Archive of past events at The Red Room

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 […]

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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.  […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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.