Monday June 08, 2026 | 8:00 pm
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 […]
Saturday April 18, 2026 | 8:00 pm
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 […]
Tuesday March 31, 2026 | 7:00 pm
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 […]
Sunday March 22, 2026 | 8:00 pm
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 […]
Friday November 07, 2025 | 7:31 pm
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 […]
Tuesday October 14, 2025 | 8:00 pm
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 […]
Monday November 17, 2025 | 8:00 pm
CANCELLED. Brett Naucke + Cex. CANCELLED
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 […]
Saturday July 26, 2025 | 8:00 pm
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 […]
Thursday May 01, 2025 | 8:00 pm
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 […]
Tuesday October 01, 2024 | 8:00 pm
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 […]
Saturday August 24, 2024 | 8:00 pm
ASH: 001 (Daoure Diongue, Mark Kent Navarro & Ellery Bryan)
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 […]
Wednesday August 21, 2024 | 8:00 pm
Jack Langdon & Rohan Pathare
Jack Langdon is an organist, filmmaker, and writer. His work as an organist explores extremes of instrumental technique, employing non-standard practices on pipe organs and tonewheel organs, pushing these often conservatively-utilized instruments into uncanny and experimental territories. Jack’s improvised and concert works deal with strange forms, excessive repetition, ironic tonality, and sonic fragility. His recent […]
Thursday October 17, 2024 | 8:00 pm
Jessica Pavone | Liz Meredith | Sky Macklay, Meg Huskin and Nathaniel Parks
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 […]
Sunday July 07, 2024 | 8:00 pm
Jeremy Young | Simone Baron & Susan Alcorn
Jeremy Young is a composer and maker of concrète electronic tape music from Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, Quebec. He is a member of the experimental poetry_sound unit Cloud Circuit, alongside writer Deanna Radford, and the electroacoustic modern classical trio Sontag Shogun, with pianist Ian Temple and sound/voice artist Jesse Perlstein, as well as other projects. In 2024, Young […]
Thursday May 09, 2024 | 8:00 pm
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 […]
Friday April 12, 2024 | 8:00 pm
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 […]
Friday April 19, 2024 | 8:00 pm
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 […]
Friday February 02, 2024 | 8:00 pm
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!
Wednesday December 27, 2023 | 8:00 pm
60th Annual Feast of St. Dierker
John Dierker, Will Redman & Marc Miller two sets with special guests
Wednesday December 20, 2023 | 8:00 pm
UMBC & Peabody Improvisation Ensembles
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 […]
Sunday February 25, 2024 | 8:00 pm
Ben Richter’s just-intonation accordion w/ Sam Pluta, Sky Macklay & Ruby Fulton
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 […]
Saturday November 18, 2023 | 7:30 pm
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 […]
Saturday November 11, 2023 | 8:00 pm
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 […]
Thursday November 30, 2023 | 8:00 pm
Waco Mammoth | 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.
