thursday oct 22 6:00pm spheris gallery 59 south main st hanover nh free

Devin Maxwell and Katie Porter

The third season of The Way to Go Out opens with Steve Reich Pendulum Music in a special site-specific performance that will make use of the Gallery's architecture. It will also feature the Dartmouth Contemporary Music Lab and special guests Devin Maxwell and Katie Porter. Devin and Katie will perform some of Devin's own music along with some compositions by John Cage.

Devin Maxwell holds a BMA from the University of Cincinnati in percussion performance and an MFA from the California Institute for the Arts from the Performer/Composer program. His original expeirmental music is featured on the arsenic-free music CD "Four Trio" and his orchestra piece "PH1" is being released on ERM Media's Masterworks of the New Era Volume 14 later this year. His music has been performed by the Analog Arts Ensemble and at various universities. He has also composed commercial music for Disney, Nascar, Atlantic Records, and Donald Trump.

Katie Porter is a clarinetist, bass clarinetist, and performer of new chamber music in New York City. She is the co-founder of Listen/Space, a performance space dedicated to experimental music in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Katie has a Bachelor of Music from the University of Utah, an Advanced Certificate from Centre Acanthes, and a Master of Fine Arts in Clarinet Performance from California Institute of the Arts.

The Dartmouth Contemporary Music Lab is a collection of undergraduate and graduate students that perform and study music that is happening right now or in the recent past. This years Lab is working on a series of premieres of new works that will result from their International Call for Scores. Their year will culminate in a tour of the Northeast US.