Tuesday October 18, 2022 | 8:30 pm
Lauren Sarah Hayes – drum machines, analogue synths and self-built software + Local Luminaries
Lauren Sarah Hayes is a Scottish live electronics improviser and sound artist. Her music mixes experimental pop/techno/noise/free improvisation and has been described as ‘voracious’ and ‘exhilarating’. She is a sculptress of sound, manipulating, remixing, and bending voice, drum machines, analogue synths and self-built software live and physically. The Wire described her 2016 album MANIPULATION (pan […]
Friday October 28, 2022 | 8:30 pm
Alexander Frangenheim (bass) with Ballou, Crossland, Goldstein
Dave Ballou, trumpet Patrick Crossland, trombone Alexander Frangenheim, bass Tom Goldstein, drums German bassist Alexander Frangenheim and local trombonist Patrick Crossland have worked as a duo for several years as documented on their 2013 CD, Ape Green. This performance will also feature trumpeter Dave Ballou and percussionist Tom Goldstein. This quartet has never played together, […]
Sunday October 02, 2022 | 7:30 pm
Volunteers’ Collective, October 2nd, 2022 7:30pm
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 cordial, 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 new and veteran improvisers. […]
Sunday September 04, 2022 | 7:30 pm
Volunteers’ Collective, September 4th, 2022 7:30pm
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 cordial, 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 new and veteran improvisers. […]
Friday September 09, 2022 | 8:30 pm
Matthew Goodheart, Ian Power, and Quartet or Two Duos (Katie Porter, James Ilgenfritz, Lucie Vítková, Teerapat Parnmongkol)
Quartet or Two Duos: collaborative works by and for James Ilgenfritz, bass & objects, Katie Porter, clarinet, bass clarinet & voice, Teerapat Parnmongkol, electric guitar, oud, pedals & voice, and Lucie Vítková, accordion, harmonica, synthesizer, hichiriki & voice. Hanging by a thread in these strange times, we present new ideas for music made carefully, strangely, […]
Tuesday August 30, 2022 | 7:00 pm
High Zero Volunteers Meeting
The 24th Annual High Zero Festival of Experimental Improvised Music needs your help! Festival dates are 9/15 – 18, and you can have a hand in making it all possible by volunteering to: Pick someone up / drop someone off at the airport/train station Sell tickets at the concerts Usher Help with transportation during festival […]
Thursday September 15, 2022 |
The High Zero Festival!
Baltimore’s High Zero Festival of Experimental Improvised Music is in its 24th year and will return to it’s original format! 4 nights, 5 sets a night at the Baltimore Theatre Project. Live and in person, come and get it! September 15-18th. Bookmark highzero.org and check back for details.
Sunday August 07, 2022 | 7:30 pm
Volunteers’ Collective, August 7th 7:30pm
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 cordial, 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 new and veteran improvisers. […]
Tuesday August 23, 2022 | 8:30 pm
Will Yager, Jordan Knecht and Chaz Prymek
Playing is an improvisational ensemble based in Chicago, performing within the constructs of games and rules. Often raucous, often joyful, often falling apart, Playing is many things, but is rarely the same twice. Jordan Knecht and Chaz Prymek are playing — mediating misuse, Improvising with iteration, goofing, bopping, clanking, clanging, plinking, crinkling, ringing, mangling, https://playing.bandcamp.com/album/lumps-mixtape […]
Wednesday November 09, 2022 | 8:30 pm
Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson: The USA Clangers and Bao Nguyen
Come hear experimental compositions by Icelandic composer Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson. His music will be performed by the USA Clangers, a quartet of Liz Meredith, Shayna Dunkelmann, Jonathan Pfeffer, and Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson. His compositions have a very fresh sound, a strong identity, and they involve a lot of input from the performers themselves. Bao Nguyen, […]
Tuesday August 09, 2022 | 11:59 pm
Streaming Series: The Witching Hour of the Wheezing Lute – copy – copy
The Witching Hour of the Wheezing Lute Wee Hour Improvisations on the Boob Tube Continuous Synthesizer by Tom Borax These free streaming performances will last one hour starting at midnight on July 26, August 2 & 9. All available streamed from our Twitch channel: twitch.tv/highzerofoundation Says Tom of the project: “the ‘witching hour of the […]
Tuesday August 02, 2022 | 11:59 pm
Streaming Series: The Witching Hour of the Wheezing Lute – copy
The Witching Hour of the Wheezing Lute Wee Hour Improvisations on the Boob Tube Continuous Synthesizer by Tom Borax These free streaming performances will last one hour starting at midnight on July 26, August 2 & 9. All available streamed from our Twitch channel: twitch.tv/highzerofoundation Says Tom of the project: “the ‘witching hour of the […]
Tuesday July 26, 2022 | 11:59 pm
Streaming Series: The Witching Hour of the Wheezing Lute
The Witching Hour of the Wheezing Lute Wee Hour Improvisations on the Boob Tube Continuous Synthesizer by Tom Borax These free streaming performances will last one hour starting at midnight on July 26, August 2 & 9. All available streamed from our Twitch channel: twitch.tv/highzerofoundation Says Tom of the project: “the ‘witching hour of the […]
Saturday July 16, 2022 | 8:00 pm
MANKWE NDOSI ///MOJUBA DUO /// TRIO X
SOUND LOGIC II A NIGHT OF CREATIVE MUSIC AND SOUND PERCEPTION. MANKWE NDOSI Mankwe Ndosi is a Spirit Singer/ Composer / Culture Worker of sound and soil. Her work is aimed at supporting the interconnection and liberation of our personal, social, and terrAstral structures, practices, and mythologies. Her practice emerges from black ritual legacies of […]
Saturday July 16, 2022 | 8:00 pm
MANKWE NDOSI ///MOJUBA DUO /// TRIO X
SOUND LOGIC II A NIGHT OF CREATIVE MUSIC AND SOUND PERCEPTION. MANKWE NDOSI Mankwe Ndosi is a Spirit Singer/ Composer / Culture Worker of sound and soil. Her work is aimed at supporting the interconnection and liberation of our personal, social, and terrAstral structures, practices, and mythologies. Her practice emerges from black ritual legacies of […]
Wednesday July 13, 2022 |
KRAFT: Mike Kuhl, Dave Ballou, John Dierker, and Luke Stewart
KRAFT is a Baltimore-based improvising quartet formed by drummer Mike Kuhl in 2018. Joining Kuhl are longtime collaborators and some of the most stalwart improvisers on the scene today, Dave Ballou (trumpet), John Dierker (reeds), and Luke Stewart (bass). In the creative music community neither Ballou nor Stewart require an introduction – both are world-renowned […]
Monday August 08, 2022 | 8:00 pm
Simone Baron and Danny Kamins | Aksentiev, Redgrave, Johnson
We present a duo of two great touring musicians, Simone Baron and Danny Kamins. When was the last time you heard accordion and saxophone together? We’re excited about the textures they will bring to the Red Room. Both bring a focused, thoughtful approach to their energetic style of improvising. Opening will be a trio showing […]
Saturday October 08, 2022 | 8:00 pm
Jaap Blonk solo and with CK Barlow and Bonnie Lander
Jaap Blonk (born 1953 in Woerden, Netherlands) is a self-taught composer, vocalist and poet. His unfinished studies in mathematics and musicology mainly created a penchant for activities in a Dada vein, as did several unsuccessful jobs in offices and other well-organised systems. In the early 1980s he discovered the power and flexibility of his voice, […]
Sunday July 10, 2022 | 7:30 pm
Volunteers’ Collective, July 10th 7:30pm
July’s VC was postponed a week. 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 cordial, 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 […]
Tuesday July 05, 2022 | 8:30 pm
Adam Goodwin & Tom Borax!
Solo Sets! Adam Goodwin is a Texan double bassist, composer and visual artist, currently living and working as a freelance musician in Berlin, Germany. He engages in a wide spectrum of creative activity that involves frequent collaboration with performers, composers, sound artists, choreographers, dancers, film makers and visual artists. He has performed extensively throughout Europe, […]
Thursday June 02, 2022 | 8:30 pm
June 2 String Music!!! Grant/Mcquire, Salmon Graveyard, Mink
Top notch string sounds from Baltimore and NC! Salmon Graveyard consists of some of Baltimore’s finest – Corey Thuro on mandolin, John Hoegberb on bass, Alani Sugar on fiddle, and Nate Nelson on drums. This “all star band” plays “ecstatic minimalist country music” but if you need assistance imagining that, start with a touch of […]
Sunday May 29, 2022 | 8:30 pm
May 29th Eugene Chadbourne/David Menestes Duo!
Legends! North Carolina-based masters bring their 20+year duo to the Red Room. If you aren’t familiar – Chadbourne is a longtime hero of the underground, active since the mid-1970s with everyone from John Zorn to Keiji Haino to Susan Alcorn and literally thousands more. He has recorded several hundred albums and written multiple books and […]
Sunday June 05, 2022 | 7:30 pm
Volunteers’ Collective, June 5th 2022
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 cordial, 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 new and veteran improvisers. […]
Thursday June 30, 2022 | 8:30 pm
TONED & Carlos Cotallo Solares
Coming May 6, 2022: TONED (S/T) is the fourth full-length studio album from the electroacoustic trio TONED. Composed and recorded in Oakland, Tampa, and Philadelphia during a series of cloistered retreats, and meticulously crafted in monastic isolation for nearly two years, TONED is the band’s most ambitious statement to date. TONED pits the fiercely analog, […]
Wednesday May 11, 2022 | 8:30 pm
Keir Neuringer & Bushmeat Sound
Keir Neuringer is a saxophonist, composer, and writer whose work is underpinned by interdisciplinary approaches and socio-political contextualizations. He is best known for a personal and intensely physical saxophone technique, revealed through long form solo improvisations, and is a founding member of the critically-acclaimed group Irreversible Entanglements. He co-leads the improvisation trio Dromedaries, has a […]
