FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Baltimore’s 9th High Zero Festival 
Sept 27th–Sept 31th 2007, at Theater Project, Baltimore

Baltimore High Zero Festival Convenes 
The International Musical Avant-Garde

Baltimore’s High Zero Festival is the premier festival of experimental improvised music in the country. A critically acclaimed event that would be completely exotic anywhere in the world, the international festival is an outgrowth of Baltimore’s world-class scene for sonic and musical experimentation. Each year's festival brings together the most inspired and unique experimental musicians and improvisers from around the world together in all-new impromptu collaborations with Baltimore’s vital improvisation community, producing “new music that has never been heard before.” 

Over a two-week period, these collaborations take the form of “sound installations” in galleries around town, public workshops at universities, anarchic site-specific street performances around the city, and then culminate in four days of intensive improvised music concerts at The Theater Project, September 27th-30th. 

A weekend pick in the New York Times, Voted “Best Music Festival” by Baltimore Magazine, “Best New Cultural Event” by The City Paper, and regularly covered by major European and U.S. magazines, the festival has been an outgrowth of the weekly Red Room performance series, which since 1996 has presented roughly 600 concerts of experimental music in Baltimore, making it one of the longest running series of its kind in the country. Attendance of the High Zero festival in previous years has been exceptionally high for this non-commercial music, with the festival frequently selling out. 

The music heard in High Zero is extremely varied in style and content but it is safe to say all of it is far from what most people have ever heard, so first time listeners should expect to be surprised by the experience. Some of the musicians are classically trained; others come from a jazz or rock tradition, while others are true “mad scientists” starting from scratch—but every one of them Is FAR OUT.

The festival has proved that uncompromisingly radical music can be popular, and has had a palpable effect on the cultural scene in Baltimore, altering the perception of what is possible and influencing many types of music. This year the High Zero festival continues to expand, celebrating it’s ninth year of audacious musical experiments. The festival highlights Baltimore as a special place for highly unusual, risk-taking and novel culture and to regularly produce some of the freshest improvised music on the planet.

For more information contact: High Zero Foundation, Inc. 
John Berndt  info@berndtgroup.net, 443 414 5414

High Zero 2007 Fact Sheet

When: 		Live performances at Theater Project:  
Thursday September 27th – Sunday September 30th, 2007		
		Sound Installations: 
Thursday September 20th - Friday October 5th, 2007

Where: 	4 big days of Live Performances, Thursday-Sunday:
at The Theater Project 
45 West Preston Street
Baltimore, MD. 21201

Workshops schedule to be announced in August.

What:		International festival of experimental, improvised music
		Includes 20+ sets of live music at The Theater Project over four days
Plus free workshops, street performances and sound installations (at The Current Gallery and Creative Alliance) starting a week before. 

Showtimes: 	Thursday-Sunday 8:30-midnight
		Saturday matinee show, 1-4PM

Admission:	Individual concert: $12
		Senior/Student Tickets: $8
		Festival pass: $40

The Musicians: 

FROM AFAR… 
Jaap Blonk (Holland): voice, electronics
Jamie Branch (Chicago): trumpet
Asimina Chremos (Chicago): movement
Aaron Dilloway (Ann Arbor): 8-tracks, electronics
Chris Heenan (Germany): contrabass clarinet, alto saxophone
Thomas Helton (Houston): acoustic bass
Sofia Jernberg (Sweden): voice
Matthias Kaul (Germany): percussion, hurdy-gurdy
Kyp Malone (New York): guitar, voice
Donna Parker (Boston): sound
Eve Risser (France): prepared piano, toys, voice
Matana Roberts (New York): saxophones
Marina Rosenfeld (New York): turntables, sound
Massimo Simonini (Italy): prepared theremin, objects, voice
ID M Theft Able (Portland): mouth, frictions, textures, etc.

FROM BALTIMORE…

John Berndt: electronics, reeds, inventions
Peter Blasser: original inventions, strings
Dan Breen: strings, percussion, electronics
Jeff Carey: computer, original software
Audrey Chen: cello, voice, electronics
Dan Conrad: inventions, voice
John Dierker: reeds
Eric Franklin: strings, percussion
Chiara Giovando: voice, violin, electronics
Bonnie Jones: electronics
Melissa Moore: field recordings, electronics
Stewart Mostofsky: electronics, strings
Shodekeh: human beat-boxing

For more Information:  Contact John Berndt johnb@berndtgroup.net or 443 414 5414