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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Saturday March 10, 2018 | 8:30 pm

Judith Hamann · Julia Reidy · The Witches

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 […]

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Thursday January 14, 2016 | 8:30 pm

Morton Feldman and the Electric Guitar / Khristian Weeks

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 […]

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Sunday August 09, 2015 | 9:00 pm

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 […]

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