Saturday November 14, 2015 | 8:30 pm
Toshimaru Nakamura/ Bryan Eubanks / Jason Kahn / Tetuzi Akiyama
The group of Tetuzi Akiyama, Bryan Eubanks, Jason Kahn and Toshimaru Nakamura meets together for the first time on this 16-date U.S. tour, spanning both coasts and reaching the northern reaches of the Midwest down to the Deep South. Together, these musicians will fuse free improvisation, noise, experimental electronics and the uncategorizable in a fresh […]
Friday November 06, 2015 | 8:30 pm
Anne-F Jacques, Tim Olive, Jimmy Joe Roche, Will Schorre and Mike Allender
A night of improvised electronics, homemade instruments and sonic exploration. Jimmy Joe Roche and Will Schorre will be performing an electronics modular battle set. Mike Allender will be playing solo on an Ekdahl Polygamist. Anne-F Jacques and Tim Olive use handmade, idiosyncratic instrumentation to produce and amplify detailed sound textures, from fine-grained to coarse. Anne-F’s […]
Tuesday September 22, 2015 | 8:00 pm
17th Annual High Zero Festival Starts on Tuesday 9/22!
THE 17th ANNUAL HIGH ZERO FESTIVAL IS HERE! SEPTEMBER 22nd – 27th! High Zero is the premier festival of Improvised, Experimental music on the East Coast. The festival is fully devoted to new collaborations between the most inspired improvisors from around the world. Join us for 5 days of sound installations, music and performances starting Tuesday […]
Friday September 18, 2015 | 9:00 pm
BLACK SPIRITUALS (Oakland) + ANCESTRAL DUO (Baltimore/DC)
Double duos at the Red Room! We’re very excited to present Oakland’s Black Spirituals, who will be joined by locals Ancestral Duo! Black Spirituals is a collaboration between Zachary Watkins and Marshall Trammell. “This duet features a new tradition in conversant, duo vernacular dynamics that sparked a revolution in our conceptions of space, stage, ritual, performance, […]
Thursday September 03, 2015 | 8:30 pm
3 New Music Video Portraits
From Andy Storrs: 3 new Music Video Portraits of a particular underground american traditional essence that is hard to find in other musicians/performers/entertainers of our time. Spotlighting: Tracey Trance The Savage Young Tater-Bug Mutinerango Sun Also… Video screening of “Needle Gun Goes To College” presented by Duncan Moore and Max Eilbacher Poetry reading by Dylan […]
Saturday August 22, 2015 | 8:30 pm
WOBBLY, Brett Naucke and Max Eilbacher
All sets at this show will be performed quadraphonically. Wobbly Jon Leidecker performs music under the inevitable pseudonym of Wobbly, exploring the various ways in which our experience of music changed once we gained the ability to record it. Recent live and studio collaborations include albums and concerts with Dieter Moebius & Tim Story, […]
Thursday October 15, 2015 | 8:00 pm
Sight Unseen presents Gut Renovation
Sight Unseen presents, GUT RENOVATION (2012) a feature film by Su Friedrich Synopsis A documentary of small changes evolves into an historical record of New York. The resulting film is a melancholy, essayistic requiem for a neighborhood and an entire way of life; it also provides a case study of the rapid gentrification of our […]
Wednesday October 28, 2015 | 9:00 pm
People Like Us and Matt Weston
A variety evening that could only be created by The Red Room Collective. Two High Zero Festival alums: Filmaker/sound artist Vicki Bennett, aka People Like Us presents a new performance/video work entitled CITATION CITY, a project using the techniques of Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project in relation to London-based feature films. Electro-acoustic percussionist Matt Weston performs […]
Saturday August 29, 2015 | 8:30 pm
Tomeka Reid Quartet featuring Jason Roebke, Mary Halvorson and Tomas Fujiwara – Liz Durrette Opening!
An all star line up of musicians brought together by Chicago-based cellist Tomeka Reid. Opening from Baltimore, Liz Durrette! Tomeka Reid (cello) Jason Roebke (bass) Mary Halvorson (guitar) Tomas Fujiwara (drums) “Sunday afternoon, on only their second gig, cellist Tomeka Reid’s quartet sounded like a seasoned band. Chicago’s Reid and bassist Jason Roebke blend well, plucking […]
Sunday August 02, 2015 | 7:00 pm
Volunteers Collective
The Volunteer’s Collective is an open workshop at the Red Room for anyone interested in playing experimental improvised music in an uninhibited, non-competitive, focused-on-the-work environment. Players who have often never met come together and try to make interesting music “never heard before” in a real-time environment. It involves as much or more listening as playing, […]
Tuesday August 11, 2015 | 8:30 pm
Carl Ludwig Hübsch / Lisa Cella
An evening of challenging, virtuosic music in extreme registers awaits you at THE RED ROOM! We at the Red Room are thrilled to present German tuba virtuoso Carl Ludwig Hübsch! He is the best tubist in any idiom (he is most outstanding in experimental improvised music but plays jazz as well) this blurber has ever […]
Sunday August 09, 2015 | 9:00 pm
Theremin & Lap Steel, Bill Brovold
Enjoy a night of hallucinogenic music from Atlanta and New York City. Duet for Theremin and Lap Steel The name of this Atlanta duo implies a proper classical recital, a rigid formality. But Scott Burland (theremin) and Frank Schultz (lap steel) don’t do scripted, improvising not so much distinct sounds as evolving eddies of sound, vapors of tones that […]
Thursday July 23, 2015 | 8:30 pm
Andrew Bernstein, Good Willsmith, Lockbox
The Red Room presents a night of abstract electroacoustic music featuring Andrew Bernstein, Good Willsmith and Lockbox. Andrew Bernstein is a Baltimore based musician and multimedia artist. His music explores the nature of acoustics, rhythm and the perception of time. He plays saxophone and percussion in the experimental rock band Horse Lords and has composed scores […]
Sunday July 05, 2015 | 7:00 pm
Volunteers Collective, Sunday, July 5th 2015
The Volunteer’s Collective is an open workshop at the Red Room for anyone interested in playing experimental improvised music in an uninhibited, non-competitive, focused-on-the-work environment. Players who have often never met come together and try to make interesting music “never heard before” in a real-time environment. It involves as much or more listening as playing, […]
Sunday June 21, 2015 | 8:30 pm
Will Guthrie & topoi (Caroline Marcantoni)
Will Guthrie is an Australian drummer / percussionist living in France. He works in many different settings of music: live performance, improvisation and studio composition using various combinations of drums, percussion, objects, junk, amplification and electronics.. He plays solo and in various projects such as THE AMES ROOM, ELWOOD & GUTHRIE & THE SOMMES […]
Sunday June 07, 2015 | 7:00 pm
Volunteers Collective June Edition!
The Volunteer’s Collective is an open workshop at the Red Room for anyone interested in playing experimental improvised music in an uninhibited, non-competitive, focused-on-the-work environment. Players who have often never met come together and try to make interesting music “never heard before” in a real-time environment. It involves as much or more listening as playing, […]
Sunday July 19, 2015 | 1:00 pm
Worlds in Collusion Festival at Artscape 2015 – Sunday
The High Zero Foundation and Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts presents!! WORLDS IN COLLUSION FESTIVAL Artscape 2015 July 17th – 19th 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 19 2pm […]
Saturday July 18, 2015 | 1:00 pm
Worlds in Collusion Festival at Artscape 2015 – Saturday
The High Zero Foundation and Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts presents!! WORLDS IN COLLUSION FESTIVAL Artscape 2015 July 17th – 19th 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 18 2pm […]
Friday July 17, 2015 | 1:00 pm
Worlds in Collusion Festival at Artscape 2015 – Friday
The High Zero Foundation and Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts presents!! WORLDS IN COLLUSION FESTIVAL Artscape 2015 July 17th – 19th 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 17 2pm […]
Saturday June 27, 2015 | 8:30 pm
Musical Antistrophes: Jonathan Zorn + Jackson Moore + Seth Dellinger / Chris Mason
Jonathan Zorn, Jackson Moore, Seth Dellinger (electronics, saxophone, voice) Chris Mason (poetry) The Red Room presents Musical Antistrophes a special concert and reading featuring astonishing new approaches to voice, technology, language and music. These artists work within the realm of the imagined and impossible – seeking new systems and musical structures based on the rhythms of speech, phonetics, […]
Saturday May 30, 2015 |
Arab Experimental Films: Reflections on Situated Time
Arab Experimental Films: Reflections on Situated Time Curated by Samirah Alkassim PROGRAM NARRATIVE This screening is comprised of five recent short films that provide a sampling from among the contemporary experimental film scene of the Middle East. From references that are more recognizable to an American audience to more specific signifiers tied to geographic location […]
Saturday May 23, 2015 | 8:30 pm
Thomas Dimuzio + Karl Ekdahl
Thomas Dimuzio – Mr. Dimuzio has an insider’s knowledge of classic experimental musical forms such as musique concrete and electro-acoustic music, as well as showing fluency with current styles, “dark ambient”, “noise” and “post-techno”. As a collaborator his history is not easily matched, he has worked with Dimmer (with Joseph Hammer), Chris Cutler, Fred Frith, […]
Wednesday May 13, 2015 | 8:30 pm
Interwaving Strecht + Redman and Wagner
From France, (Paris, presumably) INTERWAVING STRECHT sent the collective a demo, and it was so weird and well done that I said I would put on a show for them. Their own description is…this: Mystery guitar and electronics from France form this powerful intense duo playing improvised music that encompasses strong expressionism as much as […]
Monday May 04, 2015 | 7:00 pm
The Curfew is Lifted! Volunteers Collective May Edition on Monday!!!
The curfew has been lifted – Monday the Red Room will host the May Edition of the Volunteers Collective The Red Room presents another edition of its excellent, always-different open workshop for fre eimprovisation. The V.C. is intended for people who seriously want to develop their skills as ensemble free improvisors and to connect with […]
Tuesday May 19, 2015 | 8:30 pm
Topographies: Jeph Jerman + Tim Barnes / Marko Timlin / Philip White + Chris Pitsiokos
The Red Room presents TOPOGRAPHIES, an evening of music by exceptional artists whose work traverses and transgresses digital, acoustic, and environmental sonic landscapes.
