Festival Schedule

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High Jinx     (public performances)


25th Year Bash
Friday 9/15 (early show) 7:30 pm

Kicking off High Zero week with a celebration of 25 years of Baltimore's international festival of experimental improvised music. This performance will be at Current Space [directions]. All following performances will be at the Baltimore Theatre Project.

Set 1
Eric Franklin
Dave Moré
Set 2
Carrie Fucile
Liz Meredith
Bob Wagner
Set 3
Rose Hammer Burt
Dan Conrad
Lexie Mountain
Khristian Weeks
Set 4
Susan Alcorn
Dave Ballou
Dan Breen
Bonnie Lander
Peter Redgrave


8:30pm

Solo
Tom Boram harpsichord, synthesizer
Set 1
Jeff Carey electronics
genosidra electronics, processed vocals, bass
Zoh Amba saxophone
John Dierker reeds
Qiujiang Levi Lu laptop, amplified body
Set 2
Lauren Sarah Hayes electronics
Martin Schmidt objects, electronics
CK Barlow live sampling, electronics
Set 3
Simone Baron accordion, piano
Emily Rach Beisel woodwinds, electronics
Toshi Makihara percussion
Chris Taylor guitar, percussion
Set 4
Shelly Purdy percussion
Martin Schmidt objects, electronics
Alma Laprida trumpet marine, electronics
Stewart Mostofsky electronics

8:30pm

Solo
Toshi Makihara percussion
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
Zoh Amba saxophone
Emily Rach Beisel woodwinds, electronics
Tom Boram harpsichord, synthesizer
John Dierker reeds
Nicolas Field drums, electronics
genosidra electronics, processed vocals, bass
Adam Goodwin doublebass
Lauren Sarah Hayes electronics
Katt Hernandez violin
Alma Laprida trumpet marine, electronics
Qiujiang Levi Lu laptop, amplified body
Stewart Mostofsky electronics
Paul Neidhardt percussion
Will Redman percussion
Zachary James Watkins tone generator

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

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8:30pm
Solo
Emily Rach Beisel woodwinds, electronics
Set 1
Adam Goodwin doublebass
Chris Taylor guitar, percussion
Shelly Purdy percussion
Jeff Carey electronics
Set 2
Paul Neidhardt percussion
Alma Laprida trumpet marine, electronics
Zachary James Watkins tone generator
Set 3
Zoh Amba saxophone
Nicolas Field drums, electronics
Will Redman percussion
Adam Goodwin doublebass
Set 4
Lauren Sarah Hayes electronics
Katt Hernandez violin
Toshi Makihara percussion
Simone Baron accordion, piano
CK Barlow live sampling, electronics

8:30pm
Solo
Shelly Purdy percussion
Set 1
CK Barlow live sampling, electronics
John Dierker reeds
Katt Hernandez violin
Chris Taylor guitar, percussion
Set 2
Martin Schmidt objects, electronics
Will Redman percussion
Jeff Carey electronics
Set 3
Simone Baron accordion, piano
Tom Boram harpsichord, synthesizer
Qiujiang Levi Lu laptop, amplified body
Paul Neidhardt percussion
Set 4
Stewart Mostofsky electronics
Zachary James Watkins tone generator
genosidra electronics, processed vocals, bass
Nicolas Field drums, electronics


High Zero Artists will engage curious minds at area institutions.

Lauren Sarah Hayes
Electronics
Towson University, CA 2092
Friday 9/22 12pm

Zoh Amba
Saxophone
Towson University, CA 2092
Friday 9/22 1pm


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


 

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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.