High Zero Festival

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1.	Dorothea Schurch, Kaffe Matthews, and Tom Boram at High Zero 2011 28:42	buy track
2.	John Butcher, David Watson, Katie Young, and Gerry Mak at High Zero 2011 09:35	buy track
3.	Katt Hernandez, Rose Hammer Burt, and Amy Cimini at High Zero 2011 20:59	buy track
4.	Weasel Walter, Sharon Manseur, Jesse Haas, and Rose Hammer Burt at High Zero 2013 18:01	buy track
5.	Nava Dunkleman, M.C. Schmidt, and Caroline Marcantoni at High Zero 2015 23:34	buy track
6.	John Berndt, Liew Niyomkarn, Jeff Carey, and Ruby Fulton at High Zero 2016 20:58	buy track
7.	Joe McPhee, Paul Neidhardt, and Sharif Sehnaoui at High Zero 2017 20:48	buy track
8.	Rose Hammer Burt, Carol Genetti, and Shelly Purdy at High Zero 2018 16:29	buy track
9.	Charmaine Lee at High Zero 2019 08:34	buy track
10.	Sarah Hennies, Bonnie Jones, Lê Quan Ninh, and Biliana Voutchkova at High Zero 2019 23:43	buy track
11.	Nik Francis, Owen Gardner, Clarissa Gregory, and Kristen Toedtman at High Zero 2019 24:27	buy track
12.	Lê Quan Ninh at High Zero 2019 18:56	buy track

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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 22 core musicians, 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.

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.

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released September 9, 2019

All tracks mixed recorded and mixed by the High Zero Collective*
Tracks 1, 3, 4, and 7 mastered by Thomas Dimuzio
Tracks 2, 5, and 6 mastered by Jeff Carey

The High Zero Collective is currently:

Andrew Bernstein
CK Barlow
John Berndt
Tom Boram
Rose Burt
Sam Burt
Jeff Carey
Owen Gardner
Bonnie Jones
Jamal Moore
Stewart Mostofsky
Shelly Purdy
Paul Neidhardt
Jimmy Joe Roche
M.C. Schmidt

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