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 […]
Friday February 03, 2023 | 7:30 pm
Special Location, 7:30pm Keyes, Burt + 9pm New Music, Charney, Diongue, Nguyen, Xio, Yager, Young
Winter Birthday Bloops and Other New Music 7:30pm: Jessica Keyes, Samuel Burt, solo modular synthesizers9:00pm: Jason Charney, David Diongue, Bao Nguyen, Kelly Xio, Will Yager, James Young Early show! 7:00pm doors. 7:30pm start. Special location! This show will not be at the Red Room. Address available on request: jamesdavidyoung [at] gmail [dot] com. Accomplished reed […]
Sunday February 05, 2023 | 5:30 pm
Volunteers’ Collective, February 5th, 2023
Volunteers’ CollectiveNext Sunday, January 8th, 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 […]
Sunday March 05, 2023 | 7:30 pm
Volunteers’ Collective, March 5th, 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 […]
Saturday March 11, 2023 | 8:00 pm
sinonó & !?!
Trio: sinonó (NYC)- Isabel Crespo Pardo (vocals), Lester St Louis (cello), Henry Fraser (bass) sinonó is a brief submergence, a string of choices, a container for the communion of rigor and failure. This NY-based trio, featuring Isabel Crespo Pardo (voice), Lester St. Louis (cello), and Henry Fraser (bass), performs graphic scores and poem/songs composed by Crespo. sinonó will tour […]
Thursday March 16, 2023 | 8:30 pm
Susan Alcorn & Wombat (Justin K. Comer – Carlos Cotallo Solares – Will Yager)
Wombat is an improvising trio that combines deep sonic exploration through experimental playing techniques, live signal processing, and instrumental preparations with a real-time compositional approach, creating engaging structural shapes and contrasting sections. The relationships between the three of us are in constant flux: merging into a single sonic entity, building contrapuntal textures, or letting one […]
Friday March 17, 2023 | 8:30 pm
The Evolution of the Arm & Inverse Square Trio
Imaginary chamber music from an alternate universe. Friday March 17, doors 8:30 music at 9PM, $5-15 An unconventional quartet drawing on collective experience in classical, jazz, noise, theater music, and beyond, The Evolution of the Arm combines the subtle precision of notated concert music performance with the wild spontaneity of free improvisation, superimposing or moving […]
Sunday March 19, 2023 | 8:00 pm
Floris Vanhoof & Lyn Goeringer
Floris Vanhoof (modified 16mm projector, homemade electronics) Floris will be presenting 3 pieces, including a piece for live electronics, lasers and soap bubbles, as well as two “expanded cinema” pieces with live 16mm and electronics. Lyn Goeringer will open with a performance of live street lamps using a self-made “electromagnetic performance induction system”!!!
Tuesday October 18, 2022 | 8:30 pm
Lauren Sarah Hayes – drum machines, analogue synths and self-built software + Local Luminaries
Lauren Sarah Hayes is a Scottish live electronics improviser and sound artist. Her music mixes experimental pop/techno/noise/free improvisation and has been described as ‘voracious’ and ‘exhilarating’. She is a sculptress of sound, manipulating, remixing, and bending voice, drum machines, analogue synths and self-built software live and physically. The Wire described her 2016 album MANIPULATION (pan […]
Friday October 28, 2022 | 8:30 pm
Alexander Frangenheim (bass) with Ballou, Crossland, Goldstein
Dave Ballou, trumpet Patrick Crossland, trombone Alexander Frangenheim, bass Tom Goldstein, drums German bassist Alexander Frangenheim and local trombonist Patrick Crossland have worked as a duo for several years as documented on their 2013 CD, Ape Green. This performance will also feature trumpeter Dave Ballou and percussionist Tom Goldstein. This quartet has never played together, […]
Sunday October 02, 2022 | 7:30 pm
Volunteers’ Collective, October 2nd, 2022 7:30pm
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 cordial, 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 new and veteran improvisers. […]
Sunday September 04, 2022 | 7:30 pm
Volunteers’ Collective, September 4th, 2022 7:30pm
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 cordial, 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 new and veteran improvisers. […]
Friday September 09, 2022 | 8:30 pm
Matthew Goodheart, Ian Power, and Quartet or Two Duos (Katie Porter, James Ilgenfritz, Lucie Vítková, Teerapat Parnmongkol)
Quartet or Two Duos: collaborative works by and for James Ilgenfritz, bass & objects, Katie Porter, clarinet, bass clarinet & voice, Teerapat Parnmongkol, electric guitar, oud, pedals & voice, and Lucie Vítková, accordion, harmonica, synthesizer, hichiriki & voice. Hanging by a thread in these strange times, we present new ideas for music made carefully, strangely, […]
Tuesday August 30, 2022 | 7:00 pm
High Zero Volunteers Meeting
The 24th 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 […]
Thursday September 15, 2022 |
The High Zero Festival!
Baltimore’s High Zero Festival of Experimental Improvised Music is in its 24th year and will return to it’s original format! 4 nights, 5 sets a night at the Baltimore Theatre Project. Live and in person, come and get it! September 15-18th. Bookmark highzero.org and check back for details.
Sunday August 07, 2022 | 7:30 pm
Volunteers’ Collective, August 7th 7:30pm
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 cordial, 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 new and veteran improvisers. […]
Tuesday August 23, 2022 | 8:30 pm
Will Yager, Jordan Knecht and Chaz Prymek
Playing is an improvisational ensemble based in Chicago, performing within the constructs of games and rules. Often raucous, often joyful, often falling apart, Playing is many things, but is rarely the same twice. Jordan Knecht and Chaz Prymek are playing — mediating misuse, Improvising with iteration, goofing, bopping, clanking, clanging, plinking, crinkling, ringing, mangling, https://playing.bandcamp.com/album/lumps-mixtape […]
Wednesday November 09, 2022 | 8:30 pm
Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson: The USA Clangers and Bao Nguyen
Come hear experimental compositions by Icelandic composer Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson. His music will be performed by the USA Clangers, a quartet of Liz Meredith, Shayna Dunkelmann, Jonathan Pfeffer, and Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson. His compositions have a very fresh sound, a strong identity, and they involve a lot of input from the performers themselves. Bao Nguyen, […]
Tuesday August 09, 2022 | 11:59 pm
Streaming Series: The Witching Hour of the Wheezing Lute – copy – copy
The Witching Hour of the Wheezing Lute Wee Hour Improvisations on the Boob Tube Continuous Synthesizer by Tom Borax These free streaming performances will last one hour starting at midnight on July 26, August 2 & 9. All available streamed from our Twitch channel: twitch.tv/highzerofoundation Says Tom of the project: “the ‘witching hour of the […]
Tuesday August 02, 2022 | 11:59 pm
Streaming Series: The Witching Hour of the Wheezing Lute – copy
The Witching Hour of the Wheezing Lute Wee Hour Improvisations on the Boob Tube Continuous Synthesizer by Tom Borax These free streaming performances will last one hour starting at midnight on July 26, August 2 & 9. All available streamed from our Twitch channel: twitch.tv/highzerofoundation Says Tom of the project: “the ‘witching hour of the […]
