist, Richard Kamerman (NYC), and local vocal genius Bonnie Lander performing Alvin Lucier.  The evening will have many throughlines: queering sound, systems design, interference sound, improvisation, psychodynamics and psychoacoustics, and […]

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Saturday May 25, 2019 |

THE REASONING: JAMAL MOORE-NIK FRANCIS// CHER JEY//ELIEL SHERMAN STOREY//RAS MOSHE

A night of new music and sound sonics exploring the darkness upon the face of the deep MOJUBA Jamal Moore -woodwinds,percussion, and electronics,  Nik Francis- Drums and electronics   Cher Jey- Vocals, Spoken Word Chicago based multidisciplinary artist from Baltimore, MD, focused primarily on expression through sound, movement, line and spirit. Her research has lead […]

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Monday June 03, 2019 | 7:30 pm

Volunteers’ Collective June 3, 2019

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. […]

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Friday May 31, 2019 | 8:30 pm

Nicolas Field and Gregor Vidic Duo // Carey/Moore/Purdy trio

Nicloas Field & Gregor Vidic Duo It is now four years that saxophonist Gregor Vidic and drummer Nicolas Field began their musical collaboration. Their constantly evolving music is the result of an interaction between improvisation and spontaneous composition, mainly influenced by Free Jazz and current European improvised music. The duo has managed to construct a […]

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Sunday May 12, 2019 | 8:45 pm

The Real of Time II: Sarah Hennies

The second installment of The Real of Time, a new series showcasing durational music of the 21st century, features a new work for ‘cello and percussion by Sarah Hennies. The piece, “The Reinvention of Romance,” was written specifically for Knoxville-based Two-Way Street, a duo of Ashlee Booth (‘cello) and Adam Lion (percussion). Look forward to […]

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Sunday May 05, 2019 | 7:00 pm

Volunteers’ Collective, May 5, 2019

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. […]

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Thursday May 23, 2019 | 8:45 pm

Adam G Holofcener and Steven Lugerner \ Sarah Hughes / Nicoletta de la Brown and Natalia Arias

Adam Holofcener: Adam G Holofcener is a sound artist, composer, and performer from Baltimore, MD, USA.  His work ebbs and flows between digital and analog efforts with an emphasis on a synergistic interplay between the two: one informing the other, literally and otherwise, ad infinitum.  The theoretical underpinnings for his work come from a variety […]

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Wednesday April 24, 2019 | 8:30 pm

Kazehito Seki // Asha Sheshadri + Network Glass // Hayden Right // Jeff Carey

Noise night at the Redroom featuring Kazehito Seki from Japan and local electronic acts with different approaches to noisemaking.   Kazehito Seki Electrifeeding voice artist, Noise musician, etc. His latest solo project, called Self Toxication, explores possibilities of extended vocal techniques and their amplification through feedbacks and re-amplification processes. His unique organic noise coins onliest […]

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Tuesday May 07, 2019 | 8:00 pm

Goucher Computer Music

This free concert will feature the work of students working in Goucher College’s Computer Music Studio, under the tutelage of High Zero Collective member Andrew Bernstein. Students will present original compositions exploring historical and current trends in electronic music. Please note that the concert begins at 8:00pm. Featuring the work of: Eitan Avni-Heller Jaimiah Brandon […]

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Thursday April 18, 2019 | 8:30 pm

Viv Corringham / CK Barlow + Lexie Mountain

Thursday April 18th we present Viv Corringham. Please come hear what she does on Thursday night at 9pm, we don’t think you’ll be disappointed.  Beneath this introduction are some facts and reviews that we gathered from her website, which, really you might as well look at yourself! It is here:  http://vivcorringham.org Opening for Ms. Corringham, […]

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Saturday May 04, 2019 | 8:45 pm

Reflex Arc | Will Redman & Allison Clendaniel

Reflex Arc is a two-piece experimental & improvisational band. Crowmeat Bob plays a variety of horns & sometimes electric guitar while Ginger Wagg plays a variety of body parts, spaces and emotional states.   “It’s never been so great being uncomfortable” – Maggie, White Gregg (Knoxville, TN) “indecipherable freakout great” – David Ford Smith, Indy Week http://www.gingerwagg.com/reflex-arc – […]

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Sunday April 07, 2019 | 7:30 pm

Volunteers’ Collective | April 7, 2019

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. […]

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Thursday April 04, 2019 | 8:32 pm

Ava Medoza/John Dikeman/Ironing

a few Virtuosi in the house 4/4/19.  Don’t let the 4/4 scare you, there may be nary a familiar rhythm present – only the strangest melodies, harmonies, rhythms, textures and panoramas at the Red Room, thanks. A very unique convergence of two tours – solos by instrumental Masters Ava Mendoza (NYC, guitar) and John Dikeman […]

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Saturday April 06, 2019 | 8:45 pm

The Real of Time I: Magnus Granberg & Ordinary Affects

The inaugural concert of The Real of Time, a new series showcasing durational music of the 21st century, will feature a newly commissioned concert-length work by Swedish composer and improvisor Magnus Granberg. The piece, “Come Down to Earth Where Sorrow Dwelleth,” was written specifically for Boston-based Ordinary Affects (featuring Red Room regular and High Zero […]

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Saturday March 30, 2019 | 8:30 pm

Pensado/Parker/Lander/Clendaniel 3/30!

An amazing line-up here, possibly the best line-up since the revelatory performances in the court of Emperor Akbar. The Red Room is thrilled to present solos by High Zero alumnae Andrea Pensado, Donna Parker, not to mention local alumna Allison Clendaniel in duet w/the brilliant and talented Bonnie Lander – as the vocal duo “Shorts.” […]

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Friday March 22, 2019 | 8:45 pm

Caroline Tigre · Jenny Moon Tucker · Liz Durette

Hope you can make it, we are excited for the show: Caroline Tigre is dancer, writer, musician, improvising person. Formerly singing in Strange Times People Band. www.carolinetigre.com Maybe you thought Liz Durette would come back from her Buddhist center tripping suddenly making sparse and minimal music for you, but no not so! This is her […]

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Wednesday April 03, 2019 | 8:30 pm

Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson // Jeff Carey

Concluding their “Zero Player Game / OK Computer Music” double CD release tour from sea to shining sea, Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson and Jeff Carey, both of whom work with electronic sound but eschew the impassive, near-motionless performance ethos typical of the field in favor of an intense physicality. Sigmarsson’s performances are equal parts concert and […]

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Saturday March 16, 2019 | 8:30 pm

LEYYA TAWIL-MIKE KHOURY/JAMAL MOORE

  TAWIL & KHOURY is the duo of Leyya Mona Tawil and Mike Khoury.  They work with sound and movement practices, and are community leaders in the field of Arab Experimentalism. Tawil & Khoury operate within the diaspora; narrating identity on their own terms. They began collaborating in Detroit in 2006, and have since toured […]

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Wednesday April 10, 2019 | 8:30 pm

And/In with Carey/Fucile/Gardner/Purdy

And / In ‘And / In’ is a Berlin-based duo of HBF and KLN creating music with objects, text, and vibrations. Shadows and light, audible and inaudible movement, air, liquids, and solids. They conduct musical investigations of objects, bodies, agents, sounds, actions, text and silence. Objects and/in silence. Text and/in sound. Reading and/in actions. A […]

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Monday April 01, 2019 | 8:30 pm

Neil Feather and Kristen Toedtman | April Camlin, Jessica Keyes and Dave Benham

Neil Feather and Kristen Toedtman play a series of improvised short pieces, some with text drawn from Feather, Toedtman and Blaster Al Ackerman and played on violin, voice and invented instruments.  The duo come together steeped in more than a decade of friendship, collaboration and joke telling. From this groundwork of good humor, they stand […]

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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.