Archive of past events at The Red Room

Wednesday August 21, 2024 | 8:00 pm

Jack Langdon & Rohan Pathare

Jack Langdon is an organist, filmmaker, and writer. His work as an organist explores extremes of instrumental technique, employing non-standard practices on pipe organs and tonewheel organs, pushing these often conservatively-utilized instruments into uncanny and experimental territories. Jack’s improvised and concert works deal with strange forms, excessive repetition, ironic tonality, and sonic fragility. His recent […]

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Sunday August 18, 2024 | 8:00 pm

Trash Cats // Heather // Rachel Beetz

It’s a 3 set Sunday nighter not to be missed! $10SS Heather Pulling from styles and media specific textures that span early music, old time, dance tunes, and electronic music, Heather cobbles together something ambient, noisy, and sample-based with tapes, contraptions, electronics, and fiddle. https://www.hmmease.com/https://semibegun.bandcamp.com/track/late-romanticshttps://semibegun.bandcamp.com/track/kill-slay-nothinghttps://www.instagram.com/xxcorncobxx/ Trash Cats Charlottesville-based noise duo Trash Cats frequently perform amalgamations […]

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Saturday August 17, 2024 | 8:00 pm

Matthew Ryals, Stephan Haluska

August 17th at the Red Room! 10 bucks! Matthew Ryals (he, him) is an award winning synthesist and composer-improviser based in New York, NY. Primarily working with a modular synthesizer, his music encompasses improvisation, generative composition, chance, cybernetics, unfixed forms, and experiments in manifold archiving. His uniquely tactile approach to the modular synthesizer embraces unusual […]

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Sunday August 04, 2024 | 7:00 pm

Volunteer’s Collective

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 […]

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Monday July 29, 2024 | 8:00 pm

Lucas “Granpa” Abela/Gorgina/2$ Romance

Quite a night ahead here: 2 uncategorizable but if you had to – Aussie noise performance art – acts coming to Baltimore! On a Monday! Don’t miss! 6-7 years ago Abela famously chewed on a huge shard of glass and bled all over the Red Room. Doors 8pm show 8:30pm. at Normal’s of course! Intergenerational […]

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Thursday July 25, 2024 | 8:30 pm

Glissotar premier, Burt, Scheible, Meredith

Glissonic, an instrument builder in Budapest, makes a new instrument called the glissotar. As part of their loaner program, Samuel Burt will be showing off this sax-like microtonal instrument. The glissotar is shaped like a soprano saxophone, but, instead of keys and holes, it has one long slot. Pitch is controlled by a magnetic ribbon that […]

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The Red Room is a volunteer-run space in Baltimore dedicated to mind-expanding experimental culture, headquartered at Normals Books and Records.