Friday November 14, 2025 | 7:30 pm
D I F F U S I O N • F E S T I V A L • 9 • NIGHT FOUR The Voxel Theater
It’s High Zero’s DIFFUSION FESTIVAL, the festival of music made out of sounds. -AT THE VOXEL THEATER. Just to remind you, DIFFUSION is our festival concerned with multi-channel electro-acoustic music, both brand new and historical. Some of these sound pieces are made with just microphones, some of them are made with only electronic instruments, much […]
Wednesday November 12, 2025 | 7:30 pm
D I F F U S I O N • F E S T I V A L • 9 • NIGHT THREE ‘locals’
TWO IDENTICAL SHOWINGS at 7:30 and 9:30 It’s High Zero’s DIFFUSION FESTIVAL, the festival of music made out of sounds. Just to remind you, DIFFUSION is our festival concerned with multi-channel electro-acoustic music, both brand new and historical. Some of these sound pieces are made with just microphones, some of them are made with only […]
Saturday November 08, 2025 | 7:30 pm
D I F F U S I O N • F E S T I V A L • 9 • NIGHT TWO
TWO IDENTICAL SHOWINGS at 7:30 and 9:30 ••• (Installation only available 6-8, see below) • It’s High Zero’s DIFFUSION FESTIVAL, the festival of music made out of sounds. Just to remind you, DIFFUSION is our festival concerned with multi-channel electro-acoustic music, both brand new and historical. Some of these sound pieces are made with just […]
Friday November 07, 2025 | 7:31 pm
D I F F U S I O N • F E S T I V A L • N U M B E R 9
Identical Showings at 7:30 and 10:00 (sshhhh!) ••••••••• It’s High Zero’s DIFFUSION FESTIVAL, the festival of music made out of sounds. Just to remind you, DIFFUSION is our festival concerned with multi-channel electro-acoustic music, both brand new and historical. Some of these sound pieces are made with just microphones, some of them are made with […]
Tuesday October 21, 2025 | 8:00 pm
Phipps Pt. (Wobbly and Lovage) + Soft Pink Truth
Singer and Songwriter Lovage has a duo with avant computer-loving Jon “Wobbly” Leidecker… This is that DUO! Please come to see and hear them! Phipps Pt. is a sound-based project of Canadian artist and conduit, Lovage Sharrock. What began as a series of one-off performances pairing her hypnotic guitar patterns and vocals with rotating collaborators […]
Tuesday October 14, 2025 | 8:00 pm
ODU VIBRATION II
CHRIS WILLIAMS////////// JAMAL MOORE-TAYLOR WASHINGTON DEPTH OF AFRIKAN SCIENCE, CREATIVE MUSIC AND IMPROVISATION Chris Ryan Williams is an artist and musician based in Brooklyn, NY. His work takes the form of electroacoustic composition and performance installation and deals with decoding family history, ambience, and time-space compression Jamal Moore is a luminary in his own right […]
Monday November 17, 2025 | 8:00 pm
CANCELLED. Brett Naucke + Cex. CANCELLED
THIS SHOW HAS SADLY BEEN CANCELLED Brett Naucke who lives in Asheville North Carolina, and has albums on Hausmo, Spectrum Spools, No Rent and Mego Music is a synthesist. From NPR: “Music may not actually have height, width or depth, but Brett Naucke’s certainly feels three-dimensional. Using synthesizers, field recordings and a variety of other […]
Sunday October 19, 2025 | 8:00 pm
Argyle Torah (Aaron Pond, Thomas Patteson) w/ Dax (Kylan Hillman, John Jansen), Ruth Lacey + Devin Ostendarp
Argyle Torah is the Philadelphia-based duo of Aaron Pond and Thomas Patteson. A friendship spanning the vast terrains of ethnomusicology, organology, and philosophical inquiry. Their music knows little bounds and centers the transfiguration of spirit via electrical and acoustical means. But it is just that, spirit, breath, which forms the core of being and of […]
Sunday October 12, 2025 | 8:00 pm
HOW THINGS ARE + Purdy / Pluta / Schmidt
Hellllllo, Martin here, your friendly and FEARFULLY creative member of the High Zero / Red Room collective. I played recently in (in another record store venue) Pittsburgh and this group opened for us and they were GREAT. I asked them to play at the Red Room sometime. HERE IS THAT SHOW! Please come to see […]
Thursday October 16, 2025 | 8:00 pm
Sonic Chambers Quartet & Bashi Rose
Hailing from New Orleans, the free jazz new music group Sonic Chambers Quartet will be making their Red Room debut along with our local favorite, Bashi Rose & inc. inc. inc. Check out their new album “Kiss of the Earth“. The title track is an arrangement of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring in a jazz combo […]
Saturday October 04, 2025 | 8:00 pm
MUSIC OF THE SPHERES II
MUSIC OF THE SPHERES II
MAJID ARAIM///JAMAL MOORE-ORLANDO JOHNSON///CHE JAMAL DAVIS
Sunday October 05, 2025 | 7:00 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 […]
Tuesday September 30, 2025 | 8:00 pm
Carl Stone + The Lepidopterans
Super line-up, electronics, electroacoustics, acoustics, sampling at the highest level!!! Carl Stone – sampling pioneer and plundery, absurdist computer music virtuoso returns to Bmore, a rare visit from his home in Tokyo!!! Baltimore/Philly hybrid supergroup The Lepidopterans w/electronics maestros Tom Borax & Jason Willett of Leprechaun Catering, reedsman John Dierker of MicroKingdom/New Volcanos etc and […]
Friday October 24, 2025 | 8:30 pm
Killick and Orlando Johnson, Baltimore Improvised String Band (Porter, Fulton, Meredith, Lin)
Killick plays Appalachian Trance Metal on stringed instruments with an emphasis on unquantifiable rhythms, intuitive intonation, and shamanistic ROYGBIV. He’ll be joined by Orlando Johnson, a Baltimore multimedia artist who plays mandolin and dances in the Move Move Collaborative. Opening the night will be a group of Baltimore string players: Ruby Fulton, Kate Porter, Liz […]
Sunday September 21, 2025 | 7:30 pm
The 27th High Zero Concludes!
Final night of High Zero. Last chance to grab an evening of out of the box, raw, real, risk-taking sights and sounds! We are honored to include an opening set by Baltimore legend the inimitable, uncategorizable Laure Drogoul. https://www.highzero.org/2025_site/index.html. <-Info and tickets here. Solo Laure Drogoulolfactory stimulation, projections Set 1 Daoure Dionguesax, ngoni, voice, percussionBao […]
Saturday September 20, 2025 | 7:30 pm
HIGH ZERO NIGHT OF RANDOM
Thats right folks – time to let the pantheon of creation curate. We are better when we allow the universe to unfold before us. We are students of growth, change and spectral phenomena. Free music to free your mind, free of meddling from human curators and other nuisances. https://www.highzero.org/2025_site/index.html. <-Info and tickets here. The Night […]
Friday September 19, 2025 | 7:30 pm
Night TWO of the 27th High Zero Festival
High Zero Continues with another night of sights and sounds that will NEVER occur again. There is nothing in this world like REAL TIME collaborations and spontaneous audio-visual creation. https://www.highzero.org/2025_site/index.html. <-Info and tickets here. Friday 9/19 8:30pm Solo Yan Junelectronics, feedback, voice Set 1 Ayako Kataoka Blasserconcepts, sound art, movementLaure Drogoulolfactory stimulation, projectionsBao Nguyenvoice, actionMax […]
Thursday September 18, 2025 | 7:30 pm
The 27th High Zero Festival Begins!
Opening night of High Zero 2025. Each night – new sounds, new permutations, new paradigms. A deep dive into the possibilities of music! Never before collaborations from the creative minds of Bmore and Beyond!!! https://www.highzero.org/2025_site/index.html. <-Info and tickets here. Solo Patrick Crosslandtrombone Set 1 Larf PupguitarWarren “Trae” CrudupdrumsIda Dierkerpiano Set 2 Taylor WashingtonviolinMatthew Ryalsmodular synthesizerAyako […]
Sunday September 14, 2025 | 7:00 pm
Delayed: Volunteers’ Collective September 2025
This month’s VC has been moved to Sunday December 14th. Please, come out and experiment with us. 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 […]
Saturday September 06, 2025 |
EARTH TONGUES // Lander, Barlow and Downing
Saturday September 6th 8pm Doors, 8:30pm show $10-$20 Sliding Scale Earth Tongues is a New York-based ensemble formed in 2011. The band is dedicated to exploring the scope and scale of experimental improvised music. Consisting of Carlo Costa on percussion, Joe Moffett on trumpet, and Dan Peck on tuba, the trio creates pieces that explore […]
Thursday August 14, 2025 | 8:00 pm
THE MESSAGE
A night of creative music and journey through sound beyond. Transcendence ( Kweku Sumbry, Shakoor Hakeem) feaut. Brandon Woody/////// Mojuba Duo( Jamal Moore, Nik Francis) Transcendence Fearless percussionist Shakoor Hakeem, a prolific up-and-coming talent, has a gift for making experimental, Afro-diasporan, rhythmic improvisational music immediately enjoyable. Hakeem’s unique old soul has him adhering to the […]
Thursday August 28, 2025 | 7:00 pm
High Zero Volunteers Meeting
The 27th Annual High Zero Festival will be held on September 18th – 21st! Volunteers are needed for:– Picking artists up / dropping artists off at the airport/train station– Selling tickets at the concerts– Ushering at the concerts– Stagehand assistance – Helping with additional artist transportation during festival – Postering around town– HOUSING ARTISTS (please contact Bonnie Lander at lander@highzero.org asap if […]
Wednesday August 27, 2025 | 8:00 pm
for-tet & Portraits in Red and Gold
The “for-tet” is a group of improvisers playing compositions by Dave Ballou. Each composition is designed to be the source for creating with no rehearsal. This concert is a pre-release celebration of the group’s upcoming release, Flat Rat on the Shiny Boy Press coming later this year. Dave Ballou- trumpet/compositions John Dierker- bass clarinet Adam Hopkins- acoustic […]
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 […]
