Saturday November 12, 2016 | 9:00 pm
Stanley Schumacher and the Music Now Ensemble featuring Jason Smeltzer
An Instructive Lecture/Musical Performance by Stanley Schumacher, Jason Smeltzer and Professor Musikmacher. Preceding musical invocation by local musicians Shelly Purdy and Bob Wagner. STANLEY SCHUMACHER AND THE MUSIC NOW ENSEMBLE is a collective of improvisers and composers of exceptional musicianship and imagination. The members of the collective perform in various combinations of players in order to offer a kaleidoscope […]
Saturday October 22, 2016 | 8:30 pm
New Works: Video Screening
New Works is a rolling event at the Red Room showcasing new video work and emphasizing local artists. Featuring Travis Levasseur, Helen Jackson-Adams, Max Anderson, Anoushe Shoja-Chaghervand, Corey Hughes, Travis Levasseur, Will Schorre, Matthew Sullivan, Maya Ragazzo, Matisse Rifai, Gillian Waldo and Flannery Winchester. Tom Borax and Jimmy Joe Roche will performing a live audio/video Husbands set. The […]
Wednesday October 05, 2016 | 8:30 pm
John Krausbauer + Liz Durette & Andrew Bernstein
A last minute show at the Red Room featuring Angeleno John Krausbauer and Baltimoreans Liz Durette and Andrew Bernstein. INFO: John Krausbauer is a music maker currently living in Los Angeles. He has performed his music in a multitude of settings – from basements and rock clubs to colleges and art galleries. Numerous recordings of […]
Sunday October 09, 2016 | 7:00 pm
Volunteers’ Collective — October 9th, 2016
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 compuerists trianglers accordiates reeders pickup-ites bassoids inventors guitaries clarinetines short-wavers synthologists tinglers philologists bruitists reductionizers glam-flammys timpanists vocalizers sound […]
Sunday September 04, 2016 | 7:00 pm
Volunteers’ Collective — September 2016
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 compuerists trianglers accordiates reeders pickup-ites bassoids inventors guitaries clarinetines short-wavers synthologists tinglers philologists bruitists reductionizers glam-flammys timpanists vocalizers sound […]
Tuesday October 11, 2016 | 9:00 pm
Kyle Bruckmann / FLAMINGO (Heenan, Windfeld, Melbye)
The Red Room is excited to present a rare chance to catch these exceptional musicians as they travel through Baltimore. An evening including two High Zero Festival alumni (Chris Heenan and Kyle Bruckmann). A gorgeous evening of thought provoking and stimulating music awaits! KYLE BRUCKMANN Oakland, CA-based composer/performer Kyle Bruckmann’s work extends from a classical foundation […]
Tuesday September 06, 2016 | 7:00 pm
High Zero Volunteers Meeting
The 18th Annual High Zero Festival of Experimental Improvised Music needs your help! Festival dates are 9/15 – 18, and you can have a hand in making it all possible by volunteering to: Pick someone up / drop someone off at the airport/train station Sell tickets at the concerts Usher Help with transportation during festival […]
Monday August 29, 2016 | 7:00 pm
Baltimore Technology Overdrive — DIY Sequencer Workshop
A sequencer on a breadboard! Sean Regan will be demonstrating how to build basic gate and CV sequencers from inexpensive CMOS logic chips. We will explore how CMOS sequencers can be used to control both DIY and commercial voltage controlled synthesizers, with a focus on the DIY CMOS gated oscillators constructed in last month’s workshop. […]
Sunday September 18, 2016 | 8:30 pm
High Zero: Sunday Sept 18th
Sunday Night, September 18th » Doors open 7:30 PM / Performances start 8:30 PM sharp [buy tickets] Solo: Bushmeat Soundsystem (electronics) The Night of Randomization As a new ongoing tradition, the High Zero Festival will leave Sunday Night’s sets up to chance. Fourteen performers will be divided into four sets, randomly. What kind of wonderful, unplanned, […]
Saturday September 17, 2016 | 8:30 pm
High Zero: Saturday Eve Sept 17th
Saturday Night, September 17th » Doors open 7:30 PM / Performances start 8:30 PM sharp [buy tickets] Solo: N.N.Y. (saxophone) Group One: Owen Gardner (cello, guitar) Laura Ortman (amplified violin) Anne-F Jacques (motors, objects, amplification) Rosie Langabeer (piano) Group Two: Maia Urstad (sound art) John Berndt (saxophone, electronics) Jimmy Joe Roche (voice, modular synthesizer) Eames Armstrong (electronics, dance, performance) Group Three: Noelle Tolbert (dance) Hanna […]
Saturday September 17, 2016 | 1:00 pm
High Zero: Saturday Matinee Sept 17th
Saturday Matinee, September 17th » Doors open 12 NOON / Performances start 1:00 PM sharp [buy tickets] Special sets that break the pattern of nightly performances in an attempt to redefine the undefinable. Duos Duo One: Zachary Watkins (electric guitar) Noelle Tolbert (dance) Duo Two: Ruby Fulton (trumpet, flugelhorn, violin) CK Barlow (guitar, sampling, electronics) Duo Three: Jimmy Joe […]
Friday September 16, 2016 | 8:30 pm
High Zero: Friday Sept 16th
Friday Night, September 16th » Doors open 7:30 PM / Performances start 8:30 PM sharp [buy tickets] Solo: Laura Ortman (amplified violin) Group One: Jeff Carey (computer) CK Barlow (guitar, sampling, electronics) Rosie Langabeer (piano) Philadelphia N.N.Y. (saxophone) Japan Layne Garrett (guitar, objects, self-built instruments) Group Two: Jimmy Joe Roche (voice, modular synthesizer) Marshall Trammell (percussion) Julius Masri (percussion, keyboards, oud) Group Three: Walter […]
Thursday September 15, 2016 | 8:30 pm
High Zero: Thursday Sept 15th
Thursday Night, September 15th » Doors open 7:30 PM / Performances start 8:30 PM sharp [buy tickets] Solo: Maia Urstad (sound art) Group One: Marshall Trammell (percussion) Laura Ortman (amplified violin) N.N.Y. (saxophone) Group Two: Anne-F Jacques (motors, objects, amplification) Marta Zapparoli (reel to reel, tape recorders) Asimina Chremos (dance) Tom Boram (thocolate tynapple panipulator) Group Three: Ruby Fulton (trumpet, flugelhorn, violin) Jeff Carey (computer) […]
Tuesday August 16, 2016 | 9:00 pm
Tomaž Grom/Eric Ostrowski/Liz Meredith
A totally unique night of artists taking traditional bowed instruments into far reaches of sound art and noise, multi-media interactivity and expanded cinema! Tomaž Grom, concert bass/multi-media conceptual art (Slovenia) Eric Ostrowski, violin/expanded 16mm projection (Seattle) Liz Meredith, violin/viola and analogue tape(Baltimore) We are happy to welcome Tomaž, an amazing improvisor and bassist from the incredible […]
Friday September 09, 2016 |
PURGIST w/ Stress Orphan, Quna, Maryland Mansion
P U R G I S T is an outlet for focused exploration of urban field recordings, digital artifacts, aural atmospherics and disjointed noise dynamics from the Polish underground music community. Est. 2013. His vivid, cinematic post- industrial harsh noise works have a prominent conceptual background based on a reflection upon personal vices and self-abusive […]
Saturday September 03, 2016 | 9:00 pm
Jacob Wick // Justin Porter // Meg Rorison
Jacob Wick (trumpet) Justin Porter (cello) Meg Rorison (projections/sound) Jacob Wick, Mexico City based trumpet player is joined by former Baltimorean now NY-based Justin Porter and local Meg Rorison for an evening of three solo performances exploring the visceral, the ephemeral and the immersive. JACOB WICK is a trumpet player and improvisor who lives in Mexico City […]
Saturday August 13, 2016 | 9:00 pm
Chen+Fleisenberg+Nørstebø+Rorison
AUDREY CHEN (voice/cello) and FLANDREW FLEISENBERG (percussion) with special Guest Henrik Monk (Trombone), from Norway and Margaret Rorison (Projections), from Baltimore Fleisenberg is a player of objects. Drums only fall peripherally into his spectrum, while he is mostly fascinated in coaxing out the inherent material characters of “mundane things”. These wide manipulations of external implements […]
Friday October 28, 2016 | 9:00 pm
Thomas Helton in two sets with Michael Formanek and Kevin Patton
Two of the most powerful and inventive acoustic bass players High Zero has ever witnessed. Thomas Helton plays at the Red Room with Michael Formanek. Both men inhabit the worlds of free improvisation and jazz. There’s no telling what journey they will follow, this evening. Thomas Helton will also be playing with Kevin Patton in their group pH. This […]
Sunday August 14, 2016 | 8:30 pm
LIZ DURETTE // EMMALEE HUNNICUTT // SARAH LOUISE
Untethered yet pleasant sounds from Asheville and Baltimore cruise on into your ears at THE RED ROOM. Liz on Liz: “I have always played music, piano then cello as a child. As an adult, I re-taught myself piano, and have been playing for the past ten years. At first nothing made sense. I was improvising […]
Monday August 08, 2016 | 8:30 pm
LUCAS ABELA // JOHN WIESE
HOLY COW! There’s no preparing for a show such as this, in which two legends of extreme sound – ONE OF THEM COMING FROM ACROSS THE WORLD – melt your mind, face, guts (heart?) etc. at little old Red Room. doors at 8:30, show at 9 $5-10 sliding scale Initially classed as a turntablist, Lucas […]
Sunday August 07, 2016 | 7:00 pm
Volunteers’ Collective — August 2016
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 compuerists trianglers accordiates reeders pickup-ites bassoids inventors guitaries clarinetines short-wavers synthologists tinglers philologists bruitists reductionizers glam-flammys timpanists vocalizers sound […]
Tuesday July 26, 2016 | 7:00 pm
Baltimore Technology Overdrive — Lunetta CMOS synth workshop
Sean Regan will teach basic principles of synth building using physical logic gates. He will be bringing a bunch of chips, parts, and breadboards. Come learn to make an oscillator based on a simple inverter, a gated oscillator, a ring modulator, and a simple sequencer. All skill levels are welcome. Come take the first steps […]
Friday August 12, 2016 | 8:30 pm
Kevin Hufnagel // New Firmament
KEVIN HUFNAGEL Multifaceted guitarist/composer Kevin Hufnagel has been playing, writing, performing, and recording for over 28 years and is perhaps best known for his work in progressive instrumental rock trio Dysrhythmia, avant-death metal act Gorguts, Vaura and occult rock/metal band Sabbath Assembly. Kevin has also collaborated with artists such as Jarboe (Swans), Costanza Francavilla (Tricky), […]
Sunday July 10, 2016 | 7:00 pm
Volunteers’ Collective Improv Workshop, July 2016 [SPECIAL WEEK]
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 compuerists trianglers accordiates reeders pickup-ites bassoids inventors guitaries clarinetines short-wavers synthologists tinglers philologists bruitists reductionizers glam-flammys timpanists vocalizers sound […]
Thursday June 30, 2016 | 8:30 pm
Alto! + Spreaders + Mat Luczak
A night of drums and noise at the Red Room! Portland, OR and NY state come out to Balt! from Portland – ALTO! the exclamation point is part of the name! not to be confused with the other exclamatio points! A seriously talented trio from oregon, this band has a huge range – a grittier […]
