Date/Time
Date(s) - 09/15/2017
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Location
Towson University Jazz Department
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.
4:30PM, Friday, September 15
Towson University Jazz Department, 7700 Osler Drive, Towson, MD 21204