21 W Mount Royal Ave, 5th Floor
(enter at corner of Mount Royal and Maryland Avenues)

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Present-day Baltimore overflows with exotic musical treats! For adventurous ears, the city is a small utopia … a home to weekly concerts of the most avant-garde music imaginable, as well as a wide range of hypnotic ethnic and popular music. In this diverse Artscape 2009 series, curated by the High Zero Foundation, ancient music collides with modern monstrosities, keeping you on your toes and revealing the secret connections between different culture's states of mind. Music has never been so … mental!

 
Friday July 17th


2PM
Salamander Wool
(Carson Garhart)
Theosophically inspired psychedelic experimental music.
3PM
Owen Gardner + Friends
Avant-garde minimalist.
4PM
Ayako Katoaka + Friends
Cybernetic koto and experimental electronic music.
5PM
Brandon Ables
Contemporary experimental blues singer/songwriter.
6PM
Lurch and Holler
(Liz Downing + Michael Willis)
Cosmic, lush hillbilly crooning and stomping.
7PM
Lo Moda
Baltimore's coolest premier post-rock experimentalists.
8PM
The Multiphonic Choir
Hybrid of Fela Kuti with German electronic music.
9PM
Gaybomb (Andrew Barranca)
Mind-bending sound art.
9:30PM
Tom Boram + Jenny Graf
Hypertonic electro-acoustic eccentrics.
Saturday July 18th


12PM
Ric Royer + John Eaton
Experimental language absurdists.
1PM
Dave Fell
Psychedelic/electronic folk music.
2PM
Rjyan Kidwell (AKA CEX)
Baltimore's maestro of intelligent dance subversion.
3PM
Sparrow's Point School
Steel Drum Ensemble
Traditional music performed on amazing instruments.
4PM
Quartet Offensive
Explosive experimental improvised music.
5PM
Liz Meredith + John Somers
Experimental improvised music ensemble.
6PM
Matt Davignon
Experimental ecologies from drum machine.
7PM
Needle Gun
Caustic-ecstatic Baltimore noise rock that can't say no.
Sunday July 19th


12PM
Paul Neidhardt + Jorge Martins
Careful and crafty experimental percussion and wild wave.
1PM
Child Bride w/ Melissa Moore
Frantic drums with exorcised electronics.
2PM
Lafayette Gilchrist
Baltimore's premier jazz composer plays solo piano.
3PM
Calusari (Ami Dang)
Indian classical music meets contemporary electronics.
4PM
Weekends
Furious architectural drum and guitar duo.
5PM
Il Culo
Baltimore's hottest, tightest funk unit playing harmelodic music.
6PM
Polygons
Mind-bending electronic dance music from the Hexagon space.
7PM
Larksong Vocal Ensemble
Acapella classical music from the 16th to 20th centuries.
High Zero Foundation     Artscape 2008