Saturday August 02, 2025 | 8:00 pm
MSHR, Mary Levinson
MSHR is an art collective that collaboratively builds and explores sculptural electronic systems. Their performances and installations integrate electrical signals and human presence, weaving dense networks of causality to form audiovisual environments that babble with life-like current. They explore intuitive and technical gradients between sonic and sculptural forms, using analog circuitry and open-source software to […]
Sunday August 17, 2025 | 7:00 pm
Volunteers’ Collective
You are cordially invited to come play free music! DELAYED UNTIL JULY 6th, THIS MONTH, due to a Normals bookstore event on the first Sunday. 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 […]
Saturday August 09, 2025 | 8:00 pm
Bettis/Bassett + Leprechaun Catering
More way-out electronics than you could shake a theremin finger at. Come out Baltimore for an old school “banger” of synth noise. Chuck Bettis and Marcia Bassett were both regulars in Bmore, both frequently dropping in to mythic places like the west-side’s Tarantula Hill and the Bank. Now both in NYC and in a duo. […]
Saturday July 26, 2025 | 8:00 pm
MUSIC OF THE SPHERES MAJID ARAIM-KLIMCHAK///JAMAL MOORE-ORLANDO JOHNSON
A NIGHT OF NEW IMPROVISED MUSIC Majid Araim is an Iraqi-American multi-instrumentalist, composer, educator, curator, visual artist, researcher and a fixture of the Atlanta improvisation and new music communities. Majid’s prolific work as a composer focuses on resonance and dynamics, experimental approaches, and is oriented towards the natural world and reimaginings thereof. Passionate about reflection of […]
Wednesday August 13, 2025 | 8:00 pm
Charmaine Lee w/ EXECUTIVE SUMMARY LIVE
Chanrmaine Lee, High Zero festival veteran, is coming back to Baltimore to present her solo electronic music. Local support TBA. Charmaine Lee (b. 1991) is an Australian vocalist based in New York whose music spans voice, feedback, and live processing. Her music has been recognized as “extraordinary” by The New Yorker, with additional coverage in […]
Tuesday September 02, 2025 | 6:00 pm
Pre Zero at Fadensonnen
Kick off High Zero month with a fundraiser hosted by Fadensonnen. Local luminaries will perform experimental improvised music for you in a cozy tavern setting. A portion of the (upstairs only!!) tavern profits will go to High Zero! Come hang out with us and help support the work we are doing. 6pm doors, 7pm showtimeat […]
Tuesday July 22, 2025 | 8:00 pm
Kyle Bruckmann w/ Pluta, Macklay, Dierker and too many reeds
Oakland, CA-based oboist and electronic musician (and High Zero alum) Kyle Bruckmann swoops through town to tussle with three of Baltimore’s finest in an improvised set of far too many reeds and fried circuits. Bruckmann’s long shared history with New Music power couple Macklay and Pluta includes collaborating on compositional extremes within the ensemble Splinter […]
Saturday July 12, 2025 | 8:00 pm
July 12th- Eric Frye/Michael Masura Flora, Network Glass, etc.
Earth moving multi channel electroacoustic American music next Saturday July 12th Chupacabra.Valentine (Minneapolis/California) combined efforts of computer musicians Eric Frye and Michael Masaru Flora in Octophonic 8 channel surround sound Eric Frye is a composer, artist, and curator. Exploring non-orientable sonic surfaces, Frye operates between the disciplinary boundaries of sound, philosophy, linguistics, and mathematics. His […]
Sunday July 06, 2025 | 7:30 pm
Volunteers’ Collective July 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 […]
Thursday July 10, 2025 | 6:00 pm
Current Space Fundraiser for High Zero. Doors at 6, Music at 7
We all want more High Zero in our lives, right? The throw-it-at-the-wall and see-what-sticks. The serious concentration with a smirk. The unplanned sudden eruption of genius from people who aren’t in a band together. Current Space will be holding an outdoor summer fundraiser for the High Zero Festival. You get more music from your local […]
Thursday June 26, 2025 | 8:00 pm
Bashi Rose, Emperor King Bishop, Hunter Batchelder, w/ Breath of the Magi
Come check out this new trio of Bashi Rose, Emperor King Bishop Soloman Selassie, and Hunter Batchelder. The two drummers are known for their intense rhythmic drives and the Emperor has impressed us all at the HighZero Festival last September. Their gathering will surely be volcanic. Joining with them are the maverick local trio Breath […]
Sunday June 22, 2025 | 8:30 pm
Jordan Sand (doublebass), Simone Baron (accordion) and Samuel Burt (bass clarinet)
We love musicians who both are masters of their instrument and highly creative performers. Jordan Sand is one of these visionary virtuosos. Jordan Sand is an American bassist, vocalist and improviser weaving voice into the organ-like resonances of bowed double bass. Her solo music, described as “Joni Mitchell meets Ligeti” (Omaha Under the Radar), blends […]
Tuesday June 24, 2025 | 8:30 pm
Noise Show from Providence + prognoz (MD/PA)
Cryptwarbler, Sadnoise, Barbie.ai Local Band: prognoz Providence/Mass-based noise artists will hit us with three solo performances involving circuit bent Casios, DIY and Ciat Lonbarde instruments, and improved techno from a cage! Elliott Jeter will bring some local flavor with his duo noise-rock/post-punk band prognoz. Come FEEL THE MUSIC deep within you! Sadnoise (Femi) is an architect […]
Wednesday June 04, 2025 | 8:00 pm
Kevin Blackistone w/ Alexander Wu, Dan Deluca
Come witness Kevin Blackistone performs with his hostile improvisation interface that punishes its user based on predictability of the performance. Opening for the night are solo sets by max/msp/excel live coder Alexander Wu and local synth wizard Dan Deluca! Kevin Blackistone (US/AT) is an transdisciplinary media artist and researcher using immersive, tangible, participatory and performative […]
Sunday June 01, 2025 | 7:30 pm
Volunteers’ Collective June 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 […]
Thursday May 29, 2025 | 8:00 pm
Kristina Warren & Jessica Keyes
Join us for an outstanding night featuring visiting artist Kristina Warren and local phenom Jessica Keyes. 8pm doors 8:30pm show $10-$20 Sliding Scale Based in Providence, RI, Kristina Warren (kmwarren.org) is an artist working with acoustic, analog, and digital sound plus video. Previously a Fulbright US Scholar (MuseumsQuartier Vienna, 2023) and Visiting Assistant Professor of […]
Friday June 06, 2025 | 8:00 pm
Manas (Tashi Dorji, Thom Nguyen) w/ Che Chen; Jamal Moore, Nic Francis
“Tornado-conjuring” improv supergroup Manas + Che Chen visits the normal bookstore! Opening for them: Jamal Moore, Nic Francis. From their album Things of Outtakes: “MANAS are guitar and drums, with nothing more than guitar and drums. It’s easy to think about the historicization process of this form of non-Rock music in America, but it’s very […]
Friday May 16, 2025 | 7:00 pm
Spring 2025 Intercollegiate Concert
Join us at Peabody’s Maestro Cafe for an exciting new iteration of the Intercollegiate Concert featuring talented improvisers from Towson, UMBC, and Peabody! Experience unique musical collaborations as students are mixed into random groups for a night of fresh sounds you won’t want to miss! Consider donating at the door! Your contributions will directly support […]
Sunday May 11, 2025 | 8:00 pm
Austin Larkin solo violin w/ Sophie Rollover
Come experience the endlessly entrancing solo violin performance of Austin Larkin – textures merge into silence merge into space. The slow shifting harmonies and harmonics create a hypnotically engaging environment where the violin becomes the space it is situated in. Opening for the night will be a stellar new trio from the Peabody Improvisers Collective, […]
Sunday May 04, 2025 | 7:30 pm
Volunteers’ Collective May 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 […]
Friday May 02, 2025 | 8:00 pm
Marshall Trammell’s Pedagogy w/ Peter Redgrave, Move Move, quartet w/ Stanley, Moore, Cain
Experimental/creative music percussionist, composer, sound installation artist, music strategist Marshall Trammell debuting his new graphic score project Pedagogy of the Surveilled with Peter Redgrave and the Move Move dancers. Developed with North African and Levantine residents living in Amsterdam, Pedagogy “focuses on working with personal histories as a way to resist surveillance.” Marshall will be […]
Sunday April 27, 2025 | 8:00 pm
Lauren Sarah Hayes/Carey & Ballou
Brilliant composer performer Lauren Sarah Hayes (Arizona/Scotland) returns to Baltimore. One of the finest solo live electronics performers we’ve ever seen – this is a true treat. Lauren uses a complex system of computer control signals and analog hardware that form a symbiotic relationship into a dizzying swarm of sounds that is full of life […]
Wednesday April 16, 2025 | 8:00 pm
Emily Rach Beisel returns to Balt
Come and see brilliant bass clarinetist and electro-acoustic improvisor Emily Rach Beisel solo and in combos with local aces Paul Neidhardt (percussion), John Dierker (reeds) and Tom Borax (synthesizer). Emily Rach Beisel is a Chicago-based improviser, composer, educator, curator, and woodwind specialist whose work is celebrated for its visceral intensity and innovative blend of techniques. […]
Wednesday April 09, 2025 | 7:30 pm
Volunteers’ Collective March 2025, shifted schedule
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 […]
