Friday August 04, 2023 | 8:00 pm
WESTON OLENCKI • MICHELLE BLU • SAM PLUTA
Three ways to play beautiful music Friday August 4th join us at the Red Room for three different artists making beautiful music. Hi, it’s Martin Schmidt, president of the High Zero Foundation, here bringing you a show that’s maybe “all over the place” and maybe not so much as it might seem. I genuinely love […]
Friday July 14, 2023 | 8:30 pm
STRING THEORY-A NIGHT OF STRINGS
A profound night of creative music, these three individuals will create and share space in a unique sonic space. Liz Downing- Liz Downing uses voice and bowed banjo, in duos and trios, rehearsed and improvisational to create images, stories and sounds and songs. Her current work is in the form of Toy Theater which is […]
Sunday July 02, 2023 | 8:00 pm
Phantom Chips/Jessica Keyes/Liz Meredith
Superb Night of electro-acoustic sounds, noises and squishy squealers. Phantom Chips http://www.phantomchips.com Phantom Chips makes wearable synthesizers that can be stretched and squeezed to create sound. Her homemade ‘lectronix squeals create bent charmand harsh mangled tones through tactile electronics. Concocting rhythms from an array of homemade electronic instruments, samplers and wearable noisemakers, Phantom Chips gets […]
Tuesday July 11, 2023 | 8:30 pm
Ruby Mars, Luis “Toto” Alvarez & Susan Alcorn
Luis “Toto” Alvarez, Chilean composer, producer and guitarist. Director of Acéfalo Records and Acéfalo Festival Present in the chilean music scene since 1990, working as a guitarist and composer Inside the strong artistic underground movement. He has participated since 2001 in projects of composition, films, research, improvisation and experimental radio. Activist for new relationships in […]
Tuesday June 27, 2023 | 8:30 pm
Majid Aram, Lucifer, Orlando Johnson
Solo sets from High Zero Alumni Luciana Arias and Orlando Johnson, plus Atlanta composer Majid Aram. Mandolins, dance, fantastic expressions of deep imagination. Tonight’s performances will transport you far beyond the ordinary. Majid Aram. Multi-instrumentalist, composer, curator, and a fixture of the Atlanta improvisation and new music communities. Majid’s prolific work as a composer focuses […]
Friday June 23, 2023 | 8:00 pm
Huge Night of Improvisation and new collaborations- Alcorn/Rhodes/Crowmeat/Thuro/Arritola/Perry/Alfieri
Duo: Corey Thuro (electric mandolin) + Logan Perry (drums) Trio: the “Westfeild Trio” Susan Alcorn (pedal steel) + Robin Rhodes (bass) + Mike Alfieri (drums/electronics) Duo: Crowmeat Bob (NC-reeds, guitar) + Adam Arritola (NY state- drums, electronics) Come see these new local collaborations. This will be the first ever appearance of the “Westfield Trio” hailing […]
Wednesday August 23, 2023 | 7:30 pm
High Zero Highjinx Info and Planning Session
High Jinx is a schedule of site-specific street performances at numerous places about Baltimore city coinciding with the High Zero festival (before and during 21-24 September). These events are creative, musical and socially challenging. They are rarely obnoxious and never intended to do anyone harm. They are not officially sanctioned by the city, therefore you […]
Sunday July 09, 2023 | 7:30 pm
Volunteers’ Collective, July 9th, 2023
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 […]
Friday June 09, 2023 | 8:30 pm
ID M Theftable/Jenny Moon Tucker/Slab of Meat
This Friday the 9th of June – ID M Theftable and his redbeard returns to BMore ! One of the all-time greats, an odd specimen indeed, a Red Room and High Zero fave. humorous? Sui generis? a ginger? a master of serendipitous thrift store cassette sabotage? a vocalist? did he ravage your yard sale table? […]
Tuesday June 06, 2023 | 8:30 pm
Chang/Hungtai, Totally Automatic, Warp Duo
Awesome night, electronacoustic noise and improvisation w/reeds, electronics, percussion, violin 8:30pm, Doors $liding $cale Leo Chang + Alex Zhang Hungtai duo (NY), reeds, percussion, electronics Totally Automatic (Anne Ishii + Eugene Lew + Mathew Smith Lee), percussion, reeds Warp Duo (Levi Lu + Scott Li), computer, violin
Sunday June 11, 2023 | 7:30 pm
Volunteers’ Collective, June 11th, 2023
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 May 17, 2023 | 8:30 pm
The Lepidopterans (Makihara, Lonberg Holm, Borax, Dierker) + Rose/Yager/Carey Trio
Top improvisors in full effect!
Tuesday May 23, 2023 | 8:30 pm
UMBC Free Improv Ensemble
under the direction of Patrick Crossland Tuesday, May 23rd 8:30 doors, 9pm sets FREE SHOW!
Sunday May 07, 2023 | 7:30 pm
Volunteers’ Collective, May 7th 2023
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 […]
Friday May 05, 2023 | 8:30 pm
Qiujiang (秋江) Levi Lu / Samantha Kochis / Anacapa / Adam Kantz
Please join us at the Red Room for new electronic music composition from the academy! We are extremely excited recently to (finally?) be in touch with our colleagues from Peabody who make experimental music. Levi Lu contacted us about hosting this work and we enthusiastically said yes! Please come and listen to the sounds they […]
Friday July 07, 2023 | 8:30 pm
Devin Gray (drums, electronics) with Levi Lu and Dave Ballou
Devin Gray revisits Baltimore with his new solo album Most Definitely. He blends percussion and electronics into a cohesive sound world of processed articulated sound. He is joined by Levi Lu (electronics) and Dave Ballou (trumpet). Doors open at 8pm. Show starts at 8:30. Brooklyn-Berlin based drummer-composer Devin Gray made his widely lauded leader debut […]
Tuesday May 02, 2023 | 8:30 pm
Bill Harris & Emily Beisel w/ DEMONFACE
Emily Rach Beisel is a Chicago-based improvisor, composer, educator, curator and woodwind specialist. Beisel is known for visceral performances combining extended instrumental techniques with heavy amplification and timbral effects. Their solo work frequently explores the intersection between avant-garde art music and extreme metal genres such as mathcore, doom, and death metal. As a curator, Beisel […]
Thursday April 13, 2023 | 7:30 pm
MIND CONTRAPTIONS! Purdy, Borax, Yager, Dierker at Current Space!
IN collaboration w/Current Space’s “Evil Eyes, Curses, and Floating Computers” show (featuring artists Jackie Milad and Tom Boram) we present a unique duration improvisation, live video installation and Twitch stream. Come to Current Space next Thursday April 13th or log in to our Twitch for what will no doubt be a very strange journey across […]
Thursday April 06, 2023 | 9:00 pm
Peabody Improvisers Collective with CK Barlow, S. Burt, & T. Boram
The Peabody Improvisers Collective is a free-improv student ensemble of 15 members. They formed an ensemble at the Peabody Conservatory in September 2022. Tonight, they will perform two compositions involving improvisation and several blocks of unstructured improvisation. They will collaborate with venerated members of the High Zero collective. Like High Zero, PIC consists of improvisers […]
Friday April 14, 2023 | 9:00 pm
Neil Feather! Thus, Bob Wagner, and Eric Franklin plus Dan Conrad.
In the legendary annals of Baltimore’s experimental music history, few creative partnerships yielded as bizarre outsider music as Thus. Neil Feather and John Berndt, both founding members of the High Zero Festival of Experimental Improvised Music, contributed to building a music scene focused on experimentation and orthogonal approaches to sound. Over the years, they constructed […]
Tuesday April 04, 2023 | 8:30 pm
Angela Sawyer + ARKM foam, Ayla Cosnett
TUESDAY APRIL 4th – doors at 8:30, sounds at 9pm Angela Sawyer works with squealing and gargling AND intimate verbage and tools that sound like squealing and gargling and has done so for more than 2 decades. A veteran of the High Zero Festival ( https://youtu.be/TkDMwCEBgxQ ) and respected and beloved by many in the collective. […]
Friday March 31, 2023 | 8:30 pm
Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey Duo + Sam Pluta
INGRID LAUBROCK – TOM RAINEY DUO (sax, drums), plus solo and collaborative set with Sam Pluta (electronics/computer) Ingrid Laubrock (saxophones) and Tom Rainey (drums) will be celebrating the release of their latest c.d. “Counterfeit Mars.”. The duo’s music draws on the several years and many projects they have shared since they began working together more […]
Sunday April 02, 2023 | 7:30 pm
Volunteers’ Collective
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 […]
Friday January 20, 2023 | 7:00 pm
Jeff Carey’s Luminiferous Aether at The Voxel
Jeff Carey’s project titled “Luminiferous Aether” is inspired by the scientific search for the “light bearing medium” of the same name. Spoiler alert: they found it — we know it to be the Electromagnetic Spectrum. Exploring the use of high powered strobe lighting, Jeff is presenting new works of synthetic time based art that blend […]
