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, […]
Sunday June 21, 2015 | 8:30 pm
Will Guthrie & topoi (Caroline Marcantoni)
Will Guthrie is an Australian drummer / percussionist living in France. He works in many different settings of music: live performance, improvisation and studio composition using various combinations of drums, percussion, objects, junk, amplification and electronics.. He plays solo and in various projects such as THE AMES ROOM, ELWOOD & GUTHRIE & THE SOMMES […]
Sunday June 07, 2015 | 7:00 pm
Volunteers Collective June Edition!
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, […]
Sunday July 19, 2015 | 1:00 pm
Worlds in Collusion Festival at Artscape 2015 – Sunday
The High Zero Foundation and Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts presents!! WORLDS IN COLLUSION FESTIVAL Artscape 2015 July 17th – 19th 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 19 2pm […]
Saturday July 18, 2015 | 1:00 pm
Worlds in Collusion Festival at Artscape 2015 – Saturday
The High Zero Foundation and Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts presents!! WORLDS IN COLLUSION FESTIVAL Artscape 2015 July 17th – 19th 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 18 2pm […]
Friday July 17, 2015 | 1:00 pm
Worlds in Collusion Festival at Artscape 2015 – Friday
The High Zero Foundation and Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts presents!! WORLDS IN COLLUSION FESTIVAL Artscape 2015 July 17th – 19th 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 17 2pm […]
Saturday June 27, 2015 | 8:30 pm
Musical Antistrophes: Jonathan Zorn + Jackson Moore + Seth Dellinger / Chris Mason
Jonathan Zorn, Jackson Moore, Seth Dellinger (electronics, saxophone, voice) Chris Mason (poetry) The Red Room presents Musical Antistrophes a special concert and reading featuring astonishing new approaches to voice, technology, language and music. These artists work within the realm of the imagined and impossible – seeking new systems and musical structures based on the rhythms of speech, phonetics, […]
Saturday May 30, 2015 |
Arab Experimental Films: Reflections on Situated Time
Arab Experimental Films: Reflections on Situated Time Curated by Samirah Alkassim PROGRAM NARRATIVE This screening is comprised of five recent short films that provide a sampling from among the contemporary experimental film scene of the Middle East. From references that are more recognizable to an American audience to more specific signifiers tied to geographic location […]
Saturday May 23, 2015 | 8:30 pm
Thomas Dimuzio + Karl Ekdahl
Thomas Dimuzio – Mr. Dimuzio has an insider’s knowledge of classic experimental musical forms such as musique concrete and electro-acoustic music, as well as showing fluency with current styles, “dark ambient”, “noise” and “post-techno”. As a collaborator his history is not easily matched, he has worked with Dimmer (with Joseph Hammer), Chris Cutler, Fred Frith, […]
Wednesday May 13, 2015 | 8:30 pm
Interwaving Strecht + Redman and Wagner
From France, (Paris, presumably) INTERWAVING STRECHT sent the collective a demo, and it was so weird and well done that I said I would put on a show for them. Their own description is…this: Mystery guitar and electronics from France form this powerful intense duo playing improvised music that encompasses strong expressionism as much as […]
Monday May 04, 2015 | 7:00 pm
The Curfew is Lifted! Volunteers Collective May Edition on Monday!!!
The curfew has been lifted – Monday the Red Room will host the May Edition of the Volunteers Collective The Red Room presents another edition of its excellent, always-different open workshop for fre eimprovisation. The V.C. is intended for people who seriously want to develop their skills as ensemble free improvisors and to connect with […]
Tuesday May 19, 2015 | 8:30 pm
Topographies: Jeph Jerman + Tim Barnes / Marko Timlin / Philip White + Chris Pitsiokos
The Red Room presents TOPOGRAPHIES, an evening of music by exceptional artists whose work traverses and transgresses digital, acoustic, and environmental sonic landscapes.
Sunday May 03, 2015 | 8:30 pm
CANCELLED: Matt Ingalls (SF) + Meridian (Feeney, Hennies, Stuart)
Virtuosic clarinetist, composer, programmer and improviser Matt Ingalls from San Francisco is joined by Meridian, the peerless contemporary, experimental percussion trio of Tim Feeney, Nick Hennies and Greg Stuart.
Monday April 06, 2015 | 8:30 pm
The Body Extended: Works by Scott Stark
Scott Stark has produced more than 75 films and videos since 1980. Additionally, he has created a number of gallery and non-gallery installations using film and video, and elaborate photographic collages using large grids of images.
Sunday March 22, 2015 | 8:30 pm
Benjamin Nelson + Ada Pinkston
A Sunday of interdisciplinary delights awaits us at THE RED ROOM . Ada Pinkston is a “trans-media artist, organizer, educator, sister, aunt, and daughter living and working in Baltimore, Maryland. A Maryland native now residing in Oslo, Benjamin Nelson’s work is “based on slowly shifting tones and textures intended to explore micro-changes that result from phasing and head position, hearing fatigue, and stream separation.
Sunday March 29, 2015 | 8:30 pm
Sound & Text: OA (SF) / Nudie Suits (Balt) / Dora Malech (Balt)
A night of sound and text featuring Oa (Matt Davignon/Hugh Behm-Steinberg, Dora Malech, and Nudie Suits (Ruby Fulton and Ali Clendaniel)
Saturday March 21, 2015 | 8:30 pm
tpt+tpt (Jeff Kaiser & Dave Ballou)
Acoustic and electronic sonic explorations of the trumpet by the duo TpT-TpT (pronounced trumpet-trumpet), featuring Jeff Kaiser on quartertone trumpet and laptop and Dave Ballou on trumpet and laptop. Using the deep sonic palette accessed within the trumpet by the performers, they act together with close-mic techniques, custom digital signal processing software and hardware interfaces Kaiser and Ballou co-design.
Tuesday March 10, 2015 | 8:30 pm
Troy Rogers Robotics and Khristian Weeks
Tuesday March 10th, the Red Room and High Zero Foundation welcomes Troy Rogers and his musical “robots”, the AMI, CARI and Stemmtje. He created and built them himself and to understand without actually seeing/hearing them we will have to refer you to his own website http://troy82.com.
Thursday January 08, 2015 | 8:30 pm
Bhob Rainey & Luminous All Kudler
Could we be more pleased to welcome back Red Room stalwart Bhob Rainey, performing a new multichannel electronic piece? Hardly!
