Friday December 01, 2023 | 8:00 pm
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.
Sunday October 29, 2023 | 8:00 pm
In Defense of Memory: NIGHT 2
Tonight IDOM will be featured in collaboration with local artists! 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 […]
Tuesday July 11, 2023 | 8:30 pm
Ruby Mars, 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 […]
Friday May 05, 2023 | 8:30 pm
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 […]
Monday February 10, 2020 | 8:45 pm
Sandy Ewen · CK Barlow, Rose Burt, & Shelly Purdy
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 […]
Thursday October 03, 2019 | 7:30 pm
Fred Frith Trio · Jamal Moore
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 […]
Sunday May 07, 2017 | 7:00 pm
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 […]
Saturday January 28, 2017 | 8:30 pm
David Smooke // Bonnie Jones // The 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 […]
Thursday December 29, 2016 | 9:00 pm
A 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! […]
Tuesday December 13, 2016 | 8:30 pm
SUSAN ALCORN & PHILLIP GREENLIEF // BILIANA VOUTCHKOVA & MICHAEL THIEKE (DE)
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” […]
Sunday March 13, 2016 | 8:30 pm
Jen Baker & Patrick Crossland
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 […]