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Tuesday March 04, 2025 | 8:00 pm

multi-channel electroacoustic AND conceptual movement

All the building blocks of a healthy mind and body. Multi-Channel Electro Acoustic music and Conceptual Performance Movement Action. Obie Feldi and M.C. Schmidt! Jeff Carey! Alex Yu! John Hoegberg! Visiting Professor from Carnegie Mellon in Electronic Music Composition, Freida Abtan!! AND KHRISTIAN WEEKS and PETER REDGRAVE! •••••••••••••••••••• Four pieces in quadraphonic or octophonic and […]

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Wednesday February 26, 2025 | 8:00 pm

Jacques/Cornell Duo, Adrian Wood, DeLaurenti/Goeringer Duo

Amazing night with Anne-F Jacques/AJ Cornell of Quebec, Adrian Wood (VA) and Chris Delaurenti and Lyn Goeringer (Balt!). Expect inventions, electro-acoustics, analog synths, radios, cassettes, theremins, noises, abstractions, motors, machines……… A gleaner of sonorities, AJ Cornell transforms and transmits sonic material over radio channels and through live performance. Her approach employs dense layers of macro and micro sounds evolving […]

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Saturday February 22, 2025 | 8:30 pm

Horizon Overflow (Baltimore area super-group)

A selection of Baltimore’s finest sound-smiths together for one special night. HORIZON OVERFLOWJohn Berndt electronics, invented instruments, saxophoneRose Hammer Burt saxophoneSamuel Burt bass clarinet, daxophonePatrick Crossland trombonePaul Neidhardt percussionNate Scheible timpani

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Sunday February 02, 2025 | 7:30 pm

Volunteers’ Collective February 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 […]

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Thursday February 27, 2025 | 8:30 pm

Killick and Rose Burt | Simone Baron and Eric Franklin

Two duos featuring unlikely combinations of instruments! Killick Hines on unusual stringed instruments performs with Rose Burt on saxophones. Simone Baron plays accordion with Eric Franklin on theremin. What happens when you combine the overtones of a baritone saxophone with shimmer of sympathetic strings? What vibrations will fill the room when a warbling theremin tone […]

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Friday February 28, 2025 | 8:00 pm

Chuck Bettis/Jerry Lim/Mick Barr/Breath of the Magi

Entirely great night!!! High Zero alums and wayward, beloved musicians Chuck Bettis and Jerry Lim return to Bmore with an all new duo project. Guitar wizard and legendary shredder Mick Barr is also with them! Bmore local supergroup Breath of the Magi (Peter Redgrave, Orlando Johnson, Che Davis) open!!! What a night!! Active since the […]

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Wednesday March 12, 2025 |

High Zero Night at Fadensonnen

7pm Wednesday March 12th, 20253 W. 23rd St., Baltimore Halfway between festivals, we want to keep the High Zero spirit alive in Baltimore! Local luminaries will perform experimental improvised music for you in a cozy tavern setting. Fadensonnen is generously hosting us for this fundraising event. A portion of the tavern profits will go to […]

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Wednesday February 05, 2025 |

Bashi Rose // Rebecca Lloyd-Jones: Sarah Hennies’ Thought Sectors

Wednesday February 5th, 8pm Doors, 8:30pm Show Incredible musical night abounds! Bashi Rose, founder of Konjur Collective is a theatre artist, musician, and filmmaker. He was raised in West Baltimore and nurtured by the Baltimore Arts Community.  He has performed and has had work produced in numerous venues including the High Zero Festival of Experimental Improvised Music,  […]

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Monday February 03, 2025 |

Michael Jones // Ida Dierker + Brandon Gouin

Monday February 3rd – 8pm doors, 8:30pm show. We welcome new music percussionist Michael Jones to the Red Room all the way from San Diego, CA. Joined by local duo Ida Dierker & Brandon Gouin. Michael Jones Michael is a percussionist and conductor based in Southern California. He has beendescribed by Fanfare Magazine as a […]

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Friday January 31, 2025 | 8:00 pm

Tony Malaby’s FIREBATH Baltimore

Dave Ballou Tony Malaby’s FIREBATH Baltimore! Please join us for an open rehearsal at Towson University at 4pm followed by a concert at the Red Room at 8:30pm Tony Malaby Dave Ballou Mike Kuhl  John Dierker Adam Hopkins Friday, Jan 31st Open Rehearsal at Towson UniversityCenter for the Arts room 20754pm, FREE! –Red Room Show at […]

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Sunday January 05, 2025 | 7:30 pm

Volunteers’ Collective, January 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 […]

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Wednesday January 22, 2025 | 8:00 pm

Aaron Pond and Inverse/Obverse + Jenny Moon Tucker/Layne Garrett Duo

Inverse and Obverse from Philly will be joined by the duo of BMore’s Jenny Moon Tucker and DC’s Layne Garrett. Inverse and Obverse is a quartet rooted in a phenomenological approach to creative music. like the great philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty, we are examining the skin of the world, the very nature by which objects and […]

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Tuesday December 17, 2024 | 8:00 pm

Zane Kanevsky, Grace Bedwell, Vasya

Tuesday night at the Red Room! Zane Kanevsky of Maine comes down to show some new Quadrophonic work at the Red Room, on tour with Grace Bedwell. Everything Zane has been a part of, I love. His music is crushing and violent but does not lack nuance or moments of clarity. I highly recommend digging […]

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Tuesday December 10, 2024 |

Rachel Beetz + Ted Moore

Tuesday December 10th, 2024 | 8pm Doors, 8:30pm Show Coming off the closing night of this year’s High Zero festival, Beetz will perform a new improvisation set she’s calling Delayed consisting of solo sung hockets, circular breathing, electronics, ambient drones, and (hopefully) some delayed gratification.  Ted Moore (he/him) is a composer, improviser, and intermedia artist whose work […]

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Wednesday December 11, 2024 | 8:00 pm

Towson, UMBC, Peabody Intercollegiate Concert

Three colleges come together for a joint end-of-semester concert at the Red Room, joined by Towson’s faculty members Dave Ballou and John Dierker. From Towson: Ruth Lacey – Electronics, Devin Ostendarp – Guitar, Ruben Payan – Trombone, Melodica, Logan Perry – Drums, Percussion, Devin Bryan – Trumpet, Camila Compos – Cerri-Trumpet, Adam “Tennis” Mendelson – […]

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Sunday December 01, 2024 | 7:30 pm

Volunteers’ Collective, November 2024

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 […]

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Wednesday November 20, 2024 | 8:00 pm

Bark Culture/Marshall Trammell+Pat Cain

HUGE NIGHT! Philadelphia’s “Bark Culture” (vibes, bass, drums) and DC/Oakland duo Marshall Trammell (percussion) and Pat Cain (electronics, noise). Two sets of deep improvised music at the outer limits of jazz and noise. This may be the world premiere of the Duo of Pat Cain (from DC’s amazing Model Home) and Marshall Trammell (High Zero […]

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Friday December 13, 2024 | 7:30 pm

Community Modular Meetup | Petting Zoo

SHARE AND LEARN! Members of Baltimore’s modular synthesizer community bring their racks for you to patch. Bring a rack to share! Try patching unfamiliar modules. Talk to the owners and learn more about what they love about their synths. This is a good chance to try modular formats outside of Eurorack. Participants might bring Serge […]

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Thursday November 14, 2024 | 8:30 pm

Works Showcase: Keyes, Weeks, Holofcener, and Wenc

Tonight performers show off their deep research into experimental music. Jess Keyes brings her project Patien(t/ce), for voice and eurorack synth with handmade wearable controllers. She uses two home-engineered sensor gloves to manipulate her voice in real-time. Khristian Weeks will be improvising on found open-circuitry with a contact mic and objects. Stalwart arts advocate Adam […]

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Monday November 04, 2024 | 8:00 pm

Dave Greber | Rohan Pathare & Robin Rhodes | Carrie Fucile & Brenton Lim

Dave Greber Dave Greber (b. 1982, Philadelphia) is an artist, educator, and consultant based in Baltimore. He creates experiences for galleries and the wider public arena, using digital media, sculptural installations, and social/environmental interventions. His practice is enthusiastically intuitive, aided by divination and collaboration with both biological and artificial intelligence. He began exhibiting video and […]

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Sunday November 03, 2024 | 7:30 pm

Volunteers’ Collective, October 2024

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 […]

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Saturday November 16, 2024 | 7:30 pm

DIFFUSION – Night Four – VOXEL THEATER

Martin Schmidt, here welcoming you to High Zero’s DIFFUSION Festival. The third night of four. Our 8th annual DIFFUSION Festival. This one is at the state-of-the-art Voxel Theater. Doors will be at 7:30 MUSIC BEGINS at 8. Please come before the music begins so we don’t have to seat people in the dark! Live and […]

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Friday November 15, 2024 | 7:30 pm

DIFFUSION – Third Night – VOXEL THEATER

Martin Schmidt, here welcoming you to High Zero’s DIFFUSION Festival. The third night of four. Our 8th annual DIFFUSION Festival. This one is at the state-of-the-art Voxel Theater. Doors will be at 7:30 MUSIC BEGINS at 8. Please come before the music begins so we don’t have to seat people in the dark! Live and […]

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Saturday November 09, 2024 | 7:30 pm

DIFFUSION – Second Night

Martin Schmidt, here welcoming you to High Zero’s DIFFUSION Festival. The second night of four. Our 8th annual DIFFUSION Festival. This one is at the Red Room. 2 shows: Early and Late Doors for the Early Show will be at 7:30 Doors for the Late show (please be quiet if you are arriving early!) will […]

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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.