Sunday April 28, 2024 | 8:00 pm
Invisible Architectures Social Contracts VI
Nia Hampton Pan-Optimism JAMBOOMBOOM “Do You Agree to the Terms & Conditions?” A Capitol B.0.0.M. BOOM! Live Public Radio Show Experience! Lynn Tomlinson The Elephant’s Song Carrie Fucile and Brenton Lim Dada Morte: A collaborative multimedia performance exploring the ephemeral nature of our bodies and technologies. About the Social Contracts Festival An arts festival that […]
Friday April 19, 2024 | 8:00 pm
RM Francis / Maria Shesiuk / Jeff Carey
An evening of electronic music in it many forms: computation based composition strategies, hardware synthesis, and computer controlled mechanical noise. R.M. FrancisRM Francis is an artist based in Seattle working with computer-generated sound and language via recording, installation, and performance. He has presented work at the Mills College Center for Contemporary Music (Oakland), Gray Area […]
Friday March 29, 2024 | 8:00 pm
Jamal Moore Fundraiser at 2640!
Help out Jamal, hard working musician and member of the High Zero Collective who was robbed of his gear recently by listening to music on the fringe of music. None of us completely gone to abstraction but exploring the foothills of the mountains of madness. Join us! Friday 29 March at 8pm at 2640 St. […]
Saturday April 06, 2024 | 8:00 pm
Rodrigo Constanzo & Tony Lugo Electro-Acoustics!
Incredible, rare night of noise wizardry! Two improvisor composers: Rodrigo Constanzo (UK/Portugal) and Tony Lugo (Balt) both work in extreme textures, using electronics and deep programming chops to coax amazing and out of this world sounds from percussion and objects! Expect really far out sounds on this one. You will see drums on stage….but you […]
Saturday March 30, 2024 | 8:00 pm
Tongue Depressor w/Austin Larkin
Henry Birdsey & Zach Rowden’s “Tongue Depressor” comes to Baltimore, w/fellow NEnglander Austin Larkin. Also Tom Borax solo Harpsichord! “Metallica” – computers, electro-acoustics – duo of Jacob Winan and Zeno Ben Atmos. Incredible night of string music, microtonal music, dissonant music, noise music, ??? music and more~!~ Tongue Depressor are a remarkable minimalist duo of […]
Sunday April 07, 2024 | 7:30 pm
Volunteers’ Collective 7 April 2024
You are cordially invited to come play free music! 7:30pm, Free Every month, the Red Room hosts the Volunteers’ Collective. It’s a free session of experimental and improvised music. In this friendly, informal setting, we focus on listening and collaboration. Players of all skill levels participate. Try out a new technique or new instrument in […]
Friday May 03, 2024 | 8:00 pm
FIM Musicians Duval & Rovinsky with Patrick Crossland | Darien Baiza, Alma Laprida
Musicians of FIM, the Red Room’s sister series in Connecticut, visit for a night of experimentation, noise, and improvisation joined by local luminary Patrick Crossland. Patrick Crossland – TromboneCaleb Duval – Double BassLuke Rovinsky – Electric Guitar Darien Baiza – percussionAlma Laprida – trumpet marine, lyre, and more doors at 8pmshow at 8:30pm LUKE ROVINSKY […]
Thursday June 06, 2024 | 8:00 pm
Killick, Susan Alcorn | Eric Franklin | Liz Downing
Killick returns to the Red Room on another East Coast tour. He’ll be performing with his good friend and local superstar, Susan Alcorn. The first half of the night will feature solos from Eric Franklin and Liz Downing. Killick Hinds lives in Athens, Georgia USA. His music is Appalachian Trance Metal made on unusual stringed instruments with […]
Saturday March 23, 2024 | 7:00 pm
Community Modular Meetup
DELAYS! The Red Room hosts a community meetup to discuss modular synthesizers. This month we look at delay modules. Participants can bring a delay module to rack up. We’ll compare their features, look at their output on a scope and spectrometer, and discuss them. All are welcome to observe and discuss. Topics might include:echoclocked delaysKarplus-Strong […]
Tuesday March 12, 2024 | 8:00 pm
Improvisation and Experimental Music Night at Towson University
The High Zero Foundation plays with faculty at Towson University. An evening of improvisation and experimental music featuring members of the High Zero Foundation as well as faculty from several departments from several departments across the College of Fine Arts and Communications. This event is a cross departmental collaboration highlighting the commonalities shared by our […]
Thursday March 14, 2024 | 8:00 pm
Sandy Ewen, Tom Carter & Lexie Mountain
The duo of Sandy Ewen and Tom Carter has been performing and recording since 2003. Their first recordings were released as Away Away (Collective Jyrk, 2006). This was followed up with Brighton Beach (Wholly Other, 2012) and In Between the Known and the Unknown (Wholly Other, 2016). The free improvisational guitar duo is a blend of texture, drone and psychedelia. Sandy […]
Saturday February 24, 2024 | 7:00 pm
Community Modular Meetup
Come participate in the local modular synth community.
Friday March 01, 2024 | 8:00 pm
Rachel Beetz // Alma Laprida
Rachel Beetz and Alma Laprida
Doors 8pm, Show 8:30pm
Sunday March 03, 2024 | 7:30 pm
Volunteers’ Collective March 3 2023
You are cordially invited to come play free music! 7:30pm, Free Every month, the Red Room hosts the Volunteers’ Collective. It’s a free session of experimental and improvised music. In this friendly, informal setting, we focus on listening and collaboration. Players of all skill levels participate. Try out a new technique or new instrument in […]
Thursday February 22, 2024 | 8:00 pm
Viola Yip/Bonnie Lander/Sam Pluta
Amazing night of electro-acoustic noise and sound! Composer, sound artist and performance artist Viola Yip brings a new project/invention “Liminal Lines,” a hybrid instrument/feedback system/dress to the Red room. Opening will be a duo of incredible locals electronic wizard Sam Pluta and vocalist extraordinaire Bonnie Lander. VIOLA YIP is a Berlin-based experimental composer, performer, improviser, […]
Sunday February 04, 2024 | 7:30 pm
Volunteers’ Collective February 4 2024
You are cordially invited to come play free music! 7:30pm, Free Every month, the Red Room hosts the Volunteers’ Collective. It’s a free session of experimental and improvised music. In this friendly, informal setting, we focus on listening and collaboration. Players of all skill levels participate. Try out a new technique or new instrument in […]
Friday February 09, 2024 | 8:00 pm
Alcorn/Parker Wells Duo, Nectar Gnome (Moon Tucker/Ragan Duo)
Awesome night of psychedelic and beautiful strings!!! Here in Baltimore we are well-acquainted with Susan Alcorn’s incredible music and pedal steel playing. On this occasion she’ll be joined in duo with bassist Jair-Rohm Parker Wells. Also appearing is the Red Room debut of new(ish) duo Nectar gnome with Jenny Moon Tucker and Meg Ragan on […]
Saturday March 16, 2024 | 8:00 pm
Kaffe Matthews solo, duo with Nik Francis
Buckle up for a night of bold, DIY electronics! Kaffe Matthews will be bringing her new live sampling setup to the Red Room to be joined by a Nik Francis. Kaffe Matthews is a pioneering electroacoustic composer focusing her approach on site, accessibility, and the physical experience of music. Recently, she’s been playing a new […]
Friday February 02, 2024 | 8:00 pm
Groundhog Day Concert w/ Ruby Fulton, Rachel Beetz & The Early
The Early is a Philadelphia based duo that make long-form improvisation-based music featuring electric guitar, drums, synthesizers, and other electronics. Ruby Fulton will be joined by our new local luminary Rachel Beetz on anything from flute, synthesizer, viola, horns, electronics … who knows what they’ll bring. You’ll have to come see to find out!
Saturday January 27, 2024 | 7:00 pm
Community Modular Meetup
FILTERS! We are hopeful this will be the first of many Baltimore modular synthesizer meetups at the Red Room. Come meet fellow patchers. Each session will provide time for examining in detail one aspect of using modular synths followed by a performance by one of the attendees. This first session will focus on filters. We […]
Tuesday January 16, 2024 | 8:00 pm
ANDREA SIMON (wi D. Baiza and E. Bailey Gould) BONNIE LANDER (wi J. Dierker and S. Purdy)
Hello, Martin Schmidt, here telling you about a show I put together. Both groups are skilled and both have group leaders from the same institution, and both groups will improvise, but I anticipate wildly different style results from them. As with most shows at the Red Room doors will open at 8 with sound beginning […]
Wednesday March 20, 2024 | 8:00 pm
Dani Dobkin & Matt Sargent | Jil Christensen, David Menestres & Will Redman
Dani Dobkin and Matt Sargent are on an east tour in support of “Bend,” out now on Waveform Alphabet. Beginning with a phrase from Gertrude Stein , “Act so that there is no use in a centre,” the improvising duo delights in the exploration of their contrasting sensibilities: “Bend” opens with a smash cut sampler/squelch beat […]
Friday January 05, 2024 | 8:00 pm
Minimal Disturbance/Mojuba Duo Jan 5!
This Friday Jan 5th 8pm @ the Red Room – Minimal Disturbance – Jack Wright and Ron Stabinsky! Joining them, local trombone master and UMBC improvisation professor Patrick Crossland!! Also Mojuba Duo – Jamal Moore (reeds) and DC’s Nik Francis (percussion/electronics) Jack Wright, for anyone who may not know, is a spiritual father figure for […]
Sunday January 07, 2024 | 7:30 pm
Volunteers’ Collective, January 7 2024
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 friendly, 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 […]
Wednesday December 27, 2023 | 8:00 pm
60th Annual Feast of St. Dierker
John Dierker, Will Redman & Marc Miller two sets with special guests
