Archive of past events at The Red Room

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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Sunday July 14, 2024 | 7:30 pm

Volunteers’ Collective | July 14, 2024

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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Thursday July 11, 2024 | 8:00 pm

The Rockers – Toshi Makihara/John Dierker/Caleb Duval – Logan Perry

The Rockers are the New York City based creative music quartet of James Mckain (saxophone), James Paul Nadien (drums), Shogo Yamagishi (bass), and Tom Weeks (saxophone). They perform high energy original compositions. All four members are prolific composer/performers and can be heard together on the 2024 recording A Man’s Image (Astral Editions). Toshi Makihara/John Dierker/Caleb Duval An […]

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Sunday July 07, 2024 | 8:00 pm

Jeremy Young | Simone Baron & Susan Alcorn

Jeremy Young is a composer and maker of concrète electronic tape music from Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, Quebec. He is a member of the experimental poetry_sound unit Cloud Circuit, alongside writer Deanna Radford, and the electroacoustic modern classical trio Sontag Shogun, with pianist Ian Temple and sound/voice artist Jesse Perlstein, as well as other projects. In 2024, Young […]

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Sunday June 16, 2024 | 6:00 pm

DELAYED: Outdoor Performance: Battle Hymn for the Wildwood (Burt, Crossland, Prince, Sabe)

NOT HAPPENING THIS SUNDAY! CHECK BACK FOR A NEW DATE A special outside performance of Samuel Burt’s new composition Battle Hymn for the Wildwood will occur along a stretch of Stony Run west of Johns Hopkins University. Patrick Crossland (trombone), Liz Prince (tuba), and Justin Sabe (tuba) will vibrate the valley with the sounds of […]

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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.