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Killick, with half of face obscured by yellow mask with large blue eye.

Monday October 05, 2026 | 8:00 pm

Killick, Hi Tom Ensemble

Info coming soon! killick.mekillick.bandcamp.cominstagram.com/piedmontshamanrock photo credit: Delene Porter

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A Benjolin-style synthesizer with the words RULES & RUNGULATIONS Sam Burt

Thursday August 06, 2026 | 8:00 pm

Burt Album Release, Benham, Zaldivar, Franklin

Album Release show for Rules & Rungulations, unconventional music from a Eurorack system with the beating heart of a Benjolin. This show, featuring Sam Burt on modular synthesizer, celebrates the release of his new album. He will play through a tangle of cords, cross-patched with partner Dave Benham. Sharing the bill, Carolyn Zaldivar and Ian […]

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Sunday July 19, 2026 | 4:00 pm

Community Modular Meetup | Petting Zoo

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. We’ll setup and start at 4pm.

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picture of performers interacting with an uncanny collection of objects including stretched plastic wrap

Thursday August 13, 2026 | 8:00 pm

Erin Demastes, Dylan Burchett: object-synthesis | Eric Franklin, Paul Rubenstein, John Jensen

Erin Demastes and Dylan Burchett explore improvisation with small instruments, synthesizers, computers, handmade electronics, and found objects, bringing ideas from their individual practices as experimental music composers, performers, and instrument builders. Following the theme, a group of local instrument builders will include Eric Franklin, Paul Rubenstein, and John Jansen. Paul Rubenstein plays the mechanical monk (motorized drone played […]

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Entourage, by Dan Conrad

Sunday July 05, 2026 | 7:30 pm

Volunteers’ Collective July 2026

You are cordially invited to come play free music!

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Tuesday November 10, 2026 | 8:00 pm

Sonic Chambers Quartet | Steve Olson

progressive improvisational chamber quartet from New Orleans & New York City

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Entourage, by Dan Conrad

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 […]

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Sunday August 23, 2026 | 8:30 pm

Beautiful Pigs | Postwife

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. Postwife (Jess Keyes and Landon Peer) open the night. Jess is known for her electroacoustic and ambient music, saxophone playing, compositions, band-leading, sound installations, […]

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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 Pre-sale tickets are SOLD OUT!! … but a limited number of tickets will be available at the door on a first-come first-serve basis. Multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improviser […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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, […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Entourage, by Dan Conrad

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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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, […]

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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 […]

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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.