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Saturday December 03, 2016 | 9:00 pm

FUTURE MINDS FREE // Laska, Fraser, Bennett, Foster

An evening of sound artists and improvising musicians from NYC and Philadelphia whose work explores the liberatory possibilities of system intelligence, generative musical practices and improvisation. PROGRAM PRESETS AND STUDIES Eric Laska Presets and Studies comprises recent audio material from low frequency ramp generators and field recordings of HVAC systems. The compositional structure of the […]

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Sunday November 06, 2016 | 7:00 pm

Volunteers’ Collective — November 6th, 2016

You are cordially invited to participate in the Volunteers’ Collective. 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         computerists    […]

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Thursday December 08, 2016 | 8:30 pm

Aspec(t) / Andrea Pensado / Piss Kills Mold

The duo Aspec(t) is electronic noise artist SEC_ on Revox tape recorder and Mario Gabola on saxophone and DIY feedback systems. They have been touring extensively through Europe and organized hundreds of show in their home town of Napoli.  Aspec(t) has released several albums and two collaboration albums, one with Dave Phillips and one with Andrzej Zaleski. Andrea Pensado works […]

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Friday November 11, 2016 | 8:30 pm

Kyle Eyre Clyd // John Jones + Zack Utz // Nicole Mazarakis + Mike Allender

Kyle Eyre Clyd is a electronic sound artist based on New Orleans. This will be a tape release for her new Cassette coming out on Ultraviolet Light Records. Additionally we have two amazing local Duo’s on the bill. John Jones ( aka Nerftoss) will be performing with Zack Utz and Nicole Mazarakis with Mike Allender. […]

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Thursday November 10, 2016 | 9:00 pm

Steve Olson Solo ++ The X Trio

The Red Room is pleased to present an evening of jazz-influenced free improv by local musicians Steve Olson (drums), Mark Lysher (bass), and Todd Marcus (bass clarinet) expanding the auditory space occupied by the appearance of a jazz trio. Steve Olson will open the evening with a solo on drums/percussion/objects/recorded sounds.

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Saturday November 12, 2016 | 9:00 pm

Stanley Schumacher and the Music Now Ensemble featuring Jason Smeltzer

An Instructive Lecture/Musical Performance by Stanley Schumacher, Jason Smeltzer and Professor Musikmacher. Preceding musical invocation by local musicians Shelly Purdy and Bob Wagner. STANLEY SCHUMACHER AND THE MUSIC NOW ENSEMBLE is a collective of improvisers and composers of exceptional musicianship and imagination. The members of the collective perform in various combinations of players in order to offer a kaleidoscope […]

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Saturday October 22, 2016 | 8:30 pm

New Works: Video Screening

New Works is a rolling event at the Red Room showcasing new video work and emphasizing local artists.  Featuring Travis Levasseur, Helen Jackson-Adams, Max Anderson, Anoushe Shoja-Chaghervand, Corey Hughes, Travis Levasseur, Will Schorre, Matthew Sullivan, Maya Ragazzo, Matisse Rifai, Gillian Waldo and Flannery Winchester. Tom Borax and Jimmy Joe Roche will performing a live audio/video Husbands set.  The […]

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Wednesday October 05, 2016 | 8:30 pm

John Krausbauer + Liz Durette & Andrew Bernstein

A last minute show at the Red Room featuring Angeleno John Krausbauer and Baltimoreans Liz Durette and Andrew Bernstein. INFO: John Krausbauer is a music maker currently living in Los Angeles. He has performed his music in a multitude of settings – from basements and rock clubs to colleges and art galleries. Numerous recordings of […]

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Sunday October 09, 2016 | 7:00 pm

Volunteers’ Collective — October 9th, 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 […]

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Sunday September 04, 2016 | 7:00 pm

Volunteers’ Collective — September 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 […]

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Tuesday October 11, 2016 | 9:00 pm

Kyle Bruckmann / FLAMINGO (Heenan, Windfeld, Melbye)

The Red Room is excited to present a rare chance to catch these exceptional musicians as they travel through Baltimore.  An evening including two High Zero Festival alumni (Chris Heenan and Kyle Bruckmann). A gorgeous evening of thought provoking and stimulating music awaits! KYLE BRUCKMANN Oakland, CA-based composer/performer Kyle Bruckmann’s work extends from a classical foundation […]

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Tuesday September 06, 2016 | 7:00 pm

High Zero Volunteers Meeting

The 18th Annual High Zero Festival of Experimental Improvised Music needs your help! Festival dates are 9/15 – 18, and you can have a hand in making it all possible by volunteering to: Pick someone up / drop someone off at the airport/train station Sell tickets at the concerts Usher Help with transportation during festival […]

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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. […]

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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, […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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) […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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The Red Room is a volunteer-run space in Baltimore dedicated to mind-expanding experimental culture, headquartered at Normals Books and Records.