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Sunday April 30, 2017 | 8:30 pm

MOTHCOCK ≠ WILL SCHORRE ≠ PISS KILLS MOLD ≠ MARNIE ELLEN HERTZLER ≠ LE CREUSET

Moth Cock perform a strain of improvised music that bridges the chasm between the free-jazz tradition and the noise underground. The duo processes live clarinet and trumpet through rudimentary effects into damaged squalls of electronic chaos set to mutated rhythms. Their unique performance tactics yield unforgettable live performances that have been documented on the grooves […]

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Friday April 21, 2017 | 9:00 pm

Morgan Evans-Weiler and Luke Martin plus locals Jacob Freeman, Sarah Hughes and more!

Musicians of many influences. This show will feature visiting artists Morgan Evans-Weiler and Luke Martin with local performers Jacob Freeman, Sarah Hughes, and Sam Burt. Morgan Evans-Weiler is a Boston based artist and educator whose work ranges from composition and sound installation to drawing, video and design. Evans-Weiler maintains a busy performance schedule and has […]

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Sunday April 02, 2017 | 7:00 pm

Volunteers’ Collective April 2, 2017

You are cordially invited to participate in the Volunteers’ Collective. The Volunteers’ Collective is a monthly improvisation workshop with a focus on listening and ad hoc collaboration. Players of all skill levels are encouraged to attend and play with each other. We are seeking: trombonists          drummers         computerists    […]

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Monday April 10, 2017 | 9:00 pm

Bob Presents: The Moon and the Sledgehammer

Local film collector and musician, Bob Wagner, screens the rare and beautiful documentary “The Moon and the Sledgehammer.” Made in 1971 by Philip Trevelyan, this British cult film explores the eccentric lives of the Page family who live without utilities or running water in the woods of East Sussex. Shot on 16mm in natural light, the film […]

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Tuesday April 11, 2017 | 8:30 pm

Tashi Dorji + Tyler Damon † Jimmy Joe Roche + Layne Garrett

a night of DUO DUO’S ! Electric guitarist Tashi Dorji and percussionist Tyler Damon will perforem as a duo. In the long tradition of string/drum duets — from Bailey & Bennink to Haino & Yoshida — these two cleave out their own unmapped continent of sound. They connect lashes of ecstatic intensity and outer reaches […]

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Friday March 31, 2017 | 8:30 pm

Matt Wellins / Margaret Rorison/ Trogpite

Matt Wellins Matt Wellins (b. 1983) builds analog electronic instruments. This work is influenced by the materially contumacious practices of David Tudor and Michael Johnsen and emphasizes the particularities of electronic components, the snafus of live performance, and general ambivalence toward commercial equipment. 

Concurrently, Wellins fosters interests in the experimental loft theater of 1970s New York, […]

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Sunday March 05, 2017 | 7:00 pm

Volunteers’ Collective — March 2017

You are cordially invited to participate in the Volunteers’ Collective. The Volunteers’ Collective is a monthly improvisation workshop with a focus on listening and ad hoc collaboration. Players of all skill levels are encouraged to attend and play with each other. We are seeking: trombonists          drummers         computerists    […]

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Saturday March 11, 2017 | 9:00 pm

Carrie Fucile & Mark Brown Audio Visual “Material Actions” + Tom Borax

Material Actions is an audiovisual performance that considers the Dutch Age of Exploration and the flow of modern, global capital. In this piece, Fucile “plays” common materials—such as coins, bricks, and fans—while Brown projects live, sound-reactive video.   Carrie Fucile is an intermedia artist focused on sound, installation, and performance. She has exhibited and performed […]

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Thursday March 09, 2017 | 8:30 pm

Susan Alcorn & Alex Pelchat / Jenny Moon Tucker / Margaret Rorison

Thursday March 9th at the Red Room: Duo improvisations on different kinds of guitars by Susan Alcorn and Alex Pelchat Solo performance by saxophonist Jenny Moon Tucker New work screening by Margaret Rorison $5 – 10 doors at 8:30 show at 9:00 At The Red Room 425 E. 31st St. Baltimore, MD // Alex Pelchat […]

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Wednesday March 22, 2017 | 8:30 pm

SHAPE SHIFTERS // f.org | Joshua Gen Solondz | Boram & Neidhardt

SHAPE SHIFTERS AN EVENING OF FILM, MODULAR SYNTHESIZER, IMPROVISED ELECTRONICS & CELLO. FEATURING Joshua Gen Solondz Alex Catona & Travis Johns Tom Boram & Paul Neidhardt __________________________________ Joshua Gen Solondz is an artist working in images, performance, installation, and sound. He has shown in a variety of festivals including Images, Toronto International Film Festival, International […]

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Friday March 03, 2017 | 8:30 pm

NOISE: Being, Plagues, Legless ++

NOISE SHOW SHORT SETS LOCALS TBA Being Plagues https://newforces.bandcamp.com/album/of-ash-and-relic Legless https://newforces.bandcamp.com/track/below-contempt

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Sunday February 19, 2017 | 8:30 pm

BAD JAZZ

Instrument inventors BAD JAZZ from Oakland perform on idiosyncratic sound making devices with opening act CK Barlow / Sam Burt / Jeff Carey in trio.   Formed in late 2014, experimental improvisation trio, Bad Jazz, has been taking audiences on improvised auditory journeys that defy the normal explanations of musical theory. Their music is a […]

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Sunday February 05, 2017 | 7:00 pm

Volunteers’ Collective — February 2017

You are cordially invited to participate in the Volunteers’ Collective. The Volunteers’ Collective is a monthly improvisation workshop with a focus on listening and ad hoc collaboration. Players of all skill levels are encouraged to attend and play with each other. We are seeking: trombonists          drummers         computerists    […]

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Friday February 17, 2017 | 8:29 pm

Screening and Performance

New Works is a rolling event at the Red Room showcasing new video work and emphasizing local artists. Featuring video from Cricket Arrison, Madeline Becker Get Your Life! Productions, Dan Guinness, Danielle Hernandez, Eva Moolchan, Kim Spira, Aidan Spann and Julia Gunnison. Second set will be a Solo from Andrew Bernstein (Baltimore). —1st Act — […]

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Friday January 20, 2017 | 9:00 pm

Dan Conrad, Kate Porter, Eric Franklin | Maggie Wilkinson | Jamal Moore, Samuel Burt

Baltimore veterans and talented newcomers! A night of conversational improvisation and intensely focused electroacoustics. Starting the night is a duet of Jamal Moore and Samuel Burt. Creaking, croaking, smooth, buzzy, crunchy, and fantastic. Two bass clarinets! Maggie Wilkinson is an electronic musician from Goucher College. Her music is equal parts intellectual depth and thick emotion. Dan […]

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Saturday January 28, 2017 | 8:30 pm

David Smooke // Bonnie Jones // The Witches

The Red Room presents a special program of Peabody faculty, students, and local electronic musician Bonnie Jones. An evening to explore the tensile boundaries of composition and free improvisation towards new forms for a new world. David Smooke (toy piano) Bonnie Jones (electronics, samples) The Witches – Ledah Finck (violin) and Louna Dekker-Vargas (flute) PROGRAM >> David Smooke […]

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Thursday December 29, 2016 | 9:00 pm

A Dierker Xmas Story

It’s been a very trying year, and yet lovable John Dierker has been a very good boy. He has been diligently collecting his John Waters moustache coupons and has just about enough to buy that shiny new clarinet that Edith used to serende her fresh young egglings. Please help him make it over the top! […]

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Sunday January 08, 2017 | 7:00 pm

Volunteers’ Collective — January 2017

You are cordially invited to participate in the Volunteers’ Collective. The Volunteers’ Collective is a monthly improvisation workshop with a focus on listening and ad hoc collaboration. Players of all skill levels are encouraged to attend and play with each other. We are seeking: trombonists          drummers         computerists    […]

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Sunday December 04, 2016 | 7:00 pm

Volunteers’ Collective

You are cordially invited to participate in the Volunteers’ Collective. The Volunteers’ Collective is a monthly improvisation workshop with a focus on listening and ad hoc collaboration. Players of all skill levels are encouraged to attend and play with each other. We are seeking: trombonists          drummers         computerists    […]

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Tuesday December 13, 2016 | 8:30 pm

SUSAN ALCORN & PHILLIP GREENLIEF // BILIANA VOUTCHKOVA & MICHAEL THIEKE (DE)

  DOUBLE DUO DIENSTAG at THE RED ROOM! Local legend Susan Alcorn (pedal steel guitar) joins San Francisco’s versatile Phillip Greenlief (reeds) for what we have to assume will be a tightly controlled YET UNPREDICTABLE explosion of thoughtful, varied improvisation. Berlin-based Biliana Voutchkova (violin, voice) and Michael Thieke (clarinet) emerged from that city’s fecund “Echtzeitmusik” […]

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Saturday December 03, 2016 | 9:00 pm

FUTURE MINDS FREE // Laska, Fraser, Bennett, Foster

An evening of sound artists and improvising musicians from NYC and Philadelphia whose work explores the liberatory possibilities of system intelligence, generative musical practices and improvisation. PROGRAM PRESETS AND STUDIES Eric Laska Presets and Studies comprises recent audio material from low frequency ramp generators and field recordings of HVAC systems. The compositional structure of the […]

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Sunday November 06, 2016 | 7:00 pm

Volunteers’ Collective — November 6th, 2016

You are cordially invited to participate in the Volunteers’ Collective. The Volunteers’ Collective is a monthly improvisation workshop with a focus on listening and ad hoc collaboration. Players of all skill levels are encouraged to attend and play with each other. We are seeking: trombonists          drummers         computerists    […]

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Thursday December 08, 2016 | 8:30 pm

Aspec(t) / Andrea Pensado / Piss Kills Mold

The duo Aspec(t) is electronic noise artist SEC_ on Revox tape recorder and Mario Gabola on saxophone and DIY feedback systems. They have been touring extensively through Europe and organized hundreds of show in their home town of Napoli.  Aspec(t) has released several albums and two collaboration albums, one with Dave Phillips and one with Andrzej Zaleski. Andrea Pensado works […]

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Friday November 11, 2016 | 8:30 pm

Kyle Eyre Clyd // John Jones + Zack Utz // Nicole Mazarakis + Mike Allender

Kyle Eyre Clyd is a electronic sound artist based on New Orleans. This will be a tape release for her new Cassette coming out on Ultraviolet Light Records. Additionally we have two amazing local Duo’s on the bill. John Jones ( aka Nerftoss) will be performing with Zack Utz and Nicole Mazarakis with Mike Allender. […]

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Thursday November 10, 2016 | 9:00 pm

Steve Olson Solo ++ The X Trio

The Red Room is pleased to present an evening of jazz-influenced free improv by local musicians Steve Olson (drums), Mark Lysher (bass), and Todd Marcus (bass clarinet) expanding the auditory space occupied by the appearance of a jazz trio. Steve Olson will open the evening with a solo on drums/percussion/objects/recorded sounds.

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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.