Date/Time
Date(s) - 09/17/2017
8:30 PM - 10:30 PM
Location
Baltimore Theatre Project
Category(ies)
- Dance
- Music
- Avant-Garde
- Electronic
- Ensemble
- Experimental
- Festival
- Improvisation
- Indie
- International
- Premiere
- Solo
- Sonic
- Symphonic
- Vocal
- Workshop
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High Zero is the premier festival of Improvised, Experimental music on the East Coast, being fully devoted to new collaborations between the most inspired improvisors from around the world.
Lasting two weeks in total, the festival brings together 28 core musicians each year, but also involves a much larger subculture of musicians in Baltimore and on the East Coast. Unlike many related festivals, High Zero is not narrow in terms of sensibility or subculture, but rather widely inclusive of all the different types of experimental music-making in the moment. The fact that half of the festival’s core participants are from Baltimore speaks to the depth of Baltimore’s experimental music subculture, which in recent years has grown to be one of the richest cities in the country for experimental art.
The festival has a unique structure. High Zero is focused solely on new collaborations in freely improvised experimental music. Internationally famous musicians play side by side with younger “unknowns,” united by their commitment to the musical imagination. Each year, Baltimore becomes a fertile meeting-ground for a large group of inspired players, drawn from a fascinating international subculture.
Sunday Night, September 17
- Doors Open: 7:30PM
- Performances Start: 8:30PM
Solo
- Kazuhisa Uchihashi — daxophone, guitar
The Night of Randomization
As a new ongoing tradition, the High Zero Festival will leave Sunday Night’s sets up to chance. Fourteen performers will be divided into four sets, randomly. What kind of wonderful, unplanned, musical collisions will happen this year?
Musicians will be chosen from this list:
- id m theft able — voice, electronics, objects
- Andrew Bernstein — saxophone
- Tania Chen — piano
- Dan Deacon — electronics, mechanical instruments
- Joe McPhee — saxophone, pocket trumpet, reeds
- Michael Gayle — piano
- Jamal Moore — woodwinds, electronics, percussion
- Lexie Mountain — voice, electronics
- Baba L’Salaam — abujaphone, voice, found objects
- Shelly Purdy — percussion
- M.C. Schmidt — electronics, percussion
- Sheriff of Nottingham — guitar
- Maria Shesiuk — keyboards, synthesizer
- Julian Valdivieso — synthesizer, electronics
Group One
Random group from the list above.
Group Two
Random group chosen from the list above.
Group Three
Random group chosen from the list above.
Group Four
Random group chosen from the list above.