High Zero Festival — Chicago Night One

The High Zero Festival of Experimental Improvised Music has announced today that its 20th edition will include an expanded set of concerts and locations, bringing the festival and musicians from Baltimore to both Chicago and New York, and will close with a special all-local celebration in Baltimore this September. Beginning in 1999, the annual improvised music festival has brought together more than 200 musicians and performers from around the world, mixing and matching them in all new combinations with local Baltimore improvisers each year in never-before-seen collaborations. Signal to Noise magazine has called the festival “a fertile laboratory of musical possibility without equal”; the Washington Post has described it as “some of the most intense new music being made anywhere, on everything from oboes and one-of-a-kind instruments to the human body itself... unforgettable performances."