Saturday November 18, 2023 | 7:30 pm
DIFFUSION FESTIVAL of Electro-Acoustic Multichannel Music – 2640 St. Paul Street NIGHT 2
This is the night when MYSTERIOUS GUEST (see the previous calendar post) from Norway presents and diffuses his personal comprehensive survey of the history of electro-acoustic music of Norway. or Fra Æ til Å – En baklengs sledetur gjennom norsk eksperimentell, elektronisk og esoterisk musikk [2023-1958] or From Æ to Å – A Backwards Sleigh […]
Friday November 17, 2023 | 7:30 pm
DIFFUSION FESTIVAL of Electro-Acoustic Multichannel Music – 2640 St. Paul Street NIGHT 1
MYSTERY GUEST presents multichannel works live and John Cage’s “RYOANJI” Performed by The Daxophone Consort 2640 St. Paul St. Doors at 7:30pm Hi, Martin Schmidt, here, president of High Zero Foundation and one of the beginners of the DIFFUSION Festival. One of my original thoughts for this festival was that every year we would invite […]
Saturday November 11, 2023 | 8:00 pm
DIFFUSION FESTIVAL of Electro-Acoustic Multichannel Music – RED ROOM NIGHT 2
DIFFUSION Festival (our sixth) takes place in two locations this year, at our year ’round home at the Red Room at Normals Books and on the second weekend at 2640 St. Paul Street. This second night SATURDAY THE 11th of November is at The Red Room. LIVE multichannel synthesis will be performed by Matthew Ryals […]
Friday November 10, 2023 | 8:00 pm
DIFFUSION FESTIVAL of Electro-Acoustic Multichannel Music – RED ROOM
DIFFUSION Festival (our sixth) takes place in two locations this year, at our year ’round home at the Red Room at Normals Books and on the second weekend at 2640 St. Paul Street. This first night FRIDAY THE 10th of November is at The Red Room. Six pieces will be played with a break. Work […]
Monday October 23, 2023 | 8:00 pm
Cartographic Improvisations Between Eric Theise and Darien Baiza and Paul Neidhardt // Max Gong
Join us Monday October 23rd for some new faces to our venue, improvising in new ways. Real-time cartographic improvisations using projected, manipulated digital maps by Eric Theise in collaboration with Darien Baiza, drums and High Zero’s own Paul Neidhardt, also on drums. A visual wash of street grids, land masses, water bodies, and curiosities from […]
Thursday November 30, 2023 | 8:00 pm
Waco Mammoth | Bob Bellerue & Katie Porter
Eternities is a collaboration between bass clarinetist Katie Porter and sound artist Bob Bellerue. Their work is inspired by deep presence, resonant feedback, melodic drone, and overtone magic, in the fluid realm between intention and indeterminacy. We use harmonic tones from wind instruments played within feedback systems to create deep spectral drone.
Neume is Rose Burt, James Young, and Sarah Manley
James, Rose, and Sarah all push hot air through elaborately designed tubes with variable functional lengths, to cause both normal and highly unusual vibrations. They are all skilled improvisors, organizers, and recovering conservatory graduates.
Sunday October 29, 2023 | 8:00 pm
Lexie Mountain & In Defense of Memory
Solo Set from Lexie Mountain and more IDOM! In Defense of Memory is, itself, an Interculturally-situated ecology of everyday relations-warriors plucking, striking, bowing and flowing self-defense in Creative Music vibrational continuum. IDOM began in New Mexico as a performance-constellation in a confluence of principled, cultural activities set in an ecology of Indigenist trajectories of solidarity, […]
Saturday October 28, 2023 | 8:00 pm
Jamal Moore & In Defense of Memory
Solo set from Jamal Moore duos & trios with Marshall Trammell, Carlos Santistevan and Laura Ortman. In Defense of Memory is, itself, an Interculturally-situated ecology of everyday relations-warriors plucking, striking, bowing and flowing self-defense in Creative Music vibrational continuum. IDOM began in New Mexico as a performance-constellation in a confluence of principled, cultural activities set […]
Monday December 11, 2023 | 8:00 pm
Simwhet Onham.
explores the energy and effects of sound, from resonance and psychoacoustic effects to the transduction of sound as movement and light.
Thursday September 21, 2023 | 8:30 pm
High Zero Festival 9/21-24
High Zero Festival of experimental improvised music September 21st through 24th8:30pm each night | $20 ticketsat the Baltimore Theatre Project We are back, for another September weekend jam packed with the most outlandish music! The festival unites musicians from around the world, creating never-before-heard and completely unplanned sets of music. The performers’ risk-taking pays off […]
Sunday October 08, 2023 | 7:30 pm
Volunteers’ Collective, Sunday 8 October 2023
You are cordially invited to come play free music! 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 a non-judgmental setting. Meet […]
Sunday September 03, 2023 | 7:30 pm
Volunteers’ Collective, Sunday 3 Sept. 2023
You are cordially invited to come play free music! 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 a non-judgmental setting. Meet […]
Friday September 15, 2023 | 7:30 pm
Pre-Zero 25th Year Bash at Current Space
The High Zero Festival of Experimental Improvised Music is celebrating 25 years this September and we wanted to celebrate by being a little extra. We’ll be throwing a free party/performance at Current Space the Friday before the festival. We wanted to showcase High Zero alumni and people who have worked hard to build this Baltimore […]
Thursday September 14, 2023 | 8:30 pm
Noah Ophoven-Baldwin & Luke Martin | Amy Golden
Luke Martin: website Luke is an experimental composer, improviser, and plays guitar and no-input mixer. He is in the group Ordinary Affects, co-directs the Co-Incidence Festival, and works frequently with people in and around the Wandelweiser Group. He is especially interested in silence, chance, and thinking a positive relation between music and truth. He has had […]
Friday September 08, 2023 | 8:30 pm
Adam Lion, Will Yager & Bonnie Lander
Offering “a tone so pure it is almost a sine-wave” (The Wire), Adam Lion is a percussionist dedicated to performing experimental music rooted in both classical and improvisational traditions. Based in Asheville NC, his performances have been described as “rife with psychological effects” by the New York Times and “closely attuned… playful, and mimetic” by […]
Thursday August 29, 2024 | 7:00 pm
High Zero Volunteers Meeting
The 26th Annual High Zero Festival will be held on September 19th – 22nd! Volunteers are needed for: – Picking artists up / dropping artists off at the airport/train station– Selling tickets at the concerts– Ushering at the concerts– Stagehand assistance – Helping with additional artist transportation during festival – Postering around town– HOUSING ARTISTS (please contact Bonnie Lander at […]
Sunday August 06, 2023 | 7:30 pm
Volunteers’ Collective Sunday 6 August 2023
You are cordially invited to come play free music! 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 a non-judgmental setting. Meet […]
Friday August 04, 2023 | 8:00 pm
WESTON OLENCKI • MICHELLE BLU • SAM PLUTA
Three ways to play beautiful music Friday August 4th join us at the Red Room for three different artists making beautiful music. Hi, it’s Martin Schmidt, president of the High Zero Foundation, here bringing you a show that’s maybe “all over the place” and maybe not so much as it might seem. I genuinely love […]
Friday July 14, 2023 | 8:30 pm
STRING THEORY-A NIGHT OF STRINGS
A profound night of creative music, these three individuals will create and share space in a unique sonic space. Liz Downing- Liz Downing uses voice and bowed banjo, in duos and trios, rehearsed and improvisational to create images, stories and sounds and songs. Her current work is in the form of Toy Theater which is […]
Sunday July 02, 2023 | 8:00 pm
Phantom Chips/Jessica Keyes/Liz Meredith
Superb Night of electro-acoustic sounds, noises and squishy squealers. Phantom Chips http://www.phantomchips.com Phantom Chips makes wearable synthesizers that can be stretched and squeezed to create sound. Her homemade ‘lectronix squeals create bent charmand harsh mangled tones through tactile electronics. Concocting rhythms from an array of homemade electronic instruments, samplers and wearable noisemakers, Phantom Chips gets […]
Tuesday July 11, 2023 | 8:30 pm
Ruby Mars, Luis “Toto” Alvarez & Susan Alcorn
Luis “Toto” Alvarez, Chilean composer, producer and guitarist. Director of Acéfalo Records and Acéfalo Festival Present in the chilean music scene since 1990, working as a guitarist and composer Inside the strong artistic underground movement. He has participated since 2001 in projects of composition, films, research, improvisation and experimental radio. Activist for new relationships in […]
Tuesday June 27, 2023 | 8:30 pm
Majid Aram, Lucifer, Orlando Johnson
Solo sets from High Zero Alumni Luciana Arias and Orlando Johnson, plus Atlanta composer Majid Aram. Mandolins, dance, fantastic expressions of deep imagination. Tonight’s performances will transport you far beyond the ordinary. Majid Aram. Multi-instrumentalist, composer, curator, and a fixture of the Atlanta improvisation and new music communities. Majid’s prolific work as a composer focuses […]
Friday June 23, 2023 | 8:00 pm
Huge Night of Improvisation and new collaborations- Alcorn/Rhodes/Crowmeat/Thuro/Arritola/Perry/Alfieri
Duo: Corey Thuro (electric mandolin) + Logan Perry (drums) Trio: the “Westfeild Trio” Susan Alcorn (pedal steel) + Robin Rhodes (bass) + Mike Alfieri (drums/electronics) Duo: Crowmeat Bob (NC-reeds, guitar) + Adam Arritola (NY state- drums, electronics) Come see these new local collaborations. This will be the first ever appearance of the “Westfield Trio” hailing […]
Wednesday August 23, 2023 | 7:30 pm
High Zero Highjinx Info and Planning Session
High Jinx is a schedule of site-specific street performances at numerous places about Baltimore city coinciding with the High Zero festival (before and during 21-24 September). These events are creative, musical and socially challenging. They are rarely obnoxious and never intended to do anyone harm. They are not officially sanctioned by the city, therefore you […]
