Major Concerts
September 10th - 13th, 2009
@ The Theatre Project   45 W Preston St.   Baltimore
Click links for detailed set listings.

Thursday Night, September 10th
Doors open 7:30 PM, Performances start 8:30 PM sharp

Friday Night, September 11th
Doors open 7:30 PM, Performances start 8:30 PM sharp

Saturday Matinee (Day), September 12th
Doors open 12 NOON, Performances start 1:00 PM sharp

Saturday Night, September 12th
Doors open 7:30PM, Performances start 8:30 PM sharp

Sunday Night, September 13th
Doors open 7:30PM, Performances start 8:30 PM sharp

 
Click here to purchase tickets or a festival pass.

 

 

High Zero Panel Discussion
September 2nd, 2009
@ The Wind Up Space   12 W North Ave.    Baltimore

Baltimore Experimental Music Aesthetics and Instrument Design
Hosted by: Design Conversation

The Wind Up Space
Wednesday, September 2nd
6:00 PM
FREE

Open discussion of experimental music and instrument design aesthetics. Local instrument designers will demonstrate their instruments, talk about their aesthetic approach, and engage in a discussion of aesthetic principles as applied to experimental music and instrument design.

Presentations by local instrument designers and musicians:
Dan Conrad
Neil Feather
Peter Blasser
Stewart Mostofsky
Melissa Moore

 

Followed by a 9:00PM performance by High Zero performers past and present:
Audrey Chen (Baltimore): voice, cello, electronics
Raed Yassin (Beirut / Amsterdam): bass
Jeff Carey (Baltimore): computer, original software
Morten Olsen (Norway / Berlin): drums, supercollider 3
NOTE: There is a $5 cover for this latter event.

 

 

High Zero Opening Party
September 8th, 2009
@ Load of Fun   120 W North Ave.   Baltimore

7:30 PM - $6 admission

The High Zero festival kicks off with a party at the site of High Zero's gallery installation show, INEQUALITIES, and will feature varied performances by the installation artists. Tickets available only at the door.

 

 

"INEQUALITIES"

High Zero Sound Installations
August 28th - September 14th, 2009
@ Load of Fun   120 W North Ave.   Baltimore

Since 2001, High Zero Festival has included a gallery show of installations, primarily to do with sound and other elements related to the broad experimental music and thought culture of which High Zero is a part. This year, High Zero Foundation presents INEQUALITIES, a gallery show at the Load of Fun curated with works of four very interesting local artists. Special thanks are due to Ric Royer and Sherwin Mark, and to the artists. The gallery does not have regular hours but is often accessible during the day, and is accessible during all Load of Fun events. See loadoffun.net for a schedule.

Please visit the INEQUALITIES page for further details.

The following artists will present work in the show:
Walter Carpenter
Owen Gardner
Jesse Haas
Ayako Katoaka
Jimmy Joe Roche

 

 

HighJinx

Site specific performances everywhere you look!
Visit the HighJinx Page for a calendar of planned events throughout Baltimore.

 

 

Workshops

Miya Masaoka
Goucher College
1021 Dulaney Valley Road
Thursday, September 10th
1:00PM - Room 115 KA (Computer Music Studio)

Morten Olsen
Peabody Conservatory
1 E Mt. Vernon Place
Friday, Sepember 11th
1:00PM - Room 314C

Michael Evans
University of Maryland - Baltimore County
1000 Hilltop Circle
Friday, Sepember 11th
1:00PM - Room 508

 

 

Major Concerts
@ The Theatre Project   45 W Preston St.   Baltimore
Doors open 7:30 PM, Performances start 8:30 PM sharp.

Detailed set listings:

Thursday Night, September 10th
[buy tickets]

Solo
Christofer Varner: trombone

Group One
Tom Boram: prepared piano, tap shoes
Miya Masaoka: koto, electronics
Melissa Moore: electronics, turntable

Group Two
Nick Becker: moog, electric guitar
Max Eilbacher: sax, violin, electronics
Hans Grüsel: electronics
Twig Harper: electronics

Group Three
Samuel Burt: clarinets, electronics
Will Redman: drums
Raed Yassin: bass

Group Four
Martin Blažíček: projection
Michael Evans: drums
Melissa Moore: electronics, turntable
Morten Olsen: drums, supercollider 3

 

Friday Night, September 11th
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Solo
Morten Olsen: drums, supercollider 3

Group One
Dave Ballou: trumpet
Killick: harpeggione
Stewart Mostofsky: electronics
Kate Porter: cello

Group Two
Tom Boram: prepared piano, tap shoes
Chris Cooper: guitar
Michael Evans: drums

Group Three
Jorge Martins: guitar, wild wave
Miya Masaoka: koto, electronics

Group Four
Shelly Blake-Plock: guitar
Samuel Burt: clarinets, electronics
Hans Grüsel: electronics
Stewart Mostofsky: electronics
Christofer Varner: trombone

 

Saturday Matinee (Day), September 12th -- SPECIAL EVENT!!!
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SNACKS' DOMEdome (a work for seven mobile "musicians", 4 sensory "titillators", and any available "guinea pigs")

SNACKS, Tom Boram and Dan Breen, accompanied by their feminine doppelgangers, or perhaps more appropriately SNACKS' Doppelgangers accompanied by Snacks offer forth a work of fully improvised synesthetic algorithms, each unique relative to the individuals present - a fully immersive sense experience intended to ignore the typical sound/visual pairing in favor of accentuating possible unique consonances and dissonances between the senses of hearing (both timbre and spacial location), smell, taste and touch. SNACKS and their doppelGANGers do not put mildly the term "mild" and intend for the performance to be "mild", meaning digestible to any and all concert goers of each temperament. Inversely, rambunctious diets and particular fetishes will be considered where applicable. In addition to ignoring the "visual" sense in DOMEdome, Snacks will also not intentionally include content within the "sixth" or higher order senses.

Featuring:
Nick Becker: moog, electric guitar
Samuel Burt: clarinets, electronics
Max Eilbacher: sax, violin, electronics
Michael Evans: drums
Jorge Martins: guitar, wild wave
Ava Mendoza: electric guitar
Christofer Varner: trombone

Deliberative Assembly by Will Redman, et alia

A fine gentleman and musician once expressed dismay at the unusual amount of interpretive exertion required in the performance of a certain composer's music. To paraphrase: "It may as well be my name on the front of the score if I have to make so many decisions about how the music will sound." (And this in Century XXI!) Forgive the immediate digression High Zero audience members, and ready your eyes, ears, and dominant hands so that you too can engage in a performance that will lead you to express dismay at the unusual interpretive exertion required to spin the four rings of an oculaural planet. A brand new graphic score for the occasion: re-aggregated by the gathered, as an intra-venue interpersonal palimpsest, and subject to enlightened transcription intended to be full-heartedly and foolhardily bellowed and keened by the gallery.

Featuring:
Dave Ballou: trumpet
Rose Burt: reeds
Margarida Garcia: bass
Melissa Moore: electronics, turntable
Kenta Nagai: fretless guitar, shamisen
Paul Neidhardt: percussion, friction
Raed Yassin: bass

 

Saturday Night, September 12th
[buy tickets]

Solo
Miya Masaoka: koto, electronics

Group One
Martin Blažíček: projection
Rose Burt: reeds
Killick: harpeggione
Miya Masaoka: koto, electronics
Kenta Nagai: fretless guitar, shamisen

Group Two
Chris Cooper: guitar
Nick Becker: moog, electric guitar
Stewart Mostofsky: electronics

Group Three
Margarida Garcia: bass
Hans Grüsel: electronics
Paul Neidhardt: percussion, friction
Morten Olsen: drums, supercollider 3
Raed Yassin: bass

Group Four
Shelly Blake-Plock: guitar
Chris Cooper: guitar
Michael Evans: drums
Twig Harper: electronics
Ava Mendoza: electric guitar

 

Sunday Night, September 13th
[buy tickets]

Solo
Twig Harper: electronics

Group One
Martin Blažíček: projection
Paul Neidhardt: percussion, friction
Christofer Varner: trombone

Group Two
Margarida Garcia: bass
Jorge Martins: guitar, wild wave
Kate Porter: cello

Group Three
Dave Ballou: trumpet
Max Eilbacher: sax, violin, electronics
Killick: harpeggione
Ava Mendoza: electric guitar

Group Four
Shelly Blake-Plock: guitar
Rose Burt: reeds
Kenta Nagai: fretless guitar, shamisen
Kate Porter: cello
Will Redman: drums