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Exotic Hypnotic: High Zero Foundation's 24-hours of extremely varied music sponsored by Baltimore Office of Promotion and The Arts.
University of Baltimore Performing Arts Center Student Theatre - 21 West Mount Royal Avenue, 5th Floor - Air Conditioned!!
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Friday, July 16th, Free
2pm- Robby Rackleff: Eccentric multimedia monologist.
3pm- Aaron Henkin: Producer of the Signal presents original radio documentaries.
4pm- Square Pi: Experimental vocalist and sound-collage artist.
5pm- Baltimore Sacred Harp: Oldest American a cappella singing tradition comes alive.
6pm- The Hammered: Grandiose theatrical heavy metal ensemble.
7pm- Weyes Bluhd: Dark lo-fi ballads.
8pm- Janitor: Homoerotic industrial performance electronics.
9pm- Annex Theater: Psychadelic dream-like theater work with puppets, live music, actors, and projection.
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Saturday, July 17th, Free
12pm- Avocado Happy Hour: Tuneful percussive oddities.
1pm- Turquiose Cats: Electro feline minimal electronics.
2pm- The Creepers: Wacky tortured songs with great lyrics.
3pm- Jason Urick: Baltimore ping pong icon and legendary laptop jammer.
4pm- Singers Madrigale: Wandering Traditional Renaissance voices.
5pm- Stuart Saunders Smith: Avant-garde classical music.
6pm- Summer Games (Schwartz/Fell/Boeldt): Money hungry boy band.
7pm- Death Race 2000 (Broydelic Sidecar I + Stewart Mostofsky): Conceptual experimental supergroup meets 70's Carsploitation film.
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Sunday, July 18th, Free
12pm- Jah Hannibal/Aaron Martin/Britton Powell: Down-to-earth cosmic free jazz.
1pm- Nothingberry Plasma: One-man electronics and drum psychosis.
2pm- Stewart Mosotofsky, John Berndt, Kate Porter and friends.
3pm- Jeff Carey: Globe-trotting experimental electronic musician.
4pm- Andrew Bernstein: Electronic free-wheeling post-song rock.
5pm- Yoshiko Ohara w/ Gerry Mak: Doom and gloom from members of Bloody Ailuropoda melanoleuca.
6pm- Embarrassment Poems: A cavalcade of experimental language.
7pm- Baltimore Experimental Dance Group: Unusual movement and inspired oddity.
See the full schedule of events here: http://www.exotichypnotic.org/
Get a Taste at Taster:
Thursday, June 3th, Free
At 2640 Space: a collectively run events venue in Baltimore, located at 2640 St. Paul St.
TASTER! A free introductory concert to experimental / improvised music with a bevy of stellar Baltimore musicians.
Are you interested in experimental music but not sure where to start? Or do you have friends or family members that you think might be interested in this stuff if it was introduced to them in the right way? In order to make this sort of thing happen more frequently, High Zero has put together this special free event at 2640 space called TASTER. Its a buffet of virtuoso experimental music styles.
In addition to good food and drink and casual conversation, this event will feature short, highly varied sets by these hand-picked ensembles of great Baltimore area musicians:
Neil Feather: inventions
Eric Franklin: inventions
Dan Breen: inventions
John Dierker: bass clarinet
Samuel Burt: bass clarinet
Britton Powell: bass
Will Redman: drums
Susan Alcorn: pedal steel guitar
Paul Neidhardt: drums
Chris Pumphrey: alto saxophone
Andy Hayleck: inventions
Ayako Katoaka: inventions
Peter Blasser: inventions
Audrey Chen: cello, voice
Shodekeh: human beat-boxing
Brian Sacawa: saxophones
Please come and bring interested friends and family. Its a chance to get them to peek into the amazing, exotic world of Baltimore experimental music and see what you like. We think they will find it interesting, and it may open some interesting doors for people. The whole event will last about an hour and a half, starting at the Church at 8PM sharp.
