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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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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 […]

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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 […]

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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), […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Thursday June 02, 2016 | 8:00 pm

ERIN ESPELIE presents The Lanthanide Series

SIGHT UNSEEN & Red Room Presents: NOTE: this screening will start promptly after 8:00pm THE LANTHANIDE SERIES Directed by Erin Espelie (US/France/UK) 70 minutes Cast: Meredith Monk–voice from “Volcano Songs” Jack Loeffler–voiceover SYNOPSIS The myth of a so-called ‘black mirror’, which consists of nature’s rarest elements and is an occult tool to see into the […]

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Tuesday May 31, 2016 | 8:00 pm

Baltimore Technology Overdrive: Arduino Workshop

At our last meet-up, BTO Tinkerers prepped Raspberry Pi miniature computers for music production. The process was faster than expected! This time, we will look at Arduino, a platform for control and sensor input. Arduino is a super low power special-purpose computer that plugs into your computer (or Raspberry Pi!) USB port to act as a […]

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Wednesday May 25, 2016 | 9:00 pm

M. Geddes Gengras/Mitchell Brown/Tom Boram/Jason WIllett

Even if you smoked poisonous toad venom and designed flyers using only American Apparel ads as source material you couldn’t even imagine the analogue vistas and twinkling auroras of this synesthetic synth-anaesthetic night!  Slide down from your Klein Bottle and saddle up a big pig swig of this – M. Geddes Gengras(LA) Mitchell Brown (LA) Tom […]

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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.