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 […]
Thursday March 26, 2026 | 8:00 pm
A book, a world, a history a system of systems: THE COMPOSER’S 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Wednesday August 27, 2025 | 8:00 pm
for-tet & Portraits in Red and Gold
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 […]
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 […]
Friday January 31, 2025 | 8:00 pm
Tony Malaby’s 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 […]
Monday November 04, 2024 | 8:00 pm
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 […]
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 […]
Sunday September 08, 2024 | 8:00 pm
Senso di Voce & Max Gong/M.C. Schmidt/Obie Feldi
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 […]
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 July 11, 2024 | 8:00 pm
The Rockers – Toshi Makihara/John Dierker/Caleb Duval – Logan Perry
The Rockers are the New York City based creative music quartet of James Mckain (saxophone), James Paul Nadien (drums), Shogo Yamagishi (bass), and Tom Weeks (saxophone). They perform high energy original compositions. All four members are prolific composer/performers and can be heard together on the 2024 recording A Man’s Image (Astral Editions). Toshi Makihara/John Dierker/Caleb Duval An […]
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 […]
Thursday March 14, 2024 | 8:00 pm
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 […]
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!
Tuesday January 16, 2024 | 8:00 pm
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 […]
Wednesday March 20, 2024 | 8:00 pm
Dani Dobkin & Matt Sargent | Jil Christensen, David Menestres & Will Redman
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 […]
