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 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!
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.