The High Zero Fest 2024 kicks off! Behold the East Coast’s – potentially the world’s – greatest and weirdest music festival, entering its 26th year. Artists from Baltimore, the USA, and around the world meet and create new genres, new sounds, new bands, new psychologies and new landscapes for your very ears (and eyes). Check […]

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Prepare your ears (and eyes) for High Zero’s “Night Of Random” – 15 artists thrown in with FATE. Regardless of your cosmology/ontology/pathology, you cannot deny the inner voice that tells you that SCHEDULING improvisation is part of the problem NOT part of the solution. THE NIGHT OF RANDOM is the solution, or as one would […]

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High Zero Continues! Saturday Nights get packed, book ahead or come early! Check out our website for full info on High Zero artists, venue, events etc SoloSam Newsome soprano sax with horn preparations Set 1Rachel Beetz flute, electronicsChe Davis tromboneSam Pluta electronicsLuc Vitkaccordian, hichiriki, synth, drumsAdam Zanolinibass, flute Set 2Obie Feldi computerBonnie Lander voiceTom Leonardsonsynthesizer […]

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Enjoy the final night of Baltimore’s – and potentially the world’s – greatest improvisation-centered experimental music festival! SoloRachel Beetz flute, electronics Set 1Che Davis tromboneThomas FlorinpianoBonnie Lander voiceSam Newsomesoprano sax with horn preparationsChris Williamstrumpet Set 2Putu Tangkas Adi HiranmayenaBalinese gamelanMickey Lusk harpJamal Moore reeds, percussion, electronics Set 3CK Barlow samplingObie Feldi computerSam Pluta electronicsMary Staubitzobjects […]

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Three intimate SOLO sets to make your Tuesday tingle all over! $10SS Christopher Icasiano and Andy Clausen, Seattle, WA Drummer Christopher Icasiano and Trombonist Andy Clausen started collaborating in Seattle’s vibrant improvised music scene more than a decade ago, and more recently have toured extensively as part of the dreamily harmonious Indie Folk band Fleet […]

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What Happens Has Become Now is Jessica Pavone’s fifth solo viola album and her fourth for Relative Pitch Records. Over the past twenty years, Pavone has been developing solo music based on the pitches of the open strings intended to accentuate the natural sympathetic resonances of her particularly loud viola. Over the years, she has incorporated […]

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Two duos intersect, forming this trio of hyper-extended close miked mouthful and breath driven antics for double voice and trombone. They have separately toured the globe extensively, each carving out a unique approach to music making. As a trio or in extended projects, they have performed together in the UK, US, Portugal, Ukraine, Germany, Argentina […]

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INTERNATIONAL POWER TRIOHans Koch, reedsFlorian Stoffner, guitarSam Pluta, computer LOCAL LUMINARIESLiz Meredith, violaSimone Baron, accordionSamuel Burt, bass clarinet doors at 8pm | show at 8:30 Hans Koch, one of High Zero Festival’s favorite reed players, returns to Baltimore with Florian Stoffner for a night of inventive misuse of traditional instruments. They will be playing a […]

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The Red Room is a volunteer-run space in Baltimore dedicated to mind-expanding experimental culture, headquartered at Normals Books and Records.