Generated by All in One SEO v5.0.0.1, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # The Red Room Laboratory for experimental cultural adventires ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://www.redroom.org/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [Huge Night of Improvisation and new collaborations- Alcorn/Rhodes/Crowmeat/Thuro/Arritola/Perry/Alfieri](https://www.redroom.org/huge-night-of-improvisation-and-new-collaborations/) - Duo: Corey Thuro (electric mandolin) + Logan Perry (drums) Trio: the "Westfeild Trio" Susan Alcorn (pedal steel) + Robin Rhodes (bass) + Mike Alfieri (drums/electronics) Duo: Crowmeat Bob (NC-reeds, guitar) + Adam Arritola (NY state- drums, electronics) Come see these new local collaborations. This will be the first ever appearance of the "Westfield Trio" hailing - [Volunteers' Collective, July 9th, 2023](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-july-9th-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 - [High Zero Volunteers Meeting](https://www.redroom.org/high-zero-volunteers-meeting-5/) - [Mark Cetilia solo + Jason Charney/James Young Duo](https://www.redroom.org/mark-cetilia-solo-jason-charneyjames-young/) - Top night featuring one of America's finest modular synth composer/performers Mark Cetilia of Providence. Completing the night will be Mind on Fire's genii Jason Charney and James Young. James and Jason may need no intro to Baltimoreans - virtuosi in their fields: composers extraordinaire but also fabulous improvisors and we'll see that side to them - [Killick, Hi Tom Ensemble](https://www.redroom.org/killick-hi-tom-ensemble/) - Killick Hinds lives in Athens, Georgia. His music is Appalachian Trance Metal made on unusual stringed instruments with an emphasis on unquantifiable rhythms, intuitive intonation, and shamanistic ROYGBIV. The primary sonic influences on Killick are animals, wind, water, fire, electrical hum, and silence. Pop-culture mashups and ancient and obscure forms infuse his music; the effect more closely resembles - [Jessica Ackerley / Rachel Beetz / Alma Laprida](https://www.redroom.org/jessica-ackerley-rachel-beetz-alma-laprida/) - Thursday September 10th, 2026 8pm Doors // 8:30pm show $10-$20 Sliding Scale Join us for a fabulous night of solos, duos, and trios. Jessica Ackerley, traveling from Honolulu, will join local artists, Alma Laprida and Rachel Beetz, for a multi-set performance of experimental and improvised music. About the Artists Jessica Ackerley is a Canadian guitarist, - [Erin Demastes, Dylan Burchett: object-synthesis | Eric Franklin, Paul Rubenstein, John Jensen](https://www.redroom.org/erin-demastes-dylan-burchett-object-synthesis/) - Erin Demastes and Dylan Burchett explore improvisation with small instruments, synthesizers, computers, handmade electronics, and found objects, bringing ideas from their individual practices as experimental music composers, performers, and instrument builders. Following the theme, a group of local instrument builders will include Eric Franklin, Paul Rubenstein, and John Jansen. Paul Rubenstein plays the mechanical monk (motorized drone played - [Volunteers' Collective, August 2026](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-august-2026/) - You are cordially invited to come play free music! Free event7:00pm doors, 7:30pm start Every month, the Red Room hosts the Volunteers’ Collective, a free, open music workshop for the community. In this friendly, informal setting, we focus on listening, collaboration, and experimentation through non-idiomatic improvised music . Players of all skill levels participate. Try - [The Lepidopterans/GAF Trio](https://www.redroom.org/the-lepidopterans-gaf-trio/) - Absolute powerhouse improvisation night. Do not miss - Chicago/Bmore/Philly top tier out/noise/jazz/electronic/metal weirdness. Greene/Ali/Finnegan Trio from Chicago converges with beloved mostly local quartet The Lepidopterans. The Lepidopterans (means "moths and butterflies" if you don't roll that way with taxonomy) may not need an intro but just in case - local electronics wizards Tom Borax and - [Sonic Chambers Quartet | Steve Olson](https://www.redroom.org/sonic-chambers-quartet/) - progressive improvisational chamber quartet from New Orleans & New York City Former Marylander Byron Asher brings Sonic Chambers Quartet, his quartet chamber project, to the Red Room. They will be promoting the release of their brilliant new 2026 recording Spontaneous Situations. Steve Olson will play intimate, solo percussion, sharing close-in sounds that the drummer hears - [Burt Album Release, Benham, Zaldivar, Franklin](https://www.redroom.org/burt-album-release-benham-zaldivar-franklin/) - Album Release show for Rules & Rungulations, unconventional music from a Eurorack system with the beating heart of a Benjolin. This show, featuring Sam Burt on modular synthesizer, celebrates the release of his new album. He will play through a tangle of cords, cross-patched with partner Dave Benham. Sharing the bill, Carolyn Zaldivar and Ian - [Beautiful Pigs | Postwife](https://www.redroom.org/beautiful-pigs/) - Beautiful Pigs is an improvising guitar trio featuring Luke Rovinsky and bassist Caleb Duval, co-creators of prolific Connecticut series/label/collective FIM Improvisation, with Providence-based percussionist, organizer, producer, and visual artist Mackenzie Kourie. Postwife (Jess Keyes and Landon Peer) open the night. Jess is known for her electroacoustic and ambient music, saxophone playing, compositions, band-leading, sound installations, - [Community Modular Meetup | Petting Zoo](https://www.redroom.org/community-modular-meetup-petting-zoo-2/) - Petting Zoo. SHARE AND LEARN! Members of Baltimore’s modular synthesizer community bring their racks for you to patch. Bring a rack to share! Try patching unfamiliar modules. Talk to the owners and learn more about what they love about their synths. We'll setup and start at 4pm. This is a good chance to try modular - [Volunteers' Collective July 2026](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-july-2026/) - You are cordially invited to come play free music! Free event7:00pm doors, 7:30pm start Every month, the Red Room hosts the Volunteers’ Collective, a free, open music workshop for the community. In this friendly, informal setting, we focus on listening, collaboration, and experimentation through non-idiomatic improvised music . Players of all skill levels participate. Try - [Fred Frith](https://www.redroom.org/fred-frith/) - Opening sets from local luminaries Bonnie Lander & John Dierker and Liz Meredith & Timothy Wisniewski! This concert will take place in the Sunday Room at 2640 Space Pre-sale tickets are SOLD OUT!! ... but a limited number of tickets will be available at the door on a first-come first-serve basis. photo by Heike Liss - [FEATHER FRANKLIN WAGNER | (R)Burt Barlow Lander Downing](https://www.redroom.org/feather-franklin-wagner-rburt-barlow-lander-meredith/) - FEATHER FRANKLIN WAGNERand Rose Burt, CK Barlow, Bonnie Lander, and Liz Downing EARLY SHOW | DOORS 7:30pm | START TIME 8:00pm Longtime Baltimore inventor Neil Feather makes a rare appearance in Charm City since moving to New Zealand in 2020. Longtime collaborators Bob Wagner and Eric Franklin have been the bones and some of the - [The Ghost (Foster/Rowden/Sullivan) Ida Dierker/Maxine Crump](https://www.redroom.org/the-ghost-foster-rowden-sullivan-ida-dierker-maxine-crump/) - Next up at the Red Room… June 8th 8 PM The Ghost Ida Dierker/Maxine Crump Michael Foster is a NYC born and based saxophonist and curator whose work pokes and prods the queer potential within improvised musics. As a saxophonist he employs a broad tone inspired by the jazz tradition alongside extensive instrumental preparations, with - [BODY MEMORI MANKWE NDOSI-JAMAL MOORE///NIK FRANCIS](https://www.redroom.org/body-memori-mankwe-ndosi-jamal-moore-nik-francis/) - A night of creative music and empowerment via Body Memori sensory practices through musical activation, creation and performance. MANKWE NDOSI is a Minneapolis-based Songcatcher, Composer, and Culture Worker, using creative and sensory practices to nurture connections between people and the land. Her efforts have included arts-centered community gatherings, community witnessing gatherings to support personal transformation - [FFMMAP! w/ Peter Redgrave, Khristian Weeks](https://www.redroom.org/ffmmap-w-peter-redgrave-khristian-weeks/) - FFMMAP! Flandrew Fleisenberg- Percussion Aaron Pond- horn, voice, flutes, slide whistle, percussion, duck calls Mason McAvoy- Voice, Trombone, Percussion Sonic scenery for an absurdist theatre at the end of time. Transmissions become beacons; lighthouses burn bright, guideposts for a journey without end. McAvoy’s liminal songbook rings with secret architecture, while Pond and Fleisenberg deconstruct and - [Volunteers' Collective](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-15/) - You are cordially invited to come play free music! Free event7:00pm doors, 7:30pm start Every month, the Red Room hosts the Volunteers’ Collective, a free, open music workshop for the community. In this friendly, informal setting, we focus on listening, collaboration, and experimentation through non-idiomatic improvised music . Players of all skill levels participate. Try - [Caroline Davis & Dustin Carlson](https://www.redroom.org/caroline-davis-dustin-carlson/) - Local Openers Jon Birkholz, John Dierker & Mike Kuhl! Caroline Davis (sax/electronics) & Dustin Carlson (guitar) ! caroline davis Alive with nurturing visions of simple sonic offerings to morph our present situation, Caroline Davis’ main reason for playing music is to connect with others, beckoning new vistas among curious listeners. Her musical journey began in - [Henna Chou & Joshua Thomsom, w/ Bao Nguyen, Sera Fleishman trio](https://www.redroom.org/henna-chou-joshua-thomsom-w-bao-nguyen/) - Henna Chou is a sound artist whose work explores the confluence of environmental listening, experimental practice, and socio-political inquiry. Drawing from the textures and rhythms of the natural and industrial world, their work engages with sound as both material and message—foregrounding issues of ecology, displacement, and collective memory. Joshua Thomson is an alto saxophonist, composer, - [Volunteers' Collective May 2026](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-may-2026/) - You are cordially invited to come play free music! Free event7:30pm doors, 8:00pm start (note: 1/2 hour later than normal) Every month, the Red Room hosts the Volunteers’ Collective, a free, open music workshop for the community. In this friendly, informal setting, we focus on listening, collaboration, and experimentation through non-idiomatic improvised music . Players - [1 ≠ 2 = 6/7](https://www.redroom.org/2-does-not-1-or-3-inspired-duos/) - experimental calculation AND miscalculation Corey Thuro and John Berndt on live processed instrumentsRobin Rhodes and Taylor Washington on stringsDan Deluca and Samuel Burt on a modular feedback organism The Red Room shows off all local talent with a night of three duo sets. Come hear cross-sections of Baltimore's fanatical experimental music scene. Corey Thuro and - [BENEATH THE SURFACE](https://www.redroom.org/beneath-the-surface/) - TOBY SUMMERFIELD/////DAOURE DIONGUE/////ADAM HOLOFCENER A NIGHT OF CELESTIAL JOURNEYS INTO THE BEYOND TOBY SUMMERFEILD Bassist, Guitarist, Pedal SteelerComposer, Collaborator,ImproviserToby Summerfield (1978) hasworked in creative music for 30years. Operating in a space whererock music, minimalism, songcraft,improvising, atmosphere andemotion coexist.“This solo practice was born in theloneliness of the pandemic, byreflecting on vocabulary andtechnique I have developed tointeract - [Reona (Tokyo) + Chuck Bettis Duo w/Schmidt/Borax Duo](https://www.redroom.org/reona-tokyo-chuck-bettis-duo-w-schmidt-borax-duo/) - Tap dancing and metal percussionist Reona visits Baltimore from Tokyo!!! A rare opportunity to see/hear this unique and amazing performer! In duet with Bmore friend/HZero alum Chuck Bettis on electronics. Opening the evening will be the occasional duo of locals Tom Borax and M C Schmidt. Borax is "dusting off" the tap shoes used 2 - [Killick with John Jansen | Marie Herrington, Dave Benham, Paul Rubenstein](https://www.redroom.org/maurice-louca-killick/) - The return of Killick Appalachian Trance Metal performer from Georgia joined by area-instrument builder John Jansen. An improvised blind date of local openers Marie Herrington (voice/electronics), Dave Benham (voice/handmade flutes/electronics), and Paul Rubenstein (invented instruments). Killick Hinds lives in Athens, Georgia. His music is Appalachian Trance Metal made on unusual stringed instruments with an emphasis on unquantifiable - [Volunteers' Collective April 2026](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-april-2026/) - You are cordially invited to come play free music!Free event7pm doors, 7:30pm startEvery month, the Red Room hosts the Volunteers’ Collective, a free, open music workshop for the community. In this friendly, informal setting, we focus on listening, collaboration, and experimentation through non-idiomatic improvised music . Players of all skill levels participate.Try out new approaches - [SUDARIO, Aux Tail (Qiujiang Levi Lu, Dennis Sullivan) w/ Sam Pluta](https://www.redroom.org/sudario-aux-tail-qiujiang-levi-lu-dennis-sullivan-w-sam-pluta/) - SUDARIO - Voice and Electronics duo - Based in Baltimore Aux Tail - Qiujiang Levi Lu - Electronics :: Dennis Sullivan - Percussion/Electronics -Lu and Sullivan present musical happenings as an amalgamation of their individual practices. Levi's collaborative improvising software collides with Dennis' swatch of polyrhythmic percussion. The results are process and glitch driven with a focus on - [HIGH ZERO @ FADENSONNEN MARCH 31](https://www.redroom.org/high-zero-fadensonnen-march-31/) - 9 SONIC CRAFTSPERSONS IMPROVISE WHILE YOU DRINK TO BENEFIT HIGH ZERO Different sets involving THESE musicians in a TAVERN setting. Stop trying to put together a dungeon run and ORDER a bizarre Amaro, a rare Japanese whiskey or an trim German rice beer. Bespoke cock-tails. Delicious non-alchoholic rarities! •••••••• All orders at the bar benefit - [Community Modular Meetup | Feedback Patches](https://www.redroom.org/community-modular-meetup-feedback-patches/) - Bring your rack and some headphones and patch along. Null Phi Infinity and Sam Burt will provide creative stimulation with two approaches to generative feedback patching in modular synthesis. This is a free workshop/social event for anyone interested in electronic music. Also, feel free to bring modules for swapping! On occasion, the Red Room hosts - [Mariana Carvalho/Zach Hart (Berlin) / Two Weeks / Jasper Hoffman](https://www.redroom.org/mariana-carvalho-zach-hart-berlin-two-weeks-jasper-hoffman/) - Mariana Carvalho and Zach Hart are a Berlin based duo working in between experimental music, noise, radio and sound art. They will present a new set together, combining binaural mics, transducers, glass, modular synthesizer and a tape deck. Two Weeks is Ben Starkey and Obie Feldi. Together they make music with computers. Jasper Hoffman is - [A book, a world, a history a system of systems: THE COMPOSER'S BLACK BOX](https://www.redroom.org/a-book-a-world-a-history-a-system-of-systems-the-composers-black-box/) - Making Music in Cybernetic America. AN EVENING WITH THEODORE GORDON and musical guests •••••• Stories about new musical instruments are often told as quests for new kinds of sounds. The Composer's Black Box asks, What happens when new musical instruments produce not only new sounds but also new dynamics of musical agency and control? ••••••••• People who are interested - [Bill Harris percussion + Lyn Goeringer (self built instruments)](https://www.redroom.org/bill-harris-percussion-lyn-goeringer-self-built-instruments/) - Join us for this night of outstanding solo work from one of Chicago's great improvisor/composer/audio engineer extraordinaire - percussionist Bill Harris - and one of Baltimore's finest composer/inventor Lyn Goeringer! Bill will also be joined by local CK Barlow on live sampling and synth for a duo set. Bill Harris is a prominent Chicago-based percussionist, - [Subwoofer Duo + Voicehandler](https://www.redroom.org/subwoofer-duo-voicehandler/) - Amazing evening of music bringing together DC's Alma Laprida's new project using exclusively subwoofers (w/Bryce Hackford) and the duo Voicehandler (High Zero Alum Danishta Rivero and percussionist Jacob Felix Heule). Voicehandler plays intuitive, incantatory music grounded in the most primitive and somatic instruments -- the voice and percussion -- juxtaposed with contemporary, disembodied electronics. The - [A solo, a duo and a quadraphonic voyage.](https://www.redroom.org/a-solo-a-duo-and-a-quadraphonic-voyage/) - March 22nd please join us for an evening curated and created by local brightspark polymath John Hoegberg. •••••• A brand new electro-acoustic hörspiel about environment DONATED MEMORIES by Mr. Hoegberg, a solo on electric mandolin by Corey Thuro and an improvised duet from two fantastic players Sarah Hughes (High Zero 'alum'18) and Patrick Crossland (HZ - [Volunteers' Collective March 2026](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-march-2026/) - You are cordially invited to come play free music! Free event7pm doors, 7:30pm start Every month, the Red Room hosts the Volunteers’ Collective, a free, open music workshop for the community. In this friendly, informal setting, we focus on listening, collaboration, and experimentation through non-idiomatic improvised music . Players of all skill levels participate. Try - [Drum Major Instinct - Jeff Arnal returns to Balt.](https://www.redroom.org/drum-major-instinct-jeff-arnal-returns-to-balt/) - In the early days of the Red Room, one of the great bands to grace our stage once or twice a year was the John Dierker Quartet. Led by still-resident legendary reed player Dierker, this band played with unforgettable fury. A significant portion of that fury was from drummer Jeff Arnal - an absolutely mad - [Peter Evans w/Borax, Pluta + We Sundry Vessels](https://www.redroom.org/peter-evans-w-borax-pluta-we-sundry-vessels/) - Night of extreme strangeness. Words like "acoustic" and "electronic" are for "foolz". Distinquished and legendary NY trumpeter visits the Red Room to play in trio with two locals: longtime collaborator and computer music guru Sam Pluta and modular synth wizard Tom Borax. Evan's outrageous extended techniques combined with Pluta and Borax' noisy, textured and reactive - [Night Of Cello! Ali/Rojas solos](https://www.redroom.org/night-of-cello-ali-rojas-solos/) - High Zero Vet and amazing cellist/electronics/voice improvisor Ishmael Ali returns to Balt! Solo set + Special guest opener John Pablo Rojas. John Pablo is a recent transplant to MD and grad "cello Fellow" at UMD. Don't not miss this night of experimental cello mastery. Ishmael is a staple of Chicago improvisation, free jazz, noise and - [Nomad War Machine/Alcorn LP release show w/The Cups](https://www.redroom.org/nomad-war-machine-alcorn-lp-release-show-w-the-cups/) - One year ago we lost Susan Alcorn, the legendary pedal steel guitarist we made her home here in Baltimore for the past 20 years. On Tuesday the 10 of February, our friends at VG+ Records is releasing what is (probably) the LAST album ever cut by Susan, with the unlikely but very copacetic pairing with - [Volunteers' Collective February 2026](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-february-2026/) - You are cordially invited to come play free music! Free event7pm doors, 7:30pm start Every month, the Red Room hosts the Volunteers’ Collective, a free, open music workshop for the community. In this friendly, informal setting, we focus on listening, collaboration, and experimentation through non-idiomatic improvised music . Players of all skill levels participate. Try - [Jason Charney & The Matt Sargent](https://www.redroom.org/jason-charney-with-the-matt-sargent-ensemble/) - Jason Charney - solo set Matt Sargent Ensemble - Several Angels (guitar/flute/electronics with Jason Charney) Matt Sargent - Fifth Illumination (guitar/electronics) Matt Sargent (b. 1984) is a composer, guitarist, recording engineer, and music technology specialist based in upstate New York, where he is an assistant professor of music at Bard College. His music grows from - [JeJaWeDa Quartet | Lexie Mountain](https://www.redroom.org/jejaweda-quartet/) - Jeb Bishop - trombone, electronicsJaap Blonk - voice, electronicsWeasel Walter - drums, percussionDamon Smith - double bassLexie Mountain - solo project Instigated by Jaap Blonk, the quartet JaJeWeDa debuted in the spring of 2019 with a series of concerts in the US Northeast. The band features the great Dutch sound poet and improvisor Jaap Blonk, - [HADAL Zone, Ida Dierker](https://www.redroom.org/hadal-zone-ida-dierker/) - Cancelled due to snow! Be safe! Enjoy thyself! - [Rachel Beetz and Melissa Foss](https://www.redroom.org/rachel-beetz-and-melissa-foss/) - Melissa Foss plays her artisanal ceramic flutes in a rare solo performance. Rachel Beetz plays metal flutes featuring sounds from her album Tone Keepers, released on cassette this very day. - [Thomas Kraines, Melinda Rice, Sepehr Pirasteh w/ Parker, McAdam, Strauss](https://www.redroom.org/thomas-kraines-melinda-rice-sepehr-pirasteh-w-parker-mcadam-strauss/) - Thomas Kraines - cello Melinda Rice - viola Sepehr Pirasteh - kamancheh ------------------------------------------ Sarah Parker - augmented saxophone Nathan McAdams - oboe Robbie Strauss - flute Thomas Kraines, a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music and the Juilliard School, has gained renown as a versatile cellist, composer, and teacher. In addition to the Daedalus - [An evening of field recordings and found souds by Batchelder, Fucile w/ Klinger, Scheible w/ S. Burt & Laprida](https://www.redroom.org/an-evening-of-field-recordings-and-found-souds-by-batchelder-fucile-klinger-w-laprida-scheible-s-burt/) - Ground Report is an evening of field recording and found sounds. Hunter Batchelder will play field recording collages related to themes of migration and belonging. His sounds are sourced from his travels through the mid-Atlantic United States, Medellin, Colombia, and Livingstone, Zambia. Carrie Fucile will perform Souvenir, a work that uses her original field recordings - [Wright/Gelbert, Song/Krippner/Karpay](https://www.redroom.org/wright-gelbert-song-krippner-karpay/) - Unpredictable, uncategorizable, strange and singular! Two sets looking for the edges of musical possibility! "Jonah-Jak Almost Music" is the duo of sax legend Jack Wright and trumpter Jonah Gelbert. Opening the night is an all-new trio of local Peabody-based musicians Kieun Song (voice), Timothy Krippner (piano) and Robert Karpay (cello). Jack Wright has an intimate - [User Friendly, Hamish Robb + Missy Malouff](https://www.redroom.org/user-friendly-hamish-robb-missy-malouff/) - The first Tuesday of the year. Electroacoustic real time live improvisation with game controllers, controlled by Max/Msp and Ableton Live by User Friendly. Also on the bill is a brand new duo. Live coder Missy Malouff and laptop performer Hamish Robb. User Friendly is a Baltimore-based electronic music producer and composer specializing in experimental sound - [Mid-Atlantic Musical Instrument Makers](https://www.redroom.org/mid-atlantic-musical-instrument-makers/) - This is the first MAMIM meetup, an informal, free get-together of Baltimore-area instrument builders. Have you made your own flute? Did you build a synthesizer circuit? Did you carve a turnip trumpet? This is an opportunity to meet other curious makers of musical devices, learn what they are doing, share techniques, and talk about tools. - [Morgan Evans-Weiler, Horizon Overflow](https://www.redroom.org/morgan-evans-weiler/) - Morgan Evans-Weiler returns to the Red Room to stimulate your winter brain with enigmatic sounds. You don't want to miss this violinist and composer/improviser who consistently presents music that stretch your ear to listen in new ways. Also on the bill, Horizon Overflow is a Baltimore-area group of rotating regulars. Tonight Horizon Overflow includes Max - [Caleb Duval, Toshi Makihara, Crossland, and Locals!](https://www.redroom.org/caleb-duval-toshi-makihara-crossland-and-locals/) - The Red Room presents a night of vibrant, complex improvisation. Patrick Crossland, Toshi Makihara, Caleb Duval Logan Perry, Elliot Jeter, August Payne, Lemuel Marc Toshi Makihara's performance utilizes traditional percussion with a variety of discovered sound media, everyday objects and toys. Through a rigorous, systematic, and practiced process of experimentation, Makihara seeks out sounds that - [John Dierker Annual Holidaze Explosion!!](https://www.redroom.org/john-dierker-annual-holidaze-explosion/) - Tis the season to drink too much and play music with friends, hope to see you there! Lineup TBA - [Volunteers' Collective, Jan 2026](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-jan-2026/) - 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 - [VVaves - Peabody Computer Music student run concert - all are welcome! Free. EARLIER doors 7:30](https://www.redroom.org/vvaves-peabody-computer-music-student-run-concert-all-are-welcome-free/) - VVaves is a student run concert series featuring Peabody students. This concert aims to promote collaboration between Peabody Computer Music and other departments at Peabody. You are invited to come and see the result. •••••••••••••••• It being a student run thing...We haven't been appraised of who is playing- there will likely be some amazing stuff. - [Adi Meyerson & Simone Baron, Alexander Wu & MC Shmidt, Robert Karpay](https://www.redroom.org/adi-meyerson-simone-baron/) - Bassist Adi Meyerson and accordionist Simone Baron present an evening of beloved songs from past as well as spontaneous futures in charming, quirky formation. Simone and Adi play in DeCollage trio together with composer and tabla player Krissy Bergmark, which has been featured at the M3 festival in Brooklyn, at the Catalytic Sound Festival in - [Big Show: Mike Alfieri/Iron Joy/Obie Feldi/Bccording](https://www.redroom.org/big-show-geologist-mike-alfieri-iron-joy-obie-feldi/) - Huge night of string and percussion mixed with radical processing and electronics! Mike Alfieri (percussion, electronics) Bccording (electronics) Iron Joy (cello, guitar) Obie Feldi (computer) Unfortunately, previous line-up with Geologist is changed due to a family health matter. Alfieri is familiar to Baltimore as the drummer of experimental pop genii Tomato Flower - but he - [Gleb Kanasevich & Weathering](https://www.redroom.org/gleb-kanasevich-weathering/) - Gleb Kanasevich is a clarinetist and composer based in Detroit, MI. He is a core member of Hub New Music and also an active soloist, improviser, and session musician. He has been closely working with the Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival in New York City since 2021, frequently covering the festival’s electronic and live sound needs, - [Volunteers' Collective December 2025](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-december-2025/) - 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 - [CANCELLED. Brett Naucke + Cex. CANCELLED](https://www.redroom.org/brett-naucke-cex/) - THIS SHOW HAS SADLY BEEN CANCELLED Brett Naucke who lives in Asheville North Carolina, and has albums on Hausmo, Spectrum Spools, No Rent and Mego Music is a synthesist. From NPR: "Music may not actually have height, width or depth, but Brett Naucke's certainly feels three-dimensional. Using synthesizers, field recordings and a variety of other - [Yizhen Zoe Lyu / Thomas Gao, Corey Thuro / Max Gong, Jason Charney](https://www.redroom.org/yizhen-zoe-lyu-thomas-gao-thuro-gong-charney/) - Come to the Red Room on Tuesday for a debut performance of Yizhen Lyu / Thomas Gao duo's ambient electronic music made by tinfoil lotus flower, custom software processors, and synthetic noise. Corey Thuro will perform on his electric mandolin along side Max Gong's wailing and moving around. Jason Charney will perform a solo set - [D I F F U S I O N • F E S T I V A L • 9 • NIGHT FIVE The Voxel Theater • Electro Acoustic Music of Britain](https://www.redroom.org/d-i-f-f-u-s-i-o-n-f-e-s-t-i-v-a-l-9-night-5-the-voxel-theater/) - ∆Ω∆Ω∆Ω∆Ω∆Ω∆Ω∆Ω∆ It's High Zero's DIFFUSION FESTIVAL, the festival of music made out of sounds. Just to remind you, DIFFUSION is our festival concerned with multi-channel electro-acoustic music, both brand new and historical. Some of these sound pieces are made with just microphones, some of them are made with only electronic instruments, much of it is - [D I F F U S I O N • F E S T I V A L • 9 • NIGHT THREE 'locals'](https://www.redroom.org/d-i-f-f-u-s-i-o-n-f-e-s-t-i-v-a-l-9-night-3-locals-only/) - TWO IDENTICAL SHOWINGS at 7:30 and 9:30 It's High Zero's DIFFUSION FESTIVAL, the festival of music made out of sounds. Just to remind you, DIFFUSION is our festival concerned with multi-channel electro-acoustic music, both brand new and historical. Some of these sound pieces are made with just microphones, some of them are made with only - [D I F F U S I O N • F E S T I V A L • N U M B E R 9](https://www.redroom.org/d-i-f-f-u-s-i-o-n-f-e-s-t-i-v-a-l-n-u-m-b-e-r-9/) - Identical Showings at 7:30 and 10:00 (sshhhh!) ••••••••• It's High Zero's DIFFUSION FESTIVAL, the festival of music made out of sounds. Just to remind you, DIFFUSION is our festival concerned with multi-channel electro-acoustic music, both brand new and historical. Some of these sound pieces are made with just microphones, some of them are made with - [D I F F U S I O N • F E S T I V A L • 9 • NIGHT FOUR The Voxel Theater](https://www.redroom.org/d-i-f-f-u-s-i-o-n-f-e-s-t-i-v-a-l-9-night-4-the-voxel-theater/) - It's High Zero's DIFFUSION FESTIVAL, the festival of music made out of sounds. -AT THE VOXEL THEATER. Just to remind you, DIFFUSION is our festival concerned with multi-channel electro-acoustic music, both brand new and historical. Some of these sound pieces are made with just microphones, some of them are made with only electronic instruments, much - [D I F F U S I O N • F E S T I V A L • 9 • NIGHT TWO](https://www.redroom.org/d-i-f-f-u-s-i-o-n-f-e-s-t-i-v-a-l-9-night-two/) - TWO IDENTICAL SHOWINGS at 7:30 and 9:30 ••• (Installation only available 6-8, see below) • It's High Zero's DIFFUSION FESTIVAL, the festival of music made out of sounds. Just to remind you, DIFFUSION is our festival concerned with multi-channel electro-acoustic music, both brand new and historical. Some of these sound pieces are made with just - [Jeff Carey's END OF YEAR STATUS UPDATE @TheVoxel](https://www.redroom.org/jeff-careys-end-of-year-status-update-thevoxel/) - This event is not at the Redroom, but this is a Redroom adjacent show at The Voxel and we think you should know about it! Jeff Carey is an interdisciplinary artist whose work spans music, time-based visual art and computer science. His work explores the embodiment of electronic music by building physical interfaces for performing - [Volunteers' Collective November 2nd](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-november-2nd/) - 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 - [Kieran Daly/Ben Bennett + HADAL Zone](https://www.redroom.org/kieran-daly-ben-bennett-hadal-zone/) - On November 5th, Kieran Daly and Ben Bennett bring their uncompromising vision of a new sliding monophonic timbral music to the Red Room. I have never quite heard a guitarist who plays anything like Kieran Daly. Kieran Daly is an American composer with a concentration in experimental monophonic music. His work focuses on a primarily - [Weston Olencki + Alma Laprida](https://www.redroom.org/weston-olencki-alma-laprida/) - Wayward Berlin-based Weston Olencki returns to BMORE with his amazing inventions and inventive amusements! Totally unique artist and performer! He'll be joined by DC's Alma Laprida - who is also debuting her recent inventions for a Baltimore audience. Come and check out her custom version of the traditional renaissance tromba marina - made of METAL, - [Phipps Pt. (Wobbly and Lovage) + Soft Pink Truth](https://www.redroom.org/phipps-pt-wobbly-and-lovage-soft-pink-truth/) - Singer and Songwriter Lovage has a duo with avant computer-loving Jon "Wobbly" Leidecker... This is that DUO! Please come to see and hear them! Phipps Pt. is a sound-based project of Canadian artist and conduit, Lovage Sharrock. What began as a series of one-off performances pairing her hypnotic guitar patterns and vocals with rotating collaborators - [ODU VIBRATION II](https://www.redroom.org/odu-vibration-ii/) - CHRIS WILLIAMS////////// JAMAL MOORE-TAYLOR WASHINGTON DEPTH OF AFRIKAN SCIENCE, CREATIVE MUSIC AND IMPROVISATION Chris Ryan Williams is an artist and musician based in Brooklyn, NY. His work takes the form of electroacoustic composition and performance installation and deals with decoding family history, ambience, and time-space compression Jamal Moore is a luminary in his own right - [Argyle Torah (Aaron Pond, Thomas Patteson) w/ Dax (Kylan Hillman, John Jansen), Ruth Lacey + Devin Ostendarp](https://www.redroom.org/argyle-torah-aaron-pond-thomas-patteson-w-dax-hillman-jansen-ruth-lacey-devin-ostendarp/) - Argyle Torah is the Philadelphia-based duo of Aaron Pond and Thomas Patteson. A friendship spanning the vast terrains of ethnomusicology, organology, and philosophical inquiry. Their music knows little bounds and centers the transfiguration of spirit via electrical and acoustical means. But it is just that, spirit, breath, which forms the core of being and of - [HOW THINGS ARE + Purdy / Pluta / Schmidt](https://www.redroom.org/how-things-are-delightful-opening-group/) - Hellllllo, Martin here, your friendly and FEARFULLY creative member of the High Zero / Red Room collective. I played recently in (in another record store venue) Pittsburgh and this group opened for us and they were GREAT. I asked them to play at the Red Room sometime. HERE IS THAT SHOW! Please come to see - [Sonic Chambers Quartet & Bashi Rose](https://www.redroom.org/sonic-chambers-quartet-bashi-rose/) - Hailing from New Orleans, the free jazz new music group Sonic Chambers Quartet will be making their Red Room debut along with our local favorite, Bashi Rose & inc. inc. inc. Check out their new album "Kiss of the Earth". The title track is an arrangement of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring in a jazz combo - [MUSIC OF THE SPHERES II](https://www.redroom.org/music-of-the-spheres-ii/) - MUSIC OF THE SPHERES II MAJID ARAIM///JAMAL MOORE-ORLANDO JOHNSON///CHE JAMAL DAVIS - [Volunteers' Collective](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-14/) - 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 - [Killick and Orlando Johnson, Baltimore Improvised String Band (Porter, Fulton, Meredith, Lin)](https://www.redroom.org/killick-and-orlando-johnson-baltimore-improvised-string-band-porter-fulton-meredith-lin/) - Killick plays Appalachian Trance Metal on stringed instruments with an emphasis on unquantifiable rhythms, intuitive intonation, and shamanistic ROYGBIV. He'll be joined by Orlando Johnson, a Baltimore multimedia artist who plays mandolin and dances in the Move Move Collaborative. Opening the night will be a group of Baltimore string players: Ruby Fulton, Kate Porter, Liz - [Carl Stone + The Lepidopterans](https://www.redroom.org/carl-stone-the-lepidopterans/) - Super line-up, electronics, electroacoustics, acoustics, sampling at the highest level!!! Carl Stone - sampling pioneer and plundery, absurdist computer music virtuoso returns to Bmore, a rare visit from his home in Tokyo!!!Baltimore/Philly hybrid supergroup The Lepidopterans w/electronics maestros Tom Borax & Jason Willett of Leprechaun Catering, reedsman John Dierker of MicroKingdom/New Volcanos etc and Toshi - [The 27th High Zero Concludes!](https://www.redroom.org/the-27th-high-zero-concludes/) - Final night of High Zero. Last chance to grab an evening of out of the box, raw, real, risk-taking sights and sounds! We are honored to include an opening set by Baltimore legend the inimitable, uncategorizable Laure Drogoul. https://www.highzero.org/2025_site/index.html. - [HIGH ZERO NIGHT OF RANDOM](https://www.redroom.org/high-zero-night-of-random/) - Thats right folks - time to let the pantheon of creation curate. We are better when we allow the universe to unfold before us. We are students of growth, change and spectral phenomena. Free music to free your mind, free of meddling from human curators and other nuisances. https://www.highzero.org/2025_site/index.html. - [Night TWO of the 27th High Zero Festival](https://www.redroom.org/night-two-of-the-27th-high-zero-festival/) - High Zero Continues with another night of sights and sounds that will NEVER occur again. There is nothing in this world like REAL TIME collaborations and spontaneous audio-visual creation. https://www.highzero.org/2025_site/index.html. - [The 27th High Zero Festival Begins!](https://www.redroom.org/the-27th-high-zero-festival-begins/) - Opening night of High Zero 2025. Each night - new sounds, new permutations, new paradigms. A deep dive into the possibilities of music! Never before collaborations from the creative minds of Bmore and Beyond!!! https://www.highzero.org/2025_site/index.html. - [Delayed: Volunteers' Collective September 2025](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-september-2025/) - This month's VC has been moved to Sunday December 14th. Please, come out and experiment with us. 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 - [Pre Zero at Fadensonnen](https://www.redroom.org/fadensonnen-pre-zero-performance/) - Kick off High Zero month with a fundraiser hosted by Fadensonnen. Local luminaries will perform experimental improvised music for you in a cozy tavern setting. A portion of the (upstairs only!!) tavern profits will go to High Zero! Come hang out with us and help support the work we are doing. 6pm doors, 7pm showtimeat - [EARTH TONGUES // Lander, Barlow and Downing](https://www.redroom.org/earth-tongues-lander-barlow-and-downing/) - Saturday September 6th 8pm Doors, 8:30pm show $10-$20 Sliding Scale Earth Tongues is a New York-based ensemble formed in 2011. The band is dedicated to exploring the scope and scale of experimental improvised music. Consisting of Carlo Costa on percussion, Joe Moffett on trumpet, and Dan Peck on tuba, the trio creates pieces that explore - [ for-tet & Portraits in Red and Gold](https://www.redroom.org/for-tet/) - The “for-tet” is a group of improvisers playing compositions by Dave Ballou. Each composition is designed to be the source for creating with no rehearsal. This concert is a pre-release celebration of the group’s upcoming release, Flat Rat on the Shiny Boy Press coming later this year. Dave Ballou- trumpet/compositions John Dierker- bass clarinet Adam Hopkins- acoustic - [THE MESSAGE](https://www.redroom.org/the-message/) - A night of creative music and journey through sound beyond. Transcendence ( Kweku Sumbry, Shakoor Hakeem) feaut. Brandon Woody/////// Mojuba Duo( Jamal Moore, Nik Francis) Transcendence Fearless percussionist Shakoor Hakeem, a prolific up-and-coming talent, has a gift for making experimental, Afro-diasporan, rhythmic improvisational music immediately enjoyable. Hakeem’s unique old soul has him adhering to the - [High Zero Volunteers Meeting](https://www.redroom.org/high-zero-volunteers-meeting-4/) - [Charmaine Lee w/ EXECUTIVE SUMMARY LIVE](https://www.redroom.org/charmaine-lee-w-executivesummary/) - Chanrmaine Lee, High Zero festival veteran, is coming back to Baltimore to present her solo electronic music. Local support TBA. Charmaine Lee (b. 1991) is an Australian vocalist based in New York whose music spans voice, feedback, and live processing. Her music has been recognized as “extraordinary” by The New Yorker, with additional coverage in - [MSHR, Mary Levinson](https://www.redroom.org/mshr-mary-levinson/) - MSHR is an art collective that collaboratively builds and explores sculptural electronic systems. Their performances and installations integrate electrical signals and human presence, weaving dense networks of causality to form audiovisual environments that babble with life-like current. They explore intuitive and technical gradients between sonic and sculptural forms, using analog circuitry and open-source software to - [Volunteers' Collective](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-13/) - You are cordially invited to come play free music! DELAYED UNTIL JULY 6th, THIS MONTH, due to a Normals bookstore event on the first Sunday. 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 - [Bettis/Bassett + Leprechaun Catering](https://www.redroom.org/bettis-bassett-leprechaun-catering/) - More way-out electronics than you could shake a theremin finger at. Come out Baltimore for an old school "banger" of synth noise. Chuck Bettis and Marcia Bassett were both regulars in Bmore, both frequently dropping in to mythic places like the west-side's Tarantula Hill and the Bank. Now both in NYC and in a duo. - [MUSIC OF THE SPHERES MAJID ARAIM-KLIMCHAK///JAMAL MOORE-ORLANDO JOHNSON](https://www.redroom.org/music-of-the-spheres-majid-araim-klimchak-jamal-moore-orlando-johnson/) - A NIGHT OF NEW IMPROVISED MUSIC Majid Araim is an Iraqi-American multi-instrumentalist, composer, educator, curator, visual artist, researcher and a fixture of the Atlanta improvisation and new music communities. Majid's prolific work as a composer focuses on resonance and dynamics, experimental approaches, and is oriented towards the natural world and reimaginings thereof. Passionate about reflection of - [A NIGHT OF SOLO](https://www.redroom.org/a-night-of-solo/) - A NIGHT OF SOLO - [Current Space Fundraiser for High Zero. Doors at 6, Music at 7](https://www.redroom.org/current-space-fundraiser-for-high-zero/) - We all want more High Zero in our lives, right? The throw-it-at-the-wall and see-what-sticks. The serious concentration with a smirk. The unplanned sudden eruption of genius from people who aren't in a band together. Current Space will be holding an outdoor summer fundraiser for the High Zero Festival. You get more music from your local - [Kyle Bruckmann w/ Pluta, Macklay, Dierker and too many reeds](https://www.redroom.org/kyle-bruckmann-too-many-reeds/) - Kyle Bruckmann - oboe, electronics John Dierker - bass clarinet Sky Macklay - oboe Sam Pluta - electronics Oakland, CA-based oboist and electronic musician (and High Zero alum) Kyle Bruckmann swoops through town to tussle with three of Baltimore's finest in an improvised set of far too many reeds and fried circuits. Bruckmann's long shared history with New - [July 12th- Eric Frye/Michael Masura Flora, Network Glass, etc.](https://www.redroom.org/july-12th-eric-frye-michael-masura-flora-network-glass-etc/) - Earth moving multi channel electroacoustic American music next Saturday July 12th Chupacabra.Valentine (Minneapolis/California) combined efforts of computer musicians Eric Frye and Michael Masaru Flora in Octophonic 8 channel surround sound Eric Frye is a composer, artist, and curator. Exploring non-orientable sonic surfaces, Frye operates between the disciplinary boundaries of sound, philosophy, linguistics, and mathematics. His - [Volunteers' Collective July 2025](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-july-2025/) - 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 - [Jordan Sand (doublebass), Simone Baron (accordion) and Samuel Burt (bass clarinet)](https://www.redroom.org/jordan-sand-doublebass/) - We love musicians who both are masters of their instrument and highly creative performers. Jordan Sand is one of these visionary virtuosos. Jordan Sand is an American bassist, vocalist and improviser weaving voice into the organ-like resonances of bowed double bass. Her solo music, described as "Joni Mitchell meets Ligeti" (Omaha Under the Radar), blends - [Noise Show from Providence + prognoz (MD/PA)](https://www.redroom.org/noise-show-from-providence/) - Cryptwarbler, Sadnoise, Barbie.ai Local Band: prognoz Providence/Mass-based noise artists will hit us with three solo performances involving circuit bent Casios, DIY and Ciat Lonbarde instruments, and improved techno from a cage! Elliott Jeter will bring some local flavor with his duo noise-rock/post-punk band prognoz. Come FEEL THE MUSIC deep within you! Sadnoise (Femi) is an architect - [Bashi Rose, Emperor King Bishop, Hunter Batchelder, w/ Breath of the Magi](https://www.redroom.org/bashi-rose-emperor-king-bishop-hunter-batchelder-w-breath-of-the-magi/) - Come check out this new trio of Bashi Rose, Emperor King Bishop Soloman Selassie, and Hunter Batchelder. The two drummers are known for their intense rhythmic drives and the Emperor has impressed us all at the HighZero Festival last September. Their gathering will surely be volcanic. Joining with them are the maverick local trio Breath - [Kevin Blackistone w/ Alexander Wu, Dan Deluca](https://www.redroom.org/kevin-blackistone-w-alexander-wu-dan-deluca/) - Come witness Kevin Blackistone performs with his hostile improvisation interface that punishes its user based on predictability of the performance. Opening for the night are solo sets by max/msp/excel live coder Alexander Wu and local synth wizard Dan Deluca! Kevin Blackistone (US/AT) is an transdisciplinary media artist and researcher using immersive, tangible, participatory and performative - [Manas (Tashi Dorji, Thom Nguyen) w/ Che Chen; Jamal Moore, Nic Francis](https://www.redroom.org/tashi-dorji-thom-nguyen-che-chen-jamal-moore-nic-francis/) - "Tornado-conjuring" improv supergroup Manas + Che Chen visits the normal bookstore! Opening for them: Jamal Moore, Nic Francis. From their album Things of Outtakes: "MANAS are guitar and drums, with nothing more than guitar and drums. It's easy to think about the historicization process of this form of non-Rock music in America, but it's very - [Volunteers' Collective June 2025](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-june-2025/) - 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 - [Kristina Warren & Jessica Keyes](https://www.redroom.org/kristina-warren-jessica-keyes/) - Join us for an outstanding night featuring visiting artist Kristina Warren and local phenom Jessica Keyes. 8pm doors 8:30pm show $10-$20 Sliding Scale Based in Providence, RI, Kristina Warren (kmwarren.org) is an artist working with acoustic, analog, and digital sound plus video. Previously a Fulbright US Scholar (MuseumsQuartier Vienna, 2023) and Visiting Assistant Professor of - [Spring 2025 Intercollegiate Concert](https://www.redroom.org/spring-2025-intercollegiate-concert/) - Join us at Peabody’s Maestro Cafe for an exciting new iteration of the Intercollegiate Concert featuring talented improvisers from Towson, UMBC, and Peabody! Experience unique musical collaborations as students are mixed into random groups for a night of fresh sounds you won’t want to miss! Consider donating at the door! Your contributions will directly support - [Austin Larkin solo violin w/ Sophie Rollover](https://www.redroom.org/austin-larkin-solo-violin/) - Come experience the endlessly entrancing solo violin performance of Austin Larkin - textures merge into silence merge into space. The slow shifting harmonies and harmonics create a hypnotically engaging environment where the violin becomes the space it is situated in. Opening for the night will be a stellar new trio from the Peabody Improvisers Collective, - [Volunteers' Collective May 2025](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-may-2025/) - 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 - [Marshall Trammell's Pedagogy w/ Peter Redgrave, Move Move, quartet w/ Stanley, Moore, Cain](https://www.redroom.org/marshall-trammells-pedagogy-w-peter-redgrave-trio-w-moore-cain/) - Experimental/creative music percussionist, composer, sound installation artist, music strategist Marshall Trammell debuting his new graphic score project Pedagogy of the Surveilled with Peter Redgrave and the Move Move dancers. Developed with North African and Levantine residents living in Amsterdam, Pedagogy "focuses on working with personal histories as a way to resist surveillance." Marshall will be - [Argentinian Turntable and Synthesizer / CK Barlow, Lexie Mt., Bonnie Lander](https://www.redroom.org/argentinian-turntable-and-synthesizer-ck-barlow-lexie-mt-bonnie-lander/) - B.T. and Cecilia Lopez are two of the most radical and unique voices coming fromthe Buenos Aires improvisation scene. Both artists have been active musicians in South Americaat least over the last two decades but their collaboration as a duo started in 2023 in NY whereLopez has been based since 2014. The combination of Tog’s - [Lauren Sarah Hayes/Carey & Ballou](https://www.redroom.org/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 - [Emily Rach Beisel returns to Balt](https://www.redroom.org/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. - [Volunteers' Collective March 2025, shifted schedule](https://www.redroom.org/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 - [THINKING, NOT THINKING, IMPROVISING](https://www.redroom.org/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 - [C. H. of Hirsche Nicht aufs Sofa wi / TBA](https://www.redroom.org/c-h-of-hirsche-nichts-auf-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 - [Laubrock, Rainey, Pluta, Ballou // Lander, Dierker](https://www.redroom.org/laubrock-rainey-pluta-ballou-lander-dierker/) - New York/Baltimore super-group quartet featuring Ingrid Laubrock (saxophone), Tom Rainey (drums), Sam Pluta (electronics), and Dave Ballou (trumpet) will tickle your ears and melt your faces with their unique electro-acoustic blend of noise and nuance. ChatGPT says, "Four fearless innovators—Ingrid Laubrock, Tom Rainey, Sam Pluta, and Dave Ballou—shatter expectations with an uncompromising blast of chaotic, - [(good old) Tongue Depressor wi M.C. Schmidt and Obie Feldi](https://www.redroom.org/good-old-tongue-depressor-wi-m-c-schmidt-and-obie-feldi/) - Red Room regulars Tongue Depressor play on Thursday. In their own words, "this time it’s tapes plus bagpipes and harmonicas". Come on down to the homestead and hear Zach and Henry ply their own kind of hypnotic staring into the fire of sound. Opening will be collective members M.C. Schmidt and Obie Feldi doing live - [High Zero Night at Fadensonnen](https://www.redroom.org/high-zero-night-at-fadensonnen-2/) - 7pm Wednesday March 12th, 20253 W. 23rd St., Baltimore Halfway between festivals, we want to keep the High Zero spirit alive in Baltimore! Local luminaries will perform experimental improvised music for you in a cozy tavern setting. Fadensonnen is generously hosting us for this fundraising event. A portion of the (upstairs only!!) tavern profits will - [Roger C. Miller (ex of Mission of Burma) / Breath of the Magi](https://www.redroom.org/roger-c-miller-ex-of-mission-of-burma-breath-of-the-magi/) - JOIN US the evening of May 8th for two very special musical experiences. As usual the bookstore re-opens it's doors at 8pm and the music begins at 8:30. Please bring cash for the show, 100% of your entrance fee goes to the musicians. First come first served by the numbers. Breath of the Magi is - [Marcin Pietruszewski/Tom Borax multi-channel electronic music!](https://www.redroom.org/marcin-pietruszewski-tom-borax-multi-channel-electronic-music/) - Experience a very wild night synthetic noise and sound with Polish inventor and programmer Marcin Pietruszewski and local synth maestro Tom Borax. Both will be in multi-channel surround sound! Marcin Pietruszewski (1984, Poland) is a composer and researcher. He is engaged in soundsynthesis and composition with computers, exploring specific formal developments in thetradition of electroacoustic - [Susan Alcorn Memorial](https://www.redroom.org/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 - [multi-channel electroacoustic AND conceptual movement](https://www.redroom.org/multi-channel-electroacoustic-and-conceptual-movement/) - All the building blocks of a healthy mind and body. Multi-Channel Electro Acoustic music and Conceptual Performance Movement Action. Obie Feldi and M.C. Schmidt! Jeff Carey! Alex Wu! John Hoegberg! Visiting Professor from Carnegie Mellon in Electronic Music Composition, Freida Abtan!! AND KHRISTIAN WEEKS and PETER REDGRAVE! •••••••••••••••••••• Four pieces in quadraphonic or octophonic and - [Volunteers' Collective March 2025](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-march-2025/) - 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 - [Community Modular Meetup: Jess Keyes and Tom Boram](https://www.redroom.org/community-modular-meetup-4/) - Synthesizer meetups can be a great place to talk about what equipment people are using, but modules will only get you so far! Tonight, we will host a discussion with two Baltimore area Eurorack artists about their aesthetic approaches. If you've ever been just on the edge of a music scene and wondered why there - [Jacques/Cornell Duo, Adrian Wood, DeLaurenti/Goeringer Duo](https://www.redroom.org/jacques-cornell-duo-adrian-wood-delaurenti-goeringer-duo/) - Amazing night with Anne-F Jacques/AJ Cornell of Quebec, Adrian Wood (VA) and Chris Delaurenti and Lyn Goeringer (Balt!). Expect inventions, electro-acoustics, analog synths, radios, cassettes, theremins, noises, abstractions, motors, machines......... A gleaner of sonorities, AJ Cornell transforms and transmits sonic material over radio channels and through live performance. Her approach employs dense layers of macro and micro sounds evolving - [Towson University hosts students, faculty, & High Zero Collective](https://www.redroom.org/towson-performance-with-students-faculty-high-zero-collective/) - Improvised music collaboration between Towson University students and faculty with High Zero Collective members. Featuring: Dave Ballou, Mike Kuhl, John Dierker, Ruth Lacey, Devin Ostendarp, Wesley Blood, Rachel Beetz, Bonnie Lander, and, Max Gong. The experimental improvised music community of Baltimore runs deep and reaches into area academic institutions. Many of our performers are also - [A Night of Duos](https://www.redroom.org/a-night-of-duos/) - Interstellar Duo: Jamal Moore and Warren Crudup III - reeds, percussion and electronics Orlando Johnson and Peter Redgrave: reeds, brass, percussion and strings King Solomon and mystery GUEST: reeds, keyboards and electronics As with almost all Red Room shows, 100% of the door money goes to the players. Please bring 10 dollars in cash (or - [Horizon Overflow (Baltimore area super-group)](https://www.redroom.org/horizon-overflow-baltimore-area-super-group/) - A selection of Baltimore's finest sound-smiths together for one special night. HORIZON OVERFLOWJohn Berndt electronics, invented instruments, saxophoneRose Hammer Burt saxophoneSamuel Burt bass clarinet, daxophonePatrick Crossland trombonePaul Neidhardt percussionNate Scheible timpani - [Bashi Rose // Rebecca Lloyd-Jones: Sarah Hennies' Thought Sectors](https://www.redroom.org/bashi-rose-rebecca-lloyd-jones-sarah-hennies-thought-sectors/) - Wednesday February 5th, 8pm Doors, 8:30pm Show Incredible musical night abounds! Bashi Rose, founder of Konjur Collective is a theatre artist, musician, and filmmaker. He was raised in West Baltimore and nurtured by the Baltimore Arts Community. He has performed and has had work produced in numerous venues including the High Zero Festival of Experimental Improvised Music, - [Michael Jones // Ida Dierker + Brandon Gouin](https://www.redroom.org/michael-jones-ida-dierker-brandon-gouin/) - Monday February 3rd - 8pm doors, 8:30pm show. We welcome new music percussionist Michael Jones to the Red Room all the way from San Diego, CA. Joined by local duo Ida Dierker & Brandon Gouin. Michael Jones Michael is a percussionist and conductor based in Southern California. He has beendescribed by Fanfare Magazine as a - [Volunteers' Collective February 2025](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-january-2025-2/) - 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 - [Killick and Rose Burt | Simone Baron and Eric Franklin](https://www.redroom.org/killick-and-rose-burt-simone-baron-and-eric-franklin/) - Two duos featuring unlikely combinations of instruments! Killick Hines on unusual stringed instruments performs with Rose Burt on saxophones. Simone Baron plays accordion with Eric Franklin on theremin. What happens when you combine the overtones of a baritone saxophone with shimmer of sympathetic strings? What vibrations will fill the room when a warbling theremin tone - [Tony Malaby’s FIREBATH Baltimore](https://www.redroom.org/tony-malabys-firebath-baltimore/) - Dave Ballou Tony Malaby’s FIREBATH Baltimore! Please join us for an open rehearsal at Towson University at 4pm followed by a concert at the Red Room at 8:30pm Tony Malaby Dave Ballou Mike Kuhl John Dierker Adam Hopkins Friday, Jan 31st Open Rehearsal at Towson UniversityCenter for the Arts room 20754pm, FREE! -Red Room Show at - [Chuck Bettis/Jerry Lim/Mick Barr/Breath of the Magi](https://www.redroom.org/chuck-bettis-jerry-lim-mick-barr-breath-of-the-magi/) - Entirely great night!!! High Zero alums and wayward, beloved musicians Chuck Bettis and Jerry Lim return to Bmore with an all new duo project. Guitar wizard and legendary shredder Mick Barr is also with them! Bmore local supergroup Breath of the Magi (Peter Redgrave, Orlando Johnson, Che Davis) open!!! What a night!! Active since the - [Aaron Pond and Inverse/Obverse + Jenny Moon Tucker/Layne Garrett Duo](https://www.redroom.org/aaron-pond-and-inverse-obverse/) - Inverse and Obverse from Philly will be joined by the duo of BMore's Jenny Moon Tucker and DC's Layne Garrett. Inverse and Obverse is a quartet rooted in a phenomenological approach to creative music. like the great philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty, we are examining the skin of the world, the very nature by which objects and - [Volunteers' Collective, January 2025](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-january-2025/) - 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 - [JDXMAS](https://www.redroom.org/jdxmas/) - [Zane Kanevsky, Grace Bedwell, Vasya](https://www.redroom.org/zane-kanevsky-grace-bedwell-vasya/) - Tuesday night at the Red Room! Zane Kanevsky of Maine comes down to show some new Quadrophonic work at the Red Room, on tour with Grace Bedwell. Everything Zane has been a part of, I love. His music is crushing and violent but does not lack nuance or moments of clarity. I highly recommend digging - [Towson, UMBC, Peabody Intercollegiate Concert](https://www.redroom.org/towson-umbc-peabody-intercollegiate-concert/) - Three colleges come together for a joint end-of-semester concert at the Red Room, joined by Towson's faculty members Dave Ballou and John Dierker. From Towson: Ruth Lacey - Electronics, Devin Ostendarp - Guitar, Ruben Payan - Trombone, Melodica, Logan Perry - Drums, Percussion, Devin Bryan - Trumpet, Camila Compos - Cerri-Trumpet, Adam "Tennis" Mendelson - - [Rachel Beetz + Ted Moore](https://www.redroom.org/rachel-beetz-ted-moore/) - Tuesday December 10th, 2024 | 8pm Doors, 8:30pm Show Coming off the closing night of this year's High Zero festival, Beetz will perform a new improvisation set she's calling Delayed consisting of solo sung hockets, circular breathing, electronics, ambient drones, and (hopefully) some delayed gratification. Ted Moore (he/him) is a composer, improviser, and intermedia artist whose work - [Volunteers' Collective, November 2024](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-november-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 - [Works Showcase: Keyes, Weeks, Holofcener, and Wenc](https://www.redroom.org/works-showcase-keyes-weeks-holofcener-and-wenc/) - Tonight performers show off their deep research into experimental music. Jess Keyes brings her project Patien(t/ce), for voice and eurorack synth with handmade wearable controllers. She uses two home-engineered sensor gloves to manipulate her voice in real-time. Khristian Weeks will be improvising on found open-circuitry with a contact mic and objects. Stalwart arts advocate Adam - [Bark Culture/Marshall Trammell+Pat Cain](https://www.redroom.org/bark-culture-marshall-trammellpat-cain/) - HUGE NIGHT! Philadelphia's "Bark Culture" (vibes, bass, drums) and DC/Oakland duo Marshall Trammell (percussion) and Pat Cain (electronics, noise). Two sets of deep improvised music at the outer limits of jazz and noise. This may be the world premiere of the Duo of Pat Cain (from DC's amazing Model Home) and Marshall Trammell (High Zero - [Community Modular Meetup | Petting Zoo](https://www.redroom.org/community-modular-meetup-petting-zoo/) - SHARE AND LEARN! Members of Baltimore's modular synthesizer community bring their racks for you to patch. Bring a rack to share! Try patching unfamiliar modules. Talk to the owners and learn more about what they love about their synths. This is a good chance to try modular formats outside of Eurorack. Participants might bring Serge - [Dave Greber | Rohan Pathare & Robin Rhodes | Carrie Fucile & Brenton Lim](https://www.redroom.org/dave-greber-rohan-pathare-robin-rhodes-carrie-fucile-brenton-lim/) - Dave Greber Dave Greber (b. 1982, Philadelphia) is an artist, educator, and consultant based in Baltimore. He creates experiences for galleries and the wider public arena, using digital media, sculptural installations, and social/environmental interventions. His practice is enthusiastically intuitive, aided by divination and collaboration with both biological and artificial intelligence. He began exhibiting video and - [Volunteers' Collective, October 2024](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-october-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 - [BEAM SPLITTER + Phil Minton (US/UK/NO) | Corey Thuro, Taylor Washington, Dan DeLuca](https://www.redroom.org/beam-splitter-mil-phinton-us-uk-no/) - Two duos intersect, forming this trio of hyper-extended close miked mouthful and breath driven antics for double voice and trombone. They have separately toured the globe extensively, each carving out a unique approach to music making. As a trio or in extended projects, they have performed together in the UK, US, Portugal, Ukraine, Germany, Argentina - [DIFFUSION - Third Night - VOXEL THEATER](https://www.redroom.org/diffusion-third-night-voxel-theater/) - Martin Schmidt, here welcoming you to High Zero’s DIFFUSION Festival. The third night of four. Our 8th annual DIFFUSION Festival. This one is at the state-of-the-art Voxel Theater. Doors will be at 7:30 MUSIC BEGINS at 8. Please come before the music begins so we don’t have to seat people in the dark! Live and - [DIFFUSION - First Night](https://www.redroom.org/diffusion-first-night/) - Martin Schmidt, here welcoming you to High Zero's DIFFUSION Festival. The first night of four. Our 8th annual DIFFUSION Festival. This one is at the Red Room. 2 shows: Early and Late. Doors for the Early Show will be at 7:30, Doors for the late show (please be quiet if you are arriving early!) will - [DIFFUSION - Night Four - VOXEL THEATER](https://www.redroom.org/diffusion-night-four-voxel-theater/) - Martin Schmidt, here welcoming you to High Zero’s DIFFUSION Festival. The third night of four. Our 8th annual DIFFUSION Festival. This one is at the state-of-the-art Voxel Theater. Doors will be at 7:30 MUSIC BEGINS at 8. Please come before the music begins so we don’t have to seat people in the dark! Live and - [DIFFUSION - Second Night](https://www.redroom.org/diffusion-second-night/) - Martin Schmidt, here welcoming you to High Zero’s DIFFUSION Festival. The second night of four. Our 8th annual DIFFUSION Festival. This one is at the Red Room. 2 shows: Early and Late Doors for the Early Show will be at 7:30 Doors for the Late show (please be quiet if you are arriving early!) will - [Jessica Pavone | Liz Meredith | Sky Macklay, Meg Huskin and Nathaniel Parks](https://www.redroom.org/jessica-pavone/) - Opening musical Harmonishroom ceremony from Sky Macklay, Meg Huskin and Nathaniel Parks! Jessica Pavone solo set Closing set from Liz Meredith. - What Happens Has Become Now is Jessica Pavone's fifth solo viola album and her fourth for Relative Pitch Records. Over the past twenty years, Pavone has been developing solo music based on the pitches - [CANCELED: K a y a / Bonnie Lander, Shelly Purdy, John Dierker](https://www.redroom.org/k-a-y-a-bonnie-lander-shelly-purdy-john-dierker/) - Sorry folks! Cancelled due to illness. Hope to do this again soon! The voice comes out in this double feature featuring visiting vocalist K a y a. K a y a "solo voice performance. in her solo voice performances, kaya dives deep into an emotional landscape of her voice. her solo performances are characterized by - [BILL NACE ALAN LICHT DAVE HEUMAN](https://www.redroom.org/bill-nace-alan-licht-dave-heuman/) - Join us at the Red Room for a Three-Head Bill with GUITARS. As almost always, doors at 8, music at 8:30. We will ask 10 dollars at the door, but more is welcome. PLEASE bring cash for the show as we have no digitonulator that accepts non paper monies. No kidding. Thank you. Bill Nace - [Volunteers' Collective](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-12/) - 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 - [Hans Koch, Florian Stoffner, Sam Pluta | Liz Meredith, Simone Baron, Sam Burt](https://www.redroom.org/hans-koch-florian-stoffner/) - INTERNATIONAL POWER TRIOHans Koch, reedsFlorian Stoffner, guitarSam Pluta, computer LOCAL LUMINARIESLiz Meredith, violaSimone Baron, accordionSamuel Burt, bass clarinet doors at 8pm | show at 8:30 Hans Koch, one of High Zero Festival's favorite reed players, returns to Baltimore with Florian Stoffner for a night of inventive misuse of traditional instruments. They will be playing a - [Tom Hamilton & Al Margolis / Lander - Pluta Duo](https://www.redroom.org/hamilton-margolis/) - Electronics Electronics Electronics and Voice The Red Room is proud to present NYC based giants of experimental electronic music, Tom Hamilton and Al Margolis in Duo Form, complimented by local artists Sam Pluta and Bonnie Lander. A night not to be missed! TOM HAMILTON has composed and performed electronic music for over 50 years, and - [High! Zero! High! Jinx!](https://www.redroom.org/high-zero-high-jinx/) - KEEP BALTIMORE WEIRD! This is your chance to get out in public and remind Baltimore what makes us great: extreme, unabashed self-expression! While the main stage is invitation-only and booked a year in advance, there are many opportunities to perform at High Zero through High Jinx, our broadly participatory, informal and unofficial site specific and - [High Zero NIGHT 4!!!!](https://www.redroom.org/high-zero-night-4/) - Enjoy the final night of Baltimore's - and potentially the world's - greatest improvisation-centered experimental music festival! SoloRachel Beetz flute, electronics Set 1Che Davis tromboneThomas FlorinpianoBonnie Lander voiceSam Newsomesoprano sax with horn preparationsChris Williamstrumpet Set 2Putu Tangkas Adi HiranmayenaBalinese gamelanMickey Lusk harpJamal Moore reeds, percussion, electronics Set 3CK Barlow samplingObie Feldi computerSam Pluta electronicsMary Staubitzobjects - [High Zero 2024 Night 3!](https://www.redroom.org/high-zero-2024-night-3/) - High Zero Continues! Saturday Nights get packed, book ahead or come early! Check out our website for full info on High Zero artists, venue, events etc SoloSam Newsome soprano sax with horn preparations Set 1Rachel Beetz flute, electronicsChe Davis tromboneSam Pluta electronicsLuc Vitkaccordian, hichiriki, synth, drumsAdam Zanolinibass, flute Set 2Obie Feldi computerBonnie Lander voiceTom Leonardsonsynthesizer - [High Zero 2024 Continues! Night of Random!](https://www.redroom.org/high-zero-2024-continues-night-of-random/) - Prepare your ears (and eyes) for High Zero's "Night Of Random" - 15 artists thrown in with FATE. Regardless of your cosmology/ontology/pathology, you cannot deny the inner voice that tells you that SCHEDULING improvisation is part of the problem NOT part of the solution. THE NIGHT OF RANDOM is the solution, or as one would - [High Zero 2024 Opening Night Thursday Sept 19](https://www.redroom.org/high-zero-2024-opening-night-thursday-sept-19/) - The High Zero Fest 2024 kicks off! Behold the East Coast's - potentially the world's - greatest and weirdest music festival, entering its 26th year. Artists from Baltimore, the USA, and around the world meet and create new genres, new sounds, new bands, new psychologies and new landscapes for your very ears (and eyes). Check - [Clausen // Icasiano // Purdy](https://www.redroom.org/clausen-icasiano-purdy/) - Three intimate SOLO sets to make your Tuesday tingle all over! $10SS Christopher Icasiano and Andy Clausen, Seattle, WA Drummer Christopher Icasiano and Trombonist Andy Clausen started collaborating in Seattle's vibrant improvised music scene more than a decade ago, and more recently have toured extensively as part of the dreamily harmonious Indie Folk band Fleet - [Senso di Voce & Max Gong/M.C. Schmidt/Obie Feldi](https://www.redroom.org/senso-di-voce/) - Local noise intoners Max Gong, Martin Schmidt & Obie Feldi will be opening for Senso di Voce from Buffalo NY! Senso di Voce is Megan Kyle (oboe, English horn) & Esin Gunduz (voice, composition, tremolo harmonica, bass harmonica, harmonium). The duo focuses on the embodied experience of varying acoustical phenomena. Implementing the unique acoustic properties - [Volunteers' Collective](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-11/) - 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 - [High Zero Night at Fadensonnen](https://www.redroom.org/high-zero-night-at-fadensonnen/) - 7pm Wednesday September 4th, 20243 W. 23rd St., Baltimore We are gearing up for the High Zero Festival with a special night in early September. Local luminaries will perform experimental improvised music for you in a cozy tavern setting. Fadensonnen is generously hosting us for this fundraising event. A portion of the tavern profits will - [ASH: 001 (Daoure Diongue, Mark Kent Navarro & Ellery Bryan)](https://www.redroom.org/david-daoure-diongue/) - Ellery Bryan (they/them) is a nonbinary visual artist who translates analog to ephemeral media. Sound artist, producer, audio engineer, and composer Mark Kent Navarro (he/him) is a Filipino-American artist born and raised in Baltimore City. Daoure Diongue (he/him) is a saxophonist, composer, and multi-instrumentalist evoking his homes of Baltimore and Senegal through sound. Together, they - [Jack Langdon & Rohan Pathare](https://www.redroom.org/jack-langdon/) - 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 - [Trash Cats // Heather // Rachel Beetz](https://www.redroom.org/trash-cats/) - 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 - [A Surround Sound Evening of Agitprop Sound](https://www.redroom.org/a-surround-sound-evening-of-agitprop-sound/) - In commemoration of the 2014 protests in Ferguson, this evening presents multiple approaches to the soundscape of politics and the political. Surround sound and stereo works by Donia Jarrar, Lyn Goeringer, Jazmin (JT) Green, Chris DeLaurenti, and others engage the politics of the personal and “the art of the possible” along with the possibility of - [Matthew Ryals, Stephan Haluska](https://www.redroom.org/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 - [High Zero Volunteers Meeting](https://www.redroom.org/high-zero-volunteers-meeting-3/) - [Volunteer's Collective](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-10/) - 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 - [Lucas "Granpa" Abela/Gorgina/2$ Romance](https://www.redroom.org/lucas-granpa-abela-gorgina-2cent-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 - [Glissotar premier, Burt, Scheible, Meredith](https://www.redroom.org/glissotar-premier-burt-scheibel-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 - [Jeremy Young | Simone Baron & Susan Alcorn](https://www.redroom.org/jeremy-young/) - 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 - [Volunteers' Collective | July 14, 2024](https://www.redroom.org/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 - [DELAYED: Outdoor Performance: Battle Hymn for the Wildwood (Burt, Crossland, Prince, Sabe)](https://www.redroom.org/outdoor-performance-battle-hymn-for-the-wildwood-burt-crossland-prince-sabe/) - NOT HAPPENING THIS SUNDAY! CHECK BACK FOR A NEW DATEA 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 low - [The Rockers - Toshi Makihara/John Dierker/Caleb Duval - Logan Perry](https://www.redroom.org/toshi-makihara-john-dierker-caleb-duval-logan-perry-the-rockerstoshi-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 - [Volunteers' Collective | 2 June 2024 | 7:30pm](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-2-june-2024-730pm/) - 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 - [Wet Ink Ensemble with Sam Pluta | Neidhardt, Gong, Burt](https://www.redroom.org/wet-ink-ensemble-with-sam-pluta/) - WET INK brings daring experimental compositions to the Red Room. All music is performed and composed by Sam Pluta, Josh Modney, and Mariel Roberts. A local trio of sonic texture connoisseurs will open the night consisting of Paul Neidhardt, Max Gong, and Samuel Burt. The Wet Ink Ensemble is a collective of composers, performers and - [| Applied Temporality Night | Robin Rhodes - Jason Charney - Rohan Pathare - Corey Thuro](https://www.redroom.org/applied-temporality-night-jason-charney-rohan-pathare-corey-thuro/) - Jason Charney & Robin Rhodes - Music Performance Rohan Pathare - Video Performance Corey Thuro - Lecture/Talk Performance Jason Charney is a composer and multimedia artist based in Baltimore. He writes music for voices, instruments, and electronics and creates multimedia installations using sound, light, and objects. Recent projects include an 8-channel sound piece made from field recordings - [Killick, Susan Alcorn | Eric Franklin | Liz Downing](https://www.redroom.org/killick/) - Killick returns to the Red Room on another East Coast tour. He'll be performing with his good friend and local superstar, Susan Alcorn. The first half of the night will feature solos from Eric Franklin and Liz Downing. Killick Hinds lives in Athens, Georgia USA. His music is Appalachian Trance Metal made on unusual stringed instruments with - [Community Modular Meetup | Weird VCOs](https://www.redroom.org/community-modular-meetup-weird-vcos/) - VCOs and Summer Swap Meet! The Red Room hosts a community meetup to discuss modular synthesizers. This time we will start by looking at a conventional VCO with the usual triangle, square, sawtooth, and sine shapes. Then we will explore the more esoteric approaches to generating periodic signals. All are welcome to bring their strangest - [Volunteers' Collective 5 May 2024 7:30-9:30pm](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-5-may-2024-7-9pm/) - 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 - [POSTPONED - NEW DATE TBD – Wine Tasting Fundraiser | Noisy Gnat](https://www.redroom.org/wine-tasting-fundraiser-noisy-gnat/) - SORRY, FOLKS - THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED. We'll follow up with the new date as soon as we have it. - [Susan Alcorn-Toshi Makihara-Simone Baron | Darien Baiza-Paul Neidhardt-Shelly Purdy](https://www.redroom.org/susan-alcorn-toshi-makihara-simone-baron-darien-baiza-paul-neidhardt-shelly-purdy/) - Simone Baron is a polyglot pianist, accordionist, improviser and composer whose work “ego-less, genre agnostic and without expectations” (JazzTimes) engages curiously and charismatically with a broad spectrum of idioms. Educated at Oberlin and Tel Aviv University and joyfully de-educated at festivals and performances across Europe and the Americas, Simone has won grants, fellowships and residencies - [Majid Araim | Lucifer | Breath of The Magi](https://www.redroom.org/majid-araim-lucifer-breath-of-the-magi/) - [David Grubbs, Eli Winter, John Hoegberg, Liz Meredith, David Sexton](https://www.redroom.org/david-grubbs-eli-winter-john-hoegberg-liz-meredith-david-sexton/) - April 27th! Doors at 8 pm! 10 bucks! The incomparable duo of David Grubbs and Eli Winter grace the Red Room with their respective presences! Opening the show, we have local luminaries John Hoegberg, Liz Meredith, and David Sexton. Grubbs is a Distinguished Professor of Music at Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center, CUNY. Grubbs was - [FIM Musicians Duval & Rovinsky with Patrick Crossland | Darien Baiza, Alma Laprida](https://www.redroom.org/fim-musicians-duval-rovinsky-with-patrick-crossland/) - Musicians of FIM, the Red Room's sister series in Connecticut, visit for a night of experimentation, noise, and improvisation joined by local luminary Patrick Crossland. Patrick Crossland - TromboneCaleb Duval - Double BassLuke Rovinsky - Electric Guitar Darien Baiza - percussionAlma Laprida - trumpet marine, lyre, and more doors at 8pmshow at 8:30pm LUKE ROVINSKY - [Zosha Warpeha/Georgia Beatty/Will Yager](https://www.redroom.org/zosha-warpeha-georgia-beatty-will-yager/) - A Night of Nordic Inspired experimental music and improvisation. Doors 8pm Show at 8:30pm. Zosha Warpeha (NYC) is a composer-improvisor working in a meditative space between free improvisation and folk traditions, performing on Hardanger d’amore, a sympathetic-stringed relative of the Norwegian Hardanger fiddle. Her debut solo album, silver dawn, releases on Relative Pitch Records May 2024. www.zoshawarpeha.com Will - [Jessica Keyes & Gabi Vanek](https://www.redroom.org/jessica-keyes-gabi-vanek/) - Jessica Keyes is a Baltimore-based performer and composer. Her compositions explore trickster characters, ecstatic energy, and communion with the audience. Her current solo project, Patien(t/ce) explores her experience with disability using homemade fiber controllers and modular synth. Jessica leads a 12-piece punk brass band called Bedlam Brass and co-organizes Mid-Atlantic Wilderness, a series of improvised music. Once - [Invisible Architectures Social Contracts VI](https://www.redroom.org/invisible-architectures-social-contracts-vi/) - Nia Hampton Pan-Optimism JAMBOOMBOOM “Do You Agree to the Terms & Conditions?” A Capitol B.0.0.M. BOOM! Live Public Radio Show Experience! Lynn Tomlinson The Elephant's Song Carrie Fucile and Brenton Lim Dada Morte: A collaborative multimedia performance exploring the ephemeral nature of our bodies and technologies. About the Social Contracts Festival An arts festival that - [RM Francis / Maria Shesiuk / Jeff Carey](https://www.redroom.org/rm-francis-maria-shesiuk-jeff-carey/) - An evening of electronic music in it many forms: computation based composition strategies, hardware synthesis, and computer controlled mechanical noise. R.M. FrancisRM Francis is an artist based in Seattle working with computer-generated sound and language via recording, installation, and performance. He has presented work at the Mills College Center for Contemporary Music (Oakland), Gray Area - [Jamal Moore Fundraiser at 2640!](https://www.redroom.org/jamal-moore-fundraiser-at-2640/) - Help out Jamal, hard working musician and member of the High Zero Collective who was robbed of his gear recently by listening to music on the fringe of music. None of us completely gone to abstraction but exploring the foothills of the mountains of madness. Join us! Friday 29 March at 8pm at 2640 St. - [Rodrigo Constanzo & Tony Lugo Electro-Acoustics!](https://www.redroom.org/rodrigo-constanzo-tony-lugo-electro-acoustics/) - Incredible, rare night of noise wizardry! Two improvisor composers: Rodrigo Constanzo (UK/Portugal) and Tony Lugo (Balt) both work in extreme textures, using electronics and deep programming chops to coax amazing and out of this world sounds from percussion and objects! Expect really far out sounds on this one. You will see drums on stage....but you - [Tongue Depressor w/Austin Larkin](https://www.redroom.org/tongue-depressor-w-austin-larkin/) - Henry Birdsey & Zach Rowden's "Tongue Depressor" comes to Baltimore, w/fellow NEnglander Austin Larkin. Also Tom Borax solo Harpsichord! "Metallica" - computers, electro-acoustics - duo of Jacob Winan and Zeno Ben Atmos. Incredible night of string music, microtonal music, dissonant music, noise music, ??? music and more~!~ Tongue Depressor are a remarkable minimalist duo of - [Volunteers' Collective 7 April 2024](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-7-april-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 - [Kaffe Matthews solo, duo with Nik Francis](https://www.redroom.org/maffe-kaffews/) - Buckle up for a night of bold, DIY electronics! Kaffe Matthews will be bringing her new live sampling setup to the Red Room to be joined by a Nik Francis. Kaffe Matthews is a pioneering electroacoustic composer focusing her approach on site, accessibility, and the physical experience of music. Recently, she's been playing a new - [Dani Dobkin & Matt Sargent |  Jil Christensen, David Menestres & Will Redman](https://www.redroom.org/dani-dobkin-and-matt-sargent/) - Dani Dobkin and Matt Sargent are on an east tour in support of "Bend," out now on Waveform Alphabet. Beginning with a phrase from Gertrude Stein , "Act so that there is no use in a centre," the improvising duo delights in the exploration of their contrasting sensibilities: "Bend" opens with a smash cut sampler/squelch beat - [Community Modular Meetup](https://www.redroom.org/community-modular-meetup-3/) - DELAYS! The Red Room hosts a community meetup to discuss modular synthesizers. This month we look at delay modules. Participants can bring a delay module to rack up. We'll compare their features, look at their output on a scope and spectrometer, and discuss them. All are welcome to observe and discuss. Topics might include:echoclocked delaysKarplus-Strong - [Improvisation and Experimental Music Night at Towson University](https://www.redroom.org/improvisation-and-experimental-music-night-at-towson-university/) - The High Zero Foundation plays with faculty at Towson University. An evening of improvisation and experimental music featuring members of the High Zero Foundation as well as faculty from several departments from several departments across the College of Fine Arts and Communications. This event is a cross departmental collaboration highlighting the commonalities shared by our - [Sandy Ewen, Tom Carter & Lexie Mountain](https://www.redroom.org/sandy-ewen-tom-carter-lexie-mountain/) - The duo of Sandy Ewen and Tom Carter has been performing and recording since 2003. Their first recordings were released as Away Away (Collective Jyrk, 2006). This was followed up with Brighton Beach (Wholly Other, 2012) and In Between the Known and the Unknown (Wholly Other, 2016). The free improvisational guitar duo is a blend of texture, drone and psychedelia. Sandy - [Community Modular Meetup](https://www.redroom.org/community-modular-meetup-2/) - Come participate in the local modular synth community. - [Ben Richter’s just-intonation accordion w/ Sam Pluta, Sky Macklay & Ruby Fulton](https://www.redroom.org/ben-richters-just-intonation-accordion/) - Composer-accordionist Ben Richter’s just-intonation accordion solo Laramidia creates an alien tonal landscape alternating among timbral fluctuations, melody and drone, and gradual resolution of shimmering, pulsing microtonal intervals. Inspired by nonhuman consciousness, Ben’s music orients toward new orders of magnitude in musical parameters to auralize the vast and infinitesimal timescales we do not experience in everyday life. Portions of Laramidia are - [Rachel Beetz // Alma Laprida](https://www.redroom.org/rachel-beetz-alma-laprida/) - Rachel Beetz and Alma Laprida Doors 8pm, Show 8:30pm - [Volunteers' Collective March 3 2023](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-march-3-2023/) - 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 - [Viola Yip/Bonnie Lander/Sam Pluta](https://www.redroom.org/viola-yip-bonnie-lander-sam-pluta/) - Amazing night of electro-acoustic noise and sound! Composer, sound artist and performance artist Viola Yip brings a new project/invention "Liminal Lines," a hybrid instrument/feedback system/dress to the Red room. Opening will be a duo of incredible locals electronic wizard Sam Pluta and vocalist extraordinaire Bonnie Lander. VIOLA YIP is a Berlin-based experimental composer, performer, improviser, - [Volunteers' Collective February 4 2024](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-february-4-2024/) - 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 - [Alcorn/Parker Wells Duo, Nectar Gnome (Moon Tucker/Ragan Duo)](https://www.redroom.org/alcorn-parker-wells-duo-nectar-gnome-moon-tucker-ragan-duo/) - Awesome night of psychedelic and beautiful strings!!! Here in Baltimore we are well-acquainted with Susan Alcorn's incredible music and pedal steel playing. On this occasion she'll be joined in duo with bassist Jair-Rohm Parker Wells. Also appearing is the Red Room debut of new(ish) duo Nectar gnome with Jenny Moon Tucker and Meg Ragan on - [Groundhog Day Concert w/ Ruby Fulton, Rachel Beetz & The Early](https://www.redroom.org/groundhog-day-concert-w-ruby-fulton-rachel-beetz-the-early/) - The Early is a Philadelphia based duo that make long-form improvisation-based music featuring electric guitar, drums, synthesizers, and other electronics. Ruby Fulton will be joined by our new local luminary Rachel Beetz on anything from flute, synthesizer, viola, horns, electronics ... who knows what they'll bring. You'll have to come see to find out! - [Community Modular Meetup](https://www.redroom.org/community-modular-meetup/) - FILTERS! We are hopeful this will be the first of many Baltimore modular synthesizer meetups at the Red Room. Come meet fellow patchers. Each session will provide time for examining in detail one aspect of using modular synths followed by a performance by one of the attendees. This first session will focus on filters. We - [ANDREA SIMON (wi D. Baiza and E. Bailey Gould) BONNIE LANDER (wi J. Dierker and S. Purdy)](https://www.redroom.org/andrea-simon-wi-d-baiza-and-e-bailey-gould-bonnie-lander-wi-j-dierker-and-s-purdy/) - Hello, Martin Schmidt, here telling you about a show I put together. Both groups are skilled and both have group leaders from the same institution, and both groups will improvise, but I anticipate wildly different style results from them. As with most shows at the Red Room doors will open at 8 with sound beginning - [Minimal Disturbance/Mojuba Duo Jan 5!](https://www.redroom.org/minimal-disturbance-mojuba-duo-jan-5/) - This Friday Jan 5th 8pm @ the Red Room - Minimal Disturbance - Jack Wright and Ron Stabinsky! Joining them, local trombone master and UMBC improvisation professor Patrick Crossland!!Also Mojuba Duo - Jamal Moore (reeds) and DC's Nik Francis (percussion/electronics)Jack Wright, for anyone who may not know, is a spiritual father figure for the High - [Volunteers' Collective, January 7 2024](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-january-7-2024/) - 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 - [60th Annual Feast of St. Dierker](https://www.redroom.org/60th-annual-feast-of-st-dierker/) - John Dierker, Will Redman & Marc Miller two sets with special guests - [UMBC & Peabody Improvisation Ensembles](https://www.redroom.org/umbc-improv-ensemble/) - UMBC Improv Ensemble consists of Patrick Crossland, Ida Dierker, Brandon Gouin, Jeremy Keaton, and Henry Smith. The Peabody Improvisers Collective is a free-improv student ensemble that formed at the Peabody Conservatory in September 2022. Tonight's ensemble consists of Darien Baiza (drums), Alex Wu (electronics), and Max Gong (electronics). PIC consists of improvisers of multiple musical - [Neume & Bark Culture](https://www.redroom.org/bark-culture/) - Bark Culture is a trio led by Victor Vieira-Branco on vibraphone, featuring John Moran on bass and Joey Sullivan on drums. The Philadelphia-based group charters new territory in the limited history of vibraphone trios. Vieira-Branco incorporates his time spent in both Chicago and Sao Paulo, Brazil, into his compositions, as they provoke an intersection of - [Will Yager/Zach Rowden Duo + Lucas Yasunaga, Will Shorre](https://www.redroom.org/will-yager-zach-rowden-duo-lucas-yasunaga-will-shorre/) - Superb night with upright bass, cassette manipulation, invented instruments and custom electronics New England & Baltimore unite. shape singing? unimaginable shapes that make sounds?Bass legend Zack Rowden takes to 4-track cassettes on a collaborative performance work w/bass brethren Bmore's one and only Will Yager. This piece is inspired by "Sacred Harp Music" and the american - [Volunteers' Collective December 3 2023](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-december-3-2023/) - 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 - [Waco Mammoth | Bob Bellerue & Katie Porter](https://www.redroom.org/bob-bellerue-katie-porter/) - Eternities is a collaboration between bass clarinetist Katie Porter and sound artist Bob Bellerue. Their work is inspired by deep presence, resonant feedback, melodic drone, and overtone magic, in the fluid realm between intention and indeterminacy. We use harmonic tones from wind instruments played within feedback systems to create deep spectral drone. Neume is Rose Burt, James Young, and Sarah Manley James, Rose, and Sarah all push hot air through elaborately designed tubes with variable functional lengths, to cause both normal and highly unusual vibrations. They are all skilled improvisors, organizers, and recovering conservatory graduates. - [The Lepidopterans! + Feldi/Lusk Duo!!! Wilson Shook!](https://www.redroom.org/the-lepidopterans-feldi-lusk-duo-wilson-shook/) - Special appearance of improvising"supergroup" The Lepidopterans, featuring Jason Willett and Tom Borax (electronics- Leprechaun Catering), John Dierker (reeds- Microkingdom, New Volcanos etc) and Philly's legendary Toshi Makihara (percussion, fake mustache, butoh). Opening set debut of the duo of locals Mickey Lusk (harp) and Obie Feldi (electronics), also Seattle's Wilson Shook on solo reeds! Don't miss!!!! - [Open Session 5 Oct 2023](https://www.redroom.org/open-session-5-oct-2023/) - 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 - [DIFFUSION FESTIVAL of Electro-Acoustic Multichannel Music - RED ROOM NIGHT 2](https://www.redroom.org/diffusion-festival-of-electro-acoustic-multichannel-music-red-room-night-2/) - DIFFUSION Festival (our sixth) takes place in two locations this year, at our year 'round home at the Red Room at Normals Books and on the second weekend at 2640 St. Paul Street. This second night SATURDAY THE 11th of November is at The Red Room. LIVE multichannel synthesis will be performed by Matthew Ryals - [DIFFUSION FESTIVAL of Electro-Acoustic Multichannel Music - RED ROOM](https://www.redroom.org/diffusion-festival-of-electro-acoustic-multichannel-music-red-room/) - DIFFUSION Festival (our sixth) takes place in two locations this year, at our year 'round home at the Red Room at Normals Books and on the second weekend at 2640 St. Paul Street. This first night FRIDAY THE 10th of November is at The Red Room. Six pieces will be played with a break. Work - [DIFFUSION FESTIVAL of Electro-Acoustic Multichannel Music - 2640 St. Paul Street NIGHT 2](https://www.redroom.org/diffusion-festival-of-electro-acoustic-multichannel-music-2640-st-paul-street-night-2/) - This is the night when MYSTERIOUS GUEST (see the previous calendar post) from Norway presents and diffuses his personal comprehensive survey of the history of electro-acoustic music of Norway. or Fra Æ til Å - En baklengs sledetur gjennom norsk eksperimentell, elektronisk og esoterisk musikk [2023-1958] or From Æ to Å - A Backwards Sleigh - [Lexie Mountain & In Defense of Memory](https://www.redroom.org/in-defense-of-memory-night-2/) - Solo Set from Lexie Mountain and more IDOM! In Defense of Memory is, itself, an Interculturally-situated ecology of everyday relations-warriors plucking, striking, bowing and flowing self-defense in Creative Music vibrational continuum. IDOM began in New Mexico as a performance-constellation in a confluence of principled, cultural activities set in an ecology of Indigenist trajectories of solidarity, - [Jamal Moore & In Defense of Memory](https://www.redroom.org/in-defense-of-memory-night-1/) - Solo set from Jamal Moore duos & trios with Marshall Trammell, Carlos Santistevan and Laura Ortman. In Defense of Memory is, itself, an Interculturally-situated ecology of everyday relations-warriors plucking, striking, bowing and flowing self-defense in Creative Music vibrational continuum. IDOM began in New Mexico as a performance-constellation in a confluence of principled, cultural activities set - [DIFFUSION FESTIVAL of Electro-Acoustic Multichannel Music - 2640 St. Paul Street NIGHT 1](https://www.redroom.org/diffusion-festival-of-electro-acoustic-multichannel-music-2640-st-paul-street-night-1/) - MYSTERY GUEST presents multichannel works live and John Cage's "RYOANJI" Performed by The Daxophone Consort 2640 St. Paul St. Doors at 7:30pm Hi, Martin Schmidt, here, president of High Zero Foundation and one of the beginners of the DIFFUSION Festival. One of my original thoughts for this festival was that every year we would invite - [Cartographic Improvisations Between Eric Theise and Darien Baiza and Paul Neidhardt // Max Gong](https://www.redroom.org/cartographic-improvisations-between-eric-theise-and-darien-baiza-max-gong/) - Join us Monday October 23rd for some new faces to our venue, improvising in new ways. Real-time cartographic improvisations using projected, manipulated digital maps by Eric Theise in collaboration with Darien Baiza, drums and High Zero's own Paul Neidhardt, also on drums. A visual wash of street grids, land masses, water bodies, and curiosities from - [BASrelief / Adam G Holofcener](https://www.redroom.org/basrelief-adam-g-holofcener/) - Jamal Moore presents... - [ Simwhet Onham.](https://www.redroom.org/simwhet-onham/) - explores the energy and effects of sound, from resonance and psychoacoustic effects to the transduction of sound as movement and light. - [High Zero Festival 9/21-24](https://www.redroom.org/high-zero-festival-9-21-24/) - High Zero Festival of experimental improvised music September 21st through 24th8:30pm each night | $20 ticketsat the Baltimore Theatre Project We are back, for another September weekend jam packed with the most outlandish music! The festival unites musicians from around the world, creating never-before-heard and completely unplanned sets of music. The performers' risk-taking pays off - [Volunteers' Collective, Sunday 8 October 2023](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-sunday-8-october-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 - [Volunteers' Collective, Sunday 3 Sept. 2023](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-sunday-3-sept-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 - [Pre-Zero 25th Year Bash at Current Space](https://www.redroom.org/pre-zero-25th-year-bash-at-current-space/) - The High Zero Festival of Experimental Improvised Music is celebrating 25 years this September and we wanted to celebrate by being a little extra. We'll be throwing a free party/performance at Current Space the Friday before the festival. We wanted to showcase High Zero alumni and people who have worked hard to build this Baltimore - [Adam Lion, Will Yager & Bonnie Lander](https://www.redroom.org/adam-lion-will-yager/) - Offering “a tone so pure it is almost a sine-wave” (The Wire), Adam Lion is a percussionist dedicated to performing experimental music rooted in both classical and improvisational traditions. Based in Asheville NC, his performances have been described as “rife with psychological effects” by the New York Times and “closely attuned… playful, and mimetic” by - [Noah Ophoven-Baldwin & Luke Martin | Amy Golden ](https://www.redroom.org/noah-ophoven-baldwin-luke-martin-amy-golden/) - Luke Martin: website Luke is an experimental composer, improviser, and plays guitar and no-input mixer. He is in the group Ordinary Affects, co-directs the Co-Incidence Festival, and works frequently with people in and around the Wandelweiser Group. He is especially interested in silence, chance, and thinking a positive relation between music and truth. He has had - [Volunteers' Collective Sunday 6 August 2023](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-sunday-6-august-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 - [WESTON OLENCKI • MICHELLE BLU • SAM PLUTA](https://www.redroom.org/weston-olencki-michelle-blu-sam-pluta/) - Three ways to play beautiful music Friday August 4th join us at the Red Room for three different artists making beautiful music. Hi, it's Martin Schmidt, president of the High Zero Foundation, here bringing you a show that's maybe "all over the place" and maybe not so much as it might seem. I genuinely love - [STRING THEORY-A NIGHT OF STRINGS](https://www.redroom.org/string-theory-a-night-of-strings/) - A profound night of creative music, these three individuals will create and share space in a unique sonic space. Liz Downing- Liz Downing uses voice and bowed banjo, in duos and trios, rehearsed and improvisational to create images, stories and sounds and songs. Her current work is in the form of Toy Theater which is A profound night of creative music, these three individuals will create and share space in a unique sonic space. Liz Downing- Liz Downing uses voice and bowed banjo, in duos and trios, rehearsed and improvisational to create images, stories and sounds and songs. Her current work is in the form of Toy Theater which is - [Ruby Mars, Luis "Toto" Alvarez & Susan Alcorn](https://www.redroom.org/luis-toto-alvarez-susan-alcorn/) - Luis "Toto" Alvarez, Chilean composer, producer and guitarist. Director of Acéfalo Records and Acéfalo Festival Present in the chilean music scene since 1990, working as a guitarist and composer Inside the strong artistic underground movement. He has participated since 2001 in projects of composition, films, research, improvisation and experimental radio. Activist for new relationships in - [Devin Gray (drums, electronics) with Levi Lu and Dave Ballou](https://www.redroom.org/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 - [Phantom Chips/Jessica Keyes/Liz Meredith](https://www.redroom.org/phantom-chips-jessica-keyes-liz-meredith/) - Superb Night of electro-acoustic sounds, noises and squishy squealers. Phantom Chips http://www.phantomchips.com Phantom Chips makes wearable synthesizers that can be stretched and squeezed to create sound. Her homemade ‘lectronix squeals create bent charmand harsh mangled tones through tactile electronics. Concocting rhythms from an array of homemade electronic instruments, samplers and wearable noisemakers, Phantom Chips gets - [Majid Aram, Lucifer, Orlando Johnson](https://www.redroom.org/majid-aram-lucifer-orlando-johnson/) - Solo sets from High Zero Alumni Luciana Arias and Orlando Johnson, plus Atlanta composer Majid Aram. Mandolins, dance, fantastic expressions of deep imagination. Tonight's performances will transport you far beyond the ordinary. Majid Aram. Multi-instrumentalist, composer, curator, and a fixture of the Atlanta improvisation and new music communities. Majid's prolific work as a composer focuses - [High Zero Highjinx Info and Planning Session](https://www.redroom.org/high-zero-highjinx-info-and-planning-session/) - High Jinx is a schedule of site-specific street performances at numerous places about Baltimore city coinciding with the High Zero festival (before and during 21-24 September). These events are creative, musical and socially challenging. They are rarely obnoxious and never intended to do anyone harm. They are not officially sanctioned by the city, therefore you - [ID M Theftable/Jenny Moon Tucker/Slab of Meat](https://www.redroom.org/id-m-theftable-jenny-moon-tucker-slab-of-meat/) - This Friday the 9th of June - ID M Theftable and his redbeard returns to BMore ! One of the all-time greats, an odd specimen indeed, a Red Room and High Zero fave.humorous? Sui generis? a ginger? a master of serendipitous thrift store cassette sabotage? a vocalist? did he ravage your yard sale table? does - [Chang/Hungtai, Totally Automatic, Warp Duo](https://www.redroom.org/chang-hungtai-totally-automatic-warp-duo/) - Awesome night, electronacoustic noise and improvisation w/reeds, electronics, percussion, violin 8:30pm, Doors $liding $cale Leo Chang + Alex Zhang Hungtai duo (NY), reeds, percussion, electronics Totally Automatic (Anne Ishii + Eugene Lew + Mathew Smith Lee), percussion, reeds Warp Duo (Levi Lu + Scott Li), computer, violin - [Volunteers' Collective, June 11th, 2023](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-june-11th-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 - [Spectrum 3 & Jamal Moore - Ascension  ](https://www.redroom.org/spectrum-3-jamal-moore-ascension/) - SOUND LOGIC V THE REASONING - [The Lepidopterans (Makihara, Lonberg Holm, Borax, Dierker) + Rose/Yager/Carey Trio](https://www.redroom.org/the-lepidopterans-makihara-lonberg-holm-borax-dierker-rose-yager-carey-trio/) - Top improvisors in full effect! - [UMBC Free Improv Ensemble](https://www.redroom.org/umbc-free-improv-ensemble/) - under the direction of Patrick Crossland Tuesday, May 23rd 8:30 doors, 9pm sets FREE SHOW! - [Volunteers' Collective, May 7th 2023](https://www.redroom.org/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 - [Bill Harris & Emily Beisel w/ DEMONFACE](https://www.redroom.org/bill-harris-emily-beisel-w-special-guests/) - 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 - [Qiujiang (秋江) Levi Lu / Samantha Kochis / Anacapa / Adam Kantz](https://www.redroom.org/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 - [Neil Feather! Thus, Bob Wagner, and Eric Franklin plus Dan Conrad.](https://www.redroom.org/neil-feather-thus-and-bob-wagner-jen-kirby-and-eric-franklin/) - 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 - [MIND CONTRAPTIONS! Purdy, Borax, Yager, Dierker at Current Space!](https://www.redroom.org/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 - [Peabody Improvisers Collective with CK Barlow, S. Burt, & T. Boram](https://www.redroom.org/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 - [Angela Sawyer + ARKM foam, Ayla Cosnett](https://www.redroom.org/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. - [Volunteers’ Collective](https://www.redroom.org/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 - [Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey Duo + Sam Pluta](https://www.redroom.org/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 - [Jeff Carey’s Luminiferous Aether at The Voxel](https://www.redroom.org/jeff-careys-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 - [Special Location, 7:30pm Keyes, Burt + 9pm New Music, Charney, Diongue, Nguyen, Xio, Yager, Young](https://www.redroom.org/special-location-730pm-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 - [Volunteers’ Collective, February 5th, 2023](https://www.redroom.org/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 - [Volunteers’ Collective, March 5th, 2023](https://www.redroom.org/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 - [sinonó & !?!](https://www.redroom.org/sinono/) - 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 - [Susan Alcorn & Wombat (Justin K. Comer – Carlos Cotallo Solares – Will Yager)](https://www.redroom.org/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 - [The Evolution of the Arm & Inverse Square Trio](https://www.redroom.org/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 Evan Courtin: violin, voice Megan Kyle: oboe, English horn Michael McNeill: piano, organ Katie Weissman: cello, electronics An unconventional quartet drawing on collective experience in classical, jazz, noise, theater music, and beyond, The Evolution of the Arm combines the - [Floris Vanhoof & Lyn Goeringer](https://www.redroom.org/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”!!! - [Lauren Sarah Hayes - drum machines, analogue synths and self-built software + Local Luminaries](https://www.redroom.org/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 - [Alexander Frangenheim (bass) with Ballou, Crossland, Goldstein](https://www.redroom.org/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, - [Volunteers' Collective, October 2nd, 2022 7:30pm](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-october-2nd-2022-730pm/) - 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. - [Volunteers' Collective, September 4th, 2022 7:30pm](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-september-4th-2022-730pm/) - 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. - [Matthew Goodheart, Ian Power, and Quartet or Two Duos (Katie Porter, James Ilgenfritz, Lucie Vítková, Teerapat Parnmongkol)](https://www.redroom.org/matthew-goodheart-ian-power-and-quartet-or-two-duos-katie-porter-james-ilgenfritz-lucie-vitkova-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, - [High Zero Volunteers Meeting](https://www.redroom.org/high-zero-volunteers-meeting-2/) - 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 - [The High Zero Festival!](https://www.redroom.org/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. - [Volunteers' Collective, August 7th 7:30pm](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-august-7th-730pm/) - 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. - [Will Yager, Jordan Knecht and Chaz Prymek](https://www.redroom.org/jordan-knecht-and-chaz-prymek-are-playing/) - 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 - [Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson: The USA Clangers and Bao Nguyen](https://www.redroom.org/gudmundur-steinn-gunnarsson/) - 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, - [Streaming Series: The Witching Hour of the Wheezing Lute - copy - copy](https://www.redroom.org/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 - [Streaming Series: The Witching Hour of the Wheezing Lute - copy](https://www.redroom.org/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 - [Streaming Series: The Witching Hour of the Wheezing Lute](https://www.redroom.org/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 - [MANKWE NDOSI ///MOJUBA DUO /// TRIO X](https://www.redroom.org/mankwe-ndosi-mojuba-duo-trio-x-2/) - 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 - [MANKWE NDOSI ///MOJUBA DUO /// TRIO X](https://www.redroom.org/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 - [KRAFT: Mike Kuhl, Dave Ballou, John Dierker, and Luke Stewart](https://www.redroom.org/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 - [Simone Baron and Danny Kamins | Aksentiev, Redgrave, Johnson](https://www.redroom.org/simone-baron-and-danny-kamins/) - 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 - [Jaap Blonk solo and with CK Barlow and Bonnie Lander](https://www.redroom.org/jaap-blonk/) - 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, - [Volunteers' Collective, July 10th 7:30pm](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-july-3rd-730pm/) - 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 - [Adam Goodwin & Tom Borax!](https://www.redroom.org/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, - [June 2 String Music!!! Grant/Mcquire, Salmon Graveyard, Mink](https://www.redroom.org/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 - [May 29th Eugene Chadbourne/David Menestes Duo!](https://www.redroom.org/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 - [Volunteers' Collective, June 5th 2022](https://www.redroom.org/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. - [TONED & Carlos Cotallo Solares](https://www.redroom.org/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, - [Keir Neuringer & Bushmeat Sound](https://www.redroom.org/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 - [Volunteers' Collective May 1, 2022](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-may-1-2022/) - 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. - [@ 2640!!! SOUND LOGIC - A NIGHT OF NEW CREATIVE MUSIC/MEDIA](https://www.redroom.org/2640-sound-logic-a-night-of-new-creative-music-media/) - Tuesday April 12th @ The 2640 Space 7:30 doors, show at 8pm $10-20 Jamal R. Moore is a native of Baltimore Maryland whom is a multi- instrumentalist, composer/performer and educator. His background include California Institute of The Arts (M.F.A. 2012), Berklee College of Music (B.M 2005), Eubie Blake Jazz Orchestra (2000) under the direction of - [Machine Listening & Machine Learning for Music Making with FluCoMa](https://www.redroom.org/machine-listening-machine-learning-for-music-making-with-flucoma/) - The Fluid Corpus Manipulation project (FluCoMa) enables techno-fluent musicians to integrate machine listening and machine learning in their creative practice within Max, SuperCollider, and Pure Data. In this workshop we’ll look at using neural networks to control synthesizers and programmatically analyzing and organizing large collections of sound samples. The workshop will be hands-on, we’ll explain concepts while - [Volunteers' Collective](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-9/) - 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. - [Leo Suarez - James McKain - T.J. Borden - Jason Charney - Shelly Purdy](https://www.redroom.org/leo-suarez-james-mckain-t-j-borden-jason-charney-shelly-purdy/) - Tuesday March 15th 8:30 doors, show at 9pm $5-10 Leo Suarez, drums James McKain, tenor saxophone T.J. Borden, cello Jason Charney, electronics Shelly Purdy, vibraphone - ["A" Trio and Sophisticated Gimmick](https://www.redroom.org/a-trio/) - "A" Trio: Music from Lebanon with Sophisticated Gimmick, opening This not-to-be-missed performance will feature three of your favorite Lebanese improvising musicians, Mazen Kerbaj, Raed Yassin, and Sharif Sehnaoui. They are known for playing their instruments in all the right wrong ways. Starting the night off will be the new project Sophisticated Gimmick. In this first - [THE RETURN OF NEW WORKS](https://www.redroom.org/the-return-of-new-works/) - New Works | 2 Screenings! Same each night | February 11th and 12th - 8pm (7:30pm doors) | $5-$10 at the door THIS EVENT IS AT 2640 SPACE New Works is a screening series dedicated entirely to Film and Video artists based in Baltimore, MD. Our mission is to foster community among local image-makers and - [The Red Room in Your Room Returns!](https://www.redroom.org/the-red-room-in-your-room-returns-jan-27th/) - Starting Jan 27, and continuing everything Thursday evening, The Red Room in Your Room returns to your room and might even return to the Red Room, omnicron allowing. Exclusive sets of experimental and improvised music streamed deluxx 4 U. t witch.tv/highzerofoundation. FEB 24TH Kenta Nagai is a Japanese-born sound artist who has resided in the - [Microkingdom's John Dierker's Twenty-Somethingth Annual Holidaze Explosion](https://www.redroom.org/microkingdoms-john-dierkers-twenty-somethingth-annual-holidaze-explosion/) - Wednesday December 29th at the Red Room. Microkingdom's John Dierker's Twenty-Somethingth Annual Holidaze Explosion Featuring John Dierker, Marc Miller, and Will Redman, with special guest Chris Pumphrey Emerge from your cave in time to celebrate 15 years of Microkingdom and 20-odd years of the Dierker Holidaze Explosion then retreat to your cave again. Sets at 8:00pm - [Jessica Pavone, Aimée Niemann & Abby Swidler | The Compositions](https://www.redroom.org/jessica-pavone-of-late/) - Tuesday May 10th at the Red Room. Doors will open at 8:30, music begins at 9pm. $5-10+ all monies go to the performers. ...of Late, is the third release for the J. Pavone String Ensemble, an unconventional trio consisting of Pavone on viola, Abby Swidler on violin and viola, and Aimée Niemann on violin. Founded - [Kick-off HZ week at Fadensonnen with: Jeron White, Allison Clendaniel, Bonnie Lander & Shelly Purdy!](https://www.redroom.org/kick-off-hz-week-at-fadensonnen-with-jeron-white-allison-clendaniel-bonnie-lander-shelly-purdy/) - Jeron White bass Baltimore bassist Jeron White, has been very progressive on the jazz/anvant garde scene. As a leader, as well for his group "Polarity", and trio Jeron has recorded with several recordings. "Polarity" opened for Michael Formanek "Ensemble Kolossus" April 2017 at NYU Theater. Discography include Jamal Moore "Organix Trio Ancestral Communion​", and Theljon - [High Zero Festival!](https://www.redroom.org/high-zero-festival/) - Now, back and in person! Baltimore's High Zero Festival of Experimental Improvised Music is in its 23rd year and as we all rise from our isolation, we seek connection through music. This year we play it safe while taking ever greater risks! Friday and Saturday we will return to the Baltimore Theatre Project for live - [Series - Executive |RRiYR| Summary - Finale](https://www.redroom.org/series-executive-rriyr-summary-finale/) - Series Finale of The Red Room in Your Room Executive Summary Takeover Edition featuring short sets from the likes of... John Berndt Bromp Treb Stephanie Barber Tania Chen David Serotte Bryan Collins Nik Francis John Hoegberg John Weisse Kate Soper Lasse Marhaug Negativeland + Sue C & CO Olivia Block Martin Schmidt ID M Theft - [| The Red Room in Your Room | Tatiana Castro Mejia - Danishta Rivero - Tetuzi Akiyama, Ayako Kataoka & Kiyomitsu Odai](https://www.redroom.org/the-red-room-in-your-room-tatiana-castro-mejia-danishta-rivero-tetuzi-akiyama-ayako-kataoka-kiyomitsu-odai/) - TATIANA CASTRO MEJIA Pianist, improviser and composer (Colombia). Since a very young age she always had an interest, a curiosity for the creative, to build and unbuild. Fundamentally she has used sound, but she has worked connecting it with another kind of languages: dance, writing, drama... Today, more than 20 years after having decided to - [| The Red Room in Your Room | Carrie Fucile - Leila Bordreuil & Tamio Shiraishi - Christine Abdelnour](https://www.redroom.org/the-red-room-in-your-room-carrie-fucile-leila-bordreuil-christine-abdelnour/) - Carrie Fucile is a Baltimore-based interdisciplinary artist. Her works in performative sound use found objects, instruments, voice, and field recordings. She considers these events to be journeys through space and time. Leila Bordreuil is a Brooklyn-based cellist and composer working in the realm of improvisation, noise music, and sound art. She accesses concepts as diverse as - [| The Red Room in Your Room | claire rousay, Clint McCallum, Primitive Tongues](https://www.redroom.org/the-red-room-in-your-room-claire-rousay-clint-macallum-primitive-tongues/) - claire rousay is based in San Antonio, Texas. Her music zeroes in on personal emotions and the minutiae of everyday life -- voicemails, haptics, environmental recordings, stopwatches, whispers and conversations -- exploding their significance. rousay has released music on a range of labels, most notably Astral Spirits, Second Editions, Longform Editions and American Dreams, who - [| The Red Room in Your Room | Sharif Sehnaoui - Deaf Beef - Jennifer Walshe](https://www.redroom.org/the-red-room-in-your-room-returns-winter-2021-2-2-3-2-2/) - (photo above by Tony Elieh) Sharif Sehnaoui is a free improvising guitarist. He plays both electric and acoustic guitars, focusing on expanding the intrinsic possibilities of these instruments without the use of effects or electronics. He now resides in Beirut, his hometown, after more than a decade in Paris, where he started his career as - [| The Red Room in Your Room | David Serotte - Bashi Rose - Thomas Dimuzio](https://www.redroom.org/the-red-room-in-your-room-returns-winter-2021-2-2-3-2/) - David Serotte is a non-vocal mouth artist based in Baltimore. _____________ (Photographer Credit: Kyle Pompey) Bashi Rose is a Baltimore-based filmmaker, teaching artist, theatre artist, and musician. His work has been produced or screened at venues including Centerstage in Baltimore, Theatre Project, Creative Alliance, the Schomburg Center in Harlem, VH1 Soul, the Lafayette Theatre in - [| The Red Room in Your Room | Nava Dunkelman - Jenny Graf - Ian Power](https://www.redroom.org/the-red-room-in-your-room-returns-winter-2021-2-2-3/) - Nava Dunkelman is a Bay Area based percussionist and improviser. Born in Tokyo, Japan and raised in a multi-cultural environment by an American father and Indonesian mother. Her musical interests span the globe from Japanese taiko to Indonesian gamelan to American marching band, and from classical to contemporary to the avant-garde. Nava's current projects are electro-percussion experimental noise duo IMA with Amma - [Executive |RRiYR| Summary](https://www.redroom.org/the-red-room-in-your-room-returns-winter-2021-2-2-2/) - [| The Red Room in Your Room | John Berndt - DJ Sniff - Sam Burt & Company](https://www.redroom.org/the-red-room-in-your-room-returns-winter-2021-2-2/) - At 53, John Berndt has been a Baltimore musician, visual artist and writer whose primary subject matter can be summed up as "disorientation as positive content"---a domain he approaches with nonstandard sensibilities and through a wide range of different vehicles and media. He is a longtime saxophonist, free improvisor and electronic composer; and also as - [The Red Room in Your Room Continues: February/March 2021!](https://www.redroom.org/the-red-room-in-your-room-returns-winter-2021-2/) - The Red Room In Your Room Continues 2021 The return of our web-based series! TRRiYR arose last Spring in response to the COVID quarantine and the discontinuation of our regular Red Room events (continuous since 1996!!!). We're having a go again to make the best of the winter isolation and ongoing pandemic. The new run - [The Red Room in Your Room Returns: Winter 2021!!!](https://www.redroom.org/the-red-room-in-your-room-returns-winter-2021/) - The Red Room In Your Room Returns 2021 The return of our web-based series! TRRiYR arose last Spring in response to the COVID quarantine and the discontinuation of our regular Red Room events (continuous since 1996!!!). We're having a go again to make the best of the coming winter and ongoing pandemic. The new run - [Jovial Saturnalia: Live Pipe Organ at Planetary Convergence](https://www.redroom.org/jovial-saturnalia-live-pipe-organ-at-planetary-convergence/) - Pipe Organ at the Gates of the Dawning of the Age of Aquarius By Jove, Monday the 21st of December is an astronomical event unlike any other, a convergence of Jupiter and Saturn at proximity unseen since 13th century AD, all the while upon the Winter Solstice occurring at exactly 0 degrees in the constellation - [David Moré new release listening party](https://www.redroom.org/david-more-new-release-listening-party/) - David Moré has been the stage manager for the High Zero Festival for over 15 years. He is a seemingly unstoppable force of nature in this role and we appreciate him greatly! His new release is coming out via Bandcamp on December 15th. Not coincidentally, this is also his birthday. To celebrate both occasions we - [Adam Schwartz's AmbiX Series, Damian Catera, and High Zero Outtakes](https://www.redroom.org/adam-schwartz/) - The Red Room (in your room) is pleased to host the Goucher College MFA in Art & Technology thesis concert for Adam Schwartz. Schwartz has developed a series of virtual reality environments that focus on ambisonic "surround" sound and explore the history of sound in media. For this concert, he'll perform two pieces within these - [Performance on Stony Run Trail](https://www.redroom.org/performance-on-stony-run-trail/) - Patrick McMinn is back performing Samuel Burt's Wyman Park Dell at a new location! Join us in autumn's colors on Stony Run trail in the tunnel beneath Remington Avenue. This composition features a solo trumpet part accompanied by a burbling ensemble of wind instruments. This will be an extended version of the piece, with more - [Jeff Carey's Imaginary Network Topologies](https://www.redroom.org/imaginary-network-topologies/) - In the weeks following the High Zero Festival before resuming the Redroom in Your Room streaming shows at regular intervals, we’d like to point out some High Zero adjacent / related events. Jeff Carey has created a virtual tour called Imaginary Network Topologies with friends from around the globe and will be streaming the shows - [HIGH ZERO FESTIVAL of EXPERIMENTAL IMPROVISED MUSIC -online -](https://www.redroom.org/high-zero-festival-of-experimental-improvised-music-online-2/) - Baltimore's High Zero Festival of Experimental Improvised Music is in it’s 22nd year! We are undaunted by the bizarre situation we are all in, and it has motivated us to do something audacious with our 4 day festival of all new music. The High Zero Festival is partnering with like-minded festivals throughout the country. One of - [HIGH ZERO FESTIVAL of EXPERIMENTAL IMPROVISED MUSIC -online -](https://www.redroom.org/high-zero-festival-of-experimental-improvised-music-online-copy-2/) - Baltimore's High Zero Festival of Experimental Improvised Music is in it’s 22nd year! We are undaunted by the bizarre situation we are all in, and it has motivated us to do something audacious with our 4 day festival of all new music. The High Zero Festival is partnering with like-minded festivals throughout the country. One of - [HIGH ZERO FESTIVAL of EXPERIMENTAL IMPROVISED MUSIC -online -](https://www.redroom.org/high-zero-festival-of-experimental-improvised-music-online-copy/) - Baltimore's High Zero Festival of Experimental Improvised Music is in it’s 22nd year! We are undaunted by the bizarre situation we are all in, and it has motivated us to do something audacious with our 4 day festival of all new music. The High Zero Festival is partnering with like-minded festivals throughout the country. One of - [HIGH ZERO FESTIVAL of EXPERIMENTAL IMPROVISED MUSIC -online](https://www.redroom.org/high-zero-festival-of-experimental-improvised-music-online/) - Baltimore's High Zero Festival of Experimental Improvised Music is in it’s 22nd year! We are undaunted by the bizarre situation we are all in, and it has motivated us to do something audacious with our 4 day festival of all new music. The High Zero Festival is partnering with like-minded festivals throughout the country. One of - [The Red Room in Your Room](https://www.redroom.org/red-room-in-your-room/) - This Thursday, and every Thursday --until-- The Red Room and High Zero Foundation have commissioned Baltimore artists to create a piece to be presented using our Twitch page. There will be a commissioned piece and a live online performance beginning at 9 pm-ish (Eastern Standard Time). The URL is https://www.twitch.tv/highzerofoundation/videos/all You are encouraged to donate - [High Zero / ESS Present: The Quarantine Concerts](https://www.redroom.org/the-quarantine-concerts/) - High Zero has curated an edition of the wildly popular Quarantine Concerts series, presented by Chicago's Experimental Sound Studio. Featuring musical performances by some of Baltimore's finest! The Lineup (note that all set times are in Central Time): 7:00pm Bonnie Jones 7:30pm Tom Boram 8:00pm Harwood House (Rose & Sam Burt) 8:30pm Susan Alcorn 9:00pm - [Composition (Remote) Peer Discussion](https://www.redroom.org/composition-remote-peer-discussion/) - A symposium for composers at the Red Room, Composition Peer Discussion provides an intimate public space for local composers to discuss their work and get feedback. Open to everyone. Performers are especially welcome. At a peer discussion event you listen to recordings and view scores of local composers. You discuss the music, ask questions, and - [VASTER THAN EMPIRES](https://www.redroom.org/vaster-than-empires-2/) - Vaster Than Empires, a trio of Erica Dicker (violin), Allen Otte (percussion), and Paul Schuette (electronics). VASTER THAN EMPIRES A violin subjected to toys, hardware implements and effects pedals; radios, bicycle wheels, and an amplified found-object sound-board; a modular synthesizer stirring electronic effects into a soup of sonic feedback: Vaster Than Empires. Since joining forces in - [JOHN WIESE LEPRECHAUN CATERING](https://www.redroom.org/john-wiese-leprechaun-catering/) - Thursday March 12th at the Red Room. Doors will open at 8:30, music begins at 9pm. $5-10+ all monies go to the performers. Ancient Titans of Weird Noise Lumber and Prance Upon the Earth. A relatively last minute show disgorges this pairing unto yunce. Always wondering whether this will be the last Leprechaun Catering show, - [GREAT BLACK MUSIC](https://www.redroom.org/great-black-music/) - A night of music in the tradition of Great Black Music-African American Avant Garde. Three Baltimore renown artist will present new contemporary works comprising of Composed and Improvisational material. Jamal Moore- Woodwinds, Visuals, and Electronics Bashi Rose- Drums, Spoken Word David Diongue- Alto Sax,Voice and MC - [CANCELLED Jaap Blonk, Carey/Clendaniel/Mostofsky trio](https://www.redroom.org/jaap-blonk-carey-clendaniel-mostofsky-trio/) - Jaap Blonk (born 1953 in Woerden, Holland) is a self-taught composer, performer and poet. He went to university for mathematics and musicology but did not finish those studies. In the late 1970s he took up saxophone and started to compose music. A few years later he discovered his potential as a vocal performer, at first - [Volunteers' Collective March 2020](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-march-2020/) - 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. - [Composition Peer Discussion | March 2020](https://www.redroom.org/composition-peer-discussion-march-2020/) - A new symposium for composers at the Red Room, Composition Peer Discussion provides an intimate public space for local composers to discuss their work and get feedback. Open to everyone. Performers are especially welcome. At a peer discussion event you will listen to recordings and view scores projected on the screen. You will discuss the - [NICCOLO SELIGMANN TRIO / Sarah Manly, M.C. Schmidt, David Serotte, C.K.Barlow](https://www.redroom.org/niccolo-seligmann-trio-sarah-manly-m-c-schmidt-david-serotte-c-k-barlow/) - Friday March 6th at the Red Room. Doors will open at 8:30, music begins at 9pm. $5-10+ all monies go to the performers. A composed trio and an improvising quartet. 500 years of music technology represented. Niccolo Seligmann Trio Celebrate with Niccolo Seligmann, a 2020 Strathmore Artist in Residence, as he releases his upcoming - [GRLPWR & High Zero Present at Rituals Bar on North Ave](https://www.redroom.org/grlpwr-high-zero-present/) - NOTE: This show will take place at Rituals, 12 W North Ave, Baltimore, MD 21201 Doors 7pm Show 8pm $10 GRLPWR & High Zero Present an incredible evening featuring High Zero Festival alumni and local artists! This is a line up that is not to be missed! Pangelica (GRLPWR) Abdu Ali (Sound & Poetry) Amy - [MAJID ARAIM-LUKE STEWART//////ORLANDO JOHNSON-CHRIS TAYLOR](https://www.redroom.org/majid-araim-luke-stewart-orlando-johnson-chris-taylor/) - A Magical night of two very special duos presenting new creative works. Majid Araim (multi-instrumentalist) from Atlanta will be joining D.C.s finest, bassist Luke Stewart on a new adventure and collaborative work entitled "Live at The Magic Lantern". Two of Baltimore's virtuoso and legends in their own right, Orlando Johnson and Chris Taylor will be - [Sandy Ewen · CK Barlow, Rose Burt, & Shelly Purdy](https://www.redroom.org/monday-night-raw/) - A Monday night to remember, inaugurating a February rich in sound at the Red Room. Brooklyn-based prepared-guitar champion Sandy Ewen (High Zero NYC '18)—whose sonic palette is about as unguitarlike as is possible, and without electronics—faces off against Red Room's in-house power trio Barlow (electronics), Burt (reeds), & Purdy (percussion). Doors at 8:30, music at - [Volunteers' Collective, February 2020](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-february-2020/) - 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. - [RYOKO AKAMA (uk) // IAN POWER // BONNIE JONES](https://www.redroom.org/ryoko-akama-ian-power-bonnie-jones/) - RYOKO AKAMA She works with installations and sounds who approaches listening situations that magnify silence, time and space. Her sculptural work engages with mundane objects and invisible energies such as magnetism and gravity, employing small and fragile objects such as paper balloons and glass bottles in order to create tiny aural and visual occurrences that - [Marcia Bassett, Kyle Eyre Clyd, Meredith Moore + Jimmy Joe Roche](https://www.redroom.org/marcia-bassett-kyle-eyre-clyd-meredith-moore-jimmy-joe-roche/) - A night of electroacoustic soundscapes and phantasmagoric light. Marcia Bassett ( Zaimph, Double Leopards) and Kyle Eyre Clyd are touring the USA and will both be performing solo sets of electronic noise music. Expect Buchla Music Easel, amplified violin, found objects, sinewave generators and much more. These two female powerhouses of underground music should not - [SONOSCOPIA + STEFAN MAIER + LUCAS YASUNAGA](https://www.redroom.org/sonoscopia-stefan-maier-lucas-yasunaga/) - SONOSCOPIA is an experimental music collective based in Portugal. Collective members Gustavo Costa and Tiago Angelo are touring the USA performing with painstakingly hand-built robots and automatic music generation devices called Phobos. These form a Dysfunctional Robotic Orchestra, an orchestra with strange instruments, defects, genetic mutations and erratic behaviors. STEFAN MAIER is an artist - [Killick, Alcorn, Burt, and Hughes](https://www.redroom.org/killick-alcorn-burt-and-hughes/) - Killick, everyone's favorite string-plucking shaman, stops by the Red Room again to play music with Baltimore musicians. This time, he will be joined in sets by pedal steel guitarist Susan Alcorn, daxophonist and clarinetist Samuel Burt, and saxophonist and artist Sarah Hughes. Killick will be playing two custom-made stringed instruments, the H'arpeggione and the fretless - [Volunteers' Collective for January 2020](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-for-january-2020/) - 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. - [Nth Annual Dierker Holiday Spectacular](https://www.redroom.org/nth-annual-dierker-holiday-spectacular-2/) - Join us for a night of spectacle and wonder! John Dierker, Will Redman and friends, guaranteed to be a weird, wild night. - [JIM RYAN'S DC-CURRENT/////// JERON WHITE-JAMAL MOORE](https://www.redroom.org/jim-ryans-dc-current-jeron-white-jamal-moore/) - Jim Ryan has been on the jazz-inspired, free-improv music scene since the early 1970s in Paris, France, participating in weekly jam sessions held by Steve Lacy and gigging with this own group the Free Music Formation. He played in Washington DC during the 80s with the Art Performance Group, and in the San Francisco Bay Area during - [Nat Baldwin and Lexie Mountain](https://www.redroom.org/nat-baldwin-and-lexie-mountain/) - Music pals, Lexie Mountain (sound art) and Nat Baldwin (double bass) collide for three sets of amazing music. Each will play solo and then in duet. Lexie has been a champion and leader of experimental culture, sound, film, and performance art in Baltimore. Nat Baldwin pushes double bass performance technique to its outer boundaries. A - [MANAS, Margaret Rorison, and Gardner / Lander / Bernstein](https://www.redroom.org/manas-rorison-gardner-lander-bernstein/) - The Red Room is pleased host Asheville's MANAS, the duo of guitarist Tashi Dorji and Thom Nguyen. If you caught Tashi at High Zero 2015, or in one of his many stops at the Red Room playing solo or in ad hoc ensembles, you know that his singular style of playing is not to be - [Improv Ensembles of UMBC and Towson](https://www.redroom.org/improv-ensembles-of-umbc-and-towson/) - The UMBC and Towson Improvisation Ensembles are coached by Patrick Crossland and John Dierker. These student ensembles have worked so hard this semester. They will meet at this event to play three sets, one each and then in combination. UMBC and Towson University are two of Maryland's great academic institutions that encourage experimental approaches to - [Volunteers' Collective, December 2019](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-december-2019/) - 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. - [Robin Rhodes-James Young///Jamal Moore- Andrew Bernstein](https://www.redroom.org/robin-rhodes-james-young-jamal-moore-andrew-bernstein/) - A night of exciting creative music presented in two rare groupings. Baltimore locals James Young and Robin Rhodes present a lot of sound pressure via their project Waco Mammoth. There will be Bass. There will be BASSoon Jamal Moore and Andrew Bernstein are two of Baltimore's premiere saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist. Both are High Zero alums - [ESTAMOS TRIO (Thollem/Escobar/Tamez) // Bashi Rose Solo](https://www.redroom.org/estamos-trio-thollem-escobar-tamez-bashi-rose-solo/) - Estamos Trio is an exploratory music ensemble formed through the cross-border Estamos Project founded by Thollem McDonas in 2010. The trio includes Carmina Escobar (vocals, electronics, guitarrón), Milo Tamez (percussion, found objects, electronics) and Thollem (keyboard, vocals, clay pot). The trio is celebrating their 2nd release on Relative Pitch Records with a series of east - [NEW WORKS](https://www.redroom.org/new-works/) - New Works is a screening series dedicated entirely to Film and Video artists based in Baltimore, MD. Typically, there are two central stipulations for artists we’ve invited to participate: you must be based in Baltimore and you must attend the screening. Our mission is to foster community among local image-makers and promote, support, and grow - [NETWORK GLASS + JIMMY JOE ROCHE](https://www.redroom.org/network-glass-jimmy-joe-roche/) - Solo electronic sets by two lifer Baltimore weirdos. Ring in the Holiday cheer with chakra clearing ego-shattering pulse waves. Baltimore based artist Door, who founded the (now defunct) mythic west-side warehouse venue " America", has been an integral part of the city's underground electronic music scene for well over a decade. For the last eight - [November Volunteers' Collective](https://www.redroom.org/november-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 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. - [Bergamot Quartet](https://www.redroom.org/bergamot-quartet/) - The Red Room is pleased to present an evening of with the Bergemot Quartet. An hour of sparkling, ferocious music by some of Bergamot's favorite Baltimore and NYC based composers, including a brand-new piece written for Bergamot by Jordan Chase, and culminating in the Baltimore premiere of Ledah Finck's work for string quartet and drum - [Orlando Johnson & Chris Taylor // Jamal Moore & Andrew Bernstein](https://www.redroom.org/orlando-johnson-chris-taylor-jamal-moore-andrew-bernstein/) - The Red Room is pleased to host a concert featuring multidisciplinary artist Orlando Johnson with guitarist Chris Taylor, and an opening set by saxophonist Jamal Moore. Friday, October 18th @ The Red Room 425 E. 31st St. Doors at 8:30pm, show at 9:00pm $5 - 10 sliding scale Orlando Johnson & Chris Taylor - [Daxophone Information Session](https://www.redroom.org/daxophone-information-session/) - You've seen them at High Zero Festival. Now, you can try them yourself. The daxophone is an instrument based on amplifying a bowed piece of wood. This free event provides instruction on the fundamentals of daxophones: bowing, controlling pitch, methods for constructing daxophones, and observational acoustics of wooden shapes. Here's an opportunity for inspiration to - [Postponed: Dave Ballou, Mike Kuhl](https://www.redroom.org/vaster-than-empires/) - Due to current national health concerns, this show will be postponed to a later date. Dave Ballou (trumpet) and Mike Kuhl (percussion), both strong improvisers from the Baltimore area. We're rescheduling Vaster Than Empires, a trio of Erica Dicker (violin), Allen Otte (percussion), and Paul Schuette (electronics), for another date. KUHL and BALLOU Mike Kuhl - [KAMYAR ARSANI-TOM CHESS////PWISANS ETE'NEL](https://www.redroom.org/kamyar-arsani-tom-chess-pwisans-etenel-2/) - Tomchess (Oud/ney, USA) and Kamyar Arsani (Daf and vocals, Iran) The duo just released an a compelling album called "Rhyming Awake" to direct us back to our roots, as we dance forward towards new home Tomchess: Tomchess is a Multi-instrumentalist/Improviser/Composer. He plays Reeds, Western Flute, Arabic/Turkish Ney flute, Oud, and Guitar. He also has a - [Devin Gray's Socialitics Trio (2 sets!)](https://www.redroom.org/devin-grays-socialitics-trio-2-sets/) - Featuring Devin Gray on drums, Dave Ballou on trumpet, and Ryan Ferreira on guitar Devin Gray’s new trio adds another layer to his creative compositions intertwined with expressive improvisations. Socialitics trio consists of three inquisitive sound artists for whom all sound is indicative of the modern sonic experience. Gray is the center of this new - [October Volunteers' Collective](https://www.redroom.org/october-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 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. - [Ghost Trance Music & Adam Rosenblatt](https://www.redroom.org/nomorepussyfooting/) - Brussels based guitarist Kobe Van Cauwenberghe will perform an entire set of works by Anthony Braxton, titled Ghost Trance Solos. Ghost Trance Music explores the full extend of Anthony Braxton’s Ghost Trance Music-compositions in the context of a solo performance. To do this I developed an intuitive set-up of loops and live-electronics to generate what Braxton refers to - [High Zero Symposium: Improv in Composition [Red Emma's]](https://www.redroom.org/high-zero-symposium-improv-in-composition/) - Composers discuss how they use improvisation Moderated by Jessica Keyes. Here’s an exciting opportunity for the fans of improvisation, experimental music, and composition to query composers on their practice. A panel of composers will discuss the diverse ways in which they incorporate elements of improvisation and performer choice into their compositions. Many of these composers - [Fred Frith Trio · Jamal Moore](https://www.redroom.org/frith-moore-overdrive/) - Red Room and Space 2640 are delighted to present Oakland's Fred Frith Trio and local luminary Jamal Moore. The trio (Fred Frith, guitar; Jordan Glenn, drums; and Jason Hoopes, bass) will be joined by a sexret musical guest and live visuals by Heike Liss. Note that this event is not at the Red Room but - [In Defense of Memory (Ortman, Santistevan, Trammell) w/special guests Corduroy (Barlow, Burt, Purdy)](https://www.redroom.org/in-defense-of-memory-ortman-santistevan-trammell/) - A trio formed in the rarified, purified, sanctified air of the High Zero Festival, In Defense of Memory makes its Red Room debut. Laura Ortman is a Brooklyn, NY composer, multi-instrumentalist and artist, and a riveting performer. She produces and performs as a soloist and with collaborators including Tony Conrad, Jock Soto, Raven Chacon, Nanobah - [Anteloper // Black Myths](https://www.redroom.org/jaime-branch-luke-stewart-anteloper-black-myths-sept-12/) - The Red Room is pleased to host Anteloper and Black Myths, two duos featuring High Zero alumns Jaimie Branch and Luke Stewart, respectively. ANTELOPER is the electric brain child of JAIMIE BRANCH (fly or die, high life) and JASON NAZARY (little women, helado negro, bear in heaven). Branch and Nazary have been playing together - [ONLINE - High Zero Volunteers Meeting! Sept 9th!](https://www.redroom.org/high-zero-volunteers-meeting-sept-9th/) - The 23rd Annual High Zero Festival will be held on September 23rd - 26th! We're looking for awesome folks like you to help run this amazing festival! Come to the Volunteers Meeting Thursday 9/9, 7:00 pm ONLINE via ZOOM (The Red Room is in a bit of disarray with piles of books taking up the - [Diffusion Festival for Multichannel Electronic Music Night 4 of 4](https://www.redroom.org/diffusion-festival-for-multichannel-electronic-music-4/) - The last night of this year's mini-DIFFUSION festival we present longform multichannel works by Shawn Greenlee, Bonnie Jones and Mark Cetilia. Shawn Greenlee is a composer, sound artist, and Associate Professor at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). He has performed extensively across the United States and Europe, appearing on several conferences, festivals, and tours. - [Diffusion Festival for Multichannel Electronic Music Night 3 of 4](https://www.redroom.org/diffusion-festival-for-multichannel-electronic-music-3/) - High Zero's DIFFUSION Festival presents the artists below, who pleasured us by simply asking for a show...we asked them to play the Music Easels in two separate stereo fields and we could call it quadrophonic and it could be part of DIFFUSION, and so it is! Here is information about this amazing trio : MARCIA - [Diffusion Festival for multichannel Electronic Music Night 2 of 4](https://www.redroom.org/diffusion-festival-for-multichannel-electronic-music-2/) - Sunday November 3rd (doors at 8:30pm a 10 dollar donation) High Zero's DIFFUSION Festival presents work by an old hand at multichannel work and a first multichannel work by someone who is no stranger to music making, electronic or otherwise. Marcin Pietruszewski (born 1984) a composer and researcher. He is engaged in sound synthesis and - [DIFFUSION Festival for Multichannel Electronic Music Night 1 of 4](https://www.redroom.org/diffusion-festival-for-multichannel-electronic-music/) - Saturday November 2nd, 8:30PM High Zero's DIFFUSION Festival invites you immerse your ears in a soundbath of new synthesis techniques, and then, if you like, hear a talk about the hows and whys of these techniques. This first evening of DIFFUSION is free, but High Zero always needs help presenting things, and donations are gladly - [Thomas Dimuzio and John Wiese](https://www.redroom.org/thomas-dimuzio-john-wiese/) - Veteran electronic music composers Thomas Dimuzio and John Wiese happened to be coming to visit me at the same time and I thought it would be a shame if I didn't make them pay hospitality rent by playing a show at the Red Room. What's more is that I insisted they both do it multichannely. - [High Zero Festival Night 4](https://www.redroom.org/high-zero-festival-night-4/) - Sunday September 22nd (7:30pm doors, 8:30pm showtime) Solo Jayve Montgomery woodwinds, percussion, and electronics The Night of Randomization As an ongoing tradition, the High Zero Festival will leave Sunday Night's sets up to chance. Fifteen performers will be divided into four sets, randomly. What kind of wonderful, unplanned, musical collisions will happen this year? Musicians - [High Zero Festival Night 3](https://www.redroom.org/high-zero-festival-night-3/) - Saturday September 21st (7:30pm doors, 8:30pm showtime) Solo Charmaine Lee vocalist Set 1 Nik Francis percussion, electronics Forbes Graham trumpet, laptop computer Jayve Montgomery woodwinds, percussion, and electronics Steve Baczkowski saxophone, multi-wind instrumentalist CK Barlow live sampling, electronics Set 2 Bonnie Jones electronics Sarah Hennies vibraphone, percussion Biliana Voutchkova violin, voice Le Quan Ninh surrounded - [High Zero Festival Night 2](https://www.redroom.org/high-zero-festival-night-2/) - Friday September 20th (7:30pm doors, 8:30pm showtime) Solo Owen Gardner guitar, cello Set 1 Charmaine Lee vocalist Bonnie Lander soprano Danishta Rivero voice, electronics Kristen Toedtman voice, violin, piano Biliana Voutchkova violin, voice Ledah Finck violin, viola Samuel Burt daxophone, clarinets Set 2 Tom Boram harpsichord, synthesizer Forbes Graham trumpet, laptop computer Set 3 Susie - [High Zero Festival Night I](https://www.redroom.org/high-zero-festival-night-i/) - High Zero returns after last years 20th Anniversary Tour! High Zero is the premier festival of Improvised, Experimental music on the East Coast, being fully devoted to new collaborations between inspired musicians and performers from Baltimore and around the world. Unlike many related festivals, High Zero is not narrow in terms of sensibility or subculture, - [NO LAND// JOANNA MATTREY//JARRET GILGORE//MIKE KUHL](https://www.redroom.org/no-land-joanna-mattrey-jarret-gilgore-mike-kuhl/) - No Land and Joanna Mattrey are incredible artists from New York City. Their work inspires us to feel and open our hearts. Join them for their Baltimore debut. They will perform with locals Jarrett Gilgore and Mike Kuhl. Khristian Weeks will open. No Land (NYC) is an artist, poet, and photographer. She fled school to convene with the - [Volunteers' Collective September 1st](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-september-1st/) - 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. - [Volunteers' Collective August 4th, 2019 - copy](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-august-4th-2019-copy/) - 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. - [Sally Decker + Carey/Borax](https://www.redroom.org/sally-decker-carey-borax/) - Come to the Red Room and welcome August and therefore welcome the slide into a hot Baltimore Summer's welcome conclusion. We are extremely pleased to present the voice and electronics talents of SF, CA's Sally Decker. Opening the evening will be the duo of Tom Borax and Jeff Carey, a confluence of technical noise, two - [Oddstruments at the Red Room | Fishkin, Strong, Burt, Franklin, Moore](https://www.redroom.org/oddstruments-at-the-red-room-fishkin-strong-burt-franklin-moore/) - New Rituals for Invented Instruments, Daxophones, Reeds, and Percussion Attention lovers of wooden sound-making contraptions. Daxophonists Daniel Fishkin (New York City) and Sam Burt (Baltimore) collaborate with friends in this first performance of a two-city event. Expect bowed wood, springs, thrums, eldritch near-human utterances, clatters, clacks, and whistles evoked by seasoned intuitive improvisers. Daniel Fishkin - [Daniel Meyer-O'Keeffe & Rob Cosgrove / Other Plastics / Steve Olson & Rose Hammer Burt](https://www.redroom.org/daniel-meyer-okeeffe-rob-cosgrove-other-plastics-steve-olson-rose-hammer-burt/) - Daniel Meyer-O'Keeffe & Rob Cosgrove (Joshua Tree, CA) Rob and Dan play guitar and drums. They make sounds that are chaotic and intimate. Their collaboration has spanned improvisation, composition, and installation works. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDCGA5fKf5E&feature=youtu.be https://soundcloud.com/danielmeyer-okeeffe/duet Other Plastics (NYC) noise duo https://soundcloud.com/dominiccoles/sets/kernel-panic Steve Olson and Rose Hammer Burt are both originally from different regions of - [High Zero presents: WORLDS IN COLLUSION at UB Student Center](https://www.redroom.org/high-zero-presents-worlds-in-collusion-at-ub-student-center-3-days-copy/) - THESE EVENTS ARE ON THE FIFTH FLOOR of the UB Student Center! Saturday, July 20th - [Alcorn / Alvarez + Lander / Dierker / Neidhardt](https://www.redroom.org/susan-alcorn-toto-alvarez-bonnie-lander-john-dierker-paul-neidhardt/) - A rare duo performance of local pedal steel guitarist Susan Alcorn and Chilean guitarist Luis "Toto" Alvarez. The trio of Bonnie Lander, John Dierker, and Paul Neidhardt open the show! Thursday 7/11, doors at 8:30pm $5-10 @ The Red Room 425 E. 31st St. Baltimore, MD - [Bill ORCUTT Chris CORSANO Bonnie JONES](https://www.redroom.org/bill-orcutt-chris-corsano-bonnie-jones/) - Powerhouse improvisational duo with guitarist Bill Orcutt and drummer Chris Corsano. Rumour has it that Mr. Orcutt will also play a "laptop set"! What will this mean? We are very excited to hear. Please join us to find out. Local electronic-music heroine Bonnie Jones, fresh from her recent foray into installation work opens the evening. - [Volunteers' Collective July 10th, 2019](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-july-10th-2019/) - 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. - [HEVM // Andrew Bernstein](https://www.redroom.org/hevm-andrew-bernstein/) - The Red Room is pleased to host HEVM, a trio comprised of three distinct voices that hail from disparate parts of New York's experimental music landscape: MV Carbon, Eve Essex, and Hunter Hunt-Hendrix. Local saxophonist Andrew Bernstein will open the show. Wednesday, June 26th, 2019 @ The Red Room Doors at 8:30, show - [SAM NEWSOME////// SUSAN ALCORN-ORLANDO JOHNSON](https://www.redroom.org/sam-newsome-susan-alcorn-orlando-johnson/) - A night of cosmic creative music presented by Sam Newsome -solo soprano saxophone and duet of Susan Alcorn and Orlando Johnson. Sam will be presenting music from his latest project and seventh solo recording, entitled Chaos Theory: SongCycles for Prepared Saxophone. this was just release on June 9th. The CD was recently in DownBeat Magazine’s - [Chris Pitskiokos // PHOBODEIMOS](https://www.redroom.org/chris-pitsiokos-phobodeimos/) - The Red Room is pleased to host an evening with New York based saxophonist Chris Pitsiokos and Baltimore's own Phobodeimos, featuring Dan Conrad, Jenny Moon Tucker, Eric Franklin, and Pony Payroll Bones. Sunday June 9th 2019 Doors at 8:30, show at 9:00 $5 - 10 @ The Red Room, 425 E. 31st St Chris - [IT FOOT, IT EARS | Gram Hummell | Aeschylus & Sam Burt](https://www.redroom.org/it-foot-it-ears/) - It Foot, It Ears is a chamber/garage music duo using electric guitar, voice, and percussion to create intricate studies in rhythm and texture. Their music plays against the expectations of the humdrum instrumentation of electric guitar and drums — while also celebrating its history. They’ve developed performance practices that embrace microtonality, isorhythm and polyrhythm, extended - [Sinetones & Sandwiches: Electronic, acoustic, vocal nourishment](https://www.redroom.org/sinetones-sandwiches-electronic-acoustic-vocal-nourishment/) - An extraordinary pleasure to bring together for one evening, the enormous talents of percussionist claire rousay (TX) and trumpeter Jacob Wick (CDMX) in duo, electronicist, artist, Richard Kamerman (NYC), and local vocal genius Bonnie Lander performing Alvin Lucier. The evening will have many throughlines: queering sound, systems design, interference sound, improvisation, psychodynamics and psychoacoustics, and - [THE REASONING: JAMAL MOORE-NIK FRANCIS// CHER JEY//ELIEL SHERMAN STOREY//RAS MOSHE](https://www.redroom.org/the-reasoning-jamal-moore-nik-francis-cher-jey-eliel-sherman-storey-ras-moshe-2/) - A night of new music and sound sonics exploring the darkness upon the face of the deep MOJUBA Jamal Moore -woodwinds,percussion, and electronics, Nik Francis- Drums and electronics Cher Jey- Vocals, Spoken Word Chicago based multidisciplinary artist from Baltimore, MD, focused primarily on expression through sound, movement, line and spirit. Her research has lead - [Volunteers' Collective June 3, 2019](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-june-3-2019/) - 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. - [Nicolas Field and Gregor Vidic Duo // Carey/Moore/Purdy trio](https://www.redroom.org/nicolas-field-gregor-vidic-duo/) - Nicloas Field & Gregor Vidic Duo It is now four years that saxophonist Gregor Vidic and drummer Nicolas Field began their musical collaboration. Their constantly evolving music is the result of an interaction between improvisation and spontaneous composition, mainly influenced by Free Jazz and current European improvised music. The duo has managed to construct a - [The Real of Time II: Sarah Hennies](https://www.redroom.org/ars-longa/) - The second installment of The Real of Time, a new series showcasing durational music of the 21st century, features a new work for 'cello and percussion by Sarah Hennies. The piece, "The Reinvention of Romance," was written specifically for Knoxville-based Two-Way Street, a duo of Ashlee Booth ('cello) and Adam Lion (percussion). Look forward to - [Volunteers' Collective, May 5, 2019](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-may-5-2019/) - 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. - [Adam G Holofcener and Steven Lugerner \ Sarah Hughes / Nicoletta de la Brown and Natalia Arias](https://www.redroom.org/adam-g-holofcener-and-steven-lugerner-sarah-hughes-nicoletta-de-la-brown-and-natalia-arias/) - Adam Holofcener: Adam G Holofcener is a sound artist, composer, and performer from Baltimore, MD, USA. His work ebbs and flows between digital and analog efforts with an emphasis on a synergistic interplay between the two: one informing the other, literally and otherwise, ad infinitum. The theoretical underpinnings for his work come from a variety - [Kazehito Seki // Asha Sheshadri + Network Glass // Hayden Right // Jeff Carey](https://www.redroom.org/kazehito-seki/) - Noise night at the Redroom featuring Kazehito Seki from Japan and local electronic acts with different approaches to noisemaking. Kazehito Seki Electrifeeding voice artist, Noise musician, etc. His latest solo project, called Self Toxication, explores possibilities of extended vocal techniques and their amplification through feedbacks and re-amplification processes. His unique organic noise coins onliest - [Goucher Computer Music](https://www.redroom.org/goucher-computer-music/) - This free concert will feature the work of students working in Goucher College's Computer Music Studio, under the tutelage of High Zero Collective member Andrew Bernstein. Students will present original compositions exploring historical and current trends in electronic music. Please note that the concert begins at 8:00pm. Featuring the work of: Eitan Avni-Heller Jaimiah Brandon - [Viv Corringham / CK Barlow + Lexie Mountain](https://www.redroom.org/viv-corringham-ck-barlow-lexie-mountain/) - Thursday April 18th we present Viv Corringham. Please come hear what she does on Thursday night at 9pm, we don't think you'll be disappointed. Beneath this introduction are some facts and reviews that we gathered from her website, which, really you might as well look at yourself! It is here: http://vivcorringham.org Opening for Ms. Corringham, - [Reflex Arc | Will Redman & Allison Clendaniel](https://www.redroom.org/reflex-arc/) - Reflex Arc is a two-piece experimental & improvisational band. Crowmeat Bob plays a variety of horns & sometimes electric guitar while Ginger Wagg plays a variety of body parts, spaces and emotional states. "It's never been so great being uncomfortable" - Maggie, White Gregg (Knoxville, TN) "indecipherable freakout great" - David Ford Smith, Indy Week http://www.gingerwagg.com/reflex-arc - - [Volunteers' Collective | April 7, 2019](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-april-7-2019/) - 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. - [Ava Medoza/John Dikeman/Ironing](https://www.redroom.org/ava-medoza-john-dikeman-ironing/) - a few Virtuosi in the house 4/4/19. Don't let the 4/4 scare you, there may be nary a familiar rhythm present - only the strangest melodies, harmonies, rhythms, textures and panoramas at the Red Room, thanks. A very unique convergence of two tours - solos by instrumental Masters Ava Mendoza (NYC, guitar) and John Dikeman - [The Real of Time I: Magnus Granberg & Ordinary Affects](https://www.redroom.org/granberg-railroad/) - The inaugural concert of The Real of Time, a new series showcasing durational music of the 21st century, will feature a newly commissioned concert-length work by Swedish composer and improvisor Magnus Granberg. The piece, "Come Down to Earth Where Sorrow Dwelleth," was written specifically for Boston-based Ordinary Affects (featuring Red Room regular and High Zero - [Pensado/Parker/Lander/Clendaniel 3/30!](https://www.redroom.org/pensado-parker-lander-clendaniel-3-30/) - An amazing line-up here, possibly the best line-up since the revelatory performances in the court of Emperor Akbar. The Red Room is thrilled to present solos by High Zero alumnae Andrea Pensado, Donna Parker, not to mention local alumna Allison Clendaniel in duet w/the brilliant and talented Bonnie Lander - as the vocal duo "Shorts." - [Caroline Tigre · Jenny Moon Tucker · Liz Durette](https://www.redroom.org/tigre-stills-tucker-and-durette/) - Hope you can make it, we are excited for the show: Caroline Tigre is dancer, writer, musician, improvising person. Formerly singing in Strange Times People Band. www.carolinetigre.com Maybe you thought Liz Durette would come back from her Buddhist center tripping suddenly making sparse and minimal music for you, but no not so! This is her - [Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson // Jeff Carey](https://www.redroom.org/sigtryggur-berg-sigmarsson-jeff-carey/) - Concluding their "Zero Player Game / OK Computer Music" double CD release tour from sea to shining sea, Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson and Jeff Carey, both of whom work with electronic sound but eschew the impassive, near-motionless performance ethos typical of the field in favor of an intense physicality. Sigmarsson’s performances are equal parts concert and - [LEYYA TAWIL-MIKE KHOURY/JAMAL MOORE](https://www.redroom.org/leyya-tawil-mike-khoury-jamal-moore/) - TAWIL & KHOURY is the duo of Leyya Mona Tawil and Mike Khoury. They work with sound and movement practices, and are community leaders in the field of Arab Experimentalism. Tawil & Khoury operate within the diaspora; narrating identity on their own terms. They began collaborating in Detroit in 2006, and have since toured - [And/In with Carey/Fucile/Gardner/Purdy](https://www.redroom.org/and-in-with-carey-fucile-gardner-purdy/) - And / In ‘And / In’ is a Berlin-based duo of HBF and KLN creating music with objects, text, and vibrations. Shadows and light, audible and inaudible movement, air, liquids, and solids. They conduct musical investigations of objects, bodies, agents, sounds, actions, text and silence. Objects and/in silence. Text and/in sound. Reading and/in actions. A - [Neil Feather and Kristen Toedtman | April Camlin, Jessica Keyes and Dave Benham](https://www.redroom.org/neil-feather-and-kristen-toedtman-jessica-keyes-and-dave-benham/) - Neil Feather and Kristen Toedtman play a series of improvised short pieces, some with text drawn from Feather, Toedtman and Blaster Al Ackerman and played on violin, voice and invented instruments. The duo come together steeped in more than a decade of friendship, collaboration and joke telling. From this groundwork of good humor, they stand - [Carl Stone · AMI · Tom Boram](https://www.redroom.org/stone-yamasaki-overdrive/) - Transcend your St. Patrick's Day hangover with three intrepid sound makers, each with a highly developed and personal vocabulary crossing paths this unforgettable Monday. Carl Stone, a pioneer of live computer music and a highly absorbing composer, will be making his Red Room debut (apparently he has been waiting for years for this moment!) and - [Volunteer's Collective, Sunday March 10th](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-sunday-march-10th/) - 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. - [You're It!: Puglionesi, Shaltout, Amos, and Shlon](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-february-3-2019-2/) - You're It!: Puglionesi, Shaltout, Amos, and Shlon Join the Red Room for an evening of spoken word, video, performance, sound, and music with Alicia Puglionesi, Marina Shaltout, Rachel Amos, and Katie Schlon. Alicia Puglionesi is a writer, historian, and Baltimore resident who studies questions of faith and doubt, orthodoxy and marginality that underpin the field - [Monday, Volunteers' Collective, February 4, 2019](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-february-3-2019/) - You are cordially invited to come play free music! Note: This month moved from Sunday to Monday. 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 - [Utsav Lal, Hindustani classical piano · Enayat Hossain Khan, tabla](https://www.redroom.org/lal-khan-overdrive/) - The Red Room and Space 2640 welcome Utsav Lal, Hindustani classical pianist, with tabla maestro Enayet Hossain Khan joining him as a special guest. Note that this event is not at the Red Room but at St. Johns United Methodist Church (AKA Space 2640 AKA 2640 Space) at 2640 Saint Paul St., Baltimore, MD 21218. - [Laetitia Sonami · Bonnie Jones · Christopher DeLaurenti](https://www.redroom.org/amie-de-son/) - The Red Room, in collaboration with the Peabody Institute's Arthur Friedheim Library's Hacking Harmony event, are pleased as punch to host legendary San Francisco sound artist Laetitia Sonami, a fascinating if little-heard figure making her Baltimore debut! During her Baltimore residency, Sonami will be presenting concerts and workshops at the Peabody Library, Centre Street Performance Studio - [Ear Fatigue & Coy Fish](https://www.redroom.org/ear-fatigue-coy-fish/) - Ear Fatigue and Coy Fish and mid-winter howls. Ear Fatigue's patented FORMANT CANONS are set to obliterate for their debut performance. Jimmy Joe Roche and Samuel Burt celebrate Sam's birthday with a blowout set of inhuman utterances and bestial conjuring. Jimmy will play electronics and vocals. Sam will play the daxophone through a talk box. - [JIM RYAN-NICK FRANCIS///// DAVE SEWELSON-WILLIAM PARKER-STEVE SWELL](https://www.redroom.org/jim-ryan-nick-francis-dave-sewelson-william-parker-steve-swell/) - NIK FRANCIS / JIM RYAN DUO DAVE SEWELSON QUARTET FEATURING WILLIAM PARKER & STEVE SWELL with Nik Francis (drum kit) PLUS A FREE JAM CLOSER FEATURING MYSTERY PLAYERS & THE RED ROOM, BALTIMORE SATURDAY 1.19.19 8:30 PM $10 THE RED ROOM • 425 E 31st Street, Baltimore, MD 21218 Dave Sewelson settled into the East - [BAD LUCK// GILGORE,PUMPHREY,DIEKER,KUHL](https://www.redroom.org/bad-luck-gilgorepumphreydiekerkuhl/) - Please welcome the incredible and inimitable duo from Seattle, BAD LUCK, to this great town of Baltimore. Local support by Jamal Moore and Jarrett Gilgore/John Dierker/Chris Pumphrey/Mike Kuhl BAD LUCK (Seattle WA) performs in another cosmos from most bands. With more than a decade of collaboration, Neil Welch (saxophone + live electronics) and Christopher Icasiano - [Marbles on Tile](https://www.redroom.org/marbles-on-tile/) - Leo Suarez, drum set Jason Charney, modular synthesizer James Young, bassoon Leo Suarez is on tour promoting his new solo album Marbles on Tile Marbles on Tile is a collection of improvisations using a solo language that i have been developing for the past year. It's a 3-point system that utilizes a triangular communication path - [Volunteers' Collective, January 7th 2019](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-january-7th-2019/) - 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. - [NYE Variety Show! With special guest Bromp Treb!](https://www.redroom.org/new-years-steve/) - Bromp Treb (High Zero '15)! Lexie Mountain (HZ '06, '17)! Mecca Lewis! New years baby Israel Patterson! And introducing The Red Room Band! Doors at 8:30, show at 9 - [Nth Annual Dierker Holiday Spectacular](https://www.redroom.org/nth-annual-dierker-holiday-spectacular/) - Join us for a night of spectacle and wonder! John Dierker and friends, guaranteed to be a weird, wild night. - [Susan Alcorn & Anna Roberts-Gevalt](https://www.redroom.org/double-trouble/) - Mesmerizing master of the pedal steel, local legend Susan Alcorn joins former Baltimorean (now New Yorker) Anna Roberts-Gevalt, half of ever-more-expansive meta-folk duo Anna & Elizabeth, in a new duo formation. Listen to good listeners! Doors at 8:30, show at 9 - [Pod Blotz, Craow, and Clendaniel, Carey & Mostofsky](https://www.redroom.org/pod-blotz-craow-and-clendaniel-carey-mostofsky-thurs-dec-13/) - POD BOLTZ aka Suzy Poling Modern Electronics, Industrial, Sound Art project that is dark in context and bright in texture; mixing electronics, modular synthesis, vox, rhythmic elements, tape manipulation, metals and field recordings. Pod Blotz is artist Suzy Poling’s solo Electronic project, through which they explore posthumanist concepts, performance art, cathartic gestures and otherworldly sound - [Volunteers' Collective, Dec. 3th 2018](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-dec-3th-2018/) - 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. - [Sandy Ewen · Judith Hamann · Bonnie Jones](https://www.redroom.org/triple-trouble/) - Seize the day! Three titans of contemporary music descend upon the Red Room for one unforgettable night--and warm up your ears for the following two unforgettable nights of Diffusion at MICA! Stimulating! Masterful! Australian Red Room stalwart Judith Hamann plays Sarah Hennies' "Loss" for humming cellist, New York City's Sandy Ewen (High Zero NYC 2018) - [Ghosts of the Holy Ghost Spermic Brotherhood + Borax/Moore](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-nov-4-2/) - Ghosts of the Holy Ghost Spermic Brotherhood!!! Joined by local trio Paul Neidhardt (percussion), Tom Borax (synthesizer/harpsichord) & Jamal Moore (reeds, percussion) The Special edition of GotHGSB will consist of founding members: David Grollman is a percussionist from NYC who performs freely improvised music. He performs in art galleries, tiki bars, and venues of - [Volunteers' Collective Nov. 4](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-nov-4/) - 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. - [UHHM · Throwaway · The Witches](https://www.redroom.org/uhhmthrowitches/) - An evening of wild sounds awaits you! The Witches are excited to be sharing a triple bill with two fantastic groups, local band U.H.H.M and Throwaway coming all the way from Detroit! U.H.H.M Visit their music at : https://uhhm.bandcamp.com/releases Throwaway Visit their music at: http://www.kirstencareymusic.com/throwaway The Witches Visit us at www.witchtunes.com Doors at 8:30, show at 9 - [Neil Feather ++ Jarrett Gilgore, John Dierker, Chris Pumphrey](https://www.redroom.org/neil-feather-jarrett-gilgore-john-dierker-chris-pumphrey/) - Neil Feather ++ Jarrett Gilgore, John Dierker, Chris Pumphrey More details TBA - [Panicsville and Jeff Carey with Ben Starkey](https://www.redroom.org/panicsville-and-jeff-carey-with-ben-starkey/) - Focusing on Psychedelic Experimental Musique Concrète (often with a narrative), Panicsville pushes boundaries and also can push buttons. Live performances now incorporate multi-media, conceptual/technological operations. Panicsville began in St.Louis in 1992, moved to Texas, now resides in Chicago, IL. With a rotating lineup over the years, Andy Ortmann currently fronts Panicsville with various personnel. Touring - [Diffusion Ruben Patiño, Kevin Blackistone, Carrie Fucile and Mike Bullock](https://www.redroom.org/diffusion-6/) - The last evening of Diffusion 2018 presents work by Ruben Patiño, Kevin Blackistone, Mike Bullock and a live multichannel piece by Carrie Fucile. Here's some information (as it comes in!) about the artists: Rubén Patiño, Barcelona 1979, is an artist working in the field of electronic music, operating in a hybrid territory that incorporates - [Diffusion: Special Guest presents Schwingende Elektronen: Selektiver Überblick historischer elektronischer Musik aus Deutschland](https://www.redroom.org/diffusion-schwingende-elektronen/) - High Zero Foundation presents Diffusion Festival series focused on electronic and multi-channel sound works. Part of our goal with the Diffusion Festival is to not only present new / contemporary electro acoustic and electronic work but to enjoy pieces from this medium's relatively brief history of 70 years. We've chosen to do this by chance, - [Diffusion: Olivia Block, Special Guest](https://www.redroom.org/diffusion-olivia-block-special-guest/) - High Zero Foundation presents Diffusion Festival series focused on electronic and multi-channel sound works. This very special evening finds us in the Fred Lazarus IV Hall at 131 W North Ave. The space has been lent in kindness by the MICA Sound Department. Olivia Block will present 8 channel works of her own composition. Special Guest - [Diffusion: Madalyn Merkey, Twig Harper, HATAM and Nathan Corder](https://www.redroom.org/diffusion-night-two/) - High Zero Foundation presents Diffusion Festival series focused on electronic and multi-channel sound works. The third event in the festival features works by: Oaklander Madalyn Merkey, local fakir Twig Harper, HATAM and Nathan Corder. More works may be added to this program. Here are some details about the composers, and in some cases, their - [Diffusion: Rjyan Kidwell, Vicki Bennett, Stephanie Barber](https://www.redroom.org/diffusion-night-one/) - High Zero Foundation presents Diffusion Festival series focused on electronic and multi-channel sound works. The first night of the festival includes 8 channel works by local granular synthesis wunder-mann Rjyan Kidwell, Londoner Vicki Bennett (also known as People Like Us) and a quadraphonic piece by local playwright and multi-media sculptor Stephanie Barber premiering her - [Bonnie Lander & John Dierker · Departure Duo](https://www.redroom.org/lander-dierker-overdrive/) - Soprano is high, bass is low and this night at the Red Room the twain shall meet! Two ways! And thanks to Free Fall Baltimore, this show is free! Local ringers Bonnie and John will be performing rehearsed improvisations for soprano voice and bass clarinet and Departure Duo's Nina Guo and Eddie Kass will be - [Volunteers' Collective, Sunday October 6](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-sunday-october-6/) - 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. - [True Fluorescent Skeleton ++ Anna Crooks + Jarrett Gilgore](https://www.redroom.org/true-fluorescent-skeleton-anna-crooks-jarrett-gilgore/) - Join us for a special live performance of James Young's True Fluorescent Skeleton, performed on saxophone by Tyrone Page, Jr; opening the night are Anna Crooks and Jarrett Gilgore, presenting spoken word and sound. This show is free, and funded by BOPA's Free Fall Baltimore program. True Fluorescent Skeleton is an hour long exploration of - [Jason Charney ++ Toned (Leo Suarez + Nathan Corder + Tom Weeks)](https://www.redroom.org/jason-charney-leo-suarez-nathan-corder-and-tom-weeks/) - TONED is the electroacoustic music ensemble of Nathan Corder (electronics), Tom Weeks (alto saxophone), and Leo Suarez (drum set). TONED engages with extremes, operating in the realms of deeply listened sensitivity, muscular sonic assaults, and impenetrable modernist abstractions. https://toned.bandcamp.com/releases Split between the Bay Area and Philadelphia, the three members of TONED have collectively worked with luminaries - [QuaQuaQua (NYC/Baltimore) and The Third Guy (Brussels)](https://www.redroom.org/quaquaqua-nyc-baltimore-and-the-third-guy-brussels/) - QuaQuaQua (NYC/Baltimore) and The Third Guy (Brussels) bring you pieces for an open-ended jack cable, strobe lights and midi pad, slaps in the face, virtuosic knife and hammer work, and light banter. Slovenian guitarist Primož Sukič and Spanish percussionist Ruben Orio make up The Third Guy, a duo based in Brussels, Belgium. They first met - [Volunteers' Collective, Sunday September 2nd](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-sunday-september-2nd/) - 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. - [Dave Dove * Justin Jones * Jimmy Joe Roche * Pasokon](https://www.redroom.org/davedove/) - Dave Dove A trombone player, composer, improviser, and educator, David Dove has given performances and workshops across North America and internationally. As Founding Director of Nameless Sound (a non-profit organization in Houston, Texas), he curates/presents a concert series of international contemporary creative music, and has developed an approach, philosophy and practice of creative music education - [HIGH ZERO 20th Edition Tour!!!](https://www.redroom.org/high-zero-20th-edition-tour/) - TWENTIETH YEAR CELEBRATION TOUR! September 14th through 29th in three cities. The High Zero Collective are going on the road. The musician-organizers will perform for two days in Chicago and two days in New York City with area musicians before returning home to perform for two days in all-Baltimore combinations. Touring High Zero Collective CK - [Gerritt Wittmer · Peter J Woods · Hayden Right](https://www.redroom.org/wittmer-woods-overdrive/) - For those unafraid of the dark, local gentleman noisenik Hayden Right joins Gerritt Wittmer (Houston) and Peter J. Woods (Milwaukee), touring in support of their new full length albums, “I Believe" and "Today is Horrible." Doors at 8:30, show at 9 Gerritt Wittmer is a sound and performance artist based in Houston, Texas. His work - [Jaimie Branch & Friends · Susan Alcorn & Janel Leppin](https://www.redroom.org/alcorn-branch-overdrive/) - JAIMIE BRANCH (High Zero 2013, 2018) IS BACK IN BALTIMORE FOR AN EVENING IN HER FIRST PERFORMANCE SINCE SHE LIVED HERE WAY BACK WHEN! SHE'LL BE JOINED BY SOME OF HER CLOSEST BALTIMORE/DC COMPATRIOTS! SUSAN ALCORN (HZ 2004, 2013, 2018) WILL PLAY DUO WITH JANEL LEPPIN! T R A N S C E N D - [Volunteers' Collective, Monday August 6th](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-monday-august-6th/) - 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. - [Anna RG & Zach Rowden · Owen Gardner · Allison Clendaniel](https://www.redroom.org/rg-rowden-overdrive/) - sounds from anna rg / zach rowden duo ANNA is trying to find places in between traditional and experimental music worlds. now in brooklyn, once in baltimore, and before in appalachia / she spent the last decade studying with masters of traditional fiddle and banjo music in Kentucky and Virginia. her main duo, anna & - [Lea Bertucci & Amirtha Kidambi · Max Eilbacher](https://www.redroom.org/bertucci-kidambi-overdrive/) - More Sunday summer fun at the Red Room! New Yorkers Lea Bertucci (High Zero 2012, 2018) and Amirtha Kidambi warp time and space in solo and duo formations and local electroacoustician Max Eilbacher (High Zero 2009) presents a work in progress in QUADRAPHONIC SOUND! Lea Bertucci is an American composer and performer whose work describes - [High Zero presents: WORLDS IN COLLUSION at UB Student Center 3 DAYS](https://www.redroom.org/high-zero-presents-worlds-in-collusion-at-ub-student-center-3-days/) - THESE EVENTS ARE ON THE FIFTH FLOOR of the UB Student Center! Friday, July 20 - [Drums and Drones // HZ improvisors](https://www.redroom.org/drums-and-drones-hz-improvisors/) - Brian Chase, drummer of esteemed band, “Yeah Yeah Yeahs” brings a different view to the drum with Swiss video artist Ursula Scherrer. This sound and video experience has been well received, around the world, now in Baltimore, for you. “goes inside the sound and...puts your brain inside another space” -The Wire Magazine Opening for - [Volunteers' Collective, Sunday, July 1](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-sunday-july-1/) - 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. - [Che Chen & David Watson · Meg Rorison](https://www.redroom.org/chen-watson-overdrive/) - New York's David Watson (bagpipes! High Zero 2011) and Che Chen very durationally meet local filmmaker and friend of the Red Room Meg Rorison (High Zero 2014) very filmically. Loud and long--just the way you like it. Doors at 8:30, show at 9 Che Chen & David Watson have been active as a duo since - [Crazy Doberman/Pony Moon/Pale stag](https://www.redroom.org/crazy-doberman-pony-moon-pale-stag/) - Baltimore and mid-west out improvised noise for every temperament and sensibility! Crazy Doberman Hailing from Lafayette Indiana, this amorphous psycho jazz unit drops a heavy slab of tunes that sounds like “the Glenn Miller orchestra recorded a tape for Industrial Records and microwaved the masters”. Hard to pin down and forever tripping with new - [JD PARRAN-ANCESTRAL DUO///// BLACK ELEMENTS 4TET](https://www.redroom.org/jd-parran-ancestral-duo-black-elements-4tet/) - A NIGHT OF CREATIVE IMPROVISATION AND THROUGH-COMPOSED MUSIC. JD PARRAN JD Parran’s most recent releases on the Mutable Music label are the collaborative Particle Ensemble and his Window Spirits Solo. His performing on clarinets, saxophones and flutes is legendary. In his hometown, St Louis, he was a founding member of the Black Artist Group (BAG) - [C. Lavender · Headband](https://www.redroom.org/lavender-moore-overdrive/) - Imagine if you will a door, adorned with a Fela Kuti poster, to the side of a used book and record store. Beyond the door is another dimension—a liminal zone between shadow and substance, music and performance art, laughter and tears, performer and audience. Our story takes place in the present, on a Saturday night, - [Zach Rowden · Kiera Mulhern & Jack Patterson · Double Wink](https://www.redroom.org/mulhern-patterson-overdrive/) - !!June 18th at the Red Room!! A night of Sound, Music, and Spoken word. ~*~Featuring~*! ___|)_________|___________ |___/___|______|____ |__/|___|-.__,-.________ |_/(|,\_|/___`-'______ |_\_|_/__________ | A musical performance from touring artist Zach Rowden (CT). Spectralist nightmare double bass compositions/improvisations. A pupil of the late Ana-Maria Avram and a player in Iancu Dumitrescu's Hyperion Ensemble. "Shredder" https://zachrowden.bandcamp.com/releases Jack Patterson & - [Crooks/Gilgore + Wendy Eisenberg + Nick A Bisceglia + Peter Redgrave](https://www.redroom.org/tigue-jason-charney-2/) - Friday, June 8th at the Red Room! ANNA CROOKS & JARRETT GILGORE There are melodies hidden in speech. Anna & Jarrett unearth these melodies and provide a strange new context for poetry. The duo began during Superbowl LI (2017) and has since performed around Baltimore on lineups with Susan Alcorn, Twig Harper, Lexie Mountain, BLUD. - [Tigue | Jason Charney](https://www.redroom.org/tigue-jason-charney/) - Tigue is a group of three percussionists with a fluid musical identity. The Brooklyn-based trio (Matt Evans, Amy Garapic and Carson Moody) makes their own kinetic and hypnotic blend of instrumental minimalism while opening up the possibilities of their instrumentation through commissioning and collaboration. Tigue’s debut album Peaks was released in 2015 with New Amsterdam - [Volunteers' Collective](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-8/) - 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. - [Jin Sangtae | Erick Antonio Benitez | Dan Malinsky](https://www.redroom.org/jin-sangtae-erick-antonio-benitez-dan-malinsky/) - 3 unique and distinct solo performances at the Red Room - offering a deep dive into the lush, cryptic inner worlds of electronic, electromagnetic and mechanical sounds! Featuring JIN SANGTAE one of the pivotal musicians of the Seoul South Korean electronic and improvised music scene, in a rare US concert! JIN SANGTAE (electronics) South Korea ERICK - [Killick and Susan Alcorn; Les Trois Batterie with Wendel Patrick](https://www.redroom.org/killick-susan-alcorn/) - A duo of Killick and Susan Alcorn Killick plays Appalachian Trance Metal on stringed instruments with an emphasis on unquantifiable rhythms, intuitive intonation, and shamanistic ROYGBIV. Susan Alcorn is Baltimore's own pedal steel guitar virtuoso. Together, they will form a tangle of never-before-heard string vibrations. Les Trois Batterie with Wendel Patrick Dan Breen and Bob Wagner are - [J Money Fur/Rod&Tiffany/Tom Borax](https://www.redroom.org/j-money-furrodtiffanytom-borax/) - Amazing night of chamber music, experimental pop, chamber pop, chamber pots and pot music. Baltimore talent in the house. Feast your senses on this delicate, dark, and wondrous roster: The incredible mallets and ethereal synths of Rod Hamilton and Tiffany Seal. https://soundcloud.com/rod_and_tiffany The massive soundscapes and performance art of J Money Fur. http://www.jmoneyfur.com/ Tom Borax in his - [TRAVIS LAPLANTE/GERALD CLEAVER -A DANCE THAT EMPTIES:](https://www.redroom.org/travis-laplantegerald-cleaver-dance-empties/) - A Dance That Empties is Travis Laplante's latest album-length composition, written for Subtle Degrees, a new two-musician ensemble consisting of Laplante (tenor saxophone) and Gerald Cleaver (drums). The duo's uncategorizable sound evokes everything from contemporary classical music, avant-garde jazz, minimalism, technical metal, and sacred world music. Laplante is also the founder/composer of saxophone quartet Battle Trance and - [Volunteers' Collective, Sunday, May 6th 2018](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-sunday-may-6th-2018/) - 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. - [~ Jason Kahn ~ If, Bwana ~ Piss Kills Mold  ~](https://www.redroom.org/jason-kahn-bwana-piss-kills-mold/) - Jason Kahn // (solo) Born 1960 in New York. Moved to Europe in 1990 and is currently based in Zurich, where he is active as a musician, artist and writer. Kahn performs voice and resonator guitar. If, Bwana // (solo) Al Margolis is a composer/performer, improvisor and painter. Since 1984, often under his project name - [Paul Metzger · John St. Pelvyn · Susan Alcorn & Nicola Hein](https://www.redroom.org/alcorn-metzger-pelvyn-and-hein/) - Strange strings from home and abroad invade the Red Room! Doors at 8:30, music at 9 A virtuoso on a 23-string banjo he built himself, Paul Metzger’s idiosyncratic & deeply original long form improvisations at times bring to mind American primitive guitar, the sarod of Hindustani music, or the Chinese Erhu. Though refracted through his - [Lexie Mountain (solo), Drew Daniel + John Wiese (duo)](https://www.redroom.org/lexie-mountain-drew-daniel-john-wiese/) - LEXIE MOUNTAIN: comedian, columnist, conundrum, composer, choir mistress, raconteur, lobster priestess, the list goes on... she's going to grace the Room with new work and you're going to feel the blessings rain down and the dividends pile up. DREW DANIEL is half of Matmos and all of the Soft Pink Truth and he lives in - [4/10 Shelton+Berg/Olivegren+Tolbert+Mazerakis/Jones+Freeman](https://www.redroom.org/410-sheltonbergolivegrentolbertmazerakisjonesfreeman/) - A truly mind-bending evening with sounds, dance and maybe even things previously unknowable, unimaginable, unforeseen and untoward. It’s a terrifying prospect all these “uns”, yet beguiling. Why miss out on performances that may be permanently etched on your mind for the rest of your life? Fantastic out sounds from Denmark – the duo of - [Sun. Apr. 8, 2018 Volunteers' Collective](https://www.redroom.org/sun-apr-8-2018-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 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. - [Kate Amrine, Bonnie Lander perform Scelsi and more](https://www.redroom.org/amrine-lander-overdrive/) - Two masters of two of the more ancient instruments (the trumpet and the voice) make it new at The Red Room! Each will play a piece by everyone's favorite mystic aristocrat, Giacinto Scelsi, a piece (or two) of their own and other works from the contemporary repertoire. Give yourself the gift of new music--you earned - [David Grubbs - author of lauded Records Ruin the Landscape, founding member of Gastr del Sol. - Also: Shelly Purdy plays John Cage](https://www.redroom.org/david-grubbs-author-lauded-records-ruin-landscape-founding-member-gastr-del-sol/) - On what will surely be a lovely Thursday evening in April, legendary guitarist David Grubbs will be reading from his new book, Now that the Audience is Assembled and playing solo electric guitar. He will play some new things and pieces from Creep Mission issued by the "Drag City" record label. Also, the High Zero - [Jon "Wobbly" Leidecker VARIATIONS lecture: the history of appropriative collage, or, SAMPLING. Also: related video work](https://www.redroom.org/jon-wobbly-leidecker-variations-lecture-history-appropriative-collage-sampling-also-related-video-work/) - Jon Leidecker is a veteran sound artist concerned with a process called "sampling", or perhaps more accurately "appropriative collage". He's worked with People Like Us, Fred Frith, Matmos (and many more) and is a member of Negativland. This practice has led to a thorough examination of the history of sampling, and this research led to - [Envenomist](https://www.redroom.org/envenomist/) - Some people equate Envenomist with science fiction film scores, and others envision solitary nocturnal travels through bleak urban settings, but a fundamental strength of Envenomist is that these illusory backdrops remain open to interpretation. Taking inspiration from industrial, ambient, and the kosmische scenes along with altered states of consciousness, the oceanic abyss, and deep space; - [Judith Hamann · Julia Reidy · The Witches](https://www.redroom.org/hamann-reidy-overdrive/) - Even considering the embarrassment of riches confronting this season's Red Room goer, this show is a true gem! Two superb instrumentalists from down under, cellist Judith Hamann (who you may remember from their performance at RR in March 2016) and guitarist JR (who was recommended to your host by Judith at the said show, to - [Coy Fish (Hughes, Burt, Ostrow, Scheible), Maria Shesiuk, Corey Thuro](https://www.redroom.org/coy-fish-hughes-burt-ostrow-scheible/) - Record release party for Coy Fish! Plus performances by Maria Shesiuk and Corey Thuro. 7:30pm reception with snacks 8:30pm performances Coy Fish is an improvising ensemble led by woodwind artist and composer, Sarah Hughes who also performs on autoharp and vocals. The ensemble consists of Sam Burt on daxophone, Dan Ostrow on double bass, and - [Matt Mottel / Beam Splitter / Martín Escalante](https://www.redroom.org/matt-mottel-martin-escalante-beam-splitter-audrey-chen/) - Matthew Mottel is an internationally recognized musician and artist, performing most notably with Talibam! since 2003. He has worked with Karole Armitage, Rhys Chatham, Cooper-Moore, Yasuano Tone and many others. talibam.bandcamp.com Martín Escalante - Photographer, filmmaker and musician. In 2012 he started his record label Sploosh Records where he releases his solo work and collaborations - [Volunteers' Collective March [BRING YOUR AMP]](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-march-bring-amp/) - 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-judgemental setting. Meet new and veteran improvisers. - [Thomas Lehn/Marcus Schmickler + Leprechaun Catering](https://www.redroom.org/lehnschmickler-leprechaun-catering/) - German American Friendship -QUAD style. A night of way out electronic sounds and dueling duos - in QUADRAPHONIC SOUND. Thomas Lehn + Marcus Sschmickler (Germany) Leprechaun Catering (Tom Boram + Jason Willett)(Balt) We are honored to present this rare visit from the musical prowess of Thomas Lehn and Marcus Schmickler. This duo is legendary and - [Mariel Roberts · Ian Power](https://www.redroom.org/power-roberts-overdrive/) - A wisp of cigarette smoke in the soft lamplight, the tinkle of a glass, a hushed whisper...and music for lovers only. This is love's entrancing setting. For music, in a thousand ways, describes each glowing facet of romance. Join us in the low lights of the Red Room and share the sentimental magic of contemporary - [Screening and Performance](https://www.redroom.org/screening-and-performance/) - New Works is a rolling event at the Red Room showcasing new video work and emphasizing local artists. video by Amber Eve Anderson, Matt Sheffield, Jonna McKone, Gillian Waldo, Margaret Rorison, Martin Schmidt, Adian Spann, Jeffery Chance, Jimmy Joe Roche, Albert Birney, Daniel Guinness. Christine Ferrera will be doing a live performance and Miles Engel-Hawbecker will be - [Volunteers' Collective February 2018](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-february-2018/) - 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-judgemental setting. Meet new and veteran improvisers. - [Thread Duo · Andrew Bernstein · Sam Cooper/Corey Thuro](https://www.redroom.org/thread-duo-andrew-bernstein-cooper-thuro/) - Thread Duo - contrapuntal percussion and electric guitar, from New York Andrew Bernstein - multiphonic saxophone, digital treatments Sam Cooper/Corey Thuro - process guitar and violin Doors at 8:30, show at 9 - [Beatriz Ferreyra · Twig Harper · Jeff Carey](https://www.redroom.org/ferreyra-harper-overdrive/) - We at The Red Room are simply delighted to present Argentine electroacoustic composer Beatriz Ferreyra, who will be playing a selection of pieces through the Red Room's multi-channel system. Devoted Red Room fans may remember hearing a diffusion of her "L'Orvietan" at our Diffusion: GRM concert at 2640 in November. Beatriz will be playing two - [Jean Vigo/Ron Rice: The Exuberance of Youth Curated by Herb Shellenberger](https://www.redroom.org/vigo-rice-overdrive/) - Secret Psychic Cinema is excited to host curator Herb Shellenberger to present a program on filmmakers Jean Vigo and Ron Rice. Jean Vigo's Zero de Conduite (1933), and Ron Rice's The Flower Thief (1960) will be screened on 16mm. Note that the event begins at 8! About the program: On December 31, 1964, Jonas Mekas reported in The Village Voice, the - [Sandy Ewen : Will Schorre](https://www.redroom.org/ewen-schorre-overdrive/) - Another stellar Saturday night at the Red Room, in which we mine the extensive sonic riches of the Lone Star State. Electric guitar and modular synthesis reveal surprising similarities in the hands of former Texans Sandy Ewen and Will Schorre (whom you may remember from High Zero 2013), two artists whose treatment of sound suggests - [Volunteers' Collective -- January 2018](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-january-2018/) - **Different day and time this month** You are cordially invited to come play free music! Every month, the Red Room hosts the Volunteers’ Collective, 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-judgemental setting. Meet - [T.A.P.E.S.](https://www.redroom.org/tapes/) - This free show was Organized by Johns Hopkins and MICA students enrolled in a course called " Sound Art for Filmmakers" taught by High Zero Collective member Jimmy Joe Roche. Most performers are filmmakers who are bravely attempting live sound explorations for the first time. FREE SHOW and FREE limited edition usb/cassette release edition of - [BTO: Modular Synth Meetup and Eurorack Introduction](https://www.redroom.org/bto-modular-synth-meetup-eurorack-introduction/) - Baltimore Technology Overdrive Presents An Introduction to Eurorack Synthesizers This free event is for those curious about analog modular synthesizers. How do they work? What do all those colorful cables do? What's with all those knobs? Maybe, you can answer these questions already, but you haven't built your own Eurorack synthesizer, yet. Come learn about - [The Films of Karen Yasinsky](https://www.redroom.org/yasinsky-on-yasinsky/) - The Red Room and Secret Psychic Cinema are excited to host a screening of the work of local artist and filmmaker Karen Yasinsky. Karen, "a local gem whose sparkle everyone appreciates," will be in attendance to talk about her work and answer questions afterwards. Please note that this event starts at 8:00 and not 9:00, - [Ian Douglas-Moore & Paul N Roth (duo) ++ The Compositions (W. Redman etal)](https://www.redroom.org/ian-douglas-moore-paul-n-roth-duo-shelly-purdy-rose-burt-will-redman-compositions/) - Ian Douglas-Moore (nyc) Paul N Roth (berlin) ::: mediumloud noise music for saxophone/guitar >>> sonic adventures in a land of textural tamperings, microtonal manipulation, meandering sound walls, and other ear curiosities https://earwash.bandcamp.com Douglas-Moore lays out sound walls using guitar-created sine tones, feedback, and a deliberate approach to sonic layering while Roth inlays his electronics-influenced approach - [Ami Yamasaki •• Galaxy 555 •• Rozie Jordan and Greg Saunier](https://www.redroom.org/ami-yamasaki-galaxy-555-rozie-jordan-greg-saunier/) - Friday, December 1st. Doors at 8:30, music at 9 Hello, M.C. Schmidt speaking, here... An evening of music from people who wrote to the Red Room looking for shows and they were so good I just couldn’t say no. Stunning, beautiful new age synthesis from Portland by a gentleman who calls himself GALAXY - [Volunteers’ Collective, December 2017](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-december-2017/) - You are cordially invited to come play free music! Every month, the Red Room hosts the Volunteers’ Collective, 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-judgemental setting. Meet new and veteran improvisers. Bring a - [Experimental Film from The Old Greenbelt Theater & More!](https://www.redroom.org/psychic-cinema-goes-to-greenbelt/) - Secret Psychic Cinema is excited to partner with The Old Greenbelt Theater and Siobhan Hagan to showcase several classic 16mm experimental films from their collection, including films by Pat O'Neil, Jordan Belson, Scott Bartlett, and more! This collection was previously held by Prince George's County Library. At the end of the program, Mind on Fire - [Snake Union (Chuck Bettis & David Grant /// Bonnie Jones & Tom Borax (Duo)](https://www.redroom.org/snake-union-chuck-bettis-david-grant-bonnie-jones-tom-borax-duo/) - SNAKE UNION Chuck Bettis - electronics Dave Grant - eurorack modular synthesizer Opening for Snake Union is a duo of Bonnie Jones (elec.) & Tom Borax (synth) SNAKE UNION is a Brooklyn based experimental electronic group consisting of Chuck Bettis (Die Trommel Fatale, Mossenek) and David Grant (Action Patrol, On A Clear Day). A duo - [Volunteers' Collective, November 2017](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-november-2017/) - You are cordially invited to come play free music! Every month, the Red Room hosts the Volunteers’ Collective, 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-judgemental setting. Meet new and veteran improvisers. Bring a - [Screening and Performance](https://www.redroom.org/newworks/) - New Works is a rolling event at the Red Room showcasing new video work and emphasizing local artists. New Works is curated by Jimmy Joe Roche, Matthew Sullivan and Helen Jackson-Adams. video by Tom Boram, Max Anderson, Clarissa Gregory, Lydia Milano, Helen Jackson-Adams, Jimmy Joe Roche, Matisse Rifai, Matthew Sullivan, Kiera Mulhern and Nina Giosa. There will also be a performance by Lucas Haroldson after the screening that - [Neil Feather VIBROWHEELS in octophonic | Bella and Tom Rohrer from Brazil](https://www.redroom.org/neil-feather-new-instruments-bella-tom-rohrer-brazil/) - Come celebrate unconstrained creativity at the Red Room with Neil Feather, composer and instrument inventor, and Bella and Tom Rohrer, a duo from Brazil. Neil Feather will present VIBROWHEELS GALORE! A vibrowheel is a flywheel mounted with multiple vibrating motors that spin past sets of guitar pickups to create throbbing rhythms and Doppler effects. There will be five - [Home Movie Night - Free!](https://www.redroom.org/home-movie-night-free/) - "There's no such thing as a bad home movie. These mini-underground opuses are revealing, scary, joyous, always flawed, filled with accidental art and shout out from attics and closets all over the world to be seen again." --John Waters FREE! Home Movie Day is a celebration of amateur films, memory, and the documentation of moments - [FREE! Home Movie Night!](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-8pm-tuesday-october-3rd-2017/) - "There's no such thing as a bad home movie. These mini-underground opuses are revealing, scary, joyous, always flawed, filled with accidental art and shout out from attics and closets all over the world to be seen again." --John Waters FREE! Home Movie Day is a celebration of amateur films, memory, and the documentation of moments - [Diffusion: Chris Madak, Max Eilbacher](https://www.redroom.org/diffusion-chris-madak-max-eilbacher/) - High Zero Foundation presents a new festival series focused on electronic and multi-channel sound works. The first of five in the festival, Chris Madack and Max Eilbacher present live octophonic computer music to inaugurate the permanently installed multi-channel system. There will be two shows because seating is very limited. Advance tickets purchase recommended. First show: - [Diffusion: Matmos, Max Eilbacher, Jeff Carey](https://www.redroom.org/diffusion-matmos-jeff-carey/) - High Zero Foundation presents a new festival series focused on electronic and multi-channel sound works. The fifth of five presentations in the festival, Matmos and Jeff Carey present multichannel music on the permanently installed surrond system at the Redroom. There will be two shows because seating is very limited. Advance tickets purchase recommended. First show: - [Diffusion: Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM)](https://www.redroom.org/diffusion-groupe-de-recherches-musicales-grm/) - High Zero Foundation presents a new festival series focused on electronic and multi-channel sound works. The fourth of five presentations in the festival, Groupe de Recherches Musicales present octophonic diffusions of classic and contemporary works from the catalogue created at this ground breaking institution. This is a single show at 2640 space. Advance tickets purchase - [Diffusion: Lea Bertucci, Cameron Shafii, RM Francis](https://www.redroom.org/diffusion-lea-bertucci-cameron-shafii-rm-francis/) - High Zero Foundation presents a new festival series focused on electronic and multi-channel sound works. The second of five presentations in the festival, Lea Bertucci, Cameron Shafii and RM Francis present live octophonic music on the permanently installed multi-channel system at the Redroom. Limited seating is available, advance ticket purchase is recommended. Doors at 7:30, - [Diffusion: Kassel Jaeger, Leila Bordreuil, Wobbly](https://www.redroom.org/diffusion-kassel-jaeger-leila-bordreuil/) - High Zero Foundation presents a new festival series focused on electronic and multi-channel sound works. The third of five presentations in the festival, Kassel Jaeger (Mego Editions) and Leila Bordreuil present live octophonic music. This is a single show at 2640 space. Advance tickets purchase recommended. doors 7:30pm, concert 8:00pm Kassel Jaeger The frontier for - [Rafael Toral - Andy Ortman](https://www.redroom.org/rafael-toral-andy-ortman/) - RAFAEL TORAL plays electronic music today as a jazz musician would play his instrument, applying jazz discipline and working practices to his abstract electronics. Melodic without notes, rhythmic without a beat, familiar but strange, meticulous but free. Formerly known for his drone/ambient work with guitar and electronics and acclaimed records such as Wave Field (1994) - [Talibam! ++ Microkingdom ++ Audrey Chen](https://www.redroom.org/talibam-microkingdom/) - Talibam!, a 14-year working unit based in New York City, can be described in various ways -- as a classic keyboards/drums expanded-jazz duo, as Dadaist provocateurs with an innate love for the history of music, as a Fluxus-informed theater troupe, as an electronic ensemble inspired by Stockhausen, or as a rhythm section at the cross - [Lucas Abela's Temple of Din High Zero 2017](https://www.redroom.org/lucas-abelas-temple-din-high-zero-2017/) - The High Zero Festival of Experimental and Improvised Music is honored to present the North American debut of the incomparable Lucas Abela’s Temple of Din. Abela’s amazing works are a unique amalgam of sculptures, arcade games and musical instruments. These machine evoke pinball – with bumpers, flippers and playfields – but combine them with entire - [Kyle Bruckman in quad! Quartet with Sarah Hughes, Paul Neidhardt, and Samuel Burt](https://www.redroom.org/kyle-bruckman-quad/) - Extraordinary oboist and electronic music composer Kyle Bruckman visits to perform a solo work in quadrophonic sound and to play with Sarah Hughes (saxophone), Paul Neidhardt (drums), and Samuel Burt (bass clarinet). Notes from the composer: An Extruded Introversion for Blixa Bargeld (2016) This is most recent of three pieces that arose together as attempts to - [Volunteers’ Collective, Sunday, September 3rd, 2017](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-sunday-september-3rd-2017/) - You are cordially invited to come play free music! Every month, the Red Room hosts the Volunteers’ Collective, 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-judgemental setting. Meet new and veteran improvisers. Bring a - [Heterodyne, Max Eilbacher, Leila Bordreuil & Zach Rowden](https://www.redroom.org/heterodyne-max-eilbacher-leila-bordreuil-zach-rowden-2/) - Leila Bordreuil and Zach Rowden met at a free jazz concert in 2015. Zach was wearing a Man is the Bastard bootleg T-shirt which acted as an icebreaker, and these two classically trained musicians started collaborating shortly after. Bordreuil and Rowden have diverse influences, ranging from improvised music, harsh noise, cold wave, existentialism and a - [Heterodyne, Max Eilbacher, Leila Bordreuil & Zach Rowden](https://www.redroom.org/heterodyne-max-eilbacher-leila-bordreuil-zach-rowden/) - Leila Bordreuil and Zach Rowden met at a free jazz concert in 2015. Zach was wearing a Man is the Bastard bootleg T-shirt which acted as an icebreaker, and these two classically trained musicians started collaborating shortly after. Bordreuil and Rowden have diverse influences, ranging from improvised music, harsh noise, cold wave, existentialism and a - [Volunteers' Collective, Tuesday August 8th, 2017](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-tuesday-august-8th-2017/) - You are cordially invited to come play free music! Every month, the Red Room hosts the Volunteers’ Collective, a free session of experimental and improvised music. In this cordial, informal setting, we focus on listeningand collaboration. Players of all skill levels participate. Try out a new technique or new instrument in a non-judgemental setting. Meet new and veteran - [High Zero Festival Starts on Thursday, 9/14/2017](https://www.redroom.org/high-zero-festival-starts-thursday-9142017/) - THE 17th ANNUAL HIGH ZERO FESTIVAL IS HERE! SEPTEMBER 22nd – 27th! High Zero is the premier festival of Improvised, Experimental music on the East Coast. The festival is fully devoted to new collaborations between the most inspired improvisors from around the world. Join us for 5 days of sound installations, music and performances starting Tuesday - [Worlds in Collusion 2017: Day Three](https://www.redroom.org/worlds-collusion-2017-day-three/) - High Zero Foundation presents a full weekend of mind-bending performances at Artscape by regional and national artists, including the traditional, the experimental, and the just plain strange throughout the festival weekend. 2 PM John Hoegberg Solo guitar and voice exploring the post-rock delta of American experimental song form 3 PM Patrick James Cain Experimental sound - [Worlds in Collusion 2017: Day Two](https://www.redroom.org/worlds-collusion-2017-day-two/) - High Zero Foundation presents a full weekend of mind-bending performances at Artscape by regional and national artists, including the traditional, the experimental, and the just plain strange throughout the festival weekend. 2 PM Symphony Number One Musicians Michael Rittling and Sean Meyers perform chamber and electro-acoustic music, featuring a new composition by Jason Mulligan, commissioned - [Worlds in Collusion 2017: Day One](https://www.redroom.org/worlds-collusion-2017-day-one/) - High Zero Presents Worlds in Collusion at Artscape High Zero Foundation presents a full weekend of mind-bending performances at Artscape by regional and national artists, including the traditional, the experimental, and the just plain strange throughout the festival weekend. 2 PM Small Axe Fractured lo-fi pop duo 3 PM Sean Seaton Contemporary digital art music—with - [Yahya Majid + Jamal Moore + Luke Stewart :: Trio](https://www.redroom.org/yahya-majid-jamal-moore-luke-stewart-trio/) - Yahya Majid, tenor sax + Jamal Moore, reeds and percussion + Luke Stewart, bass Yahya Majid is a tone scientist. Jazz musician. Proud father of six. Sun Ra Arkestra alum still tethered to his horn. Jamal Moore is a native of Baltimore Maryland whom is a multi-instrumentalist, composer/performer and educator. He is a long-term member - [TJ Borden & Kyle Motl](https://www.redroom.org/tj-borden-kyle-motl/) - TJ Borden, cello & Kyle Motl, bass Kyle Motl is a bassist, composer, and improviser based in southern California. Kyle regularly performs with the Peter Kuhn Trio, a number of collaborative projects, and his own trio. He frequently gives solo bass concerts. Hailed for his “technically polished playing” as well as an “endless amount of - [Bob Presents: The Times of Harvey Milk](https://www.redroom.org/bob-presents-times-harvey-milk/) - Join us for the next installment of Bob Presents, featuring 16mm film rarities from the Pratt. Tonight Bob is screening the emotionally gripping documentary The Times of Harvey Milk. Made in 1984 by Rob Epstein, the film tells the story of the intense social and political climate in 1970's San Francisco, the rise of grassroots activist - [Angela Sawyer Trio vs. Lexie Mountain Trio](https://www.redroom.org/angela-sawyer-trio-vs-lexie-mountain-trio/) - Boston fought valiantly against Baltimore on the Royal Rumble Kickoff, but the hobbled former Raw Women’s Champion was ultimately unable to withstand the juggernaut’s brutal onslaught. At Royal Rumble 2017, LEXIE MOUNTAIN rode a wave of emotion to her Raw Women’s Title showdown with ANGELA SAWYER, but was it enough to snap The Queen’s pay-per-view - [Volunteers' Collective, Sunday, July 2nd](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-sunday-july-2nd/) - You are cordially invited to come play free music! Every month, the Red Room hosts the Volunteers’ Collective, 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-judgemental setting. Meet new and - [Anna Roberts-Gevalt & Andrew Bernstein](https://www.redroom.org/anna-roberts-gevalt-andrew-bernstein/) - JULY 6 / redroom ANDREW BERNSTEIN plays new solo material / & ANNA RG plays new solo material / banjo / texts / fiddle / improvisations / archival field recordings / & videos /// Anna Roberts-Gevalt has spent the past 10 years immersed in study of traditional songs & tunes / has studied from master - [Bonnie Lander & Adam Goodwin | Dan Zink](https://www.redroom.org/bonnie-lander-adam-goodwin-dan-zink/) - The Red Room welcomes back to Baltimore two fellow musical alums, Bonnie Lander and Dan Zink. Bonnie will present her voice / bass duo with Berlin-based Adam Goodwin and Dan ZInk will present a new work for objects and electronics. Bonnie Lander, experimental vocalist known for her work with Rhymes With Opera and her performance - [Jason Lescalleet](https://www.redroom.org/lescalleet-mirande-overdrive/) - Dense, visceral sonic swelter at The Red Room! Sadly Christian Mirande will be unable to perform, as he was previously scheduled to. https://glisteningexamples.bandcamp.com/ From Maine, Jason Lescalleet explores a sound world that occupies a space between noise, contemporary composition and minimal electronics. Using primitive tactics and equipment, his work focuses on microscopic audio detail set - [CAT TOREN-HUMAN KIND](https://www.redroom.org/cat-toren-human-kind/) - A wonderful night of creative and experimental Avant -Garde delving into the inner mysteries and esoteric aesthetics of Spiritual Jazz Cat Toren’s HUMAN KIND is an original music project by Vancouver-born New York-based, JUNO award winning pianist Cat Toren. The music is inspired by both the free form jazz of the 1960’s and a personal expression of the resurgent civil - [Volunteers' Collective, June 6](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-june-6/) - You should come play music with us. Every month, the Red Room hosts the Volunteers’ Collective, a free workshop for experimental and improvised music. In this cordial, informal setting, we focus on listening and collaboration. Players of all skill levels are encouraged to attend and participate. We could use anyone who is a… brass-buzzer - [¡4 Part Invention! M Geddes Gengras/Karl Ekdahl/Patrick Cain+Martin Freeman](https://www.redroom.org/4-part-invention-m-geddes-gengraskarl-ekdahlpatrick-cainmartin-freeman/) - A devastating night of SYNTH! You and yours will be devastated. Some of the finest talents in current analogue, modular, performance, video and instrument design. M Geddes Gengras (LA) Karl Ekdahl (Balt) Martin Freeman (Rochester)+Patrick M Cain (DC) Duo A devastating night of SYNTH! You will probably be fairly devastated! Some of the finest talents - [Hamid Drake and Jamal Moore Duo](https://www.redroom.org/hamid-drake-jamal-moore-duo/) - Friday, June 2nd, the Red Room will host a duo featuring the legendary percussionist Hamid Drake and multi-instrumentalist Jamal Moore. Doors at 8:30pm Show at 9:00pm $10 Hamid Drake Hamid Drake was born in Monroe, LA, in 1955, and later moved to Chicago with his family. He ended up taking drum lessons with Fred - [Jason Soliday // Luer // Axebreaker](https://www.redroom.org/jason-soliday-luer/) - J. Soliday is an electronic musician. A member of Cleav’d Cleaver, Ratatosk, Magic Missile, I <3 Presets, xTAL fSCK, LORD MUTE, and various ad-hoc ensembles too numerous to mention. He can usually be found traversing the boundaries between free improvisation, concrete composition, and aleatoric noise. https://soundcloud.com/crank-satori https://cranksatori.bandcamp.com/ http://jsoliday.tumblr.com/ “The real beauty of this music lies - [Heart of the Ghost + Paul Giallorenzo // Susan Alcorn // The Compositions](https://www.redroom.org/heart-ghost-paul-giallorenzo-susan-alcorn-compositions/) - Heart of the Ghost is Luke Stewart (bass), Ian McColm (drums), JG (alto sax) – joined by special guest Paul Giallorenzo (piano) from Chicago. Heart of the Ghost is an improvisational unit from the Baltimore/Washington area. Comprised of Jarrett Gilgore (Alto Saxophone), Luke Stewart (Double Bass) and Ian McColm (Drums), this group is the culmination of - [Elgar // Squeak](https://www.redroom.org/elgar/) - Elgar is Hans Koch on Bass Clarinet, Flo Stoffner on Guitar, and Lionel Friedli on drums. This instrumental european free improv trio is a powerhouse, visiting the states for a spring tour. The trio feels most at home in the midst of a conflict, in the twilight zone between brute power and fragile sound structures, - [Volunteers' Collective May 7, 2017](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-may-7-2017/) - You should come play music with us. Every month, the Red Room hosts the Volunteers' Collective, a free workshop for experimental and improvised music. In this cordial, informal setting, we focus on listening and collaboration. Players of all skill levels are encouraged to attend and participate. We could use anyone who is a... brass-buzzer - [Bob Bellerue // Xome](https://www.redroom.org/bob-bellerue-xome/) - Bob Bellerue is a noise composer, experimental musician, and creative technician based in Brooklyn NY. Over the last 25+ years he has been involved in a wide range of creative activities – experimental electronic music, junk metal percussion ensembles, Balinese gamelan, sound scores for dance/ performance/ video, and installation sound and video art. His recent - [MOTHCOCK ≠ WILL SCHORRE ≠ PISS KILLS MOLD ≠ MARNIE ELLEN HERTZLER ≠ LE CREUSET](https://www.redroom.org/mothcock-≠-will-schorre-≠-piss-kills-mold-≠-marnie-ellen-hertzler/) - Moth Cock perform a strain of improvised music that bridges the chasm between the free-jazz tradition and the noise underground. The duo processes live clarinet and trumpet through rudimentary effects into damaged squalls of electronic chaos set to mutated rhythms. Their unique performance tactics yield unforgettable live performances that have been documented on the grooves - [Morgan Evans-Weiler and Luke Martin plus locals Jacob Freeman, Sarah Hughes and more!](https://www.redroom.org/morgan-evans-weiler-luke-martin-plus-locals/) - Musicians of many influences. This show will feature visiting artists Morgan Evans-Weiler and Luke Martin with local performers Jacob Freeman, Sarah Hughes, and Sam Burt. Morgan Evans-Weiler is a Boston based artist and educator whose work ranges from composition and sound installation to drawing, video and design. Evans-Weiler maintains a busy performance schedule and has - [Volunteers' Collective April 2, 2017](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-april-2-2017/) - You are cordially invited to participate in the Volunteers’ Collective. The Volunteers’ Collective is a monthly improvisation workshop with a focus on listening and ad hoc collaboration. Players of all skill levels are encouraged to attend and play with each other. We are seeking: trombonists drummers computerists - [Bob Presents: The Moon and the Sledgehammer](https://www.redroom.org/bob-presents-moon-sledgehammer/) - Local film collector and musician, Bob Wagner, screens the rare and beautiful documentary "The Moon and the Sledgehammer." Made in 1971 by Philip Trevelyan, this British cult film explores the eccentric lives of the Page family who live without utilities or running water in the woods of East Sussex. Shot on 16mm in natural light, the film - [Tashi Dorji + Tyler Damon † Jimmy Joe Roche + Layne Garrett](https://www.redroom.org/tashi-dorji-tyler-damon-†-jimmy-joe-roche-layne-garrett/) - a night of DUO DUO'S ! Electric guitarist Tashi Dorji and percussionist Tyler Damon will perforem as a duo. In the long tradition of string/drum duets -- from Bailey & Bennink to Haino & Yoshida -- these two cleave out their own unmapped continent of sound. They connect lashes of ecstatic intensity and outer reaches - [Matt Wellins / Margaret Rorison/ Trogpite](https://www.redroom.org/matt-wellins-margaret-rorison-trogpite/) - Matt Wellins Matt Wellins (b. 1983) builds analog electronic instruments. This work is influenced by the materially contumacious practices of David Tudor and Michael Johnsen and emphasizes the particularities of electronic components, the snafus of live performance, and general ambivalence toward commercial equipment. Concurrently, Wellins fosters interests in the experimental loft theater of 1970s New York, - [Volunteers' Collective -- March 2017](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-march-2017/) - You are cordially invited to participate in the Volunteers’ Collective. The Volunteers’ Collective is a monthly improvisation workshop with a focus on listening and ad hoc collaboration. Players of all skill levels are encouraged to attend and play with each other. We are seeking: trombonists drummers computerists - [Carrie Fucile & Mark Brown Audio Visual "Material Actions" + Tom Borax](https://www.redroom.org/carrie-fucile-mark-brown-audio-visual-material-actions-tom-borax/) - Material Actions is an audiovisual performance that considers the Dutch Age of Exploration and the flow of modern, global capital. In this piece, Fucile “plays” common materials—such as coins, bricks, and fans—while Brown projects live, sound-reactive video. Carrie Fucile is an intermedia artist focused on sound, installation, and performance. She has exhibited and performed - [Susan Alcorn & Alex Pelchat / Jenny Moon Tucker / Margaret Rorison](https://www.redroom.org/susan-alcorn-alex-pelchat-jenny-moon-tucker-margaret-rorison/) - Thursday March 9th at the Red Room: Duo improvisations on different kinds of guitars by Susan Alcorn and Alex Pelchat Solo performance by saxophonist Jenny Moon Tucker New work screening by Margaret Rorison $5 - 10 doors at 8:30 show at 9:00 At The Red Room 425 E. 31st St. Baltimore, MD // Alex Pelchat - [SHAPE SHIFTERS // f.org | Joshua Gen Solondz | Boram & Neidhardt](https://www.redroom.org/shape-shifters/) - SHAPE SHIFTERS AN EVENING OF FILM, MODULAR SYNTHESIZER, IMPROVISED ELECTRONICS & CELLO. FEATURING Joshua Gen Solondz Alex Catona & Travis Johns Tom Boram & Paul Neidhardt __________________________________ Joshua Gen Solondz is an artist working in images, performance, installation, and sound. He has shown in a variety of festivals including Images, Toronto International Film Festival, International - [NOISE: Being, Plagues, Legless ++](https://www.redroom.org/noise-plagues-legless/) - NOISE SHOW SHORT SETS LOCALS TBA Being https://soundcloud.com/a-dear-girl-called-wendy/being-it-is-finished-and-forgotten Plagues https://newforces.bandcamp.com/album/of-ash-and-relic Legless https://newforces.bandcamp.com/track/below-contempt https://youtu.be/tbYsSea0Jlw - [BAD JAZZ](https://www.redroom.org/bad-jazz/) - Instrument inventors BAD JAZZ from Oakland perform on idiosyncratic sound making devices with opening act CK Barlow / Sam Burt / Jeff Carey in trio. Formed in late 2014, experimental improvisation trio, Bad Jazz, has been taking audiences on improvised auditory journeys that defy the normal explanations of musical theory. Their music is a - [Volunteers’ Collective — February 2017](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-february-2017/) - You are cordially invited to participate in the Volunteers’ Collective. The Volunteers’ Collective is a monthly improvisation workshop with a focus on listening and ad hoc collaboration. Players of all skill levels are encouraged to attend and play with each other. We are seeking: trombonists drummers computerists - [Screening and Performance](https://www.redroom.org/newwork/) - New Works is a rolling event at the Red Room showcasing new video work and emphasizing local artists. Featuring video from Cricket Arrison, Madeline Becker Get Your Life! Productions, Dan Guinness, Danielle Hernandez, Eva Moolchan, Kim Spira, Aidan Spann and Julia Gunnison. Second set will be a Solo from Andrew Bernstein (Baltimore). ---1st Act --- - [Dan Conrad, Kate Porter, Eric Franklin | Maggie Wilkinson | Jamal Moore, Samuel Burt](https://www.redroom.org/dan-conrad-kate-porter-eric-franklin-maggie-wilkinson/) - Baltimore veterans and talented newcomers! A night of conversational improvisation and intensely focused electroacoustics. Starting the night is a duet of Jamal Moore and Samuel Burt. Creaking, croaking, smooth, buzzy, crunchy, and fantastic. Two bass clarinets! Maggie Wilkinson is an electronic musician from Goucher College. Her music is equal parts intellectual depth and thick emotion. Dan - [David Smooke // Bonnie Jones // The Witches](https://www.redroom.org/david-smooke-bonnie-jones-witches/) - The Red Room presents a special program of Peabody faculty, students, and local electronic musician Bonnie Jones. An evening to explore the tensile boundaries of composition and free improvisation towards new forms for a new world. David Smooke (toy piano) Bonnie Jones (electronics, samples) The Witches - Ledah Finck (violin) and Louna Dekker-Vargas (flute) PROGRAM >> David Smooke - [A Dierker Xmas Story](https://www.redroom.org/dierker-xmas-story/) - It's been a very trying year, and yet lovable John Dierker has been a very good boy. He has been diligently collecting his John Waters moustache coupons and has just about enough to buy that shiny new clarinet that Edith used to serende her fresh young egglings. Please help him make it over the top! - [Volunteers' Collective -- January 2017](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-january-2017/) - You are cordially invited to participate in the Volunteers’ Collective. The Volunteers’ Collective is a monthly improvisation workshop with a focus on listening and ad hoc collaboration. Players of all skill levels are encouraged to attend and play with each other. We are seeking: trombonists drummers computerists - [Volunteers' Collective](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-7/) - You are cordially invited to participate in the Volunteers’ Collective. The Volunteers’ Collective is a monthly improvisation workshop with a focus on listening and ad hoc collaboration. Players of all skill levels are encouraged to attend and play with each other. We are seeking: trombonists drummers computerists - [SUSAN ALCORN & PHILLIP GREENLIEF // BILIANA VOUTCHKOVA & MICHAEL THIEKE (DE)](https://www.redroom.org/alcorn-greenlief-voutchkova-and-thieke/) - DOUBLE DUO DIENSTAG at THE RED ROOM! Local legend Susan Alcorn (pedal steel guitar) joins San Francisco's versatile Phillip Greenlief (reeds) for what we have to assume will be a tightly controlled YET UNPREDICTABLE explosion of thoughtful, varied improvisation. Berlin-based Biliana Voutchkova (violin, voice) and Michael Thieke (clarinet) emerged from that city's fecund "Echtzeitmusik" - [FUTURE MINDS FREE // Laska, Fraser, Bennett, Foster](https://www.redroom.org/future-minds-free/) - An evening of sound artists and improvising musicians from NYC and Philadelphia whose work explores the liberatory possibilities of system intelligence, generative musical practices and improvisation. PROGRAM PRESETS AND STUDIES Eric Laska Presets and Studies comprises recent audio material from low frequency ramp generators and field recordings of HVAC systems. The compositional structure of the - [Volunteers' Collective -- November 6th, 2016](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-november-6th-2016/) - You are cordially invited to participate in the Volunteers' Collective. The Volunteers’ Collective is a monthly improvisation workshop with a focus on listening and ad hoc collaboration. Players of all skill levels are encouraged to attend and play with each other. We are seeking: trombonists drummers computerists - [Aspec(t) / Andrea Pensado / Piss Kills Mold](https://www.redroom.org/pisskills/) - The duo Aspec(t) is electronic noise artist SEC_ on Revox tape recorder and Mario Gabola on saxophone and DIY feedback systems. They have been touring extensively through Europe and organized hundreds of show in their home town of Napoli. Aspec(t) has released several albums and two collaboration albums, one with Dave Phillips and one with Andrzej Zaleski. Andrea Pensado works - [Kyle Eyre Clyd // John Jones + Zack Utz // Nicole Mazarakis + Mike Allender](https://www.redroom.org/kyleeyreclyd/) - Kyle Eyre Clyd is a electronic sound artist based on New Orleans. This will be a tape release for her new Cassette coming out on Ultraviolet Light Records. Additionally we have two amazing local Duo's on the bill. John Jones ( aka Nerftoss) will be performing with Zack Utz and Nicole Mazarakis with Mike Allender. - [Steve Olson Solo ++ The X Trio](https://www.redroom.org/steve-olson-and-the-x-trio/) - The Red Room is pleased to present an evening of jazz-influenced free improv by local musicians Steve Olson (drums), Mark Lysher (bass), and Todd Marcus (bass clarinet) expanding the auditory space occupied by the appearance of a jazz trio. Steve Olson will open the evening with a solo on drums/percussion/objects/recorded sounds. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Steve Olson is a Maryland-based - [Stanley Schumacher and the Music Now Ensemble featuring Jason Smeltzer](https://www.redroom.org/stanley-schumacher-music-now-ensemble/) - An Instructive Lecture/Musical Performance by Stanley Schumacher, Jason Smeltzer and Professor Musikmacher. Preceding musical invocation by local musicians Shelly Purdy and Bob Wagner. STANLEY SCHUMACHER AND THE MUSIC NOW ENSEMBLE is a collective of improvisers and composers of exceptional musicianship and imagination. The members of the collective perform in various combinations of players in order to offer a kaleidoscope - [New Works: Video Screening](https://www.redroom.org/new-works-video-screening/) - New Works is a rolling event at the Red Room showcasing new video work and emphasizing local artists. Featuring Travis Levasseur, Helen Jackson-Adams, Max Anderson, Anoushe Shoja-Chaghervand, Corey Hughes, Travis Levasseur, Will Schorre, Matthew Sullivan, Maya Ragazzo, Matisse Rifai, Gillian Waldo and Flannery Winchester. Tom Borax and Jimmy Joe Roche will performing a live audio/video Husbands set. The - [John Krausbauer + Liz Durette & Andrew Bernstein](https://www.redroom.org/john-krausbauer-liz-durette-andrew-bernstein/) - A last minute show at the Red Room featuring Angeleno John Krausbauer and Baltimoreans Liz Durette and Andrew Bernstein. INFO: John Krausbauer is a music maker currently living in Los Angeles. He has performed his music in a multitude of settings - from basements and rock clubs to colleges and art galleries. Numerous recordings of - [Volunteers' Collective -- October 9th, 2016](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-october-9th-2016/) - The Volunteers’ Collective is a monthly improvisation workshop with a focus on listening and ad hoc collaboration. Players of all skill levels are encouraged to attend and play with each other. We are seeking: trombonists drummers compuerists trianglers accordiates reeders pickup-ites bassoids inventors guitaries clarinetines short-wavers synthologists tinglers philologists bruitists reductionizers glam-flammys timpanists vocalizers sound - [Volunteers' Collective -- September 2016](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-september-2016/) - The Volunteers’ Collective is a monthly improvisation workshop with a focus on listening and ad hoc collaboration. Players of all skill levels are encouraged to attend and play with each other. We are seeking: trombonists drummers compuerists trianglers accordiates reeders pickup-ites bassoids inventors guitaries clarinetines short-wavers synthologists tinglers philologists bruitists reductionizers glam-flammys timpanists vocalizers sound - [Kyle Bruckmann / FLAMINGO (Heenan, Windfeld, Melbye)](https://www.redroom.org/kyle-bruckmann-flamingo/) - The Red Room is excited to present a rare chance to catch these exceptional musicians as they travel through Baltimore. An evening including two High Zero Festival alumni (Chris Heenan and Kyle Bruckmann). A gorgeous evening of thought provoking and stimulating music awaits! KYLE BRUCKMANN Oakland, CA-based composer/performer Kyle Bruckmann’s work extends from a classical foundation - [High Zero Volunteers Meeting](https://www.redroom.org/high-zero-volunteers-meeting/) - The 18th 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 - [Baltimore Technology Overdrive -- DIY Sequencer Workshop](https://www.redroom.org/baltimore-technology-overdrive-diy-sequencer-workshop/) - A sequencer on a breadboard! Sean Regan will be demonstrating how to build basic gate and CV sequencers from inexpensive CMOS logic chips. We will explore how CMOS sequencers can be used to control both DIY and commercial voltage controlled synthesizers, with a focus on the DIY CMOS gated oscillators constructed in last month's workshop. - [High Zero: Sunday Sept 18th](https://www.redroom.org/high-zero-sunday-sept-18th/) - Sunday Night, September 18th » Doors open 7:30 PM / Performances start 8:30 PM sharp [buy tickets] Solo: Bushmeat Soundsystem (electronics) The Night of Randomization As a new ongoing tradition, the High Zero Festival will leave Sunday Night's sets up to chance. Fourteen performers will be divided into four sets, randomly. What kind of wonderful, unplanned, - [High Zero: Saturday Eve Sept 17th](https://www.redroom.org/high-zero-sat-sept-17th/) - Saturday Night, September 17th » Doors open 7:30 PM / Performances start 8:30 PM sharp [buy tickets] Solo: N.N.Y. (saxophone) Group One: Owen Gardner (cello, guitar) Laura Ortman (amplified violin) Anne-F Jacques (motors, objects, amplification) Rosie Langabeer (piano) Group Two: Maia Urstad (sound art) John Berndt (saxophone, electronics) Jimmy Joe Roche (voice, modular synthesizer) Eames Armstrong (electronics, dance, performance) Group Three: Noelle Tolbert (dance) Hanna - [High Zero: Saturday Matinee Sept 17th](https://www.redroom.org/high-zero-sat-matinee-sept-17th/) - Saturday Matinee, September 17th » Doors open 12 NOON / Performances start 1:00 PM sharp [buy tickets] Special sets that break the pattern of nightly performances in an attempt to redefine the undefinable. Duos Duo One: Zachary Watkins (electric guitar) Noelle Tolbert (dance) Duo Two: Ruby Fulton (trumpet, flugelhorn, violin) CK Barlow (guitar, sampling, electronics) Duo Three: Jimmy Joe - [High Zero: Friday Sept 16th](https://www.redroom.org/high-zero-fri-sept-16th/) - Friday Night, September 16th » Doors open 7:30 PM / Performances start 8:30 PM sharp [buy tickets] Solo: Laura Ortman (amplified violin) Group One: Jeff Carey (computer) CK Barlow (guitar, sampling, electronics) Rosie Langabeer (piano) Philadelphia N.N.Y. (saxophone) Japan Layne Garrett (guitar, objects, self-built instruments) Group Two: Jimmy Joe Roche (voice, modular synthesizer) Marshall Trammell (percussion) Julius Masri (percussion, keyboards, oud) Group Three: Walter - [High Zero: Thursday Sept 15th](https://www.redroom.org/hz2016-thu-night/) - Thursday Night, September 15th » Doors open 7:30 PM / Performances start 8:30 PM sharp [buy tickets] Solo: Maia Urstad (sound art) Group One: Marshall Trammell (percussion) Laura Ortman (amplified violin) N.N.Y. (saxophone) Group Two: Anne-F Jacques (motors, objects, amplification) Marta Zapparoli (reel to reel, tape recorders) Asimina Chremos (dance) Tom Boram (thocolate tynapple panipulator) Group Three: Ruby Fulton (trumpet, flugelhorn, violin) Jeff Carey (computer) - [Tomaž Grom/Eric Ostrowski/Liz Meredith](https://www.redroom.org/tomaz-gromeric-ostrowskiliz-meredith/) - A totally unique night of artists taking traditional bowed instruments into far reaches of sound art and noise, multi-media interactivity and expanded cinema! Tomaž Grom, concert bass/multi-media conceptual art (Slovenia) Eric Ostrowski, violin/expanded 16mm projection (Seattle) Liz Meredith, violin/viola and analogue tape(Baltimore) We are happy to welcome Tomaž, an amazing improvisor and bassist from the incredible - [PURGIST w/ Stress Orphan, Quna, Maryland Mansion](https://www.redroom.org/purgist/) - P U R G I S T is an outlet for focused exploration of urban field recordings, digital artifacts, aural atmospherics and disjointed noise dynamics from the Polish underground music community. Est. 2013. His vivid, cinematic post- industrial harsh noise works have a prominent conceptual background based on a reflection upon personal vices and self-abusive - [Jacob Wick // Justin Porter // Meg Rorison](https://www.redroom.org/jacob-wick-justin-porter-meg-rorison/) - Jacob Wick (trumpet) Justin Porter (cello) Meg Rorison (projections/sound) Jacob Wick, Mexico City based trumpet player is joined by former Baltimorean now NY-based Justin Porter and local Meg Rorison for an evening of three solo performances exploring the visceral, the ephemeral and the immersive. JACOB WICK is a trumpet player and improvisor who lives in Mexico City - [Chen+Fleisenberg+Nørstebø+Rorison](https://www.redroom.org/chenfleisenbergmonkrorison/) - AUDREY CHEN (voice/cello) and FLANDREW FLEISENBERG (percussion) with special Guest Henrik Monk (Trombone), from Norway and Margaret Rorison (Projections), from Baltimore Fleisenberg is a player of objects. Drums only fall peripherally into his spectrum, while he is mostly fascinated in coaxing out the inherent material characters of "mundane things". These wide manipulations of external implements - [Thomas Helton in two sets with Michael Formanek and Kevin Patton](https://www.redroom.org/thomas-helton-michael-formanek/) - Two of the most powerful and inventive acoustic bass players High Zero has ever witnessed. Thomas Helton plays at the Red Room with Michael Formanek. Both men inhabit the worlds of free improvisation and jazz. There's no telling what journey they will follow, this evening. Thomas Helton will also be playing with Kevin Patton in their group pH. This - [LIZ DURETTE // EMMALEE HUNNICUTT // SARAH LOUISE](https://www.redroom.org/durette-hunnicutt-louise/) - Untethered yet pleasant sounds from Asheville and Baltimore cruise on into your ears at THE RED ROOM. Liz on Liz: “I have always played music, piano then cello as a child. As an adult, I re-taught myself piano, and have been playing for the past ten years. At first nothing made sense. I was improvising - [LUCAS ABELA // JOHN WIESE](https://www.redroom.org/abela-wiese-overdrive/) - HOLY COW! There's no preparing for a show such as this, in which two legends of extreme sound - ONE OF THEM COMING FROM ACROSS THE WORLD - melt your mind, face, guts (heart?) etc. at little old Red Room. doors at 8:30, show at 9 $5-10 sliding scale Initially classed as a turntablist, Lucas - [Volunteers' Collective -- August 2016](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-august-2016/) - The Volunteers’ Collective is a monthly improvisation workshop with a focus on listening and ad hoc collaboration. Players of all skill levels are encouraged to attend and play with each other. We are seeking: trombonists drummers compuerists trianglers accordiates reeders pickup-ites bassoids inventors guitaries clarinetines short-wavers synthologists tinglers philologists bruitists reductionizers glam-flammys timpanists vocalizers sound - [Baltimore Technology Overdrive -- Lunetta CMOS synth workshop](https://www.redroom.org/baltimore-technology-overdrive-lunetta-cmos-synth-workshop/) - Sean Regan will teach basic principles of synth building using physical logic gates. He will be bringing a bunch of chips, parts, and breadboards. Come learn to make an oscillator based on a simple inverter, a gated oscillator, a ring modulator, and a simple sequencer. All skill levels are welcome. Come take the first steps - [Kevin Hufnagel // New Firmament](https://www.redroom.org/kevin-hufnagel-new-firmament/) - KEVIN HUFNAGEL Multifaceted guitarist/composer Kevin Hufnagel has been playing, writing, performing, and recording for over 28 years and is perhaps best known for his work in progressive instrumental rock trio Dysrhythmia, avant-death metal act Gorguts, Vaura and occult rock/metal band Sabbath Assembly. Kevin has also collaborated with artists such as Jarboe (Swans), Costanza Francavilla (Tricky), - [Volunteers' Collective Improv Workshop, July 2016 [SPECIAL WEEK]](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-improv-workshop-special-week/) - The Volunteers’ Collective is a monthly improvisation workshop with a focus on listening and ad hoc collaboration. Players of all skill levels are encouraged to attend and play with each other. We are seeking: trombonists drummers compuerists trianglers accordiates reeders pickup-ites bassoids inventors guitaries clarinetines short-wavers synthologists tinglers philologists bruitists reductionizers glam-flammys timpanists vocalizers sound - [Alto! + Spreaders + Mat Luczak](https://www.redroom.org/alto-spreaders-mat_luczak/) - A night of drums and noise at the Red Room! Portland, OR and NY state come out to Balt! from Portland - ALTO! the exclamation point is part of the name! not to be confused with the other exclamatio points! A seriously talented trio from oregon, this band has a huge range - a grittier - [Worlds in Collusion Festival at Artscape 2016 - Friday](https://www.redroom.org/worlds-collusion-festival-artscape-2016-friday/) - The High Zero Foundation and Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts presents!! WORLDS IN COLLUSION FESTIVAL Artscape 2016 July 15th - 17th University of Baltimore Student Center, 5th Floor FREE! 18 hours of mind-bending, thoroughly air-conditioned performances by Baltimore artists, including the traditional, the experimental, and the just plain strange. Friday, July 15 2 - [Katt Hernandez + Wilfrido Terrazas + Susan Alcorn + Andy Hayleck](https://www.redroom.org/katt-hernandez-wilfredo-terrazas-locals/) - Join us for a night of exceptional instrumentalists: Katt Hernandez (violin, Sweden) and Wilfrido Terrazas (flute, Mexico) each present a short solo set, followed by a collaboration with local improvisors Susan Alcorn (pedal steel guitar) and Andy Hayleck (banjo). Katt Hernandez is a violinist living in Stockholm, Sweden. Focused primarily on freely improvised music, Katt draws - [A night of video art and putrid performance](https://www.redroom.org/a-night-of-video-art/) - Performance : Fiona Parker and the Spitting Truth : Fiona Parker and the Spitting Truth, is a collage of putrid experimental sounds, visuals and performance. Composed from deliquescent minimal noise, fluidic visuals and regurgitating performance. (Stephanie Bonham/sounds, Fiona Parker/Performer, Hekkate /Visuals) Video works: Lindsay Bottos-Sewell Francy Z Graham Kiera Mulhern Dan Langston T.J. Domingue Helen - [Worlds in Collusion Festival at Artscape 2016 - Sunday](https://www.redroom.org/worlds-collusion-festival-artscape-2016-sunday/) - The High Zero Foundation and Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts presents!! WORLDS IN COLLUSION FESTIVAL Artscape 2016 July 15th - 17th University of Baltimore Student Center, 5th Floor FREE! 18 hours of mind-bending, thoroughly air-conditioned performances by Baltimore artists, including the traditional, the experimental, and the just plain strange. Sunday, July 17 2 - [Worlds in Collusion Festival at Artscape 2016 - Saturday](https://www.redroom.org/worlds-collusion-festival-artscape-2016-saturday/) - The High Zero Foundation and Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts presents!! WORLDS IN COLLUSION FESTIVAL Artscape 2016 July 15th - 17th University of Baltimore Student Center, 5th Floor FREE! 18 hours of mind-bending, thoroughly air-conditioned performances by Baltimore artists, including the traditional, the experimental, and the just plain strange. Saturday, July 16 2 - [Sonic Meditations](https://www.redroom.org/sonic-meditations/) - What constitutes your musical universe? How do we use the sounds we make to connect with one another? This workshop uses several pieces in Pauline Oliveros' Sonic Meditations series to illuminate these questions. Participants are guided through a series of meditation exercises which draw focus to their body, breath, voice, and the sounds around them - [INTERNATIONAL NOISE CONFERENCE BALTIMORE](https://www.redroom.org/international-noise-conference/) - Rat Bastard, winner of numerous best and worst guitarist awards, with support from dozens of local noise acts. This show will be at MYSPACE. 5 to 10 sliding scale. BYO http://www.squelchers.com/ 9:00 Pony Moon 9:15 Newagehillbilly 9:30 Not Box Truck 9:45 LLIQUID SD 10:00 TRNSGNDR\VHS 10:15 Proud Father (NOLA) 10:30 Eames Armstrong 10:45 Tom Boram - [ERIN ESPELIE presents The Lanthanide Series](https://www.redroom.org/erin-espelie-presents-lanthanide-series/) - SIGHT UNSEEN & Red Room Presents: NOTE: this screening will start promptly after 8:00pm THE LANTHANIDE SERIES Directed by Erin Espelie (US/France/UK) 70 minutes Cast: Meredith Monk--voice from "Volcano Songs" Jack Loeffler--voiceover SYNOPSIS The myth of a so-called 'black mirror', which consists of nature's rarest elements and is an occult tool to see into the - [Baltimore Technology Overdrive: Arduino Workshop](https://www.redroom.org/baltimore-technology-overdrive-arduino-workshop/) - At our last meet-up, BTO Tinkerers prepped Raspberry Pi miniature computers for music production. The process was faster than expected! This time, we will look at Arduino, a platform for control and sensor input. Arduino is a super low power special-purpose computer that plugs into your computer (or Raspberry Pi!) USB port to act as a - [M. Geddes Gengras/Mitchell Brown/Tom Boram/Jason WIllett](https://www.redroom.org/m-geddes-gengrasmitchell-browntom-boramjason-willett/) - Even if you smoked poisonous toad venom and designed flyers using only American Apparel ads as source material you couldn't even imagine the analogue vistas and twinkling auroras of this synesthetic synth-anaesthetic night! Slide down from your Klein Bottle and saddle up a big pig swig of this - M. Geddes Gengras(LA) Mitchell Brown (LA) Tom - [Volunteers' Collective, June 5 2015, Redman](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-june-5-2015-redman/) - This month, special guest host Will Redman will be moderating. You might know him for his percussion work, his compositions, and his graphic scores. He regularly plays in Microkingdom and Umbilicus. The Volunteers’ Collective is a monthly improvisation workshop with a focus on listening and ad hoc collaboration. Players of all skill levels are encouraged to attend and - [Baltimore Technology Overdrive: Raspberry Pi Workshop](https://www.redroom.org/baltimore-technology-overdrive-raspberry-pi-workshop/) - Baltimore Technology Overdrive is a casual free workshop at the Red Room for electronic music enthusiasts to share their work and get advice. This session, BTO Tinkerers will be working to get their Raspberry Pis working with an operating system. Then we will work on configuring files on our Pis for networking and sound. The Raspberry Pi - [Volunteers' Collective - May 1, 2016](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-may-1-2016/) - The Volunteers’ Collective is a monthly improvisation workshop with a focus on listening and ad hoc collaboration. Players of all skill levels are encouraged to attend and play with each other. We are seeking: trombonists drummers compuerists trianglers accordiates reeders pickup-ites bassoids inventors guitaries clarinetines short-wavers synthologists tinglers philologists bruitists reductionizers glam-flammys timpanists vocalizers sound - [Tashi Dorji/Marisa Anderson/Jimmy Joe Roche & Will Schorre](https://www.redroom.org/tashi-dorjimarisa-andersonjimmy-joe-roche-will-schorre/) - This night is to be thought of as a tasty juxtaposition of exploratory solo guitar virtuosi with deep fried Baltimore electronic strangeness. First up in support of their 2015 split album is Tashi Dorji and Marisa Anderson. This album got wide acclaim including Pitchfork's Top 20 Experimental records, talky bits on NPR, and Tiny Mix Tape verbiage - [Bobb Hatt & Jen Powers/ Charles Dubé & Pony Payroll Bones / Scott Verrastro & Jenny Moon Tucker](https://www.redroom.org/bobb-hatt-jen-powers-charles-dube-pony-payroll-bones-scott-verrastro-jenny-moon-tucker/) - A Trio of Duets for your delight 8:30 PM $5 - 10 sliding scale Bobb Hatt & Jen Powers -- Columbus Ohio Improvisation on free noise sax and hammered dulcimer. Bobb's flamboyant in your face ripping meets ethereal drone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0mgg15om7c Scott Verrastro & Jenny Moon Tucker -- Philly/ Bmore Prolific percussionist of Kohoutek who has played - [Philosopher's Union Presents Elie Ayache](https://www.redroom.org/philosophers-union-presents-elie-ayache/) - "To write a contingent claim and to trade it is literally to be situated in the middle of the event triggering it. Events take place; they don’t take time. Writing is the technology addressing the event outside of chronology and the market is the medium of contingency. They both recognize that time, although unavoidable, is - [Chris Welcome / Sam Weinberg, Umbilicus](https://www.redroom.org/chris-welcome-sam-weinberg-umbilicus/) - Saxophonist Sam Weinberg and synthesizist Chris Welcome have been spending many Wednesday afternoons with each other, awaking Bay Ridge newborns with their unique approach to both noise & free-improv. With a constant, high intensity approach the saxophone and KORG become indistinguishable. Sam Weinberg Website Chris Welcome's Website Bandcamp Umbilicus was founded in 2012 in reaction - [Volunteers' Collective -- April 3, 2016](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-6/) - This month, special guest host Jimmy Joe Roche will be moderating. You might know him for his excellent video and film work, his performances at the High Zero Festival, or his work with Wham City! The Volunteers’ Collective is a monthly improvisation workshop with a focus on listening and ad hoc collaboration. Players of all - [NOOR /// MAX EILBACHER](https://www.redroom.org/mobarak-eilbacher-overdrive/) - LA polymath NOOR and local wiz kid MAX EILBACHER meet again in QUADRAPHONIC SOUND at THE RED ROOM! Noor is a vocalist first and foremost, a commercial voice-over artist by trade and an accomplished actress and poet. Her performance will be a an exploration of a new work in progress. Past and present collaborators - [Snake Union // ÎMÂ // Chris Lock](https://www.redroom.org/snake-union-ima-chris-lock/) - SNAKE UNION is Chuck Bettis (All Scars, Mossenek) and David Grant (Action Patrol, On A Clear Day). A duo that works in improvisational rhythmic explorations that match analog synths and digital sound processing, modular wires and max patches. By turns psychedelic, delicate, and fuzzed out, the sequenced collides with the freeform as these two soundmakers - [Sight Unseen & Red Room Present: FERN SILVA](https://www.redroom.org/sight-unseen-red-room-present-fern-silva/) - SIGHT UNSEEN & Red Room Presents RHYTHM OF THE COSMOS: Works by Fern Silva "Do you know what the secret to life is... this... one thing, just one thing..." -Curly Washburn Subtle, spectacular cinema in which cosmopolitan filmmaker Fern Silva creates a convincing, eclectic hotpot from various images. The fruits of life desiccate in front - [Schimpfluch Gruppe: Rudolf Eb.er, Joke Lanz, and Dave Phillips](https://www.redroom.org/5chimpfluch-grupp3/) - Founded in Zürich in 1987, the Schimpfluch Gruppe has become the epitome of radical outsider art in many respects. Appearing in varying lineups over the years, including several guest artists alongside the core-members of Rudolf Eb.er, Joke Lanz, and Dave Phillips, the Schimpfluch Gruppe has been forging a bridge from stirring audio and visual works - [SARAH HENNIES /// IAN POWER](https://www.redroom.org/hennies-power-overdrive/) - New composed music and the composer-performers who compose and perform it face off- Red Room style! Do not miss this night of gently dazzling mystery music! doors at 8:30, show at 9:00 Sarah Hennies is a percussionist and composer currently residing in Ithaca, NY. Her work is primarily concerned with an immersive, psychoacoustic presentation of - [EXPANDED CINEMA PERFORMANCE BY ALEX MACKENZIE](https://www.redroom.org/expanded-cinema-performance-by-alex-mackenzie/) - Sight Unseen presents: Apparitions | 55 minutes (2 X 16mm colour + b&w, 2016) Where one locates ruptures or denies them is a political choice that determines the construction of the present. Whether one excludes or foregrounds certain events and processes at the expense of others affects the intelligibility of the contemporary functioning of - [Lesley Flanigan // Brian Chase](https://www.redroom.org/lesley-flanigan-brian-chase/) - Lesley Flanigan presents Hedera, a vivid new extended recording on Physical Editions from the New York-based electronic musician and instrument builder, and an elegant new platform for the powerful vehicle of Flanigan's voice. In a driving performance that steadily unfolds over time, Lesley Flanigan shapes blooming clusters of her voice around a continuous beat of - [Muyassar Kurdi, Al Margolis, Walter Wright](https://www.redroom.org/muyassar-kurdi-al-margolis-walter-wright/) - The Redroom presents an evening of improvised music by varied combinations of musicians Muyassar Kurdi (voice), Al Margolis (tapes & electronics) and Walter Wright (circuit bending and video synthesis) with Paul Neidhardt (percussion), and Jeff Carey (computer). MUYASSAR KURDI “Chicago resident Muyassar Kurdi is the final act, delivering a Dadaistic performance that falls between musical - [Volunteers' Collective](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-5/) - The Volunteers’ Collective is a monthly improvisation workshop with a focus on listening and ad hoc collaboration. Players of all skill levels are encouraged to attend and play with each other. This is a good time to try out that new technique you heard at High Zero. This is a great opportunity to meet veteran - [Jen Baker & Patrick Crossland](https://www.redroom.org/baker-crossland-overdrive/) - GOOD GRACIOUS- BRASS BODACIOUS! Double the trombone-flavored fun at THE RED ROOM! As always, doors at 8:30, show at 9 Sharing a zest for the new and unpredictable, Jen met Patrick on the way to Berlin's Total Music Meeting, a festival of improvised music. Now, 12 years later, they finally meet again in the same - [Judith Hamann + Rosalind Hall (duo) /// Alexander Garsden // David Smooke](https://www.redroom.org/judith-hamann-rosalind-hall-duo-alexander-garsden/) - A most excellent evening of music featuring three outstanding Australian improvisers: Cellist Judith Hamann and saxophonist Rosalind Hall will perform their duo project and opening the night will be electronic musician Alexander Garsden. Special opening set by local composer David Smooke improvising on toy piano! About the artists: Judith Hamann, Cello Judith Hamann is an Australian-born cellist - [Peter Evans & Travis Laplante // Susan Alcorn](https://www.redroom.org/peter-evans-travis-laplante/) - The Red Room is pleased to present a night of trail blazing instrumental improvisation by some of the best players in the country: the duo of trumpeter Peter Evans and tenor saxophonist Travis Laplante, who are celebrating the release of their new record, Secret Meeting; and a solo by local pedal steel guitar hero Susan Alcorn. Travis Laplante - [Bonnie Kane // Raw Silk](https://www.redroom.org/bonnie-kane-raw-silk/) - East coast avant-improv veteran Bonnie Kane shares a bill with Baltimore's Raw Silk (aka Ami Dang). Bonnie Kane - http://www.bonniekane.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC827-olGcU Ami Dang/Raw Silk - http://amidang.com/ https://vimeo.com/135833972 Kane writes of her work: "I view my work as part of the next generation of the avant-garde - or at least, an evolutionary branch - formed from equal - [February Volunteers' Collective](https://www.redroom.org/february-volunteers-collective/) - The Volunteers’ Collective is a monthly improvisation workshop with a focus on listening and ad hoc collaboration. Players of all skill levels are encouraged to attend and play with each other. This is a good time to try out that new technique you heard at High Zero. This is a great opportunity to meet veteran - [Todd Lerew // Bonnie Jones](https://www.redroom.org/todd-lerew-bonnie-jones/) - Performances featuring the music of Todd Lerew and Bonnie Jones! Todd Lerew is a Los Angeles-based artist and composer working with invented acoustic instruments, repurposed found objects, and unique preparations of traditional instruments. Much of his work deals with the physical properties of sound and the nature of perception, exploring the use of sound as - [Waking the Groundhog](https://www.redroom.org/waking-the-groundhog/) - Punxsutawney is about 200 miles away. These musicians will attempt to find the right transmission frequency to wake the groundhog two days early to get a head start on our seasonal prognostication. In order to trick the groundhog, we will need the combined efforts of improvisers with keen ears who can together form a difference - [Morton Feldman and the Electric Guitar / Khristian Weeks](https://www.redroom.org/feldman-shreds/) - Morton Feldman and The Electric Guitar is program of contemplative music for electric guitar centered around the previously lost Morton Feldman work, "The Possibility of a New Work for Electric Guitar." The program includes a performance of the lost work as well as other pieces dedicated to Feldman and the story of the piece. Other - [Heejin Jang ˜ Flandrew Fleisenberg ˜ Jimmy Joe Roche](https://www.redroom.org/heejin-jang-∞-flandrew-fleisenberg-∞-jimmy-joe-roche/) - Recent High Zero alum's and sonic luminaries Heejin Jang and Flandrew Fleisenberg return for a night of blissful acoustic sculpting. Each play a solo set followed by a trio with Roche. Heejin Jang’s work manifests itself in the forms of interactive performance and sound installations. Improvising a score of live noise, she transforms the ordinary - [Volunteers' Collective -- January 2015](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-january-2015/) - The Volunteers’ Collective is a monthly improvisation workshop with a focus on listening and ad hoc collaboration. Players of all skill levels are encouraged to attend and play with each other. This is a good time to try out a new technique. Use it as a great opportunity to meet veteran improvisers and new arrivals - [SEND BLANK TAPE: Curated by Liz Flyntz](https://www.redroom.org/send-blank-tape-curated-by-liz-flyntz/) - Sight Unseen Screening Series presents SEND BLANK TAPE: early video distribution networks and Radical Software magazine Curator Liz Flyntz will present the videos with some notes on the artists and the history of their production and presentation. ABOUT THE PROGRAM This screening presents an array of videos created by collectives and individuals active in the - [Duo: Michel Doneda (France) + Tatsuya Nakatani (U.S.)](https://www.redroom.org/duo-michel-doneda-france-tatsuya-nakatani-u-s/) - The duo of Michele Doneda (France--Soprano Saxophone) and Tatsuya Nakatani (U.S.A.--percussion) is one of the most interesting and powerful ensembles in improvised music. We are extremely excited to have them back at the Red Room! Over the years, Michel Doneda (b. 1954) has developed one of the most extensive musical vocabularies in free improvisation. A - [JEFF DONALDSON + ADAM ROSENBLATT & CO.](https://www.redroom.org/donaldson-rosenblatt-overdrive-2/) - "PREPARE" THYSELF FOR AN EXPERIMENTAL MULTI-MEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA AT THE RED ROOM Jeff Donaldson is a Maryland-based artist originally from Corpus Christi, Texas. Donaldson studied music composition at Towson University until 2001, where he began applying extended techniques for musical instruments to video devices. Borrowing the term "prepared" from John Cage, his prepared video systems offered - [Volunteers' Collective December 2015](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-december-2015/) - The Volunteers’ Collective is a monthly improvisation workshop with a focus on listening and ad hoc collaboration. Players of all skill levels are encouraged to attend and play with each other. This is a good time to try out that new technique you heard at High Zero. This is a great opportunity to meet veteran - [Home Alone with John Dierker](https://www.redroom.org/home-alone-with-john-dierker/) - John Dierker must protect the Red Room from a pair of burglars when he is accidentally left home alone during Christmas vacation by his family. $5-10 Doors at 8:30 Show at 9:00 425 E. 31st St. Baltimore, MD 21218 - [Andrew Bernstein / Booker Stardrum / Justin Porter](https://www.redroom.org/bernstein-stardrum-porter/) - The Red Room Presents three solos by: Andrew Bernstein (Baltimore) - Saxophone and electronics Booker Stardrum (NYC) - Percussion Justin Porter (Baltimore) - Cello and electronics $5-10 Doors at 8:30 Show at 9:00 425 E. 31st St. Baltimore, MD 21218 - [CANCELLED! ÁINE O'DWYER (IRL), KHRISTIAN WEEKS](https://www.redroom.org/odwyer-weeks-overdrive/) - THE RED ROOM PRESENTS: Irish organist/harpist/composer/performer ÁINE O'DWYER performing a live, improvisational pipe organ recital, with Baltimore's own sound/light/installation artist KHRISTIAN WEEKS activating the space as he sees fit. IN LIEU OF AN ORGAN/VENUE THIS SHOW HAS BEEN CANCELLED More on Ms. O'Dwyer: "As a young teenager, O’Dwyer was schooled in a Catholic convent, where - [Volunteers' Collective](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-4/) - The Volunteer’s Collective is an open workshop at the Red Room for anyone interested in playing experimental improvised music in an uninhibited, non-competitive environment. Players who have often never met come together and try to make interesting music “never heard before” in a real-time environment. It involves as much or more listening as playing, and - [SHELLY PURDY plays ALVIN LUCIER / IAN POWER & RICHARD CRAIG play JÜRG FREY, LUCIER and more!](https://www.redroom.org/frey-lucier-overdrive/) - Look forward to "sitting in a room different from the one you are in now" listening to 21ST CENTURY MUSIC AT THE RED ROOM! Ian Power and Richard Craig play: Carolyn Chen "Pears" for two moving performers Ian Power "I seem to be a verb" for coffee mug, butter knife, and recitations Richard Craig "Amp/Al" - [A Night of Free Jazz feat. Tiger Hatchery, Wigger Mom, John Jones & Zach Utz, and Jenny Moon Tucker](https://www.redroom.org/a-night-of-free-jazz-feat-tiger-hatchery-wigger-mom-john-jones-zach-utz-and-jenny-moon-tucker/) - Tiger Hatchery: The free jazz three piece known as Tiger Hatchery are comprised of Ben Baker Billington, Andrew Scott Young, and Mike Forbes. Now scattered across the country; Chicago, Seattle, and San Francisco.This geographical displacement makes your chances of seeing the modern masters of free "jazz" even more rare. Truly stunning, their craft is a - [FRENKEL DEFFECTS III](https://www.redroom.org/frankel-deffects-iii/) - Colorado-based nonprofit organization, Process Reversal, presents the third installment of its unique traveling film series -- Frenkel Defects. Hosted by SIGHT UNSEEN SCREENING SERIES FRENKEL DEFECTS III This recurring series aims to explore what it means to work in -- and exhibit on -- photochemical film today by examining works from artists operating specifically in - [Jaap Blonk solo + Monad (Blonk, Boram, Berndt) + Morgan Evans-Weiler Trio](https://www.redroom.org/jaap-blonk-solo-monad-blonk-boram-berndt-morgan-evans-weiler-trio/) - A night of non-standard semantics and obtuse hotness. Dutch soundpoet Jaap Blonk is a must-be-experienced phenomenon, one of the very few people who realize the potential of sound poetry as a crazy thing that spans all the evocative power of language, music, physical performance, and some other ineffable stuff we don't want to mention, all - [Volunteers' Collective](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-3/) - The Volunteers' Collective is a monthly improvisation workshop with a focus on listening and ad hoc collaboration. Players of all skill levels are encouraged to attend and play with each other. This is a good time to try out that new technique you heard at High Zero. This is a great opportunity to meet veteran - [Toshimaru Nakamura/ Bryan Eubanks / Jason Kahn / Tetuzi Akiyama](https://www.redroom.org/toshimaru-nakamura-bryan-eubanks-jason-kahn-tetuzi-akiyama/) - The group of Tetuzi Akiyama, Bryan Eubanks, Jason Kahn and Toshimaru Nakamura meets together for the first time on this 16-date U.S. tour, spanning both coasts and reaching the northern reaches of the Midwest down to the Deep South. Together, these musicians will fuse free improvisation, noise, experimental electronics and the uncategorizable in a fresh - [Anne-F Jacques, Tim Olive, Jimmy Joe Roche, Will Schorre and Mike Allender](https://www.redroom.org/anne-f-jacques-tim-olive-jimmy-joe-roche-will-schorre-and-mike-allender/) - A night of improvised electronics, homemade instruments and sonic exploration. Jimmy Joe Roche and Will Schorre will be performing an electronics modular battle set. Mike Allender will be playing solo on an Ekdahl Polygamist. Anne-F Jacques and Tim Olive use handmade, idiosyncratic instrumentation to produce and amplify detailed sound textures, from fine-grained to coarse. Anne-F’s - [17th Annual High Zero Festival Starts on Tuesday 9/22!](https://www.redroom.org/17th-annual-high-zero-festival-starts-on-tuesday-922/) - THE 17th ANNUAL HIGH ZERO FESTIVAL IS HERE! SEPTEMBER 22nd - 27th! High Zero is the premier festival of Improvised, Experimental music on the East Coast. The festival is fully devoted to new collaborations between the most inspired improvisors from around the world. Join us for 5 days of sound installations, music and performances starting Tuesday - [BLACK SPIRITUALS (Oakland) + ANCESTRAL DUO (Baltimore/DC)](https://www.redroom.org/black-spirituals-ancestral-duo/) - Double duos at the Red Room! We're very excited to present Oakland's Black Spirituals, who will be joined by locals Ancestral Duo! Black Spirituals is a collaboration between Zachary Watkins and Marshall Trammell. "This duet features a new tradition in conversant, duo vernacular dynamics that sparked a revolution in our conceptions of space, stage, ritual, performance, - [3 New Music Video Portraits](https://www.redroom.org/3-new-music-video-portraits/) - From Andy Storrs: 3 new Music Video Portraits of a particular underground american traditional essence that is hard to find in other musicians/performers/entertainers of our time. Spotlighting: Tracey Trance The Savage Young Tater-Bug Mutinerango Sun Also... Video screening of "Needle Gun Goes To College" presented by Duncan Moore and Max Eilbacher Poetry reading by Dylan - [WOBBLY, Brett Naucke and Max Eilbacher](https://www.redroom.org/wobbly-brett-naucke-and-max-eilbacher/) - All sets at this show will be performed quadraphonically. Wobbly Jon Leidecker performs music under the inevitable pseudonym of Wobbly, exploring the various ways in which our experience of music changed once we gained the ability to record it. Recent live and studio collaborations include albums and concerts with Dieter Moebius & Tim Story, - [Sight Unseen presents Gut Renovation](https://www.redroom.org/su-friedrich-presents-gut-renovation/) - Sight Unseen presents, GUT RENOVATION (2012) a feature film by Su Friedrich Synopsis A documentary of small changes evolves into an historical record of New York. The resulting film is a melancholy, essayistic requiem for a neighborhood and an entire way of life; it also provides a case study of the rapid gentrification of our - [People Like Us and Matt Weston](https://www.redroom.org/people-like-us-and-matt-weston/) - A variety evening that could only be created by The Red Room Collective. Two High Zero Festival alums: Filmaker/sound artist Vicki Bennett, aka People Like Us presents a new performance/video work entitled CITATION CITY, a project using the techniques of Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project in relation to London-based feature films. Electro-acoustic percussionist Matt Weston performs - [Tomeka Reid Quartet featuring Jason Roebke, Mary Halvorson and Tomas Fujiwara - Liz Durrette Opening!](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-june-edition-2/) - An all star line up of musicians brought together by Chicago-based cellist Tomeka Reid. Opening from Baltimore, Liz Durrette! Tomeka Reid (cello) Jason Roebke (bass) Mary Halvorson (guitar) Tomas Fujiwara (drums) "Sunday afternoon, on only their second gig, cellist Tomeka Reid’s quartet sounded like a seasoned band. Chicago’s Reid and bassist Jason Roebke blend well, plucking - [Volunteers Collective](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-2-2/) - The Volunteer’s Collective is an open workshop at the Red Room for anyone interested in playing experimental improvised music in an uninhibited, non-competitive, focused-on-the-work environment. Players who have often never met come together and try to make interesting music “never heard before” in a real-time environment. It involves as much or more listening as playing, - [Carl Ludwig Hübsch / Lisa Cella](https://www.redroom.org/carl-ludwig-huebsch-et-al/) - An evening of challenging, virtuosic music in extreme registers awaits you at THE RED ROOM! We at the Red Room are thrilled to present German tuba virtuoso Carl Ludwig Hübsch! He is the best tubist in any idiom (he is most outstanding in experimental improvised music but plays jazz as well) this blurber has ever - [Theremin & Lap Steel, Bill Brovold](https://www.redroom.org/theremin-lap-steel-bill-brovold/) - Enjoy a night of hallucinogenic music from Atlanta and New York City. Duet for Theremin and Lap Steel The name of this Atlanta duo implies a proper classical recital, a rigid formality. But Scott Burland (theremin) and Frank Schultz (lap steel) don't do scripted, improvising not so much distinct sounds as evolving eddies of sound, vapors of tones that - [Andrew Bernstein, Good Willsmith, Lockbox](https://www.redroom.org/andrew-bernstein-good-willsmith-lockbox/) - The Red Room presents a night of abstract electroacoustic music featuring Andrew Bernstein, Good Willsmith and Lockbox. Andrew Bernstein is a Baltimore based musician and multimedia artist. His music explores the nature of acoustics, rhythm and the perception of time. He plays saxophone and percussion in the experimental rock band Horse Lords and has composed scores - [Volunteers Collective, Sunday, July 5th 2015](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-sunday-july-5th-2015/) - The Volunteer’s Collective is an open workshop at the Red Room for anyone interested in playing experimental improvised music in an uninhibited, non-competitive, focused-on-the-work environment. Players who have often never met come together and try to make interesting music “never heard before” in a real-time environment. It involves as much or more listening as playing, - [Will Guthrie & topoi (Caroline Marcantoni)](https://www.redroom.org/will-guthrie-topoi-2/) - Will Guthrie is an Australian drummer / percussionist living in France. He works in many different settings of music: live performance, improvisation and studio composition using various combinations of drums, percussion, objects, junk, amplification and electronics.. He plays solo and in various projects such as THE AMES ROOM, ELWOOD & GUTHRIE & THE SOMMES - [Volunteers Collective June Edition!](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-june-edition/) - The Volunteer's Collective is an open workshop at the Red Room for anyone interested in playing experimental improvised music in an uninhibited, non-competitive, focused-on-the-work environment. Players who have often never met come together and try to make interesting music "never heard before" in a real-time environment. It involves as much or more listening as playing, - [Worlds in Collusion Festival at Artscape 2015 - Sunday](https://www.redroom.org/worlds-in-collusion-festival-at-artscape-2015-sunday/) - The High Zero Foundation and Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts presents!! WORLDS IN COLLUSION FESTIVAL Artscape 2015 July 17th - 19th University of Baltimore Student Center, 5th Floor FREE! 18 hours of mind-bending, thoroughly air-conditioned performances by Baltimore artists, including the traditional, the experimental, and the just plain strange. Sunday, July 19 2pm - [Worlds in Collusion Festival at Artscape 2015 - Saturday](https://www.redroom.org/worlds-in-collusion-festival-at-artscape-2015-saturday/) - The High Zero Foundation and Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts presents!! WORLDS IN COLLUSION FESTIVAL Artscape 2015 July 17th - 19th University of Baltimore Student Center, 5th Floor FREE! 18 hours of mind-bending, thoroughly air-conditioned performances by Baltimore artists, including the traditional, the experimental, and the just plain strange. Saturday, July 18 2pm - [Worlds in Collusion Festival at Artscape 2015 - Friday](https://www.redroom.org/worlds-in-collusion-festival-at-artscape-2015-friday/) - The High Zero Foundation and Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts presents!! WORLDS IN COLLUSION FESTIVAL Artscape 2015 July 17th - 19th University of Baltimore Student Center, 5th Floor FREE! 18 hours of mind-bending, thoroughly air-conditioned performances by Baltimore artists, including the traditional, the experimental, and the just plain strange. Friday, July 17 2pm - [Musical Antistrophes: Jonathan Zorn + Jackson Moore + Seth Dellinger / Chris Mason](https://www.redroom.org/musical-antistrophes-jonathan-zorn-jackson-moore-seth-dellinger-chris-mason/) - Jonathan Zorn, Jackson Moore, Seth Dellinger (electronics, saxophone, voice) Chris Mason (poetry) The Red Room presents Musical Antistrophes a special concert and reading featuring astonishing new approaches to voice, technology, language and music. These artists work within the realm of the imagined and impossible - seeking new systems and musical structures based on the rhythms of speech, phonetics, - [Arab Experimental Films: Reflections on Situated Time](https://www.redroom.org/arab-experimental-films-reflections-on-situated-time-2/) - Arab Experimental Films: Reflections on Situated Time Curated by Samirah Alkassim PROGRAM NARRATIVE This screening is comprised of five recent short films that provide a sampling from among the contemporary experimental film scene of the Middle East. From references that are more recognizable to an American audience to more specific signifiers tied to geographic location - [Thomas Dimuzio + Karl Ekdahl](https://www.redroom.org/thomas-dimuzio-karl-ekdahl/) - Thomas Dimuzio - Mr. Dimuzio has an insider's knowledge of classic experimental musical forms such as musique concrete and electro-acoustic music, as well as showing fluency with current styles, "dark ambient", "noise" and "post-techno". As a collaborator his history is not easily matched, he has worked with Dimmer (with Joseph Hammer), Chris Cutler, Fred Frith, - [Interwaving Strecht + Redman and Wagner](https://www.redroom.org/interwaving-strecht-redman-and-wagner/) - From France, (Paris, presumably) INTERWAVING STRECHT sent the collective a demo, and it was so weird and well done that I said I would put on a show for them. Their own description is...this: Mystery guitar and electronics from France form this powerful intense duo playing improvised music that encompasses strong expressionism as much as - [The Curfew is Lifted! Volunteers Collective May Edition on Monday!!!](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-moved-to-april-12th/) - The curfew has been lifted - Monday the Red Room will host the May Edition of the Volunteers Collective The Red Room presents another edition of its excellent, always-different open workshop for fre eimprovisation. The V.C. is intended for people who seriously want to develop their skills as ensemble free improvisors and to connect with - [Topographies: Jeph Jerman + Tim Barnes / Marko Timlin / Philip White + Chris Pitsiokos](https://www.redroom.org/topographies/) - The Red Room presents TOPOGRAPHIES, an evening of music by exceptional artists whose work traverses and transgresses digital, acoustic, and environmental sonic landscapes. - [CANCELLED: Matt Ingalls (SF) + Meridian (Feeney, Hennies, Stuart)](https://www.redroom.org/matt-ingalls-meridian/) - Virtuosic clarinetist, composer, programmer and improviser Matt Ingalls from San Francisco is joined by Meridian, the peerless contemporary, experimental percussion trio of Tim Feeney, Nick Hennies and Greg Stuart. - [The Body Extended: Works by Scott Stark](https://www.redroom.org/the-body-extended-works-by-scott-stark/) - Scott Stark has produced more than 75 films and videos since 1980. Additionally, he has created a number of gallery and non-gallery installations using film and video, and elaborate photographic collages using large grids of images. - [Benjamin Nelson + Ada Pinkston](https://www.redroom.org/benjamin-nelson-ada-pinkston/) - A Sunday of interdisciplinary delights awaits us at THE RED ROOM . Ada Pinkston is a "trans-media artist, organizer, educator, sister, aunt, and daughter living and working in Baltimore, Maryland. A Maryland native now residing in Oslo, Benjamin Nelson's work is "based on slowly shifting tones and textures intended to explore micro-changes that result from phasing and head position, hearing fatigue, and stream separation. - [Sound & Text: OA (SF) / Nudie Suits (Balt) / Dora Malech (Balt)](https://www.redroom.org/sound-text/) - A night of sound and text featuring Oa (Matt Davignon/Hugh Behm-Steinberg, Dora Malech, and Nudie Suits (Ruby Fulton and Ali Clendaniel) - [tpt+tpt (Jeff Kaiser & Dave Ballou)](https://www.redroom.org/tpt-tpt-jeff-kaiser-dave-ballou/) - Acoustic and electronic sonic explorations of the trumpet by the duo TpT-TpT (pronounced trumpet-trumpet), featuring Jeff Kaiser on quartertone trumpet and laptop and Dave Ballou on trumpet and laptop. Using the deep sonic palette accessed within the trumpet by the performers, they act together with close-mic techniques, custom digital signal processing software and hardware interfaces Kaiser and Ballou co-design. - [Troy Rogers Robotics and Khristian Weeks](https://www.redroom.org/troy-rogers-robotics-and-khristian-weeks/) - Tuesday March 10th, the Red Room and High Zero Foundation welcomes Troy Rogers and his musical "robots", the AMI, CARI and Stemmtje. He created and built them himself and to understand without actually seeing/hearing them we will have to refer you to his own website http://troy82.com. - [Bhob Rainey & Luminous All Kudler](https://www.redroom.org/bhob-rainey-luminous-all-kudler/) - Could we be more pleased to welcome back Red Room stalwart Bhob Rainey, performing a new multichannel electronic piece? Hardly! - [Jennifer Walshe (IRL) + M.C. Schmidt + Headband](https://www.redroom.org/jennifer-walshe-irl-m-c-schmidt-headband/) - The Red Room proudly welcomes Irish master-composer-performer and decorated High Zero veteran Jennifer Walshe, performing in duo formation with local wiseguy M.C. Schmidt and watching, delighted, Headband (AKA local tape maestro Duncan Moore) journey to the heart of the evening. Want to know more? Stay tuned! - [Pleasure - screening videos by Eilbacher, Palmer, Schmidt, Barber, Rorison, and Tsunoda](https://www.redroom.org/pleasure-screening-videos/) - Red Room presents a screening of videos from Pleasure Editions DVD magazine, VID CHOPS, and a discussion with some of the local artists included in the current issue of the magazine. - [Deleuzer (Boston) + Bonnie Jones](https://www.redroom.org/deleuzer-bonnie-jones/) - MD meets MA at the Red Room! Deleuzer is Boston's finest improvisational large ensemble, "led" by violin whiz and High Zero alum Morgan Evans-Weiler and otherwise consisting (or having once consisted) of: Howard Martin - Sax Jesse Kenas-Collins - Trumpet, personality Peter Gumaskas - Modular Synth Chris Johnson - Electronics, Guitar Christopher Strunk - Percussion - [Eva Zöllner & EAR, NOSE and THROAT](https://www.redroom.org/eva-zollner-ear-nose-and-throat/) - The Red Room welcomes, from Hamburg, Germany, Eva Zoellner, and from Baltimore, a trio that hasn't played in a while "Ear, Nose and Throat". - [Volunteers Collective](https://www.redroom.org/volunteers-collective-2/) - Why stay home and watch some contest between brutes and a half-time show with some teenie-bopper howling into a microphone when you could come to the Red Room and make music together? - [Jill Burton (voice), Patrick Crossland (trombone), Jack Wright (Reeds)](https://www.redroom.org/jill-burton-patrick-crossland-jack-wright/) - Extended vocalist/holistic/sound/movement/energy worker/performance artist JILL BURTON was a professional ballerina, modern dancer, dance teacher and accompanist, and free improviser in Gainesville FL during the 1970s. In 1978, she traveled to San Francisco where she met for the first time her life-long collaborators Davey Williams and LaDonna Smith, and connected for the first time to a larger, world-wide community of free improvisers. - [Botborg (from Australia/Germany) & Tom Boram](https://www.redroom.org/botborg-australiagermany-tom-boram/) - Botborg is an international audio-visual performance group that fuses and rewires raw electronic signals to create intensely visceral experiences of sound-color synaesthesia. Using a complex array of custom electronics, Botborg create totally live multi-sensory assaults of interdependent color and rhythm, pushing the limits of technology to invoke the maximum possible stimulation of their audience’s mind and body. - [Jack Wright / Andrew Drury / Patrick Crossland](https://www.redroom.org/jack-wright-andrew-drury-patrick-crossland/) - Jack Wright and Andrew Drury have been musical partners for a dozen years, often joining with others and playing regularly in New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and elsewhere in the Eastern U.S. - [Keir Neuringer](https://www.redroom.org/keir-neuringer/) - Keir Neuringer is a musician and interdisciplinary artist who is involved in creative arts communities in Poland, Holland, and the US. He has cultivated a personal and intensely physical approach to saxophone improvisation, plays analogue electronics and Farfisa organ, and sings and narrates text. - [Ben Bennett](https://www.redroom.org/ben-bennett/) - Ben Bennett had musical training starting as a young child, studied jazz drumming, but ever since getting into improvisation, has pursued a self ­taught, self ­disciplined, intuitive approach to music­ making. - [Max Eilbacher/Noor/MSHR](https://www.redroom.org/max-eilbachernoormshr/) - Ring out the feast of Sts. Nereus & Achilleus the Red Room Way with West Coast Weirdos NOOR and MSHR (Mesher) and that li'l slice of Hometown Heaven, MAX EILBACHER. - [A High Zero Fundraiser](https://www.redroom.org/high-zero-fundraiser/) - It's not cheap bringing world class improvisors to Baltimore every September for the High Zero Festival. Lucky for you, we make it fun to support the festival with star-studded fundraisers like this one! - [Miz'ries // Jonathan Badger // Sync](https://www.redroom.org/mizries-jonathan-badger-sync/) - Electro-Kraut noise band, The Miz'ries: uber-americo noise nerd Quinn Collins plays broken records on a turntable with crazy effects, mad genius inventor Jeff Snyder plays his own analog synth creation whilst Neuseelander songstress Leila Adu sings and plays electronic drum pads. - [HOT DATE // Weeks/Dierker/Hayleck](https://www.redroom.org/hot-date-weeks-dierker-hayleck/) - HOT DATE is Shayna Dulberger (bass & electronicws) and Chris Welcome (guitar & electronics) In search of the same sound, an upright bass no longer functions in the supporting role and a guitar is not used as a melodic or chordal instrument. An instrument is only a tool used to achieve the whole palette of sounds. - [Tatsuya Nakatani & Nakatani Gong Orchestra](https://www.redroom.org/tatsuya-nakatani-nakatani-gong-orchestra/) - **Please note that this show is at the EMP Collective at 307 W. Baltimore St., not at the Red Room** Japanese American percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani brings his famed Nakatani Gong Orchestra to Baltimore on Saturday May 3rd at the EMP Collective. The concert will feature a solo percussion set by Nakatani followed by the Nakatani Gong Orchestra. Nakatani has recruited a cabal of local artists to fill the orchestra for the Baltimore performance, including M.C. Schmidt, Owen Gardner, Lexie Mountain, Neil Feather, Paul Neidhardt, Caroline Marcantoni and Andrew Bernstein. - [Toy Piano - David Smooke and Benjamin Buchanan](https://www.redroom.org/toy-piano-david-smooke-benjamin-buchanan/) - MUSIC FOR TOY PIANOS by David Smooke and Benjamin Buchanan We're excited to be hosting two composers of music for toy piano. Not only that, they've both experimented with the instrument in ways that stretch our expectations, like toy piano four hands. You might even get the chance to hear a piece for soprano and music box. ## Pages - [Calendar](https://www.redroom.org/) - The Red Room is a volunteer-run space in Baltimore dedicated to mind-expanding experimental culture, headquartered at Normals Books and Records. - [Booking & Contact Information](https://www.redroom.org/booking/) - IMPORTANT: We might not write back to you. That means we are either fully booked or not interested. We are volunteers and we do our best. We only host experimental, improvised, and/or non-idiomatic performances. We do not host pop, singer-songwriters, country, rock, EDM, Slam poetry, etc. We do not accept applications for the High Zero - [Directions to the Red Room at Normals Books and Records](https://www.redroom.org/directions/) - 425 E. 31st Street Baltimore, MD 21218 See map below From the North (Philadelphia, New York, and points North). Take I-95 South to I-695 West towards Towson (Baltimore Beltway). Take the Beltway to I-83 South (Jones Falls Expressway). Take I-83 to 28th Street (to the left off of the exit ramp). Stay on 28th St. - [Donate](https://www.redroom.org/donate/) - The Red Room has been running continuously since 1996 (with the exception of a few months lost to a zoning dispute early on, which we won), presenting 40-60 events of wildly experimental, wildly diverse music, film, dance, language etc. every year since then. With a focus on completely non-commercial, formally experimental work with mid-expanding aesthetics. - [Archive of past events at The Red Room](https://www.redroom.org/event-archive/) - [Series](https://www.redroom.org/series/) - The Red Room, located at and sponsored by Normals Books and Records is the laboratory for paracultural revolution of the Mid-Atlantic Region. 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