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 […]
Wednesday October 28, 2015 | 9:00 pm
People Like Us and Matt Weston
A variety evening that could only be created by The Red Room Collective. Two High Zero Festival alums: Filmaker/sound artist Vicki Bennett, aka People Like Us presents a new performance/video work entitled CITATION CITY, a project using the techniques of Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project in relation to London-based feature films. Electro-acoustic percussionist Matt Weston performs […]
Saturday August 29, 2015 | 8:30 pm
Tomeka Reid Quartet featuring Jason Roebke, Mary Halvorson and Tomas Fujiwara – Liz Durrette Opening!
An all star line up of musicians brought together by Chicago-based cellist Tomeka Reid. Opening from Baltimore, Liz Durrette! Tomeka Reid (cello) Jason Roebke (bass) Mary Halvorson (guitar) Tomas Fujiwara (drums) “Sunday afternoon, on only their second gig, cellist Tomeka Reid’s quartet sounded like a seasoned band. Chicago’s Reid and bassist Jason Roebke blend well, plucking […]
Sunday August 02, 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, focused-on-the-work 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, […]
Tuesday August 11, 2015 | 8:30 pm
Carl Ludwig Hübsch / Lisa Cella
An evening of challenging, virtuosic music in extreme registers awaits you at THE RED ROOM! We at the Red Room are thrilled to present German tuba virtuoso Carl Ludwig Hübsch! He is the best tubist in any idiom (he is most outstanding in experimental improvised music but plays jazz as well) this blurber has ever […]
Sunday August 09, 2015 | 9:00 pm
Theremin & Lap Steel, Bill Brovold
Enjoy a night of hallucinogenic music from Atlanta and New York City. Duet for Theremin and Lap Steel The name of this Atlanta duo implies a proper classical recital, a rigid formality. But Scott Burland (theremin) and Frank Schultz (lap steel) don’t do scripted, improvising not so much distinct sounds as evolving eddies of sound, vapors of tones that […]
Thursday July 23, 2015 | 8:30 pm
Andrew Bernstein, Good Willsmith, Lockbox
The Red Room presents a night of abstract electroacoustic music featuring Andrew Bernstein, Good Willsmith and Lockbox. Andrew Bernstein is a Baltimore based musician and multimedia artist. His music explores the nature of acoustics, rhythm and the perception of time. He plays saxophone and percussion in the experimental rock band Horse Lords and has composed scores […]
Sunday July 05, 2015 | 7:00 pm
Volunteers Collective, Sunday, July 5th 2015
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, focused-on-the-work 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, […]
