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!
Monday March 02, 2015 | 8:30 pm
Jennifer Walshe (IRL) + M.C. Schmidt + Headband
The Red Room proudly welcomes Irish master-composer-performer and decorated High Zero veteran Jennifer Walshe, performing in duo formation with local wiseguy M.C. Schmidt and watching, delighted, Headband (AKA local tape maestro Duncan Moore) journey to the heart of the evening. Want to know more? Stay tuned!
Thursday February 26, 2015 | 8:30 pm
Pleasure – screening videos by Eilbacher, Palmer, Schmidt, Barber, Rorison, and Tsunoda
Red Room presents a screening of videos from Pleasure Editions DVD magazine, VID CHOPS, and a discussion with some of the local artists included in the current issue of the magazine.
Saturday February 28, 2015 | 8:30 pm
Deleuzer (Boston) + Bonnie Jones
MD meets MA at the Red Room! Deleuzer is Boston’s finest improvisational large ensemble, “led” by violin whiz and High Zero alum Morgan Evans-Weiler and otherwise consisting (or having once consisted) of: Howard Martin – Sax Jesse Kenas-Collins – Trumpet, personality Peter Gumaskas – Modular Synth Chris Johnson – Electronics, Guitar Christopher Strunk – Percussion […]
Tuesday January 27, 2015 | 8:30 pm
Eva Zöllner & EAR, NOSE and THROAT
The Red Room welcomes, from Hamburg, Germany, Eva Zoellner, and from Baltimore, a trio that hasn’t played in a while “Ear, Nose and Throat”.
Sunday February 01, 2015 | 8:30 pm
Volunteers Collective
Why stay home and watch some contest between brutes and a half-time show with some teenie-bopper howling into a microphone when you could come to the Red Room and make music together?
Friday March 06, 2015 | 8:30 pm
Jill Burton (voice), Patrick Crossland (trombone), Jack Wright (Reeds)
Extended vocalist/holistic/sound/movement/energy worker/performance artist JILL BURTON was a professional ballerina, modern dancer, dance teacher and accompanist, and free improviser in Gainesville FL during the 1970s. In 1978, she traveled to San Francisco where she met for the first time her life-long collaborators Davey Williams and LaDonna Smith, and connected for the first time to a larger, world-wide community of free improvisers.
Friday February 13, 2015 | 8:30 pm
Botborg (from Australia/Germany) & Tom Boram
Botborg is an international audio-visual performance group that fuses and rewires raw electronic signals to create intensely visceral experiences of sound-color synaesthesia. Using a complex array of custom electronics, Botborg create totally live multi-sensory assaults of interdependent color and rhythm, pushing the limits of technology to invoke the maximum possible stimulation of their audience’s mind and body.
Friday June 27, 2014 | 8:00 pm
Jack Wright / Andrew Drury / Patrick Crossland
Jack Wright and Andrew Drury have been musical partners for a dozen years, often joining with others and playing regularly in New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and elsewhere in the Eastern U.S.
Friday June 27, 2014 | 8:00 pm
Keir Neuringer
Keir Neuringer is a musician and interdisciplinary artist who is involved in creative arts communities in Poland, Holland, and the US. He has cultivated a personal and intensely physical approach to saxophone improvisation, plays analogue electronics and Farfisa organ, and sings and narrates text.
Wednesday June 25, 2014 | 8:00 pm
Ben Bennett
Ben Bennett had musical training starting as a young child, studied jazz drumming, but ever since getting into improvisation, has pursued a self taught, self disciplined, intuitive approach to music making.
Monday May 12, 2014 | 8:30 pm
Max Eilbacher/Noor/MSHR
Ring out the feast of Sts. Nereus & Achilleus the Red Room Way with West Coast Weirdos NOOR and MSHR (Mesher) and that li’l slice of Hometown Heaven, MAX EILBACHER.
Friday May 16, 2014 | 8:00 pm
A High Zero Fundraiser
It’s not cheap bringing world class improvisors to Baltimore every September for the High Zero Festival. Lucky for you, we make it fun to support the festival with star-studded fundraisers like this one!
Friday April 25, 2014 | 8:00 pm
Miz’ries // Jonathan Badger // Sync
Electro-Kraut noise band, The Miz’ries: uber-americo noise nerd Quinn Collins plays broken records on a turntable with crazy effects, mad genius inventor Jeff Snyder plays his own analog synth creation whilst Neuseelander songstress Leila Adu sings and plays electronic drum pads.
