Saturday March 15, 2025 | 7:30 pm
Community Modular Meetup: Jess Keyes and Tom Boram
Synthesizer meetups can be a great place to talk about what equipment people are using, but modules will only get you so far! Tonight, we will host a discussion with two Baltimore area Eurorack artists about their aesthetic approaches. If you’ve ever been just on the edge of a music scene and wondered why there […]
Tuesday February 25, 2025 | 8:00 pm
Towson University hosts students, faculty, & High Zero Collective
Improvised music collaboration between Towson University students and faculty with High Zero Collective members. Featuring: Dave Ballou, Mike Kuhl, John Dierker, Ruth Lacey, Devin Ostendarp, Wesley Blood, Rachel Beetz, Bonnie Lander, and, Max Gong. The experimental improvised music community of Baltimore runs deep and reaches into area academic institutions. Many of our performers are also […]
Sunday February 23, 2025 | 8:00 pm
A Night of Duos
Interstellar Duo: Jamal Moore and Warren Crudup III – reeds, percussion and electronics Orlando Johnson and Peter Redgrave: reeds, brass, percussion and strings King Solomon and mystery GUEST: reeds, keyboards and electronics As with almost all Red Room shows, 100% of the door money goes to the players. Please bring 10 dollars in cash (or […]
Tuesday March 04, 2025 | 8:00 pm
multi-channel electroacoustic AND conceptual movement
All the building blocks of a healthy mind and body. Multi-Channel Electro Acoustic music and Conceptual Performance Movement Action. Obie Feldi and M.C. Schmidt! Jeff Carey! Alex Wu! John Hoegberg! Visiting Professor from Carnegie Mellon in Electronic Music Composition, Freida Abtan!! AND KHRISTIAN WEEKS and PETER REDGRAVE! •••••••••••••••••••• Four pieces in quadraphonic or octophonic and […]
Wednesday February 26, 2025 | 8:00 pm
Jacques/Cornell Duo, Adrian Wood, DeLaurenti/Goeringer Duo
Amazing night with Anne-F Jacques/AJ Cornell of Quebec, Adrian Wood (VA) and Chris Delaurenti and Lyn Goeringer (Balt!). Expect inventions, electro-acoustics, analog synths, radios, cassettes, theremins, noises, abstractions, motors, machines……… A gleaner of sonorities, AJ Cornell transforms and transmits sonic material over radio channels and through live performance. Her approach employs dense layers of macro and micro sounds evolving […]
Saturday February 22, 2025 | 8:30 pm
Horizon Overflow (Baltimore area super-group)
A selection of Baltimore’s finest sound-smiths together for one special night. HORIZON OVERFLOWJohn Berndt electronics, invented instruments, saxophoneRose Hammer Burt saxophoneSamuel Burt bass clarinet, daxophonePatrick Crossland trombonePaul Neidhardt percussionNate Scheible timpani
Sunday February 02, 2025 | 7:30 pm
Volunteers’ Collective February 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 February 27, 2025 | 8:30 pm
Killick and Rose Burt | Simone Baron and Eric Franklin
Two duos featuring unlikely combinations of instruments! Killick Hines on unusual stringed instruments performs with Rose Burt on saxophones. Simone Baron plays accordion with Eric Franklin on theremin. What happens when you combine the overtones of a baritone saxophone with shimmer of sympathetic strings? What vibrations will fill the room when a warbling theremin tone […]
Friday February 28, 2025 | 8:00 pm
Chuck Bettis/Jerry Lim/Mick Barr/Breath of the Magi
Entirely great night!!! High Zero alums and wayward, beloved musicians Chuck Bettis and Jerry Lim return to Bmore with an all new duo project. Guitar wizard and legendary shredder Mick Barr is also with them! Bmore local supergroup Breath of the Magi (Peter Redgrave, Orlando Johnson, Che Davis) open!!! What a night!! Active since the […]
Wednesday March 12, 2025 | 7:00 pm
High Zero Night at Fadensonnen
7pm Wednesday March 12th, 20253 W. 23rd St., Baltimore Halfway between festivals, we want to keep the High Zero spirit alive in Baltimore! 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 (upstairs only!!) tavern profits will […]
Wednesday February 05, 2025 |
Bashi Rose // Rebecca Lloyd-Jones: Sarah Hennies’ Thought Sectors
Wednesday February 5th, 8pm Doors, 8:30pm Show Incredible musical night abounds! Bashi Rose, founder of Konjur Collective is a theatre artist, musician, and filmmaker. He was raised in West Baltimore and nurtured by the Baltimore Arts Community. He has performed and has had work produced in numerous venues including the High Zero Festival of Experimental Improvised Music, […]
Monday February 03, 2025 |
Michael Jones // Ida Dierker + Brandon Gouin
Monday February 3rd – 8pm doors, 8:30pm show. We welcome new music percussionist Michael Jones to the Red Room all the way from San Diego, CA. Joined by local duo Ida Dierker & Brandon Gouin. Michael Jones Michael is a percussionist and conductor based in Southern California. He has beendescribed by Fanfare Magazine as a […]
Friday January 31, 2025 | 8:00 pm
Tony Malaby’s FIREBATH Baltimore
Dave Ballou Tony Malaby’s FIREBATH Baltimore! Please join us for an open rehearsal at Towson University at 4pm followed by a concert at the Red Room at 8:30pm Tony Malaby Dave Ballou Mike Kuhl John Dierker Adam Hopkins Friday, Jan 31st Open Rehearsal at Towson UniversityCenter for the Arts room 20754pm, FREE! –Red Room Show at […]
Sunday January 05, 2025 | 7:30 pm
Volunteers’ Collective, January 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 […]
Wednesday January 22, 2025 | 8:00 pm
Aaron Pond and Inverse/Obverse + Jenny Moon Tucker/Layne Garrett Duo
Inverse and Obverse from Philly will be joined by the duo of BMore’s Jenny Moon Tucker and DC’s Layne Garrett. Inverse and Obverse is a quartet rooted in a phenomenological approach to creative music. like the great philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty, we are examining the skin of the world, the very nature by which objects and […]
Tuesday December 17, 2024 | 8:00 pm
Zane Kanevsky, Grace Bedwell, Vasya
Tuesday night at the Red Room! Zane Kanevsky of Maine comes down to show some new Quadrophonic work at the Red Room, on tour with Grace Bedwell. Everything Zane has been a part of, I love. His music is crushing and violent but does not lack nuance or moments of clarity. I highly recommend digging […]
Tuesday December 10, 2024 |
Rachel Beetz + Ted Moore
Tuesday December 10th, 2024 | 8pm Doors, 8:30pm Show Coming off the closing night of this year’s High Zero festival, Beetz will perform a new improvisation set she’s calling Delayed consisting of solo sung hockets, circular breathing, electronics, ambient drones, and (hopefully) some delayed gratification. Ted Moore (he/him) is a composer, improviser, and intermedia artist whose work […]
Wednesday December 11, 2024 | 8:00 pm
Towson, UMBC, Peabody Intercollegiate Concert
Three colleges come together for a joint end-of-semester concert at the Red Room, joined by Towson’s faculty members Dave Ballou and John Dierker. From Towson: Ruth Lacey – Electronics, Devin Ostendarp – Guitar, Ruben Payan – Trombone, Melodica, Logan Perry – Drums, Percussion, Devin Bryan – Trumpet, Camila Compos – Cerri-Trumpet, Adam “Tennis” Mendelson – […]
Sunday December 01, 2024 | 7:30 pm
Volunteers’ Collective, November 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 […]
Wednesday November 20, 2024 | 8:00 pm
Bark Culture/Marshall Trammell+Pat Cain
HUGE NIGHT! Philadelphia’s “Bark Culture” (vibes, bass, drums) and DC/Oakland duo Marshall Trammell (percussion) and Pat Cain (electronics, noise). Two sets of deep improvised music at the outer limits of jazz and noise. This may be the world premiere of the Duo of Pat Cain (from DC’s amazing Model Home) and Marshall Trammell (High Zero […]
Friday December 13, 2024 | 7:30 pm
Community Modular Meetup | Petting Zoo
SHARE AND LEARN! Members of Baltimore’s modular synthesizer community bring their racks for you to patch. Bring a rack to share! Try patching unfamiliar modules. Talk to the owners and learn more about what they love about their synths. This is a good chance to try modular formats outside of Eurorack. Participants might bring Serge […]
Thursday November 14, 2024 | 8:30 pm
Works Showcase: Keyes, Weeks, Holofcener, and Wenc
Tonight performers show off their deep research into experimental music. Jess Keyes brings her project Patien(t/ce), for voice and eurorack synth with handmade wearable controllers. She uses two home-engineered sensor gloves to manipulate her voice in real-time. Khristian Weeks will be improvising on found open-circuitry with a contact mic and objects. Stalwart arts advocate Adam […]
Monday November 04, 2024 | 8:00 pm
Dave Greber | Rohan Pathare & Robin Rhodes | Carrie Fucile & Brenton Lim
Dave Greber Dave Greber (b. 1982, Philadelphia) is an artist, educator, and consultant based in Baltimore. He creates experiences for galleries and the wider public arena, using digital media, sculptural installations, and social/environmental interventions. His practice is enthusiastically intuitive, aided by divination and collaboration with both biological and artificial intelligence. He began exhibiting video and […]
Sunday November 03, 2024 | 7:30 pm
Volunteers’ Collective, October 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 […]
