Saturday November 10, 2018 | 8:30 pm
Diffusion: Madalyn Merkey, Twig Harper, HATAM and Nathan Corder
High Zero Foundation presents Diffusion Festival series focused on electronic and multi-channel sound works. The third event in the festival features works by: Oaklander Madalyn Merkey, local fakir Twig Harper, HATAM and Nathan Corder. More works may be added to this program. Here are some details about the composers, and in some cases, their […]
Friday November 09, 2018 | 8:30 pm
Diffusion: Rjyan Kidwell, Vicki Bennett, Stephanie Barber
High Zero Foundation presents Diffusion Festival series focused on electronic and multi-channel sound works. The first night of the festival includes 8 channel works by local granular synthesis wunder-mann Rjyan Kidwell, Londoner Vicki Bennett (also known as People Like Us) and a quadraphonic piece by local playwright and multi-media sculptor Stephanie Barber premiering her […]
Sunday October 21, 2018 | 8:30 pm
Bonnie Lander & John Dierker · Departure Duo
Soprano is high, bass is low and this night at the Red Room the twain shall meet! Two ways! And thanks to Free Fall Baltimore, this show is free! Local ringers Bonnie and John will be performing rehearsed improvisations for soprano voice and bass clarinet and Departure Duo’s Nina Guo and Eddie Kass will be […]
Sunday October 07, 2018 | 7:30 pm
Volunteers’ Collective, Sunday October 6
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. […]
Friday October 12, 2018 | 8:30 pm
True Fluorescent Skeleton ++ Anna Crooks + Jarrett Gilgore
Join us for a special live performance of James Young’s True Fluorescent Skeleton, performed on saxophone by Tyrone Page, Jr; opening the night are Anna Crooks and Jarrett Gilgore, presenting spoken word and sound. This show is free, and funded by BOPA’s Free Fall Baltimore program. True Fluorescent Skeleton is an hour long exploration of […]
Saturday October 13, 2018 | 8:30 pm
Jason Charney ++ Toned (Leo Suarez + Nathan Corder + Tom Weeks)
TONED is the electroacoustic music ensemble of Nathan Corder (electronics), Tom Weeks (alto saxophone), and Leo Suarez (drum set). TONED engages with extremes, operating in the realms of deeply listened sensitivity, muscular sonic assaults, and impenetrable modernist abstractions. https://toned.bandcamp.com/releases Split between the Bay Area and Philadelphia, the three members of TONED have collectively worked with luminaries […]
Monday November 12, 2018 | 8:30 pm
QuaQuaQua (NYC/Baltimore) and The Third Guy (Brussels)
QuaQuaQua (NYC/Baltimore) and The Third Guy (Brussels) bring you pieces for an open-ended jack cable, strobe lights and midi pad, slaps in the face, virtuosic knife and hammer work, and light banter. Slovenian guitarist Primož Sukič and Spanish percussionist Ruben Orio make up The Third Guy, a duo based in Brussels, Belgium. They first met […]
Sunday September 02, 2018 | 7:30 pm
Volunteers’ Collective, Sunday September 2nd
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. […]
Saturday August 25, 2018 | 8:30 pm
Dave Dove * Justin Jones * Jimmy Joe Roche * Pasokon
Dave Dove A trombone player, composer, improviser, and educator, David Dove has given performances and workshops across North America and internationally. As Founding Director of Nameless Sound (a non-profit organization in Houston, Texas), he curates/presents a concert series of international contemporary creative music, and has developed an approach, philosophy and practice of creative music education […]
Friday September 14, 2018 | 7:30 pm
HIGH ZERO 20th Edition Tour!!!
TWENTIETH YEAR CELEBRATION TOUR! September 14th through 29th in three cities. The High Zero Collective are going on the road. The musician-organizers will perform for two days in Chicago and two days in New York City with area musicians before returning home to perform for two days in all-Baltimore combinations. Touring High Zero Collective CK […]
Saturday August 11, 2018 | 8:30 pm
Gerritt Wittmer · Peter J Woods · Hayden Right
For those unafraid of the dark, local gentleman noisenik Hayden Right joins Gerritt Wittmer (Houston) and Peter J. Woods (Milwaukee), touring in support of their new full length albums, “I Believe” and “Today is Horrible.” Doors at 8:30, show at 9 Gerritt Wittmer is a sound and performance artist based in Houston, Texas. His work […]
Friday August 10, 2018 | 8:30 pm
Jaimie Branch & Friends · Susan Alcorn & Janel Leppin
JAIMIE BRANCH (High Zero 2013, 2018) IS BACK IN BALTIMORE FOR AN EVENING IN HER FIRST PERFORMANCE SINCE SHE LIVED HERE WAY BACK WHEN! SHE’LL BE JOINED BY SOME OF HER CLOSEST BALTIMORE/DC COMPATRIOTS! SUSAN ALCORN (HZ 2004, 2013, 2018) WILL PLAY DUO WITH JANEL LEPPIN! T R A N S C E N D […]
Monday August 06, 2018 | 7:30 pm
Volunteers’ Collective, Monday August 6th
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 July 31, 2018 | 8:30 pm
Anna RG & Zach Rowden · Owen Gardner · Allison Clendaniel
sounds from anna rg / zach rowden duo ANNA is trying to find places in between traditional and experimental music worlds. now in brooklyn, once in baltimore, and before in appalachia / she spent the last decade studying with masters of traditional fiddle and banjo music in Kentucky and Virginia. her main duo, anna & […]
Sunday July 15, 2018 | 8:30 pm
Lea Bertucci & Amirtha Kidambi · Max Eilbacher
More Sunday summer fun at the Red Room! New Yorkers Lea Bertucci (High Zero 2012, 2018) and Amirtha Kidambi warp time and space in solo and duo formations and local electroacoustician Max Eilbacher (High Zero 2009) presents a work in progress in QUADRAPHONIC SOUND! Lea Bertucci is an American composer and performer whose work describes […]
Friday July 20, 2018 | 2:00 pm
High Zero presents: WORLDS IN COLLUSION at UB Student Center 3 DAYS
THESE EVENTS ARE ON THE FIFTH FLOOR of the UB Student Center! Friday, July 20 <—————————- 2:00PM Musica Spira Musical traditions that seek to renew conversations about the importance of life & values 3:00PM Mind on Fire A musical arts collaboration of contemporary music in Baltimore 4:00PM Ben Starkey! 5:00PM Theljon Allen and Universal Language A […]
Saturday July 14, 2018 | 8:30 pm
Drums and Drones // HZ improvisors
Brian Chase, drummer of esteemed band, “Yeah Yeah Yeahs” brings a different view to the drum with Swiss video artist Ursula Scherrer. This sound and video experience has been well received, around the world, now in Baltimore, for you. “goes inside the sound and…puts your brain inside another space” -The Wire Magazine Opening for […]
Sunday July 01, 2018 | 7:30 pm
Volunteers’ Collective, Sunday, July 1
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 July 08, 2018 | 8:30 pm
Che Chen & David Watson · Meg Rorison
New York’s David Watson (bagpipes! High Zero 2011) and Che Chen very durationally meet local filmmaker and friend of the Red Room Meg Rorison (High Zero 2014) very filmically. Loud and long–just the way you like it. Doors at 8:30, show at 9 Che Chen & David Watson have been active as a duo since […]
Thursday June 28, 2018 | 8:30 pm
Crazy Doberman/Pony Moon/Pale stag
Baltimore and mid-west out improvised noise for every temperament and sensibility! Crazy Doberman Hailing from Lafayette Indiana, this amorphous psycho jazz unit drops a heavy slab of tunes that sounds like “the Glenn Miller orchestra recorded a tape for Industrial Records and microwaved the masters”. Hard to pin down and forever tripping with new […]
Saturday June 30, 2018 | 9:00 pm
JD PARRAN-ANCESTRAL DUO///// BLACK ELEMENTS 4TET
A NIGHT OF CREATIVE IMPROVISATION AND THROUGH-COMPOSED MUSIC. JD PARRAN JD Parran’s most recent releases on the Mutable Music label are the collaborative Particle Ensemble and his Window Spirits Solo. His performing on clarinets, saxophones and flutes is legendary. In his hometown, St Louis, he was a founding member of the Black Artist Group (BAG) […]
Saturday June 23, 2018 | 8:30 pm
C. Lavender · Headband
Imagine if you will a door, adorned with a Fela Kuti poster, to the side of a used book and record store. Beyond the door is another dimension—a liminal zone between shadow and substance, music and performance art, laughter and tears, performer and audience. Our story takes place in the present, on a Saturday night, […]
Monday June 18, 2018 | 8:30 pm
Zach Rowden · Kiera Mulhern & Jack Patterson · Double Wink
!!June 18th at the Red Room!! A night of Sound, Music, and Spoken word. ~*~Featuring~*! ___|)_________|___________ |___/___|______|____ |__/|___|-.__,-.________ |_/(|,\_|/___`-‘______ |_\_|_/__________ | A musical performance from touring artist Zach Rowden (CT). Spectralist nightmare double bass compositions/improvisations. A pupil of the late Ana-Maria Avram and a player in Iancu Dumitrescu’s Hyperion Ensemble. “Shredder” https://zachrowden.bandcamp.com/releases Jack Patterson & […]
Friday June 08, 2018 | 8:30 pm
Crooks/Gilgore + Wendy Eisenberg + Nick A Bisceglia + Peter Redgrave
Friday, June 8th at the Red Room! ANNA CROOKS & JARRETT GILGORE There are melodies hidden in speech. Anna & Jarrett unearth these melodies and provide a strange new context for poetry. The duo began during Superbowl LI (2017) and has since performed around Baltimore on lineups with Susan Alcorn, Twig Harper, Lexie Mountain, BLUD. […]
Wednesday June 13, 2018 | 8:30 pm
Tigue | Jason Charney
Tigue is a group of three percussionists with a fluid musical identity. The Brooklyn-based trio (Matt Evans, Amy Garapic and Carson Moody) makes their own kinetic and hypnotic blend of instrumental minimalism while opening up the possibilities of their instrumentation through commissioning and collaboration. Tigue’s debut album Peaks was released in 2015 with New Amsterdam […]
