2009 High Zero Festival of Experimental Improvised Music

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
JULY 22ND, 2009
BALTIMORE, MD

What: High Zero Festival of Experimental Improvised Music
When: September 10th - 13th, 2009
Where: Theatre Project 45 W. Preston Street, Baltimore, MD 21201-5717
General Contact: info@redroom.org
Press Inquiries: blakeplock@gmail.com
Tele: press: 410-493-0912 / general: 443-414-5414
Website: www.highzero.org
Twitter Hashtag: #HZF2009
PR Updates: http://diymummy.blogspot.com

11th Annual High Zero Festival to bring global experimental culture to Baltimore

“A fertile laboratory of musical possibility without equal.” - Signal to Noise

“An utterly confounding yet utopian vision of musical possibilities” - Wire Magazine

Baltimore’s High Zero Festival—one of the longest running and most successful festivals of experimental improvised music in the country and what City Paper called “one of Baltimore’s great cultural treasures” is entering its eleventh year.

The High Zero Festival -- called by Baltimore Magazine the city’s “Best Music Festival” -- gathers avant-garde musicians and artists each year from around the world for a series of concerts featuring startlingly new ad hoc collaborations, virtually taking over the city that Rolling Stone cites as having the “Best Music Scene” in the USA.

Attendance of the High Zero Festival in previous years has been exceptionally high for this non-commercial music, with the festival frequently selling out. A weekend pick in the New York Times and regularly covered by major European and U.S. magazines, the festival is an outgrowth of the vital weekly Red Room performance series at Normals Books and Records, which since 1996 has presented roughly 800 concerts of experimental music in Baltimore, making it one of the longest running series of its kind in the country.

“Some of the most intense new music being made anywhere, on everything from oboes and one-of-a-kind instruments to the human body itself
unforgettable performances.” - The Washington Post

“So highly singular that it corresponds to nothing that has been heard before.” - Maryland Public Television

The eleventh annual High Zero Festival of Experimental Improvised Music will take place at Theatre Project in Baltimore, MD this September 10th - 13th, 2009. The press is invited to inquire regarding interviews and special announcements.

2009 Festival Musicians:

From afar:

Martin Blaží&#269;ek (projection)
Prague

Chris Cooper (guitar)
Massachusetts

Michael Evans (drums)
NYC

Margarida Garcia (bass)
NYC

Hans Grüsel (electronics)
San Francisco

Killick (harpeggione)
Athens, GA

Miya Masaoka (koto, electronics)
NYC

Ava Mendoza (electric guitar)
San Francisco

Kenta Nagai (fretless guitar, shamisen)
NYC

Andrea Neumann (inner piano)
Berlin

Morten Olson (drums / supercollider 3)
Norway

Christofer Varner (trombone)
Munich, Germany

Raed Yassin (bass)
Amsterdam, Netherlands

From Baltimore:

Dave Ballou (trumpet)

Nick Becker (moog/electric guitar)

Shelly Blake-Plock (guitar)

Tom Boram (electronics, voice)

Rose Burt (reeds)

Samuel Burt (clarinets, electronics)

Max Eilbacher (sax, vln, electronics)

Twig Harper (electronics)

Jorge Martins (guitar, wild wave)

Melissa Moore (electronics)

Stewart Mostofsky (electronics)

Paul Neidhardt (percussion, friction)

Kate Porter (cello)

Will Redman (drums)

For more information contact:
High Zero Foundation, Inc.
General Contact: info@redroom.org
Press Inquiries: blakeplock@gmail.com
Tele: press: 410-493-0912 / general: 443-414-5414
Website: www.highzero.org
Twitter Hashtag: #HZF2009
PR Updates: http://diymummy.blogspot.com

Documentation of the 2008 High Zero Festival can now be found at:http://www.highzero.org/2008_documentation/