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High Zero Festival 2017 – Solos, Groups, Workshops

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Date(s) - 09/12/2017 - 09/17/2017
9:30 PM - 10:30 PM

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Baltimore Theatre Project

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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.

Thursday Night, September 14

  • Doors Open: 7:30PM
  • Performances Start: 8:30PM

Solo

Group One

Group Two

Group Three

Group Four

Friday Night, September 15

  • Doors Open: 7:30PM
  • Performances Start: 8:30PM

Solo

Group One

Group Two

Group Three

Group Four

Saturday Night, September 16

  • Doors Open: 7:30PM
  • Performances Start: 8:30PM

Solo

Group One

Group Two

Group Three

Group Four

Sunday Night, September 17

  • Doors Open: 7:30PM
  • Performances Start: 8:30PM

Solo

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:

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.

Workshops

9:30PM, Tuesday, September 12

Goucher College, 1021 Dulaney Valley Road, Baltimore, MD 21204

Room KA115 (Computer Music Studio)

6:00PM, Wednesday, September 13

Peabody Computer Music, 

Room PCM314

Thursday, September 14

Johns Hopkins Film Center, 

Note: Sorry. Cannot accomodate visitors.

12:00PM, Friday, September 15

UMBC Music, 

4:30PM, Friday, September 15

Towson University Jazz Department, 7700 Osler Drive, Towson, MD 21204

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