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Saturday September 21, 2019 |

High Zero Festival Night 3

Saturday September 21st (7:30pm doors, 8:30pm showtime) Solo Charmaine Lee vocalist Set 1 Nik Francis percussion, electronics Forbes Graham trumpet, laptop computer Jayve Montgomery woodwinds, percussion, and electronics Steve Baczkowski saxophone, multi-wind instrumentalist CK Barlow live sampling, electronics Set 2 Bonnie Jones electronics Sarah Hennies vibraphone, percussion Biliana Voutchkova violin, voice Le Quan Ninh surrounded […]

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Friday September 20, 2019 |

High Zero Festival Night 2

Friday September 20th (7:30pm doors, 8:30pm showtime) Solo Owen Gardner guitar, cello Set 1 Charmaine Lee vocalist Bonnie Lander soprano Danishta Rivero voice, electronics Kristen Toedtman voice, violin, piano Biliana Voutchkova violin, voice Ledah Finck violin, viola Samuel Burt daxophone, clarinets Set 2 Tom Boram harpsichord, synthesizer Forbes Graham trumpet, laptop computer Set 3 Susie […]

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Thursday September 19, 2019 |

High Zero Festival Night I

High Zero returns after last years 20th Anniversary Tour! High Zero is the premier festival of Improvised, Experimental music on the East Coast, being fully devoted to new collaborations between inspired musicians and performers from Baltimore and around the world. Unlike many related festivals, High Zero is not narrow in terms of sensibility or subculture, […]

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Friday August 23, 2019 | 8:00 pm

NO LAND// JOANNA MATTREY//JARRET GILGORE//MIKE KUHL

No Land and Joanna Mattrey are incredible artists from New York City. Their work inspires us to feel and open our hearts. Join them for their Baltimore debut. They will perform with locals Jarrett Gilgore and Mike Kuhl. Khristian Weeks will open. No Land (NYC) is an artist, poet, and photographer. She fled school to convene with the […]

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Sunday September 01, 2019 | 7:00 pm

Volunteers’ Collective September 1st

You are cordially invited to come play free music! Every month, the Red Room hosts the Volunteers’ Collective. It’s a free session of experimental and improvised music. In this cordial, informal setting, we focus on listening and collaboration. Players of all skill levels participate. Try out a new technique or new instrument in a non-judgmental setting. Meet new and veteran improvisers. […]

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Sunday August 04, 2019 | 7:00 pm

Volunteers’ Collective August 4th, 2019 – copy

You are cordially invited to come play free music! Every month, the Red Room hosts the Volunteers’ Collective. It’s a free session of experimental and improvised music. In this cordial, informal setting, we focus on listening and collaboration. Players of all skill levels participate. Try out a new technique or new instrument in a non-judgmental setting. Meet new and veteran improvisers. […]

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Thursday August 01, 2019 | 8:30 pm

Sally Decker + Carey/Borax

Come to the Red Room and welcome August and therefore welcome the slide into a hot Baltimore Summer’s welcome conclusion. We are extremely pleased to present the voice and electronics talents of SF, CA’s Sally Decker.  Opening the evening will be the duo of Tom Borax and Jeff Carey, a confluence of technical noise, two […]

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Wednesday July 24, 2019 | 7:30 pm

Oddstruments at the Red Room | Fishkin, Strong, Burt, Franklin, Moore

New Rituals for Invented Instruments, Daxophones, Reeds, and Percussion Attention lovers of wooden sound-making contraptions. Daxophonists Daniel Fishkin (New York City) and Sam Burt (Baltimore) collaborate with friends in this first performance of a two-city event. Expect bowed wood, springs, thrums, eldritch near-human utterances, clatters, clacks, and whistles evoked by seasoned intuitive improvisers. Daniel Fishkin […]

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Thursday July 25, 2019 | 8:30 pm

Daniel Meyer-O’Keeffe & Rob Cosgrove / Other Plastics / Steve Olson & Rose Hammer Burt

Daniel Meyer-O’Keeffe & Rob Cosgrove (Joshua Tree, CA) Rob and Dan play guitar and drums. They make sounds that are chaotic and intimate. Their collaboration has spanned improvisation, composition, and installation works. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDCGA5fKf5E&feature=youtu.be https://soundcloud.com/danielmeyer-okeeffe/duet   Other Plastics (NYC) noise duo https://soundcloud.com/dominiccoles/sets/kernel-panic   Steve Olson and Rose Hammer Burt are both originally from different regions of […]

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Saturday July 20, 2019 | 1:00 pm

High Zero presents: WORLDS IN COLLUSION at UB Student Center

THESE EVENTS ARE ON THE FIFTH FLOOR of the UB Student Center! Saturday, July 20th   <—————————- 1PM – Ultrafaux Baltimore-based Ultrafaux, led by guitarist/composer Michael Joseph Harris, performs original music with elements of Balkan folk, gypsy swing, be-bop, trad swing, funk, and French musette. 2PM – BLK TAG+ is an ominous, brooding, industrial soundtrack to […]

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Thursday July 11, 2019 | 8:30 pm

Alcorn / Alvarez + Lander / Dierker / Neidhardt

A rare duo performance of local pedal steel guitarist Susan Alcorn and Chilean guitarist Luis “Toto” Alvarez. The trio of Bonnie Lander, John Dierker, and Paul Neidhardt open the show!   Thursday 7/11, doors at 8:30pm $5-10 @ The Red Room 425 E. 31st St. Baltimore, MD    

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Friday July 12, 2019 | 8:30 pm

Bill ORCUTT Chris CORSANO Bonnie JONES

Powerhouse improvisational duo with guitarist Bill Orcutt and drummer Chris Corsano. Rumour has it that Mr. Orcutt will also play a “laptop set”!  What will this mean? We are very excited to hear. Please join us to find out. Local electronic-music heroine Bonnie Jones, fresh from her recent foray into installation work opens the evening. […]

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Wednesday July 10, 2019 | 7:00 pm

Volunteers’ Collective July 10th, 2019

You are cordially invited to come play free music! Every month, the Red Room hosts the Volunteers’ Collective. It’s a free session of experimental and improvised music. In this cordial, informal setting, we focus on listening and collaboration. Players of all skill levels participate. Try out a new technique or new instrument in a non-judgmental setting. Meet new and veteran improvisers. […]

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Wednesday June 26, 2019 | 8:30 pm

HEVM // Andrew Bernstein

The Red Room is pleased to host HEVM, a trio comprised of three distinct voices that hail from disparate parts of New York’s experimental music landscape: MV Carbon, Eve Essex, and Hunter Hunt-Hendrix.   Local saxophonist Andrew Bernstein will open the show.   Wednesday, June 26th, 2019 @ The Red Room Doors at 8:30, show […]

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Friday June 28, 2019 | 8:30 pm

SAM NEWSOME////// SUSAN ALCORN-ORLANDO JOHNSON

A night of cosmic creative music presented by Sam Newsome -solo soprano saxophone and duet of Susan Alcorn and Orlando Johnson. Sam will be presenting music from his latest project and seventh solo recording, entitled Chaos Theory: SongCycles for Prepared Saxophone. this was just release on June 9th. The CD was recently in DownBeat Magazine’s […]

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Sunday June 09, 2019 | 8:30 pm

Chris Pitskiokos // PHOBODEIMOS

The Red Room is pleased to host an evening with New York based saxophonist Chris Pitsiokos and Baltimore’s own Phobodeimos, featuring Dan Conrad, Jenny Moon Tucker, Eric Franklin, and Pony Payroll Bones. Sunday June 9th 2019 Doors at 8:30, show at 9:00 $5 – 10 @ The Red Room, 425 E. 31st St   Chris […]

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Wednesday June 12, 2019 | 8:30 pm

IT FOOT, IT EARS | Gram Hummell | Aeschylus & Sam Burt

It Foot, It Ears is a chamber/garage music duo using electric guitar, voice, and percussion to create intricate studies in rhythm and texture. Their music plays against the expectations of the humdrum instrumentation of electric guitar and drums — while also celebrating its history.  They’ve developed performance practices that embrace microtonality, isorhythm and polyrhythm, extended […]

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Saturday June 08, 2019 | 8:30 pm

Sinetones & Sandwiches: Electronic, acoustic, vocal nourishment

An extraordinary pleasure to bring together for one evening, the enormous talents of percussionist claire rousay (TX) and trumpeter Jacob Wick (CDMX) in duo, electronicist, artist, Richard Kamerman (NYC), and local vocal genius Bonnie Lander performing Alvin Lucier.  The evening will have many throughlines: queering sound, systems design, interference sound, improvisation, psychodynamics and psychoacoustics, and […]

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Saturday May 25, 2019 |

THE REASONING: JAMAL MOORE-NIK FRANCIS// CHER JEY//ELIEL SHERMAN STOREY//RAS MOSHE

A night of new music and sound sonics exploring the darkness upon the face of the deep MOJUBA Jamal Moore -woodwinds,percussion, and electronics,  Nik Francis- Drums and electronics   Cher Jey- Vocals, Spoken Word Chicago based multidisciplinary artist from Baltimore, MD, focused primarily on expression through sound, movement, line and spirit. Her research has lead […]

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Monday June 03, 2019 | 7:30 pm

Volunteers’ Collective June 3, 2019

You are cordially invited to come play free music! Every month, the Red Room hosts the Volunteers’ Collective. It’s a free session of experimental and improvised music. In this cordial, informal setting, we focus on listening and collaboration. Players of all skill levels participate. Try out a new technique or new instrument in a non-judgmental setting. Meet new and veteran improvisers. […]

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Friday May 31, 2019 | 8:30 pm

Nicolas Field and Gregor Vidic Duo // Carey/Moore/Purdy trio

Nicloas Field & Gregor Vidic Duo It is now four years that saxophonist Gregor Vidic and drummer Nicolas Field began their musical collaboration. Their constantly evolving music is the result of an interaction between improvisation and spontaneous composition, mainly influenced by Free Jazz and current European improvised music. The duo has managed to construct a […]

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Sunday May 12, 2019 | 8:45 pm

The Real of Time II: Sarah Hennies

The second installment of The Real of Time, a new series showcasing durational music of the 21st century, features a new work for ‘cello and percussion by Sarah Hennies. The piece, “The Reinvention of Romance,” was written specifically for Knoxville-based Two-Way Street, a duo of Ashlee Booth (‘cello) and Adam Lion (percussion). Look forward to […]

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Sunday May 05, 2019 | 7:00 pm

Volunteers’ Collective, May 5, 2019

You are cordially invited to come play free music! Every month, the Red Room hosts the Volunteers’ Collective. It’s a free session of experimental and improvised music. In this cordial, informal setting, we focus on listening and collaboration. Players of all skill levels participate. Try out a new technique or new instrument in a non-judgmental setting. Meet new and veteran improvisers. […]

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Thursday May 23, 2019 | 8:45 pm

Adam G Holofcener and Steven Lugerner \ Sarah Hughes / Nicoletta de la Brown and Natalia Arias

Adam Holofcener: Adam G Holofcener is a sound artist, composer, and performer from Baltimore, MD, USA.  His work ebbs and flows between digital and analog efforts with an emphasis on a synergistic interplay between the two: one informing the other, literally and otherwise, ad infinitum.  The theoretical underpinnings for his work come from a variety […]

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Wednesday April 24, 2019 | 8:30 pm

Kazehito Seki // Asha Sheshadri + Network Glass // Hayden Right // Jeff Carey

Noise night at the Redroom featuring Kazehito Seki from Japan and local electronic acts with different approaches to noisemaking.   Kazehito Seki Electrifeeding voice artist, Noise musician, etc. His latest solo project, called Self Toxication, explores possibilities of extended vocal techniques and their amplification through feedbacks and re-amplification processes. His unique organic noise coins onliest […]

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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.