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Friday July 15, 2016 | 2:00 pm

Worlds in Collusion Festival at Artscape 2016 – Friday

The High Zero Foundation and Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts presents!! WORLDS IN COLLUSION FESTIVAL Artscape 2016 July 15th – 17th University of Baltimore Student Center, 5th Floor FREE! 18 hours of mind-bending, thoroughly air-conditioned performances by Baltimore artists, including the traditional, the experimental, and the just plain strange. Friday, July 15 2 […]

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Friday July 08, 2016 | 8:30 pm

Katt Hernandez + Wilfrido Terrazas + Susan Alcorn + Andy Hayleck

Join us for a night of exceptional instrumentalists: Katt Hernandez (violin, Sweden) and Wilfrido Terrazas (flute, Mexico) each present a short solo set, followed by a collaboration with local improvisors Susan Alcorn (pedal steel guitar) and Andy Hayleck (banjo). Katt Hernandez is a violinist living in Stockholm, Sweden. Focused primarily on freely improvised music, Katt draws […]

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Friday June 24, 2016 | 8:30 pm

A night of video art and putrid performance

Performance : Fiona Parker and the Spitting Truth : Fiona Parker and the Spitting Truth, is a collage of putrid experimental sounds, visuals and performance. Composed from deliquescent minimal noise, fluidic visuals and regurgitating performance. (Stephanie Bonham/sounds, Fiona Parker/Performer, Hekkate /Visuals) Video works: Lindsay Bottos-Sewell Francy Z Graham Kiera Mulhern Dan Langston T.J. Domingue Helen […]

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Sunday July 17, 2016 | 2:00 pm

Worlds in Collusion Festival at Artscape 2016 – Sunday

The High Zero Foundation and Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts presents!! WORLDS IN COLLUSION FESTIVAL Artscape 2016 July 15th – 17th University of Baltimore Student Center, 5th Floor FREE! 18 hours of mind-bending, thoroughly air-conditioned performances by Baltimore artists, including the traditional, the experimental, and the just plain strange. Sunday, July 17 2 […]

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Saturday July 16, 2016 | 2:00 pm

Worlds in Collusion Festival at Artscape 2016 – Saturday

The High Zero Foundation and Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts presents!! WORLDS IN COLLUSION FESTIVAL Artscape 2016 July 15th – 17th University of Baltimore Student Center, 5th Floor FREE! 18 hours of mind-bending, thoroughly air-conditioned performances by Baltimore artists, including the traditional, the experimental, and the just plain strange. Saturday, July 16 2 […]

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Thursday June 16, 2016 | 8:30 pm

Sonic Meditations

What constitutes your musical universe? How do we use the sounds we make to connect with one another? This workshop uses several pieces in Pauline Oliveros’ Sonic Meditations series to illuminate these questions. Participants are guided through a series of meditation exercises which draw focus to their body, breath, voice, and the sounds around them […]

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Tuesday July 05, 2016 | 8:30 pm

INTERNATIONAL NOISE CONFERENCE BALTIMORE

Rat Bastard, winner of numerous best and worst guitarist awards, with support from dozens of local noise acts. This show will be at MYSPACE.  5 to 10 sliding scale. BYO http://www.squelchers.com/ 9:00 Pony Moon 9:15 Newagehillbilly 9:30 Not Box Truck 9:45 LLIQUID SD 10:00 TRNSGNDR\VHS 10:15 Proud Father (NOLA) 10:30 Eames Armstrong 10:45 Tom Boram […]

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Thursday June 02, 2016 | 8:00 pm

ERIN ESPELIE presents The Lanthanide Series

SIGHT UNSEEN & Red Room Presents: NOTE: this screening will start promptly after 8:00pm THE LANTHANIDE SERIES Directed by Erin Espelie (US/France/UK) 70 minutes Cast: Meredith Monk–voice from “Volcano Songs” Jack Loeffler–voiceover SYNOPSIS The myth of a so-called ‘black mirror’, which consists of nature’s rarest elements and is an occult tool to see into the […]

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Tuesday May 31, 2016 | 8:00 pm

Baltimore Technology Overdrive: Arduino Workshop

At our last meet-up, BTO Tinkerers prepped Raspberry Pi miniature computers for music production. The process was faster than expected! This time, we will look at Arduino, a platform for control and sensor input. Arduino is a super low power special-purpose computer that plugs into your computer (or Raspberry Pi!) USB port to act as a […]

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Wednesday May 25, 2016 | 9:00 pm

M. Geddes Gengras/Mitchell Brown/Tom Boram/Jason WIllett

Even if you smoked poisonous toad venom and designed flyers using only American Apparel ads as source material you couldn’t even imagine the analogue vistas and twinkling auroras of this synesthetic synth-anaesthetic night!  Slide down from your Klein Bottle and saddle up a big pig swig of this – M. Geddes Gengras(LA) Mitchell Brown (LA) Tom […]

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Sunday June 05, 2016 | 7:00 pm

Volunteers’ Collective, June 5 2015, Redman

This month, special guest host Will Redman will be moderating. You might know him for his percussion work, his compositions, and his graphic scores. He regularly plays in Microkingdom and Umbilicus. 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 […]

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Wednesday May 11, 2016 | 8:00 pm

Baltimore Technology Overdrive: Raspberry Pi Workshop

Baltimore Technology Overdrive is a casual free workshop at the Red Room for electronic music enthusiasts to share their work and get advice. This session, BTO Tinkerers will be working to get their Raspberry Pis working with an operating system. Then we will work on configuring files on our Pis for networking and sound. The Raspberry Pi […]

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Sunday May 01, 2016 | 7:00 pm

Volunteers’ Collective – May 1, 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 […]

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Saturday May 07, 2016 | 9:00 pm

Tashi Dorji/Marisa Anderson/Jimmy Joe Roche & Will Schorre

This night is to be thought of as a tasty juxtaposition of exploratory solo guitar virtuosi with deep fried Baltimore electronic strangeness. First up in support of their 2015 split album is Tashi Dorji and Marisa Anderson.  This album got wide acclaim including Pitchfork’s Top 20 Experimental records, talky bits on NPR, and Tiny Mix Tape verbiage […]

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Wednesday April 27, 2016 | 9:00 pm

Bobb Hatt & Jen Powers/ Charles Dubé & Pony Payroll Bones / Scott Verrastro & Jenny Moon Tucker

A Trio of Duets for your delight 8:30 PM $5 – 10 sliding scale Bobb Hatt & Jen Powers — Columbus Ohio Improvisation on free noise sax and hammered dulcimer. Bobb’s flamboyant in your face ripping meets ethereal drone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0mgg15om7c Scott Verrastro & Jenny Moon Tucker — Philly/ Bmore Prolific percussionist of Kohoutek who has played […]

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Friday April 29, 2016 | 8:30 pm

Philosopher’s Union Presents Elie Ayache

“To write a contingent claim and to trade it is literally to be situated in the middle of the event triggering it. Events take place; they don’t take time. Writing is the technology addressing the event outside of chronology and the market is the medium of contingency. They both recognize that time, although unavoidable, is […]

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Saturday April 30, 2016 | 9:00 pm

Chris Welcome / Sam Weinberg, Umbilicus

Saxophonist Sam Weinberg and synthesizist Chris Welcome have been spending many Wednesday afternoons with each other, awaking Bay Ridge newborns with their unique approach to both noise & free-improv. With a constant, high intensity approach the saxophone and KORG become indistinguishable. Sam Weinberg Website Chris Welcome’s Website Bandcamp Umbilicus was founded in 2012 in reaction […]

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Sunday April 03, 2016 | 7:00 pm

Volunteers’ Collective — April 3, 2016

This month, special guest host Jimmy Joe Roche will be moderating. You might know him for his excellent video and film work, his performances at the High Zero Festival, or his work with Wham City! The Volunteers’ Collective is a monthly improvisation workshop with a focus on listening and ad hoc collaboration. Players of all […]

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Monday April 18, 2016 | 8:30 pm

NOOR /// MAX EILBACHER

LA polymath NOOR and local wiz kid MAX EILBACHER meet again in QUADRAPHONIC SOUND at THE RED ROOM!   Noor is a vocalist first and foremost, a commercial voice-over artist by trade and an accomplished actress and poet. Her performance will be a an exploration of a new work in progress. Past and present collaborators […]

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Friday April 22, 2016 | 8:30 pm

Snake Union // ÎMÂ // Chris Lock

SNAKE UNION is Chuck Bettis (All Scars, Mossenek) and David Grant (Action Patrol, On A Clear Day). A duo that works in improvisational rhythmic explorations that match analog synths and digital sound processing, modular wires and max patches. By turns psychedelic, delicate, and fuzzed out, the sequenced collides with the freeform as these two soundmakers […]

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Tuesday May 10, 2016 | 8:30 pm

Sight Unseen & Red Room Present: FERN SILVA

SIGHT UNSEEN & Red Room Presents RHYTHM OF THE COSMOS: Works by Fern Silva  “Do you know what the secret to life is… this… one thing, just one thing…” -Curly Washburn Subtle, spectacular cinema in which cosmopolitan filmmaker Fern Silva creates a convincing, eclectic hotpot from various images. The fruits of life desiccate in front […]

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Thursday June 09, 2016 | 8:30 pm

Schimpfluch Gruppe: Rudolf Eb.er, Joke Lanz, and Dave Phillips

Founded in Zürich in 1987, the Schimpfluch Gruppe has become the epitome of radical outsider art in many respects. Appearing in varying lineups over the years, including several guest artists alongside the core-members of Rudolf Eb.er, Joke Lanz, and Dave Phillips, the Schimpfluch Gruppe has been forging a bridge from stirring audio and visual works […]

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Saturday April 02, 2016 | 8:30 pm

SARAH HENNIES /// IAN POWER

New composed music and the composer-performers who compose and perform it face off- Red Room style! Do not miss this night of gently dazzling mystery music! doors at 8:30, show at 9:00 Sarah Hennies is a percussionist and composer currently residing in Ithaca, NY. Her work is primarily concerned with an immersive, psychoacoustic presentation of […]

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Friday April 08, 2016 | 8:30 pm

EXPANDED CINEMA PERFORMANCE BY ALEX MACKENZIE

Sight Unseen presents: Apparitions | 55 minutes (2 X 16mm colour + b&w, 2016)   Where one locates ruptures or denies them is a political choice that determines the construction of the present. Whether one excludes or foregrounds certain events and processes at the expense of others affects the intelligibility of the contemporary functioning of […]

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Friday April 15, 2016 | 8:30 pm

Lesley Flanigan // Brian Chase

Lesley Flanigan presents Hedera, a vivid new extended recording on Physical Editions from the New York-based electronic musician and instrument builder, and an elegant new platform for the powerful vehicle of Flanigan’s voice. In a driving performance that steadily unfolds over time, Lesley Flanigan shapes blooming clusters of her voice around a continuous beat of […]

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