Join the Contemporary and the lovely folks at the SoftHouse for an all night happening of experimental, ambient, and other worldly music designed for slumber. Bring a sleeping bag, and some ZZZs.

With performances and audiovisual installations from:
Andrew Bernstein, Grayson Brown, Andrew Burt, Bow-Legged Gorilla, Renee and Miles Clark, Run DMT, Meg Rorison, Owen Gaertner, Gem Visions, Rod Hamilton, KnightMagic, Rachel London, Liz Meredith, MC Scmidt, Erik Spangler, Happy Family, John Somers, ZFCL, and others.

$5 admission. Free for museum members.

For more info email QGibeau@contemporary.org or info@contemporary.org

http://www.softhouse.tumblr.com
http://www.contemporary.org

February 26th 2012
Will Redman’s “The Compositions”
Antreasian Gallery
1111 W 36th Street Baltimore, MD 21211

Performing compositions by Will Redman.  More info TBA!

April 4th 2012
The Stone
New York City, NY
www.thestonenyc.com

Performing compositions by Andrea Centazzo.  More info TBA!

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Erik Spangler + Liz Meredith
Chang Park + Ryan Redka
Chris Shield
Tyler Tamburo
Faith Bocian
Phill Jenkins
Nick Vyssotsky

A deus ex machina ( /ˈdeɪ.əs ɛks ˈmɑːkiːnə/ or /ˈdiː.əs ɛks ˈmækɨnə/ day-əs eks mah-kee-nə;[1] Latin: “god out of the machine”; plural: dei ex machina) is a plot device whereby a seemingly inextricable problem is suddenly and abruptly solved with the contrived and unexpected intervention of some new event, character, ability, or object.

August 31st 2011 
Liz Meredith & John Somers/Marc Miller/Zak Forrest/Janel & Anthony
The Windup Space (8:30 PM)
10 W. North Ave. Baltimore, Maryland 21212
www.thewindupspace.com

Liz Meredith solo performance.  I’m playing on the first day of this 3-part electronic music festival.  I’ll be blending together my acoustic and electronic string sounds for this one.   I’ve always felt the viola *easily* could sound like a warm synth line, subtle feedback hum, and/or fuzzed-out electronics. There will be lots of interesting performers.  Do check it out!

July 17th 2011 
Compositions by Will Redman
ARTSCAPE: Worlds in Collusion
University of Baltimore Student Center (3 PM)
SE Corner of Mt. Royal and Maryland Ave., Baltimore MD, 21212
http://www.artscape.org
http://www.highzero.org

Last minute show announcement: I’m playing Will Redman’s Compositions at Artscape this Sunday @ 3 PM. It’ll be an electro-acoustic set: Susan Alcorn (pedal steel/electronics), Dave Ballou (trumpet/electronics), Liz Meredith (viola/electronics), Marc Miller (guitar/electronics). It’ll be awesome…

*More 2011 summer shows TBA!  

March 27th 2011
Compositions by Will Redman, Andrew Bernstein
The Windup Space, Baltimore, MD (U.S.A.)
www.thewindupspace.com
www.willredman.com

May 7th 2011
Lab Experiments
Women in Experimental Media
Liz Meredith & Ayako Kataoka Duo + Many Others!
14 KT Cabaret, Baltimore, MD (U.S.A.)
www.labexperiments.org

May 13th 2011
Graphic Scores
Composers: Liz Meredith, Will Redman, Samuel Burt
The Red Room, Baltimore, MD (U.S.A.)
www.redroom.org

GRAPHIC SCORES
Concert of visual-oriented music and graphic score compositions.  A unique eye-catching event! Composers perform their own works, alongside video projection and visual imagery.  Featuring video, music and solo performances by Samuel Burt (clarinet), Liz Meredith (viola), and Will Redman (drums).

SAMUEL BURT (clarinet) www.samuelburt.com
Samuel Burt gives a lot of his time to Baltimore’s thriving experimental music community, as an organizer, composer, and improvisor. As a board member of the High Zero Foundation, he is constantly preparing for each year’s festival while running the weekly Red Room experimental music shows. He also organizes chamber music performances of Baltimore composers under the series name After Now. …. [www.redroom.org]

LIZ MEREDITH (viola) www.lizmeredith.com
Liz Meredith is a string player, improviser, and composer originally from Baltimore, Maryland. Her music explores many creative facets, from composing instrumental works to making ambient music, song-oriented pieces, graphic scores, and solo improvisations. “Baltimore’s Liz Meredith is a creator of string-based, electronically textured drones made to soothe souls…” …. [www.redroom.org]

WILL REDMAN (drums) www.willredman.com / www.bookmusic.org
Will Redman is a musical instrument that scrambles and obfuscates the precarious limen of the composer-performer-audience compact. Scores employ fantastically unsystematic notation, inviting the beholder into a wilderness of interpretive self-sufficiency. Improvisations manifest as ostensible readings of invisible psycho-temporal texts.  Sounds distend the sentient receptive sphere. Productions disseminated internationally through human, print and broadcast media. …. [www.redroom.org]

Liz writes: “Most of my compositions are derived directly from my viola playing. I enjoy hearing small fragments of the instrument; scattered, rearranged, and transformed into something new. I like to explore these ideas in many ways. I find myself drawn towards musical extremes, i.e. melodic, experimental, tiny, colossal, gradual, abrupt, clean, chaotic, soft, booming, fragile, and/or expansive types of sound. Or two distinct paths: heavily processed electronic sounds and more organic acoustic sounds. With my string playing, both ways work. This short 20-second audio sample explores many of these musical ideas.”

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Liz Meredith: SOLO / Travis Johns: SOLO

TOUR DATES & CITIES:

FEB. 04 – East Nile – Oakland, CA
FEB. 05 – Info TBA!!! – Portland, OR
FEB. 06 – Gallery 1412 – Seattle, WA
FEB. 07 – Info TBA!!! – Olympia, WA*
FEB. 08 – Radio Show – U.S.A.
FEB. 09 – Hemlock Tavern – San Francisco, CA
FEB. 10 – Info TBA!!! – Santa Cruz, CA*
FEB. 11 – DIY Gallery – Echo Park, CA
FEB. 12 – Info TBA!!! – Los Angeles, CA*

*Info TBA!

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September 23rd-26th 2010
The High Zero Festival
The Theatre Project, Baltimore, MD (U.S.A.)
www.highzero.org
www.theatreproject.org

October 26th 2010
OOYH Collective: Brent Madsen/Jon Birkholz/Liz Meredith/Mike Kuhl Quartet
The Windup Space, Baltimore, MD (U.S.A.)
www.outofyourhead.org

October 29th 2010
Composer Will Redman Lecture/Concert
The University of Maryland – Baltimore County (UMBC)
Baltimore, MD (U.S.A.)
www.willredman.com
www.umbc.edu/blogs/music/livewire

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I’ll be performing at Baltimore’s 2010 High Zero Festival.

:) Yay!  I’ll be playing viola.  Need I say more?

**UPDATE: Live video from 2010 High Zero Festival is posted HERE

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July 22nd 2010
“Sax & Violins” And Striking Sounds…
Duo Performances by:
Liz Meredith, John Berndt, John Dierker, Rose Burt, Adam Hopkins
The Metro Gallery, Baltimore MD (U.S.A.)
www.themetrogallery.net

August 3rd 2010
OOYH Collective: Liz Meredith/Matthew Rynes, David Smooke Trio
The Windup Space, Baltimore, MD (U.S.A.)
www.outofyourhead.org

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May 8th 2010
Compositions by: Matana Robert “COIN COIN”
The Red Room, Baltimore MD (U.S.A.)
www.matanaroberts.com
www.redroom.org

May 13th 2010
Creative Differences Presents:
Wolly Shoup Trio & John Dierker/Adam Hopkins/Liz Meredith Trio
The Windup Space, Baltimore, MD (U.S.A.)
www.thewindupspace.com

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