Sunday January 17, 2016 | 8:30 pm
Todd Lerew // Bonnie Jones
Performances featuring the music of Todd Lerew and Bonnie Jones! Todd Lerew is a Los Angeles-based artist and composer working with invented acoustic instruments, repurposed found objects, and unique preparations of traditional instruments. Much of his work deals with the physical properties of sound and the nature of perception, exploring the use of sound as […]
Sunday January 31, 2016 | 9:00 pm
Waking the Groundhog
Punxsutawney is about 200 miles away. These musicians will attempt to find the right transmission frequency to wake the groundhog two days early to get a head start on our seasonal prognostication. In order to trick the groundhog, we will need the combined efforts of improvisers with keen ears who can together form a difference […]
Thursday January 14, 2016 | 8:30 pm
Morton Feldman and the Electric Guitar / Khristian Weeks
Morton Feldman and The Electric Guitar is program of contemplative music for electric guitar centered around the previously lost Morton Feldman work, “The Possibility of a New Work for Electric Guitar.” The program includes a performance of the lost work as well as other pieces dedicated to Feldman and the story of the piece. Other […]
Friday March 18, 2016 | 8:30 pm
Heejin Jang ˜ Flandrew Fleisenberg ˜ Jimmy Joe Roche
Recent High Zero alum’s and sonic luminaries Heejin Jang and Flandrew Fleisenberg return for a night of blissful acoustic sculpting. Each play a solo set followed by a trio with Roche. Heejin Jang’s work manifests itself in the forms of interactive performance and sound installations. Improvising a score of live noise, she transforms the ordinary […]
Sunday January 03, 2016 | 7:00 pm
Volunteers’ Collective — January 2015
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. This is a good time to try out a new technique. Use it as a great opportunity to meet veteran improvisers and new arrivals […]
Thursday December 17, 2015 | 8:00 pm
SEND BLANK TAPE: Curated by Liz Flyntz
Sight Unseen Screening Series presents SEND BLANK TAPE: early video distribution networks and Radical Software magazine Curator Liz Flyntz will present the videos with some notes on the artists and the history of their production and presentation. ABOUT THE PROGRAM This screening presents an array of videos created by collectives and individuals active in the […]
Friday December 18, 2015 | 8:30 pm
Duo: Michel Doneda (France) + Tatsuya Nakatani (U.S.)
The duo of Michele Doneda (France–Soprano Saxophone) and Tatsuya Nakatani (U.S.A.–percussion) is one of the most interesting and powerful ensembles in improvised music. We are extremely excited to have them back at the Red Room! Over the years, Michel Doneda (b. 1954) has developed one of the most extensive musical vocabularies in free improvisation. A […]
Friday December 11, 2015 | 8:30 pm
JEFF DONALDSON + ADAM ROSENBLATT & CO.
“PREPARE” THYSELF FOR AN EXPERIMENTAL MULTI-MEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA AT THE RED ROOM Jeff Donaldson is a Maryland-based artist originally from Corpus Christi, Texas. Donaldson studied music composition at Towson University until 2001, where he began applying extended techniques for musical instruments to video devices. Borrowing the term “prepared” from John Cage, his prepared video systems offered […]
Sunday December 06, 2015 | 7:00 pm
Volunteers’ Collective December 2015
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. This is a good time to try out that new technique you heard at High Zero. This is a great opportunity to meet veteran […]
Wednesday December 30, 2015 | 8:30 pm
Home Alone with John Dierker
John Dierker must protect the Red Room from a pair of burglars when he is accidentally left home alone during Christmas vacation by his family. $5-10 Doors at 8:30 Show at 9:00 425 E. 31st St. Baltimore, MD 21218
Saturday November 21, 2015 | 8:30 pm
Andrew Bernstein / Booker Stardrum / Justin Porter
The Red Room Presents three solos by: Andrew Bernstein (Baltimore) – Saxophone and electronics Booker Stardrum (NYC) – Percussion Justin Porter (Baltimore) – Cello and electronics $5-10 Doors at 8:30 Show at 9:00 425 E. 31st St. Baltimore, MD 21218
Friday November 13, 2015 | 8:30 pm
CANCELLED! ÁINE O’DWYER (IRL), KHRISTIAN WEEKS
THE RED ROOM PRESENTS: Irish organist/harpist/composer/performer ÁINE O’DWYER performing a live, improvisational pipe organ recital, with Baltimore’s own sound/light/installation artist KHRISTIAN WEEKS activating the space as he sees fit. IN LIEU OF AN ORGAN/VENUE THIS SHOW HAS BEEN CANCELLED More on Ms. O’Dwyer: “As a young teenager, O’Dwyer was schooled in a Catholic convent, where […]
Sunday November 01, 2015 | 7:00 pm
Volunteers’ Collective
The Volunteer’s Collective is an open workshop at the Red Room for anyone interested in playing experimental improvised music in an uninhibited, non-competitive environment. Players who have often never met come together and try to make interesting music “never heard before” in a real-time environment. It involves as much or more listening as playing, and […]
Thursday October 29, 2015 | 8:30 pm
SHELLY PURDY plays ALVIN LUCIER / IAN POWER & RICHARD CRAIG play JÜRG FREY, LUCIER and more!
Look forward to “sitting in a room different from the one you are in now” listening to 21ST CENTURY MUSIC AT THE RED ROOM! Ian Power and Richard Craig play: Carolyn Chen “Pears” for two moving performers Ian Power “I seem to be a verb” for coffee mug, butter knife, and recitations Richard Craig “Amp/Al” […]
Tuesday October 20, 2015 | 8:00 pm
A Night of Free Jazz feat. Tiger Hatchery, Wigger Mom, John Jones & Zach Utz, and Jenny Moon Tucker
Tiger Hatchery: The free jazz three piece known as Tiger Hatchery are comprised of Ben Baker Billington, Andrew Scott Young, and Mike Forbes. Now scattered across the country; Chicago, Seattle, and San Francisco.This geographical displacement makes your chances of seeing the modern masters of free “jazz” even more rare. Truly stunning, their craft is a […]
Tuesday October 27, 2015 | 8:00 pm
FRENKEL DEFFECTS III
Colorado-based nonprofit organization, Process Reversal, presents the third installment of its unique traveling film series — Frenkel Defects. Hosted by SIGHT UNSEEN SCREENING SERIES FRENKEL DEFECTS III This recurring series aims to explore what it means to work in — and exhibit on — photochemical film today by examining works from artists operating specifically in […]
Friday October 23, 2015 | 8:30 pm
Jaap Blonk solo + Monad (Blonk, Boram, Berndt) + Morgan Evans-Weiler Trio
A night of non-standard semantics and obtuse hotness. Dutch soundpoet Jaap Blonk is a must-be-experienced phenomenon, one of the very few people who realize the potential of sound poetry as a crazy thing that spans all the evocative power of language, music, physical performance, and some other ineffable stuff we don’t want to mention, all […]
Sunday October 04, 2015 | 7:00 pm
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. This is a good time to try out that new technique you heard at High Zero. This is a great opportunity to meet veteran […]
Saturday November 14, 2015 | 8:30 pm
Toshimaru Nakamura/ Bryan Eubanks / Jason Kahn / Tetuzi Akiyama
The group of Tetuzi Akiyama, Bryan Eubanks, Jason Kahn and Toshimaru Nakamura meets together for the first time on this 16-date U.S. tour, spanning both coasts and reaching the northern reaches of the Midwest down to the Deep South. Together, these musicians will fuse free improvisation, noise, experimental electronics and the uncategorizable in a fresh […]
Friday November 06, 2015 | 8:30 pm
Anne-F Jacques, Tim Olive, Jimmy Joe Roche, Will Schorre and Mike Allender
A night of improvised electronics, homemade instruments and sonic exploration. Jimmy Joe Roche and Will Schorre will be performing an electronics modular battle set. Mike Allender will be playing solo on an Ekdahl Polygamist. Anne-F Jacques and Tim Olive use handmade, idiosyncratic instrumentation to produce and amplify detailed sound textures, from fine-grained to coarse. Anne-F’s […]
Tuesday September 22, 2015 | 8:00 pm
17th Annual High Zero Festival Starts on Tuesday 9/22!
THE 17th ANNUAL HIGH ZERO FESTIVAL IS HERE! SEPTEMBER 22nd – 27th! High Zero is the premier festival of Improvised, Experimental music on the East Coast. The festival is fully devoted to new collaborations between the most inspired improvisors from around the world. Join us for 5 days of sound installations, music and performances starting Tuesday […]
Friday September 18, 2015 | 9:00 pm
BLACK SPIRITUALS (Oakland) + ANCESTRAL DUO (Baltimore/DC)
Double duos at the Red Room! We’re very excited to present Oakland’s Black Spirituals, who will be joined by locals Ancestral Duo! Black Spirituals is a collaboration between Zachary Watkins and Marshall Trammell. “This duet features a new tradition in conversant, duo vernacular dynamics that sparked a revolution in our conceptions of space, stage, ritual, performance, […]
Thursday September 03, 2015 | 8:30 pm
3 New Music Video Portraits
From Andy Storrs: 3 new Music Video Portraits of a particular underground american traditional essence that is hard to find in other musicians/performers/entertainers of our time. Spotlighting: Tracey Trance The Savage Young Tater-Bug Mutinerango Sun Also… Video screening of “Needle Gun Goes To College” presented by Duncan Moore and Max Eilbacher Poetry reading by Dylan […]
Saturday August 22, 2015 | 8:30 pm
WOBBLY, Brett Naucke and Max Eilbacher
All sets at this show will be performed quadraphonically. Wobbly Jon Leidecker performs music under the inevitable pseudonym of Wobbly, exploring the various ways in which our experience of music changed once we gained the ability to record it. Recent live and studio collaborations include albums and concerts with Dieter Moebius & Tim Story, […]
Thursday October 15, 2015 | 8:00 pm
Sight Unseen presents Gut Renovation
Sight Unseen presents, GUT RENOVATION (2012) a feature film by Su Friedrich Synopsis A documentary of small changes evolves into an historical record of New York. The resulting film is a melancholy, essayistic requiem for a neighborhood and an entire way of life; it also provides a case study of the rapid gentrification of our […]
