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High Jinx galore today, starting soon! (Wed. 9/17)

High Jinx for Wednesday, September 17
from the calendar

1:00pm
City-Wide Search for the Lonely Trumpeter of Avalon

We will meet at the SuperFresh parking lot on 41st St between Falls and Roland, searching for an exceptional trumpet player. Bring acoustic instruments.

2pm – 4pm
Mock Risk Games general vicinity of the Theatre Project
Where: Metro at Baltimore and Charles (map)
Make believe Risk games. A modality invented by H. Flynt, these involve the deliberate adoption of false expectation (gravity reversing, air turning to fire, etc.)

4pm – 5pm
Geodesic Gnome: Putting Someone Else's Words in Someone Else's Mouth at Normals
Where: Normals Books and Records, 425 E. 31st St. (map)
Exotic Experimental Band Geodesic Gnome will perform a piece of music in front of Normals Books and Records that involves running a single strand of audio feedback through three people's mouths.
7:30pm
Draggin'
Where: Brown Center at MICA to Baltimore Theatre Project (map)
Sometimes life is heavy. Draggin' is a burdensome parade down Mount Royal Ave. to the Theatre Project.
7:30pm – 8:00pm
Music for Concert Queues
Where: Near the Lyric (map)
Music just before the David Byrne / Brian Eno show, while concertgoers wait in line.

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Then the official High Zero concerts begin:
8:30pm - midnight - HIGH ZERO @ BTP
Baltimore Theatre Project (map)
Main Performances - click for schedule

Q: Draggin?  A: Watch a Draggin' slideshow from last year's drag

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Open Mic Night Invasion

Sorry, Fraziers. We just assumed Open Mic Night meant open for anything.
This musical invasion was all in good fun. Bartenders seemed pretty
annoyed at first, but then pleased that we attracted a whole different
crowd of drinkers.
See ya next year.

       

Open Mic Invasion 1  

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High Zero begins - free live music and film collaboration at BMA tonight

The High Jinxers seem to be taking a breather today, maybe because of this:


High Zero Opening Night at The Baltimore Museum of Art (Fox Court)
Tonight! Tuesday, September 16th
Doors open 8:00 PM, Performance starts 8:15 PM sharp

From the High Zero site:

High Zero begins this year with a free concert, a collaboration between Peter Rose (visionary filmmaker from Philadelphia) and Second Nature, Baltimore's radical improvising orchestra. Rose has created a new film in his "Studies in Transfalumination" series using footage shot in Baltimore with his proprietary techniques, and will improvise this footage non-linearly in relation to a freely improvised sound track by Second Nature.

Transfalumination (Live Film)
Peter Rose

Second Nature Orchestra (Sound)
Susan Alcorn: pedal steel guitar
Shelly Blake: guitar
Tom Boram: voice
Dan Breen: xylophone
Rose Burt: baritone saxophone
Samuel Burt: clarinet
Audrey Chen: cello
Andy Hayleck: saw
Katt Hernandez: violin
Tyler Higgins: guitar
Bonnie Jones: electronics
Liz Meredith: viola
Melissa Moore: electronics
Michael Muniak: electronics
Paul Neidhardt: percussion
Katherine Porter: cello
John Berndt: orchestra director

Get ready for many more High Zero performances and High Jinx street actions starting tomorrow

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High Jinx Open Mic Night invasion at Fraziers tonight!

Uh oh! Just saw this on the High Jinx calendar:
Open Mic Invasion at Fraziers on the Avenue, Hampden (map)
10:30 tonight (Monday 9/15)

Go there to or from the new True Vine opening, happening now
Blink or you'll miss 'em

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Extra Curricular- on the street improv for School for the Arts Students

Baltimore School for the Arts students received a serenade after school.
Bowed saw, invented coffee can instrument, soprano sax, clarinet.
At the corner of Madison and Cathedral.

       

High Jinx: Extra Curricular  

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3 High Jinx musical street actions today

From the calendar for Monday, September 15

4:15pm - Extr' Curriculler - On the sidewalk across the street from The Baltimore School for the Arts 712 Cathedral St. (map) Bring any kind of musical instrument you would play in public; the audience will be a bunch of arts magnet High School students who just got out of class and will be standing and waiting for rides.

5:00pm - Geodesic Gnome: Putting Someone Else's Words in Someone Else's Mouth - An experiment in electronic sharing of mouth resonances at Normals www.myspace.com/geodesicgnomeband

8:00pm - Musical Laser Tag - Music + Laser Tag = HighJinx. It will be awesome. At The Park near the Station Building at MICA

Check for more info & updates at www.highzero.org/highjinx/

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HighJinx Sailing- Commodore 09/13/08

Saturday night High Jinx fun sailing with 5 musicians. We launched
from the Museum of Industry to Fells Pt.
Soprano Sax, Clarinet, Cowhorn and Conch.

       

Highjinx: Commodore  

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musical sail today: The Commodore

First High Jinx up: The Commodore
From the calendar: Nautical themed musics while sailing on the harbor flying a High Zero flag. Departing from the Baltimore Marina at 6 PM.

Pictured: Downtown Sailing Center boats and your captain.

Tons are more coming up more easily accessible to other musicians or onlookers. Check it out or add one of your own: www.highzero.org//highjinx/

   

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Here comes High Jinx!

From the Google calendar, it looks like the first street events are starting tomorrow. Trying out this posterous thing as an easy way to post stuff online - it should go to Twitter & Flickr too. The main gateway to the calendar, email group, documentation, and ideas is still www.highzero.org/highjinx

Check there to make sure events are still on or join the email group to gather a group for an event. Go catch some before they're gone! Or make one up yourself. It will only last a week or so...

   

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