Tuesday July 26, 2022 | 11:59 pm
Streaming Series: The Witching Hour of the Wheezing Lute
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 […]
Saturday July 16, 2022 | 8:00 pm
MANKWE NDOSI ///MOJUBA DUO /// TRIO X
SOUND LOGIC II A NIGHT OF CREATIVE MUSIC AND SOUND PERCEPTION. MANKWE NDOSI Mankwe Ndosi is a Spirit Singer/ Composer / Culture Worker of sound and soil. Her work is aimed at supporting the interconnection and liberation of our personal, social, and terrAstral structures, practices, and mythologies. Her practice emerges from black ritual legacies of […]
Saturday July 16, 2022 | 8:00 pm
MANKWE NDOSI ///MOJUBA DUO /// TRIO X
SOUND LOGIC II A NIGHT OF CREATIVE MUSIC AND SOUND PERCEPTION. MANKWE NDOSI Mankwe Ndosi is a Spirit Singer/ Composer / Culture Worker of sound and soil. Her work is aimed at supporting the interconnection and liberation of our personal, social, and terrAstral structures, practices, and mythologies. Her practice emerges from black ritual legacies of […]
Wednesday July 13, 2022 |
KRAFT: Mike Kuhl, Dave Ballou, John Dierker, and Luke Stewart
KRAFT is a Baltimore-based improvising quartet formed by drummer Mike Kuhl in 2018. Joining Kuhl are longtime collaborators and some of the most stalwart improvisers on the scene today, Dave Ballou (trumpet), John Dierker (reeds), and Luke Stewart (bass). In the creative music community neither Ballou nor Stewart require an introduction – both are world-renowned […]
Monday August 08, 2022 | 8:00 pm
Simone Baron and Danny Kamins | Aksentiev, Redgrave, Johnson
We present a duo of two great touring musicians, Simone Baron and Danny Kamins. When was the last time you heard accordion and saxophone together? We’re excited about the textures they will bring to the Red Room. Both bring a focused, thoughtful approach to their energetic style of improvising. Opening will be a trio showing […]
Saturday October 08, 2022 | 8:00 pm
Jaap Blonk solo and with CK Barlow and Bonnie Lander
Jaap Blonk (born 1953 in Woerden, Netherlands) is a self-taught composer, vocalist and poet. His unfinished studies in mathematics and musicology mainly created a penchant for activities in a Dada vein, as did several unsuccessful jobs in offices and other well-organised systems. In the early 1980s he discovered the power and flexibility of his voice, […]
Sunday July 10, 2022 | 7:30 pm
Volunteers’ Collective, July 10th 7:30pm
July’s VC was postponed a week. 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 […]
Tuesday July 05, 2022 | 8:30 pm
Adam Goodwin & Tom Borax!
Solo Sets! Adam Goodwin is a Texan double bassist, composer and visual artist, currently living and working as a freelance musician in Berlin, Germany. He engages in a wide spectrum of creative activity that involves frequent collaboration with performers, composers, sound artists, choreographers, dancers, film makers and visual artists. He has performed extensively throughout Europe, […]
Thursday June 02, 2022 | 8:30 pm
June 2 String Music!!! Grant/Mcquire, Salmon Graveyard, Mink
Top notch string sounds from Baltimore and NC! Salmon Graveyard consists of some of Baltimore’s finest – Corey Thuro on mandolin, John Hoegberb on bass, Alani Sugar on fiddle, and Nate Nelson on drums. This “all star band” plays “ecstatic minimalist country music” but if you need assistance imagining that, start with a touch of […]
Sunday May 29, 2022 | 8:30 pm
May 29th Eugene Chadbourne/David Menestes Duo!
Legends! North Carolina-based masters bring their 20+year duo to the Red Room. If you aren’t familiar – Chadbourne is a longtime hero of the underground, active since the mid-1970s with everyone from John Zorn to Keiji Haino to Susan Alcorn and literally thousands more. He has recorded several hundred albums and written multiple books and […]
Sunday June 05, 2022 | 7:30 pm
Volunteers’ Collective, June 5th 2022
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. […]
Thursday June 30, 2022 | 8:30 pm
TONED & Carlos Cotallo Solares
Coming May 6, 2022: TONED (S/T) is the fourth full-length studio album from the electroacoustic trio TONED. Composed and recorded in Oakland, Tampa, and Philadelphia during a series of cloistered retreats, and meticulously crafted in monastic isolation for nearly two years, TONED is the band’s most ambitious statement to date. TONED pits the fiercely analog, […]
Wednesday May 11, 2022 | 8:30 pm
Keir Neuringer & Bushmeat Sound
Keir Neuringer is a saxophonist, composer, and writer whose work is underpinned by interdisciplinary approaches and socio-political contextualizations. He is best known for a personal and intensely physical saxophone technique, revealed through long form solo improvisations, and is a founding member of the critically-acclaimed group Irreversible Entanglements. He co-leads the improvisation trio Dromedaries, has a […]
Sunday May 01, 2022 | 7:30 pm
Volunteers’ Collective May 1, 2022
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 April 12, 2022 | 7:30 pm
@ 2640!!! SOUND LOGIC – A NIGHT OF NEW CREATIVE MUSIC/MEDIA
Tuesday April 12th @ The 2640 Space 7:30 doors, show at 8pm $10-20 Jamal R. Moore is a native of Baltimore Maryland whom is a multi- instrumentalist, composer/performer and educator. His background include California Institute of The Arts (M.F.A. 2012), Berklee College of Music (B.M 2005), Eubie Blake Jazz Orchestra (2000) under the direction of […]
Tuesday April 05, 2022 | 6:30 pm
Machine Listening & Machine Learning for Music Making with FluCoMa
The Fluid Corpus Manipulation project (FluCoMa) enables techno-fluent musicians to integrate machine listening and machine learning in their creative practice within Max, SuperCollider, and Pure Data. In this workshop we’ll look at using neural networks to control synthesizers and programmatically analyzing and organizing large collections of sound samples. The workshop will be hands-on, we’ll explain concepts while […]
Sunday April 03, 2022 | 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 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 March 15, 2022 | 8:30 pm
Leo Suarez – James McKain – T.J. Borden – Jason Charney – Shelly Purdy
Tuesday March 15th 8:30 doors, show at 9pm $5-10 Leo Suarez, drums James McKain, tenor saxophone T.J. Borden, cello Jason Charney, electronics Shelly Purdy, vibraphone
Monday May 16, 2022 | 8:30 pm
“A” Trio and Sophisticated Gimmick
“A” Trio: Music from Lebanon with Sophisticated Gimmick, opening This not-to-be-missed performance will feature three of your favorite Lebanese improvising musicians, Mazen Kerbaj, Raed Yassin, and Sharif Sehnaoui. They are known for playing their instruments in all the right wrong ways. Starting the night off will be the new project Sophisticated Gimmick. In this first […]
Friday February 11, 2022 | 8:00 pm
THE RETURN OF NEW WORKS
New Works | 2 Screenings! Same each night | February 11th and 12th – 8pm (7:30pm doors) | $5-$10 at the door THIS EVENT IS AT 2640 SPACE New Works is a screening series dedicated entirely to Film and Video artists based in Baltimore, MD. Our mission is to foster community among local image-makers and […]
Thursday February 24, 2022 | 8:30 pm
The Red Room in Your Room Returns!
Starting Jan 27, and continuing everything Thursday evening, The Red Room in Your Room returns to your room and might even return to the Red Room, omnicron allowing. Exclusive sets of experimental and improvised music streamed deluxx 4 U. t witch.tv/highzerofoundation. FEB 24TH Kenta Nagai is a Japanese-born sound artist who has resided in the […]
Wednesday December 29, 2021 | 8:00 pm
Microkingdom’s John Dierker’s Twenty-Somethingth Annual Holidaze Explosion
Wednesday December 29th at the Red Room. Microkingdom’s John Dierker’s Twenty-Somethingth Annual Holidaze Explosion Featuring John Dierker, Marc Miller, and Will Redman, with special guest Chris Pumphrey Emerge from your cave in time to celebrate 15 years of Microkingdom and 20-odd years of the Dierker Holidaze Explosion then retreat to your cave again. Sets at 8:00pm […]
Tuesday May 10, 2022 | 8:30 pm
Jessica Pavone, Aimée Niemann & Abby Swidler | The Compositions
Tuesday May 10th at the Red Room. Doors will open at 8:30, music begins at 9pm. $5-10+ all monies go to the performers. …of Late, is the third release for the J. Pavone String Ensemble, an unconventional trio consisting of Pavone on viola, Abby Swidler on violin and viola, and Aimée Niemann on violin. Founded […]
Sunday September 19, 2021 | 8:00 pm
Kick-off HZ week at Fadensonnen with: Jeron White, Allison Clendaniel, Bonnie Lander & Shelly Purdy!
Jeron White bass Baltimore bassist Jeron White, has been very progressive on the jazz/anvant garde scene. As a leader, as well for his group “Polarity”, and trio Jeron has recorded with several recordings. “Polarity” opened for Michael Formanek “Ensemble Kolossus” April 2017 at NYU Theater. Discography include Jamal Moore “Organix Trio Ancestral Communion”, and Theljon […]
Thursday September 23, 2021 |
High Zero Festival!
Now, back and in person! Baltimore’s High Zero Festival of Experimental Improvised Music is in its 23rd year and as we all rise from our isolation, we seek connection through music. This year we play it safe while taking ever greater risks! Friday and Saturday we will return to the Baltimore Theatre Project for live […]
