High Zero Festival

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.

The festival exposes large audiences to this radical music in its pure form. Large-scale public concerts, recording sessions, workshops, and guerilla street performances are all part of the heady mix. The players are carefully selected by the festival's organizers for their intense, unique music, whether it is based around dramatic intensity, humor, specially designed instruments, original approach, raw sound, or nearly superhuman instrumental technique. The resulting collaborations challenge the limits of music and delight by their audacity, expressiveness, immediacy, and innovation. It isn't about stars or established projects; it is about the most uncompromising and stimulating new improvised music we can bring together.

Schedule Of Events:

Solo
Rachel Beetz flute, electronics

Set 1
Che Davis trombone
Thomas Florin piano
Bonnie Lander voice
Sam Newsome soprano sax with horn preparations
Chris Williams trumpet

Set 2
Putu Tangkas Adi Hiranmayena Balinese gamelan
Mickey Lusk harp
Jamal Moore reeds, percussion, electronics

Set 3
CK Barlow sampling
Obie Feldi computer
Sam Pluta electronics
Mary Staubitz objects

Set 4
Ishmael Ali cello, SP-404
Darien Baiza drums
Patrick McMinn trumpet, electronics
The Emperor King Bishop: Solomon Selassie sax, keys, bass, electronics, voice

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