Monday June 08, 2026 | 8:00 pm
The Ghost (Foster/Rowden/Sullivan) Ida Dierker/Maxine Crump
Next up at the Red Room… June 8th 8 PM The Ghost Ida Dierker/Maxine Crump Michael Foster is a NYC born and based saxophonist and curator whose work pokes and prods the queer potential within improvised musics. As a saxophonist he employs a broad tone inspired by the jazz tradition alongside extensive instrumental preparations, with […]
Saturday May 30, 2026 | 8:00 pm
BODY MEMORI MANKWE NDOSI-JAMAL MOORE///NIK FRANCIS
A night of creative music and empowerment via Body Memori sensory practices through musical activation, creation and performance. MANKWE NDOSI is a Minneapolis-based Songcatcher, Composer, and Culture Worker, using creative and sensory practices to nurture connections between people and the land. Her efforts have included arts-centered community gatherings, community witnessing gatherings to support personal transformation […]
Sunday May 31, 2026 | 8:00 pm
FFMMAP! w/ Peter Redgrave, Khristian Weeks
FFMMAP! Flandrew Fleisenberg- Percussion Aaron Pond- horn, voice, flutes, slide whistle, percussion, duck calls Mason McAvoy- Voice, Trombone, Percussion Sonic scenery for an absurdist theatre at the end of time. Transmissions become beacons; lighthouses burn bright, guideposts for a journey without end. McAvoy’s liminal songbook rings with secret architecture, while Pond and Fleisenberg deconstruct and […]
Sunday June 07, 2026 | 7:00 pm
Volunteers’ Collective
You are cordially invited to come play free music! Free event7:00pm doors, 7:30pm start Every month, the Red Room hosts the Volunteers’ Collective, a free, open music workshop for the community. In this friendly, informal setting, we focus on listening, collaboration, and experimentation through non-idiomatic improvised music . Players of all skill levels participate. Try […]
Sunday August 23, 2026 | 8:30 pm
Beautiful Pigs
Beautiful Pigs is an improvising guitar trio featuring Luke Rovinsky and bassist Caleb Duval, co-creators of prolific Connecticut series/label/collective FIM Improvisation, with Providence-based percussionist, organizer, producer, and visual artist Mackenzie Kourie. “Beautiful Pigs…dodges expectations many times in its hour-plus duration. Opener “Duroc” launches with guttural rumbles and grinding squeaks that mimic animals, and the following […]
Thursday June 25, 2026 | 7:00 pm
Fred Frith
Opening sets from local luminaries Bonnie Lander & John Dierker and Liz Meredith & Timothy Wisniewski! This concert will take place in the Sunday Room at 2640 Space, therefore seating will be limited so get your tickets in advance here: https://square.link/u/d0GRn7iK Multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improviser Fred Frith has been making noise of one kind or […]
Wednesday June 10, 2026 | 7:45 pm
FEATHER FRANKLIN WAGNER | (R)Burt Barlow Lander Downing
FEATHER FRANKLIN WAGNERand Rose Burt, CK Barlow, Bonnie Lander, and Liz Downing EARLY SHOW | DOORS 7:30pm | START TIME 8:00pm Longtime Baltimore inventor Neil Feather makes a rare appearance in Charm City since moving to New Zealand in 2020. Longtime collaborators Bob Wagner and Eric Franklin have been the bones and some of the […]
Sunday May 03, 2026 | 8:00 pm
Volunteers’ Collective May 2026
You are cordially invited to come play free music! Free event7:30pm doors, 8:00pm start (note: 1/2 hour later than normal) Every month, the Red Room hosts the Volunteers’ Collective, a free, open music workshop for the community. In this friendly, informal setting, we focus on listening, collaboration, and experimentation through non-idiomatic improvised music . Players […]
Thursday May 14, 2026 | 8:30 pm
1 ≠ 2 = 6/7
experimental calculation AND miscalculation Corey Thuro and John Berndt on live processed instrumentsRobin Rhodes and Taylor Washington on stringsDan Deluca and Samuel Burt on a modular feedback organism The Red Room shows off all local talent with a night of three duo sets. Come hear cross-sections of Baltimore’s fanatical experimental music scene. Corey Thuro and […]
Saturday April 18, 2026 | 8:00 pm
BENEATH THE SURFACE
TOBY SUMMERFIELD/////DAOURE DIONGUE/////ADAM HOLOFCENER A NIGHT OF CELESTIAL JOURNEYS INTO THE BEYOND TOBY SUMMERFEILD Bassist, Guitarist, Pedal SteelerComposer, Collaborator,ImproviserToby Summerfield (1978) hasworked in creative music for 30years. Operating in a space whererock music, minimalism, songcraft,improvising, atmosphere andemotion coexist.“This solo practice was born in theloneliness of the pandemic, byreflecting on vocabulary andtechnique I have developed tointeract […]
Thursday April 23, 2026 | 8:00 pm
Henna Chou & Joshua Thomsom, w/ Bao Nguyen, Sera Fleishman trio
Henna Chou is a sound artist whose work explores the confluence of environmental listening, experimental practice, and socio-political inquiry. Drawing from the textures and rhythms of the natural and industrial world, their work engages with sound as both material and message—foregrounding issues of ecology, displacement, and collective memory. Joshua Thomson is an alto saxophonist, composer, […]
Friday May 08, 2026 | 8:00 pm
Reona (Tokyo) + Chuck Bettis Duo w/Schmidt/Borax Duo
Tap dancing and metal percussionist Reona visits Baltimore from Tokyo!!! A rare opportunity to see/hear this unique and amazing performer! In duet with Bmore friend/HZero alum Chuck Bettis on electronics. Opening the evening will be the occasional duo of locals Tom Borax and M C Schmidt. Borax is “dusting off” the tap shoes used 2 […]
Wednesday May 06, 2026 | 8:00 pm
Caroline Davis & Dustin Carlson
Local Openers Jon Birkholz, John Dierker & Mike Kuhl! Caroline Davis (sax/electronics) & Dustin Carlson (guitar) ! caroline davis Alive with nurturing visions of simple sonic offerings to morph our present situation, Caroline Davis’ main reason for playing music is to connect with others, beckoning new vistas among curious listeners. Her musical journey began in […]
Sunday April 05, 2026 | 7:30 pm
Volunteers’ Collective April 2026
You are cordially invited to come play free music! Free event7pm doors, 7:30pm start Every month, the Red Room hosts the Volunteers’ Collective, a free, open music workshop for the community. In this friendly, informal setting, we focus on listening, collaboration, and experimentation through non-idiomatic improvised music . Players of all skill levels participate. Try […]
Wednesday April 08, 2026 | 8:00 pm
SUDARIO, Aux Tail (Qiujiang Levi Lu, Dennis Sullivan) w/ Sam Pluta
SUDARIO – Voice and Electronics duo – Based in Baltimore Aux Tail – Qiujiang Levi Lu – Electronics :: Dennis Sullivan – Percussion/Electronics -Lu and Sullivan present musical happenings as an amalgamation of their individual practices. Levi’s collaborative improvising software collides with Dennis’ swatch of polyrhythmic percussion. The results are process and glitch driven with a focus on […]
Tuesday March 31, 2026 | 7:00 pm
HIGH ZERO @ FADENSONNEN MARCH 31
9 SONIC CRAFTSPERSONS IMPROVISE WHILE YOU DRINK TO BENEFIT HIGH ZERO Different sets involving THESE musicians in a TAVERN setting. Stop trying to put together a dungeon run and ORDER a bizarre Amaro, a rare Japanese whiskey or an trim German rice beer. Bespoke cock-tails. Delicious non-alchoholic rarities! •••••••• All orders at the bar benefit […]
Saturday March 28, 2026 | 8:00 pm
Mariana Carvalho/Zach Hart (Berlin) / Two Weeks / Jasper Hoffman
Mariana Carvalho and Zach Hart are a Berlin based duo working in between experimental music, noise, radio and sound art. They will present a new set together, combining binaural mics, transducers, glass, modular synthesizer and a tape deck. Two Weeks is Ben Starkey and Obie Feldi. Together they make music with computers. Jasper Hoffman is […]
Saturday March 21, 2026 | 8:00 pm
Bill Harris percussion + Lyn Goeringer (self built instruments)
Join us for this night of outstanding solo work from one of Chicago’s great improvisor/composer/audio engineer extraordinaire – percussionist Bill Harris – and one of Baltimore’s finest composer/inventor Lyn Goeringer! Bill will also be joined by local CK Barlow on live sampling and synth for a duo set. Bill Harris is a prominent Chicago-based percussionist, […]
Monday April 13, 2026 | 8:00 pm
Subwoofer Duo + Voicehandler
Amazing evening of music bringing together DC’s Alma Laprida’s new project using exclusively subwoofers (w/Bryce Hackford) and the duo Voicehandler (High Zero Alum Danishta Rivero and percussionist Jacob Felix Heule). Voicehandler plays intuitive, incantatory music grounded in the most primitive and somatic instruments — the voice and percussion — juxtaposed with contemporary, disembodied electronics. The […]
Thursday March 26, 2026 | 8:00 pm
A book, a world, a history a system of systems: THE COMPOSER’S BLACK BOX
Making Music in Cybernetic America. AN EVENING WITH THEODORE GORDON and musical guests •••••• Stories about new musical instruments are often told as quests for new kinds of sounds. The Composer’s Black Box asks, What happens when new musical instruments produce not only new sounds but also new dynamics of musical agency and control? ••••••••• People who are interested […]
Sunday March 22, 2026 | 8:00 pm
A solo, a duo and a quadraphonic voyage.
March 22nd please join us for an evening curated and created by local brightspark polymath John Hoegberg. •••••• A brand new electro-acoustic hörspiel about environment DONATED MEMORIES by Mr. Hoegberg, a solo on electric mandolin by Corey Thuro and an improvised duet from two fantastic players Sarah Hughes (High Zero ‘alum’18) and Patrick Crossland (HZ […]
Thursday March 19, 2026 | 7:00 pm
Community Modular Meetup | Feedback Patches
Bring your rack and some headphones and patch along. Null Phi Infinity and Sam Burt will provide creative stimulation with two approaches to generative feedback patching in modular synthesis. This is a free workshop/social event for anyone interested in electronic music. Also, feel free to bring modules for swapping! On occasion, the Red Room hosts […]
Sunday March 01, 2026 | 7:30 pm
Volunteers’ Collective March 2026
You are cordially invited to come play free music! Free event7pm doors, 7:30pm start Every month, the Red Room hosts the Volunteers’ Collective, a free, open music workshop for the community. In this friendly, informal setting, we focus on listening, collaboration, and experimentation through non-idiomatic improvised music . Players of all skill levels participate. Try […]
Saturday March 07, 2026 | 8:00 pm
Peter Evans w/Borax, Pluta + We Sundry Vessels
Night of extreme strangeness. Words like “acoustic” and “electronic” are for “foolz”. Distinquished and legendary NY trumpeter visits the Red Room to play in trio with two locals: longtime collaborator and computer music guru Sam Pluta and modular synth wizard Tom Borax. Evan’s outrageous extended techniques combined with Pluta and Borax’ noisy, textured and reactive […]
Friday February 27, 2026 | 8:00 pm
Drum Major Instinct – Jeff Arnal returns to Balt.
In the early days of the Red Room, one of the great bands to grace our stage once or twice a year was the John Dierker Quartet. Led by still-resident legendary reed player Dierker, this band played with unforgettable fury. A significant portion of that fury was from drummer Jeff Arnal – an absolutely mad […]
