Wednesday April 27, 2016 | 9:00 pm
Bobb Hatt & Jen Powers/ Charles Dubé & Pony Payroll Bones / Scott Verrastro & Jenny Moon Tucker
A Trio of Duets for your delight 8:30 PM $5 – 10 sliding scale Bobb Hatt & Jen Powers — Columbus Ohio Improvisation on free noise sax and hammered dulcimer. Bobb’s flamboyant in your face ripping meets ethereal drone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0mgg15om7c Scott Verrastro & Jenny Moon Tucker — Philly/ Bmore Prolific percussionist of Kohoutek who has played […]
Friday April 29, 2016 | 8:30 pm
Philosopher’s Union Presents Elie Ayache
“To write a contingent claim and to trade it is literally to be situated in the middle of the event triggering it. Events take place; they don’t take time. Writing is the technology addressing the event outside of chronology and the market is the medium of contingency. They both recognize that time, although unavoidable, is […]
Saturday April 30, 2016 | 9:00 pm
Chris Welcome / Sam Weinberg, Umbilicus
Saxophonist Sam Weinberg and synthesizist Chris Welcome have been spending many Wednesday afternoons with each other, awaking Bay Ridge newborns with their unique approach to both noise & free-improv. With a constant, high intensity approach the saxophone and KORG become indistinguishable. Sam Weinberg Website Chris Welcome’s Website Bandcamp Umbilicus was founded in 2012 in reaction […]
Sunday April 03, 2016 | 7:00 pm
Volunteers’ Collective — April 3, 2016
This month, special guest host Jimmy Joe Roche will be moderating. You might know him for his excellent video and film work, his performances at the High Zero Festival, or his work with Wham City! The Volunteers’ Collective is a monthly improvisation workshop with a focus on listening and ad hoc collaboration. Players of all […]
Monday April 18, 2016 | 8:30 pm
NOOR /// MAX EILBACHER
LA polymath NOOR and local wiz kid MAX EILBACHER meet again in QUADRAPHONIC SOUND at THE RED ROOM! Noor is a vocalist first and foremost, a commercial voice-over artist by trade and an accomplished actress and poet. Her performance will be a an exploration of a new work in progress. Past and present collaborators […]
Friday April 22, 2016 | 8:30 pm
Snake Union // ÎMÂ // Chris Lock
SNAKE UNION is Chuck Bettis (All Scars, Mossenek) and David Grant (Action Patrol, On A Clear Day). A duo that works in improvisational rhythmic explorations that match analog synths and digital sound processing, modular wires and max patches. By turns psychedelic, delicate, and fuzzed out, the sequenced collides with the freeform as these two soundmakers […]
Tuesday May 10, 2016 | 8:30 pm
Sight Unseen & Red Room Present: FERN SILVA
SIGHT UNSEEN & Red Room Presents RHYTHM OF THE COSMOS: Works by Fern Silva “Do you know what the secret to life is… this… one thing, just one thing…” -Curly Washburn Subtle, spectacular cinema in which cosmopolitan filmmaker Fern Silva creates a convincing, eclectic hotpot from various images. The fruits of life desiccate in front […]
Thursday June 09, 2016 | 8:30 pm
Schimpfluch Gruppe: Rudolf Eb.er, Joke Lanz, and Dave Phillips
Founded in Zürich in 1987, the Schimpfluch Gruppe has become the epitome of radical outsider art in many respects. Appearing in varying lineups over the years, including several guest artists alongside the core-members of Rudolf Eb.er, Joke Lanz, and Dave Phillips, the Schimpfluch Gruppe has been forging a bridge from stirring audio and visual works […]
Saturday April 02, 2016 | 8:30 pm
SARAH HENNIES /// IAN POWER
New composed music and the composer-performers who compose and perform it face off- Red Room style! Do not miss this night of gently dazzling mystery music! doors at 8:30, show at 9:00 Sarah Hennies is a percussionist and composer currently residing in Ithaca, NY. Her work is primarily concerned with an immersive, psychoacoustic presentation of […]
Friday April 08, 2016 | 8:30 pm
EXPANDED CINEMA PERFORMANCE BY ALEX MACKENZIE
Sight Unseen presents: Apparitions | 55 minutes (2 X 16mm colour + b&w, 2016) Where one locates ruptures or denies them is a political choice that determines the construction of the present. Whether one excludes or foregrounds certain events and processes at the expense of others affects the intelligibility of the contemporary functioning of […]
Friday April 15, 2016 | 8:30 pm
Lesley Flanigan // Brian Chase
Lesley Flanigan presents Hedera, a vivid new extended recording on Physical Editions from the New York-based electronic musician and instrument builder, and an elegant new platform for the powerful vehicle of Flanigan’s voice. In a driving performance that steadily unfolds over time, Lesley Flanigan shapes blooming clusters of her voice around a continuous beat of […]
Wednesday April 06, 2016 | 8:30 pm
Muyassar Kurdi, Al Margolis, Walter Wright
The Redroom presents an evening of improvised music by varied combinations of musicians Muyassar Kurdi (voice), Al Margolis (tapes & electronics) and Walter Wright (circuit bending and video synthesis) with Paul Neidhardt (percussion), and Jeff Carey (computer). MUYASSAR KURDI “Chicago resident Muyassar Kurdi is the final act, delivering a Dadaistic performance that falls between musical […]
Sunday March 06, 2016 | 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 […]
Sunday March 13, 2016 | 8:30 pm
Jen Baker & Patrick Crossland
GOOD GRACIOUS- BRASS BODACIOUS! Double the trombone-flavored fun at THE RED ROOM! As always, doors at 8:30, show at 9 Sharing a zest for the new and unpredictable, Jen met Patrick on the way to Berlin’s Total Music Meeting, a festival of improvised music. Now, 12 years later, they finally meet again in the same […]
Saturday March 26, 2016 | 8:30 pm
Judith Hamann + Rosalind Hall (duo) /// Alexander Garsden // David Smooke
A most excellent evening of music featuring three outstanding Australian improvisers: Cellist Judith Hamann and saxophonist Rosalind Hall will perform their duo project and opening the night will be electronic musician Alexander Garsden. Special opening set by local composer David Smooke improvising on toy piano! About the artists: Judith Hamann, Cello Judith Hamann is an Australian-born cellist […]
Thursday April 21, 2016 | 8:30 pm
Peter Evans & Travis Laplante // Susan Alcorn
The Red Room is pleased to present a night of trail blazing instrumental improvisation by some of the best players in the country: the duo of trumpeter Peter Evans and tenor saxophonist Travis Laplante, who are celebrating the release of their new record, Secret Meeting; and a solo by local pedal steel guitar hero Susan Alcorn. Travis Laplante […]
Saturday March 05, 2016 | 8:30 pm
Bonnie Kane // Raw Silk
East coast avant-improv veteran Bonnie Kane shares a bill with Baltimore’s Raw Silk (aka Ami Dang). Bonnie Kane – http://www.bonniekane.com/ Ami Dang/Raw Silk – http://amidang.com/ Kane writes of her work: “I view my work as part of the next generation of the avant-garde – or at least, an evolutionary branch – formed from equal exposure to […]
Sunday February 07, 2016 | 7:00 pm
February 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 […]
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 […]
