The High Zero Festival of Experimental Improvised Music is coming September 18th-21st, 2025!

Performers from Baltimore


Daoure Diongue sax, keys, drums, ngoni

Laure Dragoul concepts, perfomance art

Stewart Mostofsky electronics

Paul Neidhardt percussion

Bao Nguyen voice, objects

Taylor Washington violin  
 
More Coming soon!
 
 
 
 
 

Performers from Afar


Ayako Kataoka Blasser Berlin/Japan electronics, movement

Daniel Carter New York reeds, brass

Warren "Tre" Cruddup III New York drums

Erin Demastes objects, motors, circuits, laptop

Anne Ishii Philadelphia percussion, electronics

Jessica Pavone New York viola

Julián Pujols Quall Chicago piano, drums

Olaf Rupp Berlin guitar

Matthew Ryals New York modular synth

Jun Yan Beijing concepts, feedback, electronics, objects, voice  
 
More Coming soon!
 
 

2024 Documentation

2024 Promo Site

“The continent’s finest four days of all-in improv and otherwise musical exploration.”
- City Paper
“A fertile laboratory of musical possibility without equal.”
- Signal to Noise Magazine
“So highly singular that it corresponds to nothing that has been heard before.”
- Maryland Public Television

 
 

Photo credit: Dave Iden; HZ 2024
Above - Mary Staubitz (objects)
Below, left - Sam Newsome (soprano sax with horn preparations)

Photo credit: David Lobato; HZ 2024
Below, right - Rachel Beetz (flute, electronics)