Wednesday June 04, 2025 | 8:00 pm
Kevin Blackistone w/ Alexander Wu, Dan Deluca
Come witness Kevin Blackistone performs with his hostile improvisation interface that punishes its user based on predictability of the performance. Opening for the night are solo sets by max/msp/excel live coder Alexander Wu and local synth wizard Dan Deluca! Kevin Blackistone (US/AT) is an transdisciplinary media artist and researcher using immersive, tangible, participatory and performative […]
Sunday June 01, 2025 | 7:30 pm
Volunteers’ Collective June 2025
You are cordially invited to come play free music! 7:30pm, Free Every month, the Red Room hosts the Volunteers’ Collective. It’s a free session of experimental and improvised music. In this friendly, informal setting, we focus on listening and collaboration. Players of all skill levels participate. Try out a new technique or new instrument in […]
Thursday May 29, 2025 | 8:00 pm
Kristina Warren & Jessica Keyes
Join us for an outstanding night featuring visiting artist Kristina Warren and local phenom Jessica Keyes. 8pm doors 8:30pm show $10-$20 Sliding Scale Based in Providence, RI, Kristina Warren (kmwarren.org) is an artist working with acoustic, analog, and digital sound plus video. Previously a Fulbright US Scholar (MuseumsQuartier Vienna, 2023) and Visiting Assistant Professor of […]
Friday June 06, 2025 | 8:00 pm
Manas (Tashi Dorji, Thom Nguyen) w/ Che Chen; Jamal Moore, Nic Francis
“Tornado-conjuring” improv supergroup Manas + Che Chen visits the normal bookstore! Opening for them: Jamal Moore, Nic Francis. From their album Things of Outtakes: “MANAS are guitar and drums, with nothing more than guitar and drums. It’s easy to think about the historicization process of this form of non-Rock music in America, but it’s very […]
Friday May 16, 2025 | 7:00 pm
Spring 2025 Intercollegiate Concert
Join us at Peabody’s Maestro Cafe for an exciting new iteration of the Intercollegiate Concert featuring talented improvisers from Towson, UMBC, and Peabody! Experience unique musical collaborations as students are mixed into random groups for a night of fresh sounds you won’t want to miss! Consider donating at the door! Your contributions will directly support […]
Sunday May 11, 2025 | 8:00 pm
Austin Larkin solo violin w/ Sophie Rollover
Come experience the endlessly entrancing solo violin performance of Austin Larkin – textures merge into silence merge into space. The slow shifting harmonies and harmonics create a hypnotically engaging environment where the violin becomes the space it is situated in. Opening for the night will be a stellar new trio from the Peabody Improvisers Collective, […]
Sunday May 04, 2025 | 7:30 pm
Volunteers’ Collective May 2025
You are cordially invited to come play free music! 7:30pm, Free Every month, the Red Room hosts the Volunteers’ Collective. It’s a free session of experimental and improvised music. In this friendly, informal setting, we focus on listening and collaboration. Players of all skill levels participate. Try out a new technique or new instrument in […]
Friday May 02, 2025 | 8:00 pm
Marshall Trammell’s Pedagogy w/ Peter Redgrave, Move Move, quartet w/ Stanley, Moore, Cain
Experimental/creative music percussionist, composer, sound installation artist, music strategist Marshall Trammell debuting his new graphic score project Pedagogy of the Surveilled with Peter Redgrave and the Move Move dancers. Developed with North African and Levantine residents living in Amsterdam, Pedagogy “focuses on working with personal histories as a way to resist surveillance.” Marshall will be […]
Sunday April 27, 2025 | 8:00 pm
Lauren Sarah Hayes/Carey & Ballou
Brilliant composer performer Lauren Sarah Hayes (Arizona/Scotland) returns to Baltimore. One of the finest solo live electronics performers we’ve ever seen – this is a true treat. Lauren uses a complex system of computer control signals and analog hardware that form a symbiotic relationship into a dizzying swarm of sounds that is full of life […]
Wednesday April 16, 2025 | 8:00 pm
Emily Rach Beisel returns to Balt
Come and see brilliant bass clarinetist and electro-acoustic improvisor Emily Rach Beisel solo and in combos with local aces Paul Neidhardt (percussion), John Dierker (reeds) and Tom Borax (synthesizer). Emily Rach Beisel is a Chicago-based improviser, composer, educator, curator, and woodwind specialist whose work is celebrated for its visceral intensity and innovative blend of techniques. […]
Wednesday April 09, 2025 | 7:30 pm
Volunteers’ Collective March 2025, shifted schedule
You are cordially invited to come play free music! 7:30pm, Free Every month, the Red Room hosts the Volunteers’ Collective. It’s a free session of experimental and improvised music. In this friendly, informal setting, we focus on listening and collaboration. Players of all skill levels participate. Try out a new technique or new instrument in […]
Sunday April 06, 2025 | 7:30 pm
THINKING, NOT THINKING, IMPROVISING
(A personal lecture about the meaning, phenomenology, and practice of free improvised music.) Since 1989, Baltimore experimentalist and Red Room / High Zero / Volunteer’s Collective founder John Berndt has performed a huge arrange of truly freely improvised music—–across 600+ concerts , collaborating with over 400 other artists, including many that he met at the […]
Thursday April 03, 2025 | 8:00 pm
Laubrock, Rainey, Pluta, Ballou // Lander, Dierker
New York/Baltimore super-group quartet featuring Ingrid Laubrock (saxophone), Tom Rainey (drums), Sam Pluta (electronics), and Dave Ballou (trumpet) will tickle your ears and melt your faces with their unique electro-acoustic blend of noise and nuance. ChatGPT says, “Four fearless innovators—Ingrid Laubrock, Tom Rainey, Sam Pluta, and Dave Ballou—shatter expectations with an uncompromising blast of chaotic, […]
Thursday March 20, 2025 | 8:00 pm
(good old) Tongue Depressor wi M.C. Schmidt and Obie Feldi
Red Room regulars Tongue Depressor play on Thursday. In their own words, “this time it’s tapes plus bagpipes and harmonicas”. Come on down to the homestead and hear Zach and Henry ply their own kind of hypnotic staring into the fire of sound. Opening will be collective members M.C. Schmidt and Obie Feldi doing live […]
Sunday April 13, 2025 | 8:00 pm
C. H. of Hirsche Nicht aufs Sofa wi / TBA
This legendary sound artist has made albums with Nurse with Wound, Merzbow, Charlemagne Palestine, Lee Ranaldo, Jim O’Rourke and Brunhild Ferrari, to name a few. We are very flattered to have had him ask for a show here. Opening is Matt Krefting is a writer and musician based in Holyoke, Massachusetts. His writing has appeared […]
Thursday May 01, 2025 | 8:00 pm
Argentinian Turntable and Synthesizer / CK Barlow, Lexie Mt., Bonnie Lander
B.T. and Cecilia Lopez are two of the most radical and unique voices coming fromthe Buenos Aires improvisation scene. Both artists have been active musicians in South Americaat least over the last two decades but their collaboration as a duo started in 2023 in NY whereLopez has been based since 2014. The combination of Tog’s […]
Thursday May 08, 2025 | 8:00 pm
Roger C. Miller (ex of Mission of Burma) / Breath of the Magi
JOIN US the evening of May 8th for two very special musical experiences. As usual the bookstore re-opens it’s doors at 8pm and the music begins at 8:30. Please bring cash for the show, 100% of your entrance fee goes to the musicians. First come first served by the numbers. Breath of the Magi is […]
Sunday March 16, 2025 | 8:00 pm
Marcin Pietruszewski/Tom Borax multi-channel electronic music!
Experience a very wild night synthetic noise and sound with Polish inventor and programmer Marcin Pietruszewski and local synth maestro Tom Borax. Both will be in multi-channel surround sound! Marcin Pietruszewski (1984, Poland) is a composer and researcher. He is engaged in soundsynthesis and composition with computers, exploring specific formal developments in thetradition of electroacoustic […]
Saturday April 05, 2025 |
Susan Alcorn Memorial
Saturday, April 5, 2025 at 2640 Space Please join us for an evening of music and remembrances in honor of Susan Alcorn. Her time in Baltimore may have been short, but her presence was immense! If you would like to provide a musical offering or participate in anyway please reach out to Shelly Purdy at […]
Sunday March 02, 2025 | 7:30 pm
Volunteers’ Collective March 2025
You are cordially invited to come play free music! 7:30pm, Free Every month, the Red Room hosts the Volunteers’ Collective. It’s a free session of experimental and improvised music. In this friendly, informal setting, we focus on listening and collaboration. Players of all skill levels participate. Try out a new technique or new instrument in […]
Saturday March 15, 2025 | 7:30 pm
Community Modular Meetup: Jess Keyes and Tom Boram
Synthesizer meetups can be a great place to talk about what equipment people are using, but modules will only get you so far! Tonight, we will host a discussion with two Baltimore area Eurorack artists about their aesthetic approaches. If you’ve ever been just on the edge of a music scene and wondered why there […]
Tuesday February 25, 2025 | 8:00 pm
Towson University hosts students, faculty, & High Zero Collective
Improvised music collaboration between Towson University students and faculty with High Zero Collective members. Featuring: Dave Ballou, Mike Kuhl, John Dierker, Ruth Lacey, Devin Ostendarp, Wesley Blood, Rachel Beetz, Bonnie Lander, and, Max Gong. The experimental improvised music community of Baltimore runs deep and reaches into area academic institutions. Many of our performers are also […]
Sunday February 23, 2025 | 8:00 pm
A Night of Duos
Interstellar Duo: Jamal Moore and Warren Crudup III – reeds, percussion and electronics Orlando Johnson and Peter Redgrave: reeds, brass, percussion and strings King Solomon and mystery GUEST: reeds, keyboards and electronics As with almost all Red Room shows, 100% of the door money goes to the players. Please bring 10 dollars in cash (or […]
Tuesday March 04, 2025 | 8:00 pm
multi-channel electroacoustic AND conceptual movement
All the building blocks of a healthy mind and body. Multi-Channel Electro Acoustic music and Conceptual Performance Movement Action. Obie Feldi and M.C. Schmidt! Jeff Carey! Alex Wu! John Hoegberg! Visiting Professor from Carnegie Mellon in Electronic Music Composition, Freida Abtan!! AND KHRISTIAN WEEKS and PETER REDGRAVE! •••••••••••••••••••• Four pieces in quadraphonic or octophonic and […]
Wednesday February 26, 2025 | 8:00 pm
Jacques/Cornell Duo, Adrian Wood, DeLaurenti/Goeringer Duo
Amazing night with Anne-F Jacques/AJ Cornell of Quebec, Adrian Wood (VA) and Chris Delaurenti and Lyn Goeringer (Balt!). Expect inventions, electro-acoustics, analog synths, radios, cassettes, theremins, noises, abstractions, motors, machines……… A gleaner of sonorities, AJ Cornell transforms and transmits sonic material over radio channels and through live performance. Her approach employs dense layers of macro and micro sounds evolving […]
