Monday August 29, 2016 | 7:00 pm
Baltimore Technology Overdrive — DIY Sequencer Workshop
A sequencer on a breadboard! Sean Regan will be demonstrating how to build basic gate and CV sequencers from inexpensive CMOS logic chips. We will explore how CMOS sequencers can be used to control both DIY and commercial voltage controlled synthesizers, with a focus on the DIY CMOS gated oscillators constructed in last month’s workshop. […]
Sunday September 18, 2016 | 8:30 pm
High Zero: Sunday Sept 18th
Sunday Night, September 18th » Doors open 7:30 PM / Performances start 8:30 PM sharp [buy tickets] Solo: Bushmeat Soundsystem (electronics) The Night of Randomization As a new ongoing tradition, the High Zero Festival will leave Sunday Night’s sets up to chance. Fourteen performers will be divided into four sets, randomly. What kind of wonderful, unplanned, […]
Saturday September 17, 2016 | 8:30 pm
High Zero: Saturday Eve Sept 17th
Saturday Night, September 17th » Doors open 7:30 PM / Performances start 8:30 PM sharp [buy tickets] Solo: N.N.Y. (saxophone) Group One: Owen Gardner (cello, guitar) Laura Ortman (amplified violin) Anne-F Jacques (motors, objects, amplification) Rosie Langabeer (piano) Group Two: Maia Urstad (sound art) John Berndt (saxophone, electronics) Jimmy Joe Roche (voice, modular synthesizer) Eames Armstrong (electronics, dance, performance) Group Three: Noelle Tolbert (dance) Hanna […]
Saturday September 17, 2016 | 1:00 pm
High Zero: Saturday Matinee Sept 17th
Saturday Matinee, September 17th » Doors open 12 NOON / Performances start 1:00 PM sharp [buy tickets] Special sets that break the pattern of nightly performances in an attempt to redefine the undefinable. Duos Duo One: Zachary Watkins (electric guitar) Noelle Tolbert (dance) Duo Two: Ruby Fulton (trumpet, flugelhorn, violin) CK Barlow (guitar, sampling, electronics) Duo Three: Jimmy Joe […]
Friday September 16, 2016 | 8:30 pm
High Zero: Friday Sept 16th
Friday Night, September 16th » Doors open 7:30 PM / Performances start 8:30 PM sharp [buy tickets] Solo: Laura Ortman (amplified violin) Group One: Jeff Carey (computer) CK Barlow (guitar, sampling, electronics) Rosie Langabeer (piano) Philadelphia N.N.Y. (saxophone) Japan Layne Garrett (guitar, objects, self-built instruments) Group Two: Jimmy Joe Roche (voice, modular synthesizer) Marshall Trammell (percussion) Julius Masri (percussion, keyboards, oud) Group Three: Walter […]
Thursday September 15, 2016 | 8:30 pm
High Zero: Thursday Sept 15th
Thursday Night, September 15th » Doors open 7:30 PM / Performances start 8:30 PM sharp [buy tickets] Solo: Maia Urstad (sound art) Group One: Marshall Trammell (percussion) Laura Ortman (amplified violin) N.N.Y. (saxophone) Group Two: Anne-F Jacques (motors, objects, amplification) Marta Zapparoli (reel to reel, tape recorders) Asimina Chremos (dance) Tom Boram (thocolate tynapple panipulator) Group Three: Ruby Fulton (trumpet, flugelhorn, violin) Jeff Carey (computer) […]
Tuesday August 16, 2016 | 9:00 pm
Tomaž Grom/Eric Ostrowski/Liz Meredith
A totally unique night of artists taking traditional bowed instruments into far reaches of sound art and noise, multi-media interactivity and expanded cinema! Tomaž Grom, concert bass/multi-media conceptual art (Slovenia) Eric Ostrowski, violin/expanded 16mm projection (Seattle) Liz Meredith, violin/viola and analogue tape(Baltimore) We are happy to welcome Tomaž, an amazing improvisor and bassist from the incredible […]
Friday September 09, 2016 |
PURGIST w/ Stress Orphan, Quna, Maryland Mansion
P U R G I S T is an outlet for focused exploration of urban field recordings, digital artifacts, aural atmospherics and disjointed noise dynamics from the Polish underground music community. Est. 2013. His vivid, cinematic post- industrial harsh noise works have a prominent conceptual background based on a reflection upon personal vices and self-abusive […]
Saturday September 03, 2016 | 9:00 pm
Jacob Wick // Justin Porter // Meg Rorison
Jacob Wick (trumpet) Justin Porter (cello) Meg Rorison (projections/sound) Jacob Wick, Mexico City based trumpet player is joined by former Baltimorean now NY-based Justin Porter and local Meg Rorison for an evening of three solo performances exploring the visceral, the ephemeral and the immersive. JACOB WICK is a trumpet player and improvisor who lives in Mexico City […]
Saturday August 13, 2016 | 9:00 pm
Chen+Fleisenberg+Nørstebø+Rorison
AUDREY CHEN (voice/cello) and FLANDREW FLEISENBERG (percussion) with special Guest Henrik Monk (Trombone), from Norway and Margaret Rorison (Projections), from Baltimore Fleisenberg is a player of objects. Drums only fall peripherally into his spectrum, while he is mostly fascinated in coaxing out the inherent material characters of “mundane things”. These wide manipulations of external implements […]
Friday October 28, 2016 | 9:00 pm
Thomas Helton in two sets with Michael Formanek and Kevin Patton
Two of the most powerful and inventive acoustic bass players High Zero has ever witnessed. Thomas Helton plays at the Red Room with Michael Formanek. Both men inhabit the worlds of free improvisation and jazz. There’s no telling what journey they will follow, this evening. Thomas Helton will also be playing with Kevin Patton in their group pH. This […]
Sunday August 14, 2016 | 8:30 pm
LIZ DURETTE // EMMALEE HUNNICUTT // SARAH LOUISE
Untethered yet pleasant sounds from Asheville and Baltimore cruise on into your ears at THE RED ROOM. Liz on Liz: “I have always played music, piano then cello as a child. As an adult, I re-taught myself piano, and have been playing for the past ten years. At first nothing made sense. I was improvising […]
Monday August 08, 2016 | 8:30 pm
LUCAS ABELA // JOHN WIESE
HOLY COW! There’s no preparing for a show such as this, in which two legends of extreme sound – ONE OF THEM COMING FROM ACROSS THE WORLD – melt your mind, face, guts (heart?) etc. at little old Red Room. doors at 8:30, show at 9 $5-10 sliding scale Initially classed as a turntablist, Lucas […]
Sunday August 07, 2016 | 7:00 pm
Volunteers’ Collective — August 2016
The Volunteers’ Collective is a monthly improvisation workshop with a focus on listening and ad hoc collaboration. Players of all skill levels are encouraged to attend and play with each other. We are seeking: trombonists drummers compuerists trianglers accordiates reeders pickup-ites bassoids inventors guitaries clarinetines short-wavers synthologists tinglers philologists bruitists reductionizers glam-flammys timpanists vocalizers sound […]
Tuesday July 26, 2016 | 7:00 pm
Baltimore Technology Overdrive — Lunetta CMOS synth workshop
Sean Regan will teach basic principles of synth building using physical logic gates. He will be bringing a bunch of chips, parts, and breadboards. Come learn to make an oscillator based on a simple inverter, a gated oscillator, a ring modulator, and a simple sequencer. All skill levels are welcome. Come take the first steps […]
Friday August 12, 2016 | 8:30 pm
Kevin Hufnagel // New Firmament
KEVIN HUFNAGEL Multifaceted guitarist/composer Kevin Hufnagel has been playing, writing, performing, and recording for over 28 years and is perhaps best known for his work in progressive instrumental rock trio Dysrhythmia, avant-death metal act Gorguts, Vaura and occult rock/metal band Sabbath Assembly. Kevin has also collaborated with artists such as Jarboe (Swans), Costanza Francavilla (Tricky), […]
Sunday July 10, 2016 | 7:00 pm
Volunteers’ Collective Improv Workshop, July 2016 [SPECIAL WEEK]
The Volunteers’ Collective is a monthly improvisation workshop with a focus on listening and ad hoc collaboration. Players of all skill levels are encouraged to attend and play with each other. We are seeking: trombonists drummers compuerists trianglers accordiates reeders pickup-ites bassoids inventors guitaries clarinetines short-wavers synthologists tinglers philologists bruitists reductionizers glam-flammys timpanists vocalizers sound […]
Thursday June 30, 2016 | 8:30 pm
Alto! + Spreaders + Mat Luczak
A night of drums and noise at the Red Room! Portland, OR and NY state come out to Balt! from Portland – ALTO! the exclamation point is part of the name! not to be confused with the other exclamatio points! A seriously talented trio from oregon, this band has a huge range – a grittier […]
Friday July 15, 2016 | 2:00 pm
Worlds in Collusion Festival at Artscape 2016 – Friday
The High Zero Foundation and Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts presents!! WORLDS IN COLLUSION FESTIVAL Artscape 2016 July 15th – 17th University of Baltimore Student Center, 5th Floor FREE! 18 hours of mind-bending, thoroughly air-conditioned performances by Baltimore artists, including the traditional, the experimental, and the just plain strange. Friday, July 15 2 […]
Friday July 08, 2016 | 8:30 pm
Katt Hernandez + Wilfrido Terrazas + Susan Alcorn + Andy Hayleck
Join us for a night of exceptional instrumentalists: Katt Hernandez (violin, Sweden) and Wilfrido Terrazas (flute, Mexico) each present a short solo set, followed by a collaboration with local improvisors Susan Alcorn (pedal steel guitar) and Andy Hayleck (banjo). Katt Hernandez is a violinist living in Stockholm, Sweden. Focused primarily on freely improvised music, Katt draws […]
Friday June 24, 2016 | 8:30 pm
A night of video art and putrid performance
Performance : Fiona Parker and the Spitting Truth : Fiona Parker and the Spitting Truth, is a collage of putrid experimental sounds, visuals and performance. Composed from deliquescent minimal noise, fluidic visuals and regurgitating performance. (Stephanie Bonham/sounds, Fiona Parker/Performer, Hekkate /Visuals) Video works: Lindsay Bottos-Sewell Francy Z Graham Kiera Mulhern Dan Langston T.J. Domingue Helen […]
Sunday July 17, 2016 | 2:00 pm
Worlds in Collusion Festival at Artscape 2016 – Sunday
The High Zero Foundation and Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts presents!! WORLDS IN COLLUSION FESTIVAL Artscape 2016 July 15th – 17th University of Baltimore Student Center, 5th Floor FREE! 18 hours of mind-bending, thoroughly air-conditioned performances by Baltimore artists, including the traditional, the experimental, and the just plain strange. Sunday, July 17 2 […]
Saturday July 16, 2016 | 2:00 pm
Worlds in Collusion Festival at Artscape 2016 – Saturday
The High Zero Foundation and Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts presents!! WORLDS IN COLLUSION FESTIVAL Artscape 2016 July 15th – 17th University of Baltimore Student Center, 5th Floor FREE! 18 hours of mind-bending, thoroughly air-conditioned performances by Baltimore artists, including the traditional, the experimental, and the just plain strange. Saturday, July 16 2 […]
Thursday June 16, 2016 | 8:30 pm
Sonic Meditations
What constitutes your musical universe? How do we use the sounds we make to connect with one another? This workshop uses several pieces in Pauline Oliveros’ Sonic Meditations series to illuminate these questions. Participants are guided through a series of meditation exercises which draw focus to their body, breath, voice, and the sounds around them […]
Tuesday July 05, 2016 | 8:30 pm
INTERNATIONAL NOISE CONFERENCE BALTIMORE
Rat Bastard, winner of numerous best and worst guitarist awards, with support from dozens of local noise acts. This show will be at MYSPACE. 5 to 10 sliding scale. BYO http://www.squelchers.com/ 9:00 Pony Moon 9:15 Newagehillbilly 9:30 Not Box Truck 9:45 LLIQUID SD 10:00 TRNSGNDR\VHS 10:15 Proud Father (NOLA) 10:30 Eames Armstrong 10:45 Tom Boram […]
