Saturday October 04, 2025 | 8:00 pm
MUSIC OF THE SPHERES II
MUSIC OF THE SPHERES II
MAJID ARAIM///JAMAL MOORE-ORLANDO JOHNSON///CHE JAMAL DAVIS
Sunday October 05, 2025 | 7:00 pm
Volunteers’ Collective
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 […]
Tuesday September 30, 2025 | 8:00 pm
Carl Stone + The Lepidopterans
Super line-up, electronics, electroacoustics, acoustics, sampling at the highest level!!! Carl Stone – sampling pioneer and plundery, absurdist computer music virtuoso returns to Bmore, a rare visit from his home in Tokyo!!! Baltimore/Philly hybrid supergroup The Lepidopterans w/electronics maestros Tom Borax & Jason Willett of Leprechaun Catering, reedsman John Dierker of MicroKingdom/New Volcanos etc and […]
Friday October 24, 2025 | 8:30 pm
Killick and Orlando Johnson, Baltimore Improvised String Band (Porter, Fulton, Meredith, Lin)
Killick plays Appalachian Trance Metal on stringed instruments with an emphasis on unquantifiable rhythms, intuitive intonation, and shamanistic ROYGBIV. He’ll be joined by Orlando Johnson, a Baltimore multimedia artist who plays mandolin and dances in the Move Move Collaborative. Opening the night will be a group of Baltimore string players: Ruby Fulton, Kate Porter, Liz […]
Sunday September 21, 2025 | 7:30 pm
The 27th High Zero Concludes!
Final night of High Zero. Last chance to grab an evening of out of the box, raw, real, risk-taking sights and sounds! We are honored to include an opening set by Baltimore legend the inimitable, uncategorizable Laure Drogoul. https://www.highzero.org/2025_site/index.html. <-Info and tickets here. Solo Laure Drogoulolfactory stimulation, projections Set 1 Daoure Dionguesax, ngoni, voice, percussionBao […]
Saturday September 20, 2025 | 7:30 pm
HIGH ZERO NIGHT OF RANDOM
Thats right folks – time to let the pantheon of creation curate. We are better when we allow the universe to unfold before us. We are students of growth, change and spectral phenomena. Free music to free your mind, free of meddling from human curators and other nuisances. https://www.highzero.org/2025_site/index.html. <-Info and tickets here. The Night […]
Friday September 19, 2025 | 7:30 pm
Night TWO of the 27th High Zero Festival
High Zero Continues with another night of sights and sounds that will NEVER occur again. There is nothing in this world like REAL TIME collaborations and spontaneous audio-visual creation. https://www.highzero.org/2025_site/index.html. <-Info and tickets here. Friday 9/19 8:30pm Solo Yan Junelectronics, feedback, voice Set 1 Ayako Kataoka Blasserconcepts, sound art, movementLaure Drogoulolfactory stimulation, projectionsBao Nguyenvoice, actionMax […]
Thursday September 18, 2025 | 7:30 pm
The 27th High Zero Festival Begins!
Opening night of High Zero 2025. Each night – new sounds, new permutations, new paradigms. A deep dive into the possibilities of music! Never before collaborations from the creative minds of Bmore and Beyond!!! https://www.highzero.org/2025_site/index.html. <-Info and tickets here. Solo Patrick Crosslandtrombone Set 1 Larf PupguitarWarren “Trae” CrudupdrumsIda Dierkerpiano Set 2 Taylor WashingtonviolinMatthew Ryalsmodular synthesizerAyako […]
Sunday September 14, 2025 | 7:00 pm
Delayed: Volunteers’ Collective September 2025
This month’s VC has been moved to Sunday December 14th. Please, come out and experiment with us. 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 […]
Saturday September 06, 2025 |
EARTH TONGUES // Lander, Barlow and Downing
Saturday September 6th 8pm Doors, 8:30pm show $10-$20 Sliding Scale Earth Tongues is a New York-based ensemble formed in 2011. The band is dedicated to exploring the scope and scale of experimental improvised music. Consisting of Carlo Costa on percussion, Joe Moffett on trumpet, and Dan Peck on tuba, the trio creates pieces that explore […]
Thursday August 14, 2025 | 8:00 pm
THE MESSAGE
A night of creative music and journey through sound beyond. Transcendence ( Kweku Sumbry, Shakoor Hakeem) feaut. Brandon Woody/////// Mojuba Duo( Jamal Moore, Nik Francis) Transcendence Fearless percussionist Shakoor Hakeem, a prolific up-and-coming talent, has a gift for making experimental, Afro-diasporan, rhythmic improvisational music immediately enjoyable. Hakeem’s unique old soul has him adhering to the […]
Thursday August 28, 2025 | 7:00 pm
High Zero Volunteers Meeting
The 27th Annual High Zero Festival will be held on September 18th – 21st! Volunteers are needed for:– Picking artists up / dropping artists off at the airport/train station– Selling tickets at the concerts– Ushering at the concerts– Stagehand assistance – Helping with additional artist transportation during festival – Postering around town– HOUSING ARTISTS (please contact Bonnie Lander at lander@highzero.org asap if […]
Wednesday August 27, 2025 | 8:00 pm
for-tet & Portraits in Red and Gold
The “for-tet” is a group of improvisers playing compositions by Dave Ballou. Each composition is designed to be the source for creating with no rehearsal. This concert is a pre-release celebration of the group’s upcoming release, Flat Rat on the Shiny Boy Press coming later this year. Dave Ballou- trumpet/compositions John Dierker- bass clarinet Adam Hopkins- acoustic […]
Saturday August 02, 2025 | 8:00 pm
MSHR, Mary Levinson
MSHR is an art collective that collaboratively builds and explores sculptural electronic systems. Their performances and installations integrate electrical signals and human presence, weaving dense networks of causality to form audiovisual environments that babble with life-like current. They explore intuitive and technical gradients between sonic and sculptural forms, using analog circuitry and open-source software to […]
Sunday August 17, 2025 | 7:00 pm
Volunteers’ Collective
You are cordially invited to come play free music! DELAYED UNTIL JULY 6th, THIS MONTH, due to a Normals bookstore event on the first Sunday. 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 […]
Saturday August 09, 2025 | 8:00 pm
Bettis/Bassett + Leprechaun Catering
More way-out electronics than you could shake a theremin finger at. Come out Baltimore for an old school “banger” of synth noise. Chuck Bettis and Marcia Bassett were both regulars in Bmore, both frequently dropping in to mythic places like the west-side’s Tarantula Hill and the Bank. Now both in NYC and in a duo. […]
Saturday July 26, 2025 | 8:00 pm
MUSIC OF THE SPHERES MAJID ARAIM-KLIMCHAK///JAMAL MOORE-ORLANDO JOHNSON
A NIGHT OF NEW IMPROVISED MUSIC Majid Araim is an Iraqi-American multi-instrumentalist, composer, educator, curator, visual artist, researcher and a fixture of the Atlanta improvisation and new music communities. Majid’s prolific work as a composer focuses on resonance and dynamics, experimental approaches, and is oriented towards the natural world and reimaginings thereof. Passionate about reflection of […]
Wednesday August 13, 2025 | 8:00 pm
Charmaine Lee w/ EXECUTIVE SUMMARY LIVE
Chanrmaine Lee, High Zero festival veteran, is coming back to Baltimore to present her solo electronic music. Local support TBA. Charmaine Lee (b. 1991) is an Australian vocalist based in New York whose music spans voice, feedback, and live processing. Her music has been recognized as “extraordinary” by The New Yorker, with additional coverage in […]
Tuesday September 02, 2025 | 6:00 pm
Pre Zero at Fadensonnen
Kick off High Zero month with a fundraiser hosted by Fadensonnen. Local luminaries will perform experimental improvised music for you in a cozy tavern setting. A portion of the (upstairs only!!) tavern profits will go to High Zero! Come hang out with us and help support the work we are doing. 6pm doors, 7pm showtimeat […]
Tuesday July 22, 2025 | 8:00 pm
Kyle Bruckmann w/ Pluta, Macklay, Dierker and too many reeds
Oakland, CA-based oboist and electronic musician (and High Zero alum) Kyle Bruckmann swoops through town to tussle with three of Baltimore’s finest in an improvised set of far too many reeds and fried circuits. Bruckmann’s long shared history with New Music power couple Macklay and Pluta includes collaborating on compositional extremes within the ensemble Splinter […]
Saturday July 12, 2025 | 8:00 pm
July 12th- Eric Frye/Michael Masura Flora, Network Glass, etc.
Earth moving multi channel electroacoustic American music next Saturday July 12th Chupacabra.Valentine (Minneapolis/California) combined efforts of computer musicians Eric Frye and Michael Masaru Flora in Octophonic 8 channel surround sound Eric Frye is a composer, artist, and curator. Exploring non-orientable sonic surfaces, Frye operates between the disciplinary boundaries of sound, philosophy, linguistics, and mathematics. His […]
Sunday July 06, 2025 | 7:30 pm
Volunteers’ Collective July 2025
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 July 10, 2025 | 6:00 pm
Current Space Fundraiser for High Zero. Doors at 6, Music at 7
We all want more High Zero in our lives, right? The throw-it-at-the-wall and see-what-sticks. The serious concentration with a smirk. The unplanned sudden eruption of genius from people who aren’t in a band together. Current Space will be holding an outdoor summer fundraiser for the High Zero Festival. You get more music from your local […]
Thursday June 26, 2025 | 8:00 pm
Bashi Rose, Emperor King Bishop, Hunter Batchelder, w/ Breath of the Magi
Come check out this new trio of Bashi Rose, Emperor King Bishop Soloman Selassie, and Hunter Batchelder. The two drummers are known for their intense rhythmic drives and the Emperor has impressed us all at the HighZero Festival last September. Their gathering will surely be volcanic. Joining with them are the maverick local trio Breath […]
