Magdalena Ensemble is a Baltimore-based ensemble fusing early music with folk and traditional music, with the goal of extending the life of music that is otherwise rarely performed and making it more accessible to new audiences.

The ensembles album focuses on a collection of traditional Irish, Scottish, and English Renaissance music, much of which has few existing recordings.

Join us for an improvised live score of the provocative and unyielding horror classic Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth

Doors 7pm, screening begins at 8pm

No advance tickets, #10-20 suggested donation NOTAFLOF

Sodas and popcorn for sale, free hot coco and candy!

Interested in hosting an event, concert, wedding etc?!? Stop by and check out the space and chat with our collective members :)

Tickets $15-20 at the door (NOTAFLOF)

Doors at 7 PM, Music at 7:30 PM

Noa Even, Philly-based saxophonist, opens the program with a short set of music for solo tenor saxophone. She performs her own piece, Herzl, which captures her ever-evolving relationship, a grappling of sorts, with her identity as an Israeli-American. Betsy Jolas, who recently celebrated her 100th birthday, composed Épisode Quatrième in 1983 as the fourth piece in a series of nine that showcases solo instruments. It was one of the first solo works to explore the capabilities of the tenor saxophone, an instrument primarily associated with jazz and pop music. Even now, over forty years later, the piece remains compelling in its modernist lyricism and idiomatic virtuosity.  

Germany-based Duo Tesserae present a program exploring contemporary voices connected through Germany’s vibrant new music scene. Featuring works by Rebecca Saunders, Thuon Burtevitz, and Eric Wubbels, the concert traces distinct approaches to sound, gesture, and musical form.

Burtevitz’s richly textured sonic imagination, Saunders’ refined exploration of timbre and silence, and Wubbels’ intricate rhythmic energy reveal contrasting yet complementary perspectives on contemporary composition. Together, these works showcase an international artistic dialogue, where composers of different backgrounds have shaped and reimagined contemporary musical practice.

With its characteristic precision, clarity, and vivid sense of colour, Duo Tesserae guides audiences through a landscape of striking contrasts, inviting listeners to experience the rich diversity of contemporary musical expression.

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Program:

Betsy Jolas: Épisode Quatrième (1983)

Noa Even: Herzl (2021)

short intermission

Thuon Burtevitz: Rabba in Sard... (2004 rev. 2015) - Mov. II & III 

Rebecca Saunders: Duo (1996 rev. 1999) 
Eric Wubbels: the children of fire come looking for fire (2012) 

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Biography

Based in Philadelphia, Noa Even is a versatile saxophonist dedicated to the creation of new music through improvisation, composition, and close collaboration with composers. She has premiered dozens of new works, most of which were composed for her and the groups with which she has performed. Noa is a member of New Thread Quartet and duos Ogni Suono and Audra. Her recordings have been released on New Focus Recordings and Innova. Noa is Assistant Teaching Professor and Head of Woodwinds at Rowan University in New Jersey. She has taught over 80 master classes around the world and regularly participates in student composer readings. From 2017-2020, Noa served as Executive Director of Cleveland Uncommon Sound Project (CUSP), a non-profit organization she co-founded that champions new and experimental music. She was Treasurer of the North American Saxophone Alliance from 2021 through 2024. Noa is a Conn-Selmer Artist-Clinician and a Vandoren Artist. For more information, visit www.noaevenmusic.com.

Formed in 2025, Duo Tesserae (Leipzig / Dresden, Germany) brings together two specialists in contemporary music whose collaboration began in 2018. Since then, they have worked together frequently in a variety of chamber ensembles before founding the present duo. Praised for their precision, clarity, and color, the duo are dedicated to exploring the sonic language of music today. They work closely with both emerging and established composers, often unearthing hitherto undiscovered voices, and creating performances that illuminate new perspectives on sound.

An evening of dance works in process with twelve Baltimore artists

Come watch, do, & be dance!

Maybe play some Bingo too.

Tickets sliding scale - $15-25 suggested

Come be part of the process!

$15 at the door

Crying Laughing

Deakin (from Animal Collective)

Mojuba Duo

Bring your old clothes, leave with a new wardrobe!

All sizes, all genders, all welcome.

All leftover clothing will be donated to local mutual aid organizations.

Moth Broth celebrates the release of their new single and video, “Valley of The Golden Egg”

with performances by Amy Reid, Bloody Crying Twinks, and Sylvia Jones

$10 at the door

$20 at the door

Featuring The Wontons and Greg Wellham

free! Doors at 6:30, music at 7.

community/peace/motion is a concert of new music for solo piano, performed by pianist and composer patrick flannery, connected by themes of collective memory, remembrance, and continuous motion towards a strong, equitable community here in baltimore. this program is deeply inspired by and indebted to the work done by the baltimore peace movement. the program will consist of works from judah adashi and aaron reising, alongside world premieres from phil thompson and patrick flannery.

Prehistoric Percussion is a new Baltimore city-based performing collective unified by the primal human drive for rhythm. We are inspired by the drum beat that connects all of humanity, and seek out music with rhythmic drive and personality. We hope to connect audiences to their childlike love of rhythm and drumming and share the visual, visceral thrill of virtuosic percussion performance, as we share music across the traditions we play.

Join us for our first-ever contemporary percussion performance, with energetic percussion duets, lyrical marimba solos, and groove! This performance will feature Ailee Morrison, Braeden Devnew, Brett Sellers, and Sage Nielson.

Program excerpts

Plato’s Cave by Casey Cangelosi

Etude in E Minor by Pius Cheung

As One by Gene Koshinski

Time by Minoru Miki

Renfro by Mark Ford and Paul Rennick

Skeleton Key by Brian Nozny

photo by Heike Liss

Multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improviser Fred Frith has been making noise of one kind or another for more than 50 years, starting with the rock collective Henry Cow, which he co-founded with Tim Hodgkinson in 1968. 

Fred is best known as a pioneering electric guitarist and improviser, song-writer, and composer for film, dance and theater. Through bands like Art Bears, Massacre, Skeleton Crew, the Fred Frith Guitar Quartet, Cosa Brava, and now Fremakajo he has stayed close to his roots in rock and folk music while branching out in many other directions. 

His compositions have been performed by ensembles ranging from Eclipse Quartet and the Bang on a Can All Stars to Concerto Köln and Galax Quartet, from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra to the ROVA and Arte Sax Quartets, from Sleepytime Gorilla Museum and Ground Zero to the Glasgow Improvisers’ Orchestra. 

Film music credits include the acclaimed documentaries Rivers and Tides, Leaning into the Wind, and Tracing Light, directed by Thomas Riedelsheimer; The Tango Lesson, Yes and The Party by Sally Potter; Middle of the Moment by Nicolas Humbert and Werner Penzel; as well as Penzel’s Zen for Nothing, Peter Mettler’s Gods, Gambling and LSD, and the award-winning (and Oscar-nominated) Last Day of Freedom, by Nomi Talisman and Dee Hibbert-Jones. 

Composing for dance throughout his long career, Fred has worked with Rosalind Newman and Bebe Miller in New York, François Verret and Catherine Diverrès in France, and Amanda Miller and the Pretty Ugly Dance Company over the course of many years in Germany, as well as composing for two documentary films on the work of Anna Halprin. 

Theater credits include François Chat’s Setaccio and François-Michel Pesenti’s Théâtre du Point Aveugle in Marseille, where he spent six months in 1990 working with “jeunes rockers en chômage des quartiers défavorisés” on the opera Helter Skelter. 

Fred has performed works by and sometimes alongside composers John Luther Adams, Gavin Bryars, Sylvie Courvoisier, Alvin Curran, George Lewis, Annea Lockwood, René Lussier, Jose Maceda, Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros, Terry Riley, and Christian Wolff; improvised with Lotte Anker, Derek Bailey, Han Bennink, Peter Brötzmann, Lol Coxhill, Janet Feder, gabby fluke-mogul, Tim Hodgkinson, Joëlle Léandre, Phil Minton, Ikue Mori, Butch Morris, Bob Ostertag, Evan Parker, Zeena Parkins, Paula Sanchez, Susana Santos Silva and Camel Zekri, to name a few; collaborated with classical virtuosi Evelyn Glennie, Katia Labèque, Viktoria Mullova, and Werner Bärtschi; and—as session musician—recorded on albums by, for example, Brian Eno, The Residents, Robert Wyatt, The Swans, Violent Femmes, Material, Negativland, John Zorn, Matthew and the Unfortunates, and Half Japanese. 

He is currently performing solo and with Normal (home-made instrument duo with Sudhu Tewari), Frelonia (with Lotte Anker and Núria Andorrà), Fremakajo (with Marie Abe, Kasey Knudsen and Jordan Glenn)as well as in countless combinations of his favorite co-conspirators. 

The recipient of Italy’s Demetrio Stratos Prize for his life’s work in experimental music and an honorary doctorate from the University of Huddersfield in his home county of Yorkshire, Fred taught for twenty years at the legendary epicenter of American experimental music, Mills College in Oakland, California; as well as co-directing (with Alfred Zimmerlin) the improvisation master’s program at the Musik Akademie in Basel, Switzerland. He is the subject of Nicolas Humbert and Werner Penzel’s much loved Step Across the Border, cited by Cahiers du Cinéma as one of the 20th century’s hundred most influential films. 

Opening sets from local luminaries Bonnie Lander & John Dierker and Liz Meredith & Timothy Wisniewski!

This concert will take place in the Sunday Room at 2640 Space, therefore seating will be limited so get your tickets in advance here:

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$22 in advance

$30 at the door

Kyle Flens presents percussion works by Chicago composers. The program features a new composition for snare drum and shadow movements by Darlene Castro.

$10 at the door

Program:
Bloom Balloon by Ayanna Woods
Songs from the Barstool by Adam D. O'Dell
Eeltwo by Roscoe Mitchell, arr. by Kyle Flens
Hearing Lips, Seeing Voices by Darlene Castro
Parkland by Marc Mellits

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This concert will feature music by Baltimore composer Will Redman, performed by twelve of this city’s most creative improvising chamber musicians. Although Will’s music does not necessarily involve free improvisation, his hand-drawn graphic scores are well suited to musicians who think like improvisers. The composer is presenting this concert partly as a 20th birthday celebration of his 98-page graphic score Book, but also as a way to bring together a group of musical friends who have been meaningful to his life and work in Baltimore.

Will Redman is a composer, percussionist, and educator based in Baltimore, MD. He is a minimal maximalist who embraces functional mistakes in both his notated and improvised music. Much of Will’s music features hand-drawn unsystematic notation that invites the performer to solve their own questions of interpretation. His music has appeared in books on modern music, such as Notations 21 (cover image), Music After the Fall, and A Semiotic Approach to Open Notations, as well as music and poetry journals, doctoral theses, and grade school arts textbooks in Brazil and Lithuania. Will’s notation has been used for t-shirts, posters, album covers, synthesizer faceplates, tattoos, and as public art on the facade of the Conservatoire à rayonnement départemental Paris-Saclay. He plays in Microkingdom, The Compositions, and Umbilicus, and teaches music technology and composition at Towson University.

www.willredman.com

willredman.bandcamp.com

sensitivedocuments.bandcamp.com

The program:

Scar Not, O Crises (2019)

Ruth Lacey - piano

Ian Hoke - guitar/flute

Scroll (2010)

Sam Burt - clarinets

Rose Burt - baritone sax

Sarah Manley - trombone

Five Pieces for John Dierker (2013)

John Dierker - bass clarinet

Ida Dierker - piano

One Thousand One Plateaus (2026)

Shelly Purdy -  vibraphone/percussion

-Intermission-

Compound Model Groups (2017)

Ruby Fulton - violin

Liz Meredith - viola

Daniel Lin - cello

Robin Rhodes - bass

Lee (2026)

full ensemble

Book (2006)

full ensemble

Lead Mask (Zack Rowden, Rex Morris) (CT)

Midnight Sun

Obie Feldi

$15 at the door

Doors at 7, music at 8

Learn about current conditions on the island from recent May Day Brigade member Barae Hirsch and La Red Afrocubana Trans (Black Trans Support Network in Cuba)

Hear directly from local anti-imperilaist groups!

tickets @ door $10-25

Draft X S.1 is the first iteration of a recurring series that hosts performance opportunities for dance and movement artists in Baltimore. Artists from across the city submit works that they are resurrecting, currently developing, or that have just been ideated and present them in front of an audience (for the first or nth time). After the performances there is opportunity to talk with the artists and be in discussion about the works, their processes, and what might be next. This is a community centered performance that seeks to build more engagement and opportunity for dance and movement artists living and working in Baltimore. Come be part of the process (and maybe dance a little too)!

featuring performance & work by Baltimore Artists:

Jade Mong & Jesse J

Zoë Brielle Payne

Julia Beros

Nalani Brown

Ray Phillips

Bao Nguyen

Nicolette Le Faye

Ellie Wong

Keveda

Live dance performance & post show talkback with the artists

$15 at the door

Caroline Jesalva

My work concentrates on sound, composition, installation art, experimental and poetic forms. I love bringing music to unconventional spaces and collaborating across disciplines and artistic mediums. I have been very fortunate to have an amazing community of collaborators that includes composers, dancers, film-makers, visual artists, activists, poets, rappers, and puppeteers. I like to write poetry and plays about self-identification, anger, heritage, surrealism, and ritual.

Bearduo

Bearduo is a saxophone duo consisting of Aaron Kaufman-Levine on Alto Saxophone and Garrett Frees on Tenor Saxophone. Dear friends and collaborators since 2015, Aaron and Garrett started improvising together as a duo in their first semester together at New England Conservatory (Fall 2019). What began as a fun practice routine became a daily rehearsing group that vowed to push each other and themselves to find their own way to approach improvised music on the saxophone. Bearduo brings a unique and spontaneous creation to each performance that reflects their shared musical language and deep connection. Their first self-titled record Bearduo released in July 2025 with a focus on long form improvisation, scale and interaction between the two performers.

Charlie Reichert Powell & New River

Charlie Reichert Powell, based in Baltimore, is an artist interested in sound and structure; the guitar and computer; the spectrum between improvisation and composition; tactility, connections, movement, and spaces. His first album with his group New River, I Am Return To Where, explores recontextualization and repetition and came out on Shinyboy Press in 2024. This iteration of New River features Sam Pluta on electronics, Nico Wohl on guitar, and Mike Kuhl on drums.  

Tickets at door – $25

Bill Chamberlain (aka Bill Pist) passed away in July 2025. He was a relentless force behind countless political punk bands, including The Pist, Mankind?, React, Caustic Christ, Behind Enemy Lines, The Dissidents, The Brood, and many more. Beginning in the early 90s, Bill’s uncompromising activism, DIY ethic, and anti-authoritarian message helped shape Baltimore’s punk scene. We come together to honor his life, his legacy, and the lasting impact he had on generations of punks who were inspired by his message that punk is not just music - its a movement, a community, and a unifying force against oppression.

For more info contact blackenedchaos@gmail.com.

$10-15 at the door.

Nx10 is a music concert where a number of artists perform for around ten minutes each.

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Screening followed by Q&A with the director Alissa Figueroa, Tawanda Jones and Jill Carter. Donations support the West Coalition’s exhibit at The Peale.

Tickets - $20-35

An innovative choral concert where classical, jazz, and electronic music unite in a collaboration between DUALIS and composer Nasir Scott.

AS IF WE MEAN IT

Words carry great power, along with our choice of how and when to use them. This concert explores the ideas of expression, authenticity, and honesty in a musical context. We will be joined by pianist and composer Nasir Scott, who writes Romantic-inspired music with a twenty-first century spin. The concert will feature two world premieres, one by Kevin Crouch and another by Nasir Scott, along with a variety of classical, jazz, and electronic works. We are happy to return to the amazing 2640 Space for this concert. The concert starts at 7pm preceded by a pre-concert talk with artistic director Kevin Crouch at 6:30pm. Doors open at 6:15pm.