Festival Schedule

Purchase tickets here. Doors open at 7:30pm.
Shows start at 8:30pm sharp.

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High Jinx     (public performances)


Thursday 9/15 8:30pm

Solo
Bonnie Lander voice
Set 1
Ami Yamasaki voice
Raven Chacon electronics
Jamal Moore reeds, percussion
Tatiana Castro piano, spoken word-poetry
Set 2
Nate Nelson percussion
Eze Jackson voice
Michele Blu singing bowl, gong, percussion
Robin Rhodes double bass
Luciana Arias dance
Set 3
Sarah Belle Reid trumpet, electronics
James Fei saxophones
Samuel Burt reeds, daxophone
Set 4
Michele Blu singing bowl, gong, percussion
James Young bassoon
Nate Scheible drums, electronics, tapes

Friday 9/16 8:30pm

Solo
Lafayette Gilchrist piano
The Night of Randomization
As an ongoing tradition, the High Zero Festival will leave Friday Night's sets up to chance. Sixteen performers will be divided into four sets, randomly. What kind of wonderful, unplanned, musical collisions will happen this year?
Participants
Luciana Arias dance
John Berndt electronics, saxophone
Samuel Burt reeds, daxophone
Tatiana Castro piano, spoken word-poetry
James Fei saxophones
Norman Long sampler/synthesizers
Sarah Manley trombone
Jamal Moore reeds, percussion
Nate Nelson percussion
Sarah Belle Reid trumpet, electronics
Erik Ruin overhead projector
Nate Scheible drums, electronics, tapes
Will Yager double bass
James Young bassoon

What could happen during the Night of Randomization? Find out yourself!

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Saturday 9/17 8:30pm
Set 1
Sarah Belle Reid trumpet, electronics
Sarah Manley trombone
Bonnie Lander voice
Will Yager double bass
Ami Yamasaki voice
Set 2
John Berndt electronics, saxophone
Erik Ruin overhead projector
Jamal Moore reeds, percussion
Set 3
Tatiana Castro piano, spoken word-poetry
Lafayette Gilchrist piano
Michele Blu singing bowl, gong, percussion
Norman Long sampler/synthesizer
Set 4
Eze Jackson voice
Bonnie Lander voice
Samuel Burt reeds, daxophone
Raven Chacon electronics

Sunday 9/18 8:30pm
Solo
Raven Chacon electronics
Set 1
Robin Rhodes double bass
Lafayette Gilchrist piano
Nate Nelson percussion
Sarah Manley trombone
Nate Scheible drums, electronics, tapes
Set 2
Ami Yamasaki voice
Erik Ruin overhead projector
Norman Long sampler/synthesizer
Set 3
Will Yager double bass
James Fei saxophones
Set 4
Luciana Arias dance
James Young bassoon
Robin Rhodes double bass

While the main stage is invitation-only and booked a year in advance, there are many opportunities to perform at High Zero through High Jinx, our broadly participatory, informal and unofficial site specific and street performances held throughout the city starting a week before the festival, which are some of the wildest and most inspired public art events in Baltimore. PARTICIPATE AT YOUR OWN RISK!

What kind of High Jinx have we done in the past? Check out these great photos from 2008 at the bottom of the documentation page!

Calendar


 

What do High Jinx need?

Directors: People who can decide on an event, organize it (what, where, who and when) and then follow through and execute it. This can be a simple event with one director/performer standing on a street corner or a complex event with many involved.

Performers: People who either have skills which satisfy the needs of a particular perfomance or people who want to perform in something that doesn't need specific skills

Places: A great site can dictate what should be perfomed there (ex. crossing over). Or, a great site can be perfect for anything you put in it.

Documenters: Video cameras, journalists, poets, photographers, sound recordists, spys.

Creative thinkers: High Jinx is almost "anything goes". Simple ideas can make beautiful events. What can you amplify? (knitting needles) Take the mundane and over emphasize it (ultrareductionist library band). Make music out of almost nothing by meerly changing the context of existing sounds (honkers). Just act silly (the hat band). Be visual (folded paper). Be weird (crossing over). Be conventional (music games). Show off your basement projects (invented instrument)

Promoters: People who'll tell people what's happening, where and when, post to email lists, put up flyers. People who will bring more people to get involved.


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