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Saturday November 02, 2024 | 8:30 pm

Tom Hamilton & Al Margolis / Lander – Pluta Duo

Electronics Electronics Electronics and Voice The Red Room is proud to present NYC based giants of experimental electronic music, Tom Hamilton and Al Margolis in Duo Form, complimented by local artists Sam Pluta and Bonnie Lander. A night not to be missed! TOM HAMILTON has composed and performed electronic music for over 50 years, and […]

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Tuesday October 15, 2024 | 8:30 pm

K a y a / Bonnie Lander, Shelly Purdy, John Dierker

The voice comes out in this double feature featuring visiting vocalist K a y a. K a y a “solo voice performance.  in her solo voice performances, kaya dives deep into an emotional landscape of her voice.  her solo performances are characterized by the use of extended techniques, experimental improvisation at the highest level.” Opening: […]

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Monday September 16, 2024 |

High! Zero! High! Jinx!

KEEP BALTIMORE WEIRD! This is your chance to get out in public and remind Baltimore what makes us great: extreme, unabashed self-expression! While the main stage is invitation-only and booked a year in advance, there are many opportunities to perform at High Zero through High Jinx, our broadly participatory, informal and unofficial site specific and […]

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Sunday September 22, 2024 | 8:00 pm

High Zero NIGHT 4!!!!

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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Saturday September 21, 2024 | 8:00 pm

High Zero 2024 Night 3!

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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Friday September 20, 2024 | 8:00 pm

High Zero 2024 Continues! Night of Random!

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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Thursday September 19, 2024 | 8:00 pm

High Zero 2024 Opening Night Thursday Sept 19

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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Tuesday October 01, 2024 | 8:00 pm

Clausen // Icasiano // Purdy

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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Volunteers' Collective

Sunday September 01, 2024 | 7:30 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 […]

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Wednesday September 04, 2024 | 7:00 pm

High Zero Night at Fadensonnen

7pm Wednesday September 4th, 20243 W. 23rd St., Baltimore We are gearing up for the High Zero Festival with a special night in early September. 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 […]

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Saturday August 24, 2024 | 8:00 pm

ASH: 001 (Daoure Diongue, Mark Kent Navarro & Ellery Bryan)

Ellery Bryan (they/them) is a nonbinary visual artist who translates analog to ephemeral media. Sound artist, producer, audio engineer, and composer Mark Kent Navarro (he/him) is a Filipino-American artist born and raised in Baltimore City. Daoure Diongue (he/him) is a saxophonist, composer, and multi-instrumentalist evoking his homes of Baltimore and Senegal through sound. Together, they […]

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Tuesday October 22, 2024 | 8:00 pm

BEAM SPLITTER + Mil Phinton (US/UK/NO) | Corey Thuro, Taylor Washington, Dan DeLuca

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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Sunday August 18, 2024 | 8:00 pm

Trash Cats // Heather // Rachel Beetz

It’s a 3 set Sunday nighter not to be missed! $10SS Heather Pulling from styles and media specific textures that span early music, old time, dance tunes, and electronic music, Heather cobbles together something ambient, noisy, and sample-based with tapes, contraptions, electronics, and fiddle. https://www.hmmease.com/https://semibegun.bandcamp.com/track/late-romanticshttps://semibegun.bandcamp.com/track/kill-slay-nothinghttps://www.instagram.com/xxcorncobxx/ Trash Cats Charlottesville-based noise duo Trash Cats frequently perform amalgamations […]

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Sunday August 25, 2024 | 8:00 pm

A Surround Sound Evening of Agitprop Sound

In commemoration of the 2014 protests in Ferguson, this evening presents multiple approaches to the soundscape of politics and the political. Surround sound and stereo works by Donia Jarrar, Lyn Goeringer, Jazmin (JT) Green, Chris DeLaurenti, and others engage the politics of the personal and “the art of the possible” along with the possibility of […]

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Saturday August 17, 2024 | 8:00 pm

Matthew Ryals, Stephan Haluska

August 17th at the Red Room! 10 bucks! Matthew Ryals (he, him) is an award winning synthesist and composer-improviser based in New York, NY. Primarily working with a modular synthesizer, his music encompasses improvisation, generative composition, chance, cybernetics, unfixed forms, and experiments in manifold archiving. His uniquely tactile approach to the modular synthesizer embraces unusual […]

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Wednesday August 21, 2024 | 8:00 pm

Jack Langdon & Rohan Pathare

Jack Langdon is an organist, filmmaker, and writer. His work as an organist explores extremes of instrumental technique, employing non-standard practices on pipe organs and tonewheel organs, pushing these often conservatively-utilized instruments into uncanny and experimental territories. Jack’s improvised and concert works deal with strange forms, excessive repetition, ironic tonality, and sonic fragility. His recent […]

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Sunday August 04, 2024 | 7:00 pm

Volunteer’s 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 […]

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Sunday September 08, 2024 | 8:00 pm

Senso di Voce & Max Gong/M.C. Schmidt/Obie Feldi

Local noise intoners Max Gong, Martin Schmidt & Obie Feldi will be opening for Senso di Voce from Buffalo NY! Senso di Voce is Megan Kyle (oboe, English horn) & Esin Gunduz (voice, composition, tremolo harmonica, bass harmonica, harmonium). The duo focuses on the embodied experience of varying acoustical phenomena. Implementing the unique acoustic properties […]

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Thursday October 17, 2024 | 8:00 pm

Jessica Pavone

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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Monday July 29, 2024 | 8:00 pm

Lucas “Granpa” Abela/Gorgina/2$ Romance

Quite a night ahead here: 2 uncategorizable but if you had to – Aussie noise performance art – acts coming to Baltimore! On a Monday! Don’t miss! 6-7 years ago Abela famously chewed on a huge shard of glass and bled all over the Red Room. Doors 8pm show 8:30pm. at Normal’s of course! Intergenerational […]

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Thursday July 25, 2024 | 8:30 pm

Glissotar premier, Burt, Scheible, Meredith

Glissonic, an instrument builder in Budapest, makes a new instrument called the glissotar. As part of their loaner program, Samuel Burt will be showing off this sax-like microtonal instrument. The glissotar is shaped like a soprano saxophone, but, instead of keys and holes, it has one long slot. Pitch is controlled by a magnetic ribbon that […]

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Sunday July 14, 2024 | 7:30 pm

Volunteers’ Collective | July 14, 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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Sunday July 07, 2024 | 8:00 pm

Jeremy Young | Simone Baron & Susan Alcorn

Jeremy Young is a composer and maker of concrète electronic tape music from Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, Quebec. He is a member of the experimental poetry_sound unit Cloud Circuit, alongside writer Deanna Radford, and the electroacoustic modern classical trio Sontag Shogun, with pianist Ian Temple and sound/voice artist Jesse Perlstein, as well as other projects. In 2024, Young […]

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Sunday June 16, 2024 | 6:00 pm

DELAYED: Outdoor Performance: Battle Hymn for the Wildwood (Burt, Crossland, Prince, Sabe)

NOT HAPPENING THIS SUNDAY! CHECK BACK FOR A NEW DATE A special outside performance of Samuel Burt’s new composition Battle Hymn for the Wildwood will occur along a stretch of Stony Run west of Johns Hopkins University. Patrick Crossland (trombone), Liz Prince (tuba), and Justin Sabe (tuba) will vibrate the valley with the sounds of […]

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Thursday July 11, 2024 | 8:00 pm

The Rockers – Toshi Makihara/John Dierker/Caleb Duval – Logan Perry

The Rockers are the New York City based creative music quartet of James Mckain (saxophone), James Paul Nadien (drums), Shogo Yamagishi (bass), and Tom Weeks (saxophone). They perform high energy original compositions. All four members are prolific composer/performers and can be heard together on the 2024 recording A Man’s Image (Astral Editions). Toshi Makihara/John Dierker/Caleb Duval An […]

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