Sunday September 02, 2018 | 7:30 pm
Volunteers’ Collective, Sunday September 2nd
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. […]
Saturday August 25, 2018 | 8:30 pm
Dave Dove * Justin Jones * Jimmy Joe Roche * Pasokon
Dave Dove A trombone player, composer, improviser, and educator, David Dove has given performances and workshops across North America and internationally. As Founding Director of Nameless Sound (a non-profit organization in Houston, Texas), he curates/presents a concert series of international contemporary creative music, and has developed an approach, philosophy and practice of creative music education […]
Friday September 14, 2018 | 7:30 pm
HIGH ZERO 20th Edition Tour!!!
TWENTIETH YEAR CELEBRATION TOUR! September 14th through 29th in three cities. The High Zero Collective are going on the road. The musician-organizers will perform for two days in Chicago and two days in New York City with area musicians before returning home to perform for two days in all-Baltimore combinations. Touring High Zero Collective CK […]
Saturday August 11, 2018 | 8:30 pm
Gerritt Wittmer · Peter J Woods · Hayden Right
For those unafraid of the dark, local gentleman noisenik Hayden Right joins Gerritt Wittmer (Houston) and Peter J. Woods (Milwaukee), touring in support of their new full length albums, “I Believe” and “Today is Horrible.” Doors at 8:30, show at 9 Gerritt Wittmer is a sound and performance artist based in Houston, Texas. His work […]
Friday August 10, 2018 | 8:30 pm
Jaimie Branch & Friends · Susan Alcorn & Janel Leppin
JAIMIE BRANCH (High Zero 2013, 2018) IS BACK IN BALTIMORE FOR AN EVENING IN HER FIRST PERFORMANCE SINCE SHE LIVED HERE WAY BACK WHEN! SHE’LL BE JOINED BY SOME OF HER CLOSEST BALTIMORE/DC COMPATRIOTS! SUSAN ALCORN (HZ 2004, 2013, 2018) WILL PLAY DUO WITH JANEL LEPPIN! T R A N S C E N D […]
Monday August 06, 2018 | 7:30 pm
Volunteers’ Collective, Monday August 6th
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. […]
Tuesday July 31, 2018 | 8:30 pm
Anna RG & Zach Rowden · Owen Gardner · Allison Clendaniel
sounds from anna rg / zach rowden duo ANNA is trying to find places in between traditional and experimental music worlds. now in brooklyn, once in baltimore, and before in appalachia / she spent the last decade studying with masters of traditional fiddle and banjo music in Kentucky and Virginia. her main duo, anna & […]
Sunday July 15, 2018 | 8:30 pm
Lea Bertucci & Amirtha Kidambi · Max Eilbacher
More Sunday summer fun at the Red Room! New Yorkers Lea Bertucci (High Zero 2012, 2018) and Amirtha Kidambi warp time and space in solo and duo formations and local electroacoustician Max Eilbacher (High Zero 2009) presents a work in progress in QUADRAPHONIC SOUND! Lea Bertucci is an American composer and performer whose work describes […]
Friday July 20, 2018 | 2:00 pm
High Zero presents: WORLDS IN COLLUSION at UB Student Center 3 DAYS
THESE EVENTS ARE ON THE FIFTH FLOOR of the UB Student Center! Friday, July 20 <—————————- 2:00PM Musica Spira Musical traditions that seek to renew conversations about the importance of life & values 3:00PM Mind on Fire A musical arts collaboration of contemporary music in Baltimore 4:00PM Ben Starkey! 5:00PM Theljon Allen and Universal Language A […]
Saturday July 14, 2018 | 8:30 pm
Drums and Drones // HZ improvisors
Brian Chase, drummer of esteemed band, “Yeah Yeah Yeahs” brings a different view to the drum with Swiss video artist Ursula Scherrer. This sound and video experience has been well received, around the world, now in Baltimore, for you. “goes inside the sound and…puts your brain inside another space” -The Wire Magazine Opening for […]
Sunday July 01, 2018 | 7:30 pm
Volunteers’ Collective, Sunday, July 1
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. […]
Sunday July 08, 2018 | 8:30 pm
Che Chen & David Watson · Meg Rorison
New York’s David Watson (bagpipes! High Zero 2011) and Che Chen very durationally meet local filmmaker and friend of the Red Room Meg Rorison (High Zero 2014) very filmically. Loud and long–just the way you like it. Doors at 8:30, show at 9 Che Chen & David Watson have been active as a duo since […]
Thursday June 28, 2018 | 8:30 pm
Crazy Doberman/Pony Moon/Pale stag
Baltimore and mid-west out improvised noise for every temperament and sensibility! Crazy Doberman Hailing from Lafayette Indiana, this amorphous psycho jazz unit drops a heavy slab of tunes that sounds like “the Glenn Miller orchestra recorded a tape for Industrial Records and microwaved the masters”. Hard to pin down and forever tripping with new […]
Saturday June 30, 2018 | 9:00 pm
JD PARRAN-ANCESTRAL DUO///// BLACK ELEMENTS 4TET
A NIGHT OF CREATIVE IMPROVISATION AND THROUGH-COMPOSED MUSIC. JD PARRAN JD Parran’s most recent releases on the Mutable Music label are the collaborative Particle Ensemble and his Window Spirits Solo. His performing on clarinets, saxophones and flutes is legendary. In his hometown, St Louis, he was a founding member of the Black Artist Group (BAG) […]
Saturday June 23, 2018 | 8:30 pm
C. Lavender · Headband
Imagine if you will a door, adorned with a Fela Kuti poster, to the side of a used book and record store. Beyond the door is another dimension—a liminal zone between shadow and substance, music and performance art, laughter and tears, performer and audience. Our story takes place in the present, on a Saturday night, […]
Monday June 18, 2018 | 8:30 pm
Zach Rowden · Kiera Mulhern & Jack Patterson · Double Wink
!!June 18th at the Red Room!! A night of Sound, Music, and Spoken word. ~*~Featuring~*! ___|)_________|___________ |___/___|______|____ |__/|___|-.__,-.________ |_/(|,\_|/___`-‘______ |_\_|_/__________ | A musical performance from touring artist Zach Rowden (CT). Spectralist nightmare double bass compositions/improvisations. A pupil of the late Ana-Maria Avram and a player in Iancu Dumitrescu’s Hyperion Ensemble. “Shredder” https://zachrowden.bandcamp.com/releases Jack Patterson & […]
Friday June 08, 2018 | 8:30 pm
Crooks/Gilgore + Wendy Eisenberg + Nick A Bisceglia + Peter Redgrave
Friday, June 8th at the Red Room! ANNA CROOKS & JARRETT GILGORE There are melodies hidden in speech. Anna & Jarrett unearth these melodies and provide a strange new context for poetry. The duo began during Superbowl LI (2017) and has since performed around Baltimore on lineups with Susan Alcorn, Twig Harper, Lexie Mountain, BLUD. […]
Wednesday June 13, 2018 | 8:30 pm
Tigue | Jason Charney
Tigue is a group of three percussionists with a fluid musical identity. The Brooklyn-based trio (Matt Evans, Amy Garapic and Carson Moody) makes their own kinetic and hypnotic blend of instrumental minimalism while opening up the possibilities of their instrumentation through commissioning and collaboration. Tigue’s debut album Peaks was released in 2015 with New Amsterdam […]
Monday June 04, 2018 | 7:30 pm
Volunteers’ Collective
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. […]
Sunday June 10, 2018 | 8:30 pm
Jin Sangtae | Erick Antonio Benitez | Dan Malinsky
3 unique and distinct solo performances at the Red Room – offering a deep dive into the lush, cryptic inner worlds of electronic, electromagnetic and mechanical sounds! Featuring JIN SANGTAE one of the pivotal musicians of the Seoul South Korean electronic and improvised music scene, in a rare US concert! JIN SANGTAE (electronics) South Korea ERICK […]
Saturday June 09, 2018 | 8:30 pm
Killick and Susan Alcorn; Les Trois Batterie with Wendel Patrick
A duo of Killick and Susan Alcorn Killick plays Appalachian Trance Metal on stringed instruments with an emphasis on unquantifiable rhythms, intuitive intonation, and shamanistic ROYGBIV. Susan Alcorn is Baltimore’s own pedal steel guitar virtuoso. Together, they will form a tangle of never-before-heard string vibrations. Les Trois Batterie with Wendel Patrick Dan Breen and Bob Wagner are […]
Saturday May 19, 2018 | 8:30 pm
J Money Fur/Rod&Tiffany/Tom Borax
Amazing night of chamber music, experimental pop, chamber pop, chamber pots and pot music. Baltimore talent in the house. Feast your senses on this delicate, dark, and wondrous roster: The incredible mallets and ethereal synths of Rod Hamilton and Tiffany Seal. https://soundcloud.com/rod_and_tiffany The massive soundscapes and performance art of J Money Fur. http://www.jmoneyfur.com/ Tom Borax in his […]
Saturday May 12, 2018 | 8:00 pm
TRAVIS LAPLANTE/GERALD CLEAVER -A DANCE THAT EMPTIES:
A Dance That Empties is Travis Laplante‘s latest album-length composition, written for Subtle Degrees, a new two-musician ensemble consisting of Laplante (tenor saxophone) and Gerald Cleaver (drums). The duo’s uncategorizable sound evokes everything from contemporary classical music, avant-garde jazz, minimalism, technical metal, and sacred world music. Laplante is also the founder/composer of saxophone quartet Battle Trance and […]
Sunday May 06, 2018 | 7:30 pm
Volunteers’ Collective, Sunday, May 6th 2018
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. […]
Friday May 25, 2018 | 8:30 pm
~ Jason Kahn ~ If, Bwana ~ Piss Kills Mold ~
Jason Kahn // (solo) Born 1960 in New York. Moved to Europe in 1990 and is currently based in Zurich, where he is active as a musician, artist and writer. Kahn performs voice and resonator guitar. If, Bwana // (solo) Al Margolis is a composer/performer, improvisor and painter. Since 1984, often under his project name […]
