Wednesday May 17, 2023 | 8:30 pm
The Lepidopterans (Makihara, Lonberg Holm, Borax, Dierker) + Rose/Yager/Carey Trio
Top improvisors in full effect!
Tuesday May 23, 2023 | 8:30 pm
UMBC Free Improv Ensemble
under the direction of Patrick Crossland Tuesday, May 23rd 8:30 doors, 9pm sets FREE SHOW!
Sunday May 07, 2023 | 7:30 pm
Volunteers’ Collective, May 7th 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 May 05, 2023 | 8:30 pm
Qiujiang (秋江) Levi Lu / Samantha Kochis / Anacapa / Adam Kantz
Please join us at the Red Room for new electronic music composition from the academy! We are extremely excited recently to (finally?) be in touch with our colleagues from Peabody who make experimental music. Levi Lu contacted us about hosting this work and we enthusiastically said yes! Please come and listen to the sounds they […]
Friday July 07, 2023 | 8:30 pm
Devin Gray (drums, electronics) with Levi Lu and Dave Ballou
Devin Gray revisits Baltimore with his new solo album Most Definitely. He blends percussion and electronics into a cohesive sound world of processed articulated sound. He is joined by Levi Lu (electronics) and Dave Ballou (trumpet). Doors open at 8pm. Show starts at 8:30. Brooklyn-Berlin based drummer-composer Devin Gray made his widely lauded leader debut […]
Tuesday May 02, 2023 | 8:30 pm
Bill Harris & Emily Beisel w/ DEMONFACE
Emily Rach Beisel is a Chicago-based improvisor, composer, educator, curator and woodwind specialist. Beisel is known for visceral performances combining extended instrumental techniques with heavy amplification and timbral effects. Their solo work frequently explores the intersection between avant-garde art music and extreme metal genres such as mathcore, doom, and death metal. As a curator, Beisel […]
Thursday April 13, 2023 | 7:30 pm
MIND CONTRAPTIONS! Purdy, Borax, Yager, Dierker at Current Space!
IN collaboration w/Current Space’s “Evil Eyes, Curses, and Floating Computers” show (featuring artists Jackie Milad and Tom Boram) we present a unique duration improvisation, live video installation and Twitch stream. Come to Current Space next Thursday April 13th or log in to our Twitch for what will no doubt be a very strange journey across […]
Thursday April 06, 2023 | 9:00 pm
Peabody Improvisers Collective with CK Barlow, S. Burt, & T. Boram
The Peabody Improvisers Collective is a free-improv student ensemble of 15 members. They formed an ensemble at the Peabody Conservatory in September 2022. Tonight, they will perform two compositions involving improvisation and several blocks of unstructured improvisation. They will collaborate with venerated members of the High Zero collective. Like High Zero, PIC consists of improvisers […]
Friday April 14, 2023 | 9:00 pm
Neil Feather! Thus, Bob Wagner, and Eric Franklin plus Dan Conrad.
In the legendary annals of Baltimore’s experimental music history, few creative partnerships yielded as bizarre outsider music as Thus. Neil Feather and John Berndt, both founding members of the High Zero Festival of Experimental Improvised Music, contributed to building a music scene focused on experimentation and orthogonal approaches to sound. Over the years, they constructed […]
Tuesday April 04, 2023 | 8:30 pm
Angela Sawyer + ARKM foam, Ayla Cosnett
TUESDAY APRIL 4th – doors at 8:30, sounds at 9pm Angela Sawyer works with squealing and gargling AND intimate verbage and tools that sound like squealing and gargling and has done so for more than 2 decades. A veteran of the High Zero Festival ( https://youtu.be/TkDMwCEBgxQ ) and respected and beloved by many in the collective. […]
Friday March 31, 2023 | 8:30 pm
Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey Duo + Sam Pluta
INGRID LAUBROCK – TOM RAINEY DUO (sax, drums), plus solo and collaborative set with Sam Pluta (electronics/computer) Ingrid Laubrock (saxophones) and Tom Rainey (drums) will be celebrating the release of their latest c.d. “Counterfeit Mars.”. The duo’s music draws on the several years and many projects they have shared since they began working together more […]
Sunday April 02, 2023 | 7:30 pm
Volunteers’ Collective
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 January 20, 2023 | 7:00 pm
Jeff Carey’s Luminiferous Aether at The Voxel
Jeff Carey’s project titled “Luminiferous Aether” is inspired by the scientific search for the “light bearing medium” of the same name. Spoiler alert: they found it — we know it to be the Electromagnetic Spectrum. Exploring the use of high powered strobe lighting, Jeff is presenting new works of synthetic time based art that blend […]
Friday February 03, 2023 | 7:30 pm
Special Location, 7:30pm Keyes, Burt + 9pm New Music, Charney, Diongue, Nguyen, Xio, Yager, Young
Winter Birthday Bloops and Other New Music 7:30pm: Jessica Keyes, Samuel Burt, solo modular synthesizers9:00pm: Jason Charney, David Diongue, Bao Nguyen, Kelly Xio, Will Yager, James Young Early show! 7:00pm doors. 7:30pm start. Special location! This show will not be at the Red Room. Address available on request: jamesdavidyoung [at] gmail [dot] com. Accomplished reed […]
Sunday February 05, 2023 | 5:30 pm
Volunteers’ Collective, February 5th, 2023
Volunteers’ CollectiveNext Sunday, January 8th, 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 […]
Sunday March 05, 2023 | 7:30 pm
Volunteers’ Collective, March 5th, 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 […]
Saturday March 11, 2023 | 8:00 pm
sinonó & !?!
Trio: sinonó (NYC)- Isabel Crespo Pardo (vocals), Lester St Louis (cello), Henry Fraser (bass) sinonó is a brief submergence, a string of choices, a container for the communion of rigor and failure. This NY-based trio, featuring Isabel Crespo Pardo (voice), Lester St. Louis (cello), and Henry Fraser (bass), performs graphic scores and poem/songs composed by Crespo. sinonó will tour […]
Thursday March 16, 2023 | 8:30 pm
Susan Alcorn & Wombat (Justin K. Comer – Carlos Cotallo Solares – Will Yager)
Wombat is an improvising trio that combines deep sonic exploration through experimental playing techniques, live signal processing, and instrumental preparations with a real-time compositional approach, creating engaging structural shapes and contrasting sections. The relationships between the three of us are in constant flux: merging into a single sonic entity, building contrapuntal textures, or letting one […]
Friday March 17, 2023 | 8:30 pm
The Evolution of the Arm & Inverse Square Trio
Imaginary chamber music from an alternate universe. Friday March 17, doors 8:30 music at 9PM, $5-15 An unconventional quartet drawing on collective experience in classical, jazz, noise, theater music, and beyond, The Evolution of the Arm combines the subtle precision of notated concert music performance with the wild spontaneity of free improvisation, superimposing or moving […]
Sunday March 19, 2023 | 8:00 pm
Floris Vanhoof & Lyn Goeringer
Floris Vanhoof (modified 16mm projector, homemade electronics) Floris will be presenting 3 pieces, including a piece for live electronics, lasers and soap bubbles, as well as two “expanded cinema” pieces with live 16mm and electronics. Lyn Goeringer will open with a performance of live street lamps using a self-made “electromagnetic performance induction system”!!!
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. […]
