RED DESERT in CONCERT!
UPCOMING!
Feb 10-14, 2022 Red Desert Ensemble residency at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Cornell Contemporary Chamber Players
April 3, 2022 Westminster College School of Music. SLC, UT 3-6PM. Red Desert plays Nina C. Young and Michelle Lou/ FILM SCREENING: Sisters with Transistors / Eliane Radigue Tryptich
April 4, 2022 Abravanel Series Concert, SLC, Ut
May 3-6, 2022 Red Desert Ensemble residency at San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
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PAST:
2021
June 17-20 Red Desert Ensemble at Infrequent Seams Stream Fest (online) Performing Lucie Vitkova Choral No.13 with video by Dev Harlan and Devin Maxwell’s 4th of July with film by Rollin Hunt https://www.infrequentseamsstreamfest2.com/
April 30, 2021 6PM Bass Clarinet + electronics + electronics, Pop-Up concert, Art opening Dimitri Kozyrev and Joshua Graham at UMOCA with poet Alex Caldiero https://www.eventbrite.com/e/umoca-exhibition-openings-tickets-150972945143
2020
Dec 17-20, 2020 Infrequent Seams Streamfest
We will be livestreaming works off our new album, CHOROCHRONOS, along with tons of other awesome experimental artists. https://www.infrequentseamsstreamfest.com/home/fri-dec-18
Sept 10, 2020 Red Desert Ensemble at the Summit Community Gardens, a benefit for the garden’s COVID 19 effort to supply fresh veggies to those in need. Installations, soundwalks and sonic meditations, and we’ll perform works from the avant-garde, including multiple percussion with audience participation encouraged! BYO Dinner/Drinks, grab veggies from the garden! TICKETS
May 27th, 2020 (7PM Istanbul/10AM Utah) Red Desert livestream with bassist Sebastian Gramss (Cologne), Jeremy Woodruff (Istanbul/Berlin), cellist Anil Eraslin (Istanbul) and BC Manjunath (Bangalore) for a zoom livestream through the Bahcesehir University in Istanbul, the first iteration of the International Online Orchestra. Here is the link
April 19, 2020 2PM Red Desert livestream on Chicago’s EXPERIMENTAL SOUND STUDIOS The Quarantine Concerts, curated by Nomi Epstein, we’ll be playing a set of Andre Cormier duos alongside other isolated artistic duos- Angharad Davies/Tim Parkinson and Cherlyn Hsing Hsin Pisaro-Liu/Michael Pisaro https://ess.org/the-quarantine-concerts
April 13, 2020, 7:30PM //RED DESERT CONCERT LIVESTREAM// Works by Pauline Oliveros, Yoko Ono, Giacinto Scelsi, Michael Pisaro, Michelle Lou, Devin Maxwell and Alvin Lucier, Artist Residency Concert, Westminster College
March 2, 2020, 7:30PM //RED DESERT - THE FUTURE MUSIC - ALL-COMMISSIONS CONCERT (Commission Premieres by Carolyn Chen, Devin Maxwell, Judith Berkson, Andre Cormier, Teodora Stepancic, William Lang, JPA Falzone) Artist Residency Concert, Vieve Gore Auditorium, Westminster College//
Feb 28, 2020 Red Desert at Glitter City in Denver, CO with Ryan Seward and New Topographics
Feb 25-28, 2020 Red Desert residency at Casper College in Casper, WY. We workshop and perform new bass clarinet and percussion works with Ron Coulter and percussion students for a concert Feb 27 at Casper College, Wheeler Concert Hall.
Jan 1, 2020 4PM Brooklyn, NY. Red Desert new year’s day show on Teodora Stepancic’s 597 Concert Series. 90 mins of Michael Pisaro’s Within 6 with film/audio from Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels, a RED DESERT set with music by Johanna Beyer, Devin Maxwell, Pauline Oliveros, Tim Parkinson and Lucie Vitkova. Tea and cake, and then new quartet by Assaf Gidron with Teodora Stepancic. Happy new year!! (email for address/info)
2019
December 6, 2019 6-8PM UMOCA, SLC, Utah. An evening of music at Kelsey Harrison’s Never An Hour For Thought sculpture intermedia at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art. Red Desert will play Alvin Lucier’s I Am Sitting In A Room, Carolyn Chen’s In 1839 it was considered elegant to take a tortoise out walking, Lucie Vitkova’s FIVE and AOUIE by Susanna Gartmayer and new works by Devin Maxwell and Katie Porter for furniture, text, electronics, clarinets and snare drums.
November 10, 2019 6PM at The Black House, Montreal, Canada. Katie Porter solo 90 minute set of Michael Pisaro’s Within 6 with film from Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels, and Soloist and Audience by Jennie Gottschalk, a new work by Kim Farris-Manning, and Kim will play new works for piano and voice, all alongside the art of Rachel Gray.
Oct 28, 2019 7:30PM: RED DESERT - THE EDGE OF MUSIC , Artist Residency Concert, Chamber Music Series, Vieve Gore Concert Hall, Westminster College. Works by Karlheinz Stockhausen, Lucie Vitkova, Johannes Kreidler, Devin Maxwell, James Tenney, Iannis Xenakis, John Cage.
Oct 20, 2019 2PM Katie Porter: a snippet of my experimental clarinet at the Sun Tunnels installation, a 4 channel audio/video and live performance. 12 Minutes Max Series at the Salt Lake Public Library.
I am _finally_ presenting the Sun Tunnels in a concert environment, just 12 minutes of it (because that’s the theme of the series!). This project is still very much in progress. I will be performing alongside the film from my sessions out there last summer, just one movement of Within 6 by Michael Pisaro, during the most beautiful epic sunset as seen through the tunnels. https://events.slcpl.org/event/3124103
Oct 15, 2019 8PM Pop-up Concert with Will Lang, trombone and Red Desert
Art Program, Converse 311, Westminster College
NYC avant-garde trombonist, Will Lang, is bringing a solo set for trombone and electronics, and Red Desert is opening with a new piece by Devin Maxwell for bass clarinet, trombone and electronics! Join us!!! FREE!!! https://www.facebook.com/events/1301235686723322/
Oct 5, 2019 1-4PM Solo Clarinet at the UMFA Sun Tunnels Meet-Up in Lucin, Utah
This Saturday I’ll be out at Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels, jumping from tunnel to tunnel, playing Scelsi, Stockhausen, Jennie Gottschalk and a little John Cage, most likely. And Jennie will be there! The first of many road trips for the two of us, I hope! It’s a UMFA sponsored meet-up at the land artwork day, a good excuse to drive 4 hours into the desert and listen to clarinet works about the sun and the stars and infinity. Come out!!!! https://umfa.utah.edu/node/441
August 2019 OSTRAVA DAYS. Katie Porter and Devin Maxwell residents at Ostrava Days in the Czech Republic.
August 2019 ELMS. Katie Porter in residence at the Experimental Listening and Music Sessions in Boston.
April 17, 2019 7PM Red Desert & Radical Quiet at the UMFA in SLC, UT https://umfa.utah.edu/node/369
Red Desert ensemble and Radical Quiet, an Honors College course that cultivates presence and awareness through mindful experience of the arts, present Terry Riley’s IN C. Red Desert (Katie Porter/Devin Maxwell) will perform Morton Feldman’s Bass Clarinet and Percussion, Pauline Oliveros’ Bye Bye Butterfly and Devin Maxwell’s PH6. Afterwards, an all-star ensemble of Utah musicians and students will perform Terry Riley’s minimalist masterpiece IN C for an indefinite number of performers.
Feb 22, 2019 Katie Porter solo at Utah Clarinet Festival, BYU, UT
Katie Porter performs experimental solo clarinet works by Daniel Goode and Lucie Vítková.
Feb 2, 2019 7PM WILD UP: We The People at Libby Gardner Hall, SLC, UT
Red Desert ensemble joined the Los Angeles ensemble WILD UP to perform works inspired by change and activism by Louis Andriessen, Pauline Oliveros, James Tenney, and Julius Eastman among others.
Jan 4, 2019 8PM Avant Vespers, St. Mary’s Church, Provo, UT
Katie Porter solo set on Christian Asplund’s curated Avant Vespers. Works by Lucie Vítková and Devin Maxwell.
2018
Dec 15, 17, 20, 2018, Katie Porter solos in Madeira, Portugal
Katie Porter in residence at the Estalagem da Ponta Do Sol Residency for Contemporary Music and Electronics in Madeira, Portugal. Solo clarinet/bass clarinet performances of works by Lucie Vitkova, Devin Maxwell and Ruben Borges.
Dec 7, 2018, Red Desert S_L_O_W Trios, Alice Gallery, SLC, UT
https://heritage.utah.gov/arts-and-museums/things-galleries-alice
Bass clarinet, bass & marimba works with Jake Rosenzweig. Devin Maxwell’s PH3, PH4, PH5 and PH6. Art opening for artists Kelly Baisley and Virginia Catherall: Sense of Place, Great Salt Lake, works in textiles and photography.
Nov 11, 2018 Katie Porter on SHH! Series, SLC Library, SLC, UT
Works by Michael Pisaro and Anastassis Philippakopoulos
Sept 29, 2018, 1-4PM, Red Desert at the Spiral Jetty, Rozel Point, Great Salt Lake
https://umfa.utah.edu/node/280
Program: Michael Pisaro Within 6 for solo clarinet, David Dunn Place: Part 1, John Hastings Spirals for Jettie, Lucie Vítková FIVE, Michael Pisaro A Little Dance, Pauline Oliveros Single Stroke Roll Meditation, James Tenney Having Never Written a Note for Percussion, Iannis Xenakis Rebonds A
Sept 19, 2018, 7PM, Red Desert: Beginnings and Ends, UMFA Great Hall, SLC, UT
https://umfa.utah.edu/node/264
Program: Johanna Beyer Suite 1 for solo clarinet, John Cage 4’33” and 0’00”, Adrian Democ A Luca Marenzio II for clarinet/percussion/electronics, Susanna Gartmayer E for contra-bass clarinet, Devin Maxwell Wind Harmonics for electronics, Giacinto Scelsi IXOR for solo clarinet, James Tenney Three Pieces for Drum Quartet, Lucie Vítková Choral No. 13 for clarinet/percussion duo, Christian Wolff Microexercises
Sept 17, 2018 8PM, Red Desert play Lucier, Oliveros and Wolff
FRIDMAN Gallery, 5th Anniversary Festival, NYC, NY
https://www.fridmangallery.com/events
Program: Alvin Lucier Music for Snare Drum, Pure Wave Oscillator and One or More Reflective Surfaces, Johannes Kreidler Fantasies of Downfall, Devin Maxwell bluesnoblues2, Pauline Oliveros Single Stroke Roll Meditation, Lucie Vítková FIVE, Christian Wolff Microexercises
with Ikue Mori, Charmaine Lee, Ben Bennett
Sept 15, 2018, 1PM, Red Desert at Calhoun School, NYC, NY
https://www.calhoun.org/
Program: Johannes Kreidler Fantasies of Downfall, Giacinto Scelsi IXOR, Lucie Vítková FIVE, Christian Wolff Microexercises
with the Michael Lytle Trio
Feb 18, 2018, 4PM, Red Desert at Center for New Music, San Francisco, CA
http://centerfornewmusic.com/
Red Desert (Katie Porter/Devin Maxwell) play Oliveros, Maxwell and Lucier and Christine Tavolacci/Scott Worthington play Catherine Lamb
Pauline Oliveros All Fours for drumset 4′
Devin Maxwell Cloudseeding 4 for solo bass clarinet & electronics 30′
Alvin Lucier Music for Snare Drum, Pure Wave Oscillator, and One or More Reflective Surfaces
Catherine Lamb muto infinitas 30′
Feb. 17, 2018, 7:00PM, Red Desert + Catherine Lamb’s Muto Infinitas, Wind River, Santa Cruz, CA
https://www.indexical.org/events/2018-02-18-red-desert
Red Desert program stems from the stripped-down, austere and crystalline beauty of Pauline Oliveros and Alvin Lucier, and extends to younger composers Lucie Vítková and Devin Maxwell.
Jan 27, 2018, 7PM Katie Porter plays Devin Maxwell at Crosstalk, BYU, Provo, UT
http://arts.byu.edu/event/utah-crosstalk/
Sat Jan 20, 2018, Red Desert at Next Ensemble, Alleged, Ogden, Utah
Program:
Devin Maxwell Cloudseeding 4 for solo bass clarinet & electronics 30′
Alvin Lucier Music for Snare Drum, Pure Wave Oscillator, and One or More Reflective Surfaces
Daniel Goode Long Distance for solo clarinet 3′
Pauline Oliveros All Fours for drumset 4′
Lucie Vítková Solo Clarinet 5′
Iannis Xenakis Rebonds A 7′
Jan 12, 2018, 8PM Katie Porter Solo at WSAC, Boston, MA
https://www.facebook.com/events/2049273248639229/
Collected Solos:
Michael Pisaro Within 6 for solo clarinet 10′
Daniel Goode Long Distance for solo clarinet 3′
Susanna Gartmeyer E for solo bass clarinet 4′
Lucie Vítková FIVE 5′
Devin Maxwell Cloudseeding 4 for solo bass clarinet & electronics 30′
2017
Nov 16, 2017, 7:30PM Red Desert at Salty Cricket’s Melange, Sugar Space Warehouse, SLC
Devin Maxwell’s Chord Toss 3 for bass clarinet, percussion and electronics (2013)
Oct 21, 2017 Red Desert in Residence at Casper College, Casper, WY
http://www.caspercollege.edu/music-department
Devin Maxwell Chord Toss 3 for bass clarinet, percussion and electronics (2013)
Lucie Vîtkovå Choral No. 13 for clarinets and percussion (2016)
André Cormier Sommeil for clarinet and percussion (2002)
Morton Feldman Bass clarinet and percussion (1981) Red Desert with Indigo Cook, percussion
Oct 8, 2017, Red Desert at Westminster College, SLC, UT
Morton Feldman Bass Clarinet and Percussion (1981) Red Desert with Indigo Cook, percussion
Other works for percussion by the Westminster Percussion Studio
https://www.westminstercollege.edu/campus-life/events-and-performances/ensemble-performances
Sept 30, 2017, Red Desert at the Sun Tunnels - a concert of experimental music, Lucin, UT
1PM- 4PM
Sun Tunnels Meet-Up organized by the UMFA (Utah Museum of Fine Arts)
Red Desert ensemble (Katie Porter, clarinets, Devin Maxwell, percussion) perform a 3-hour concert of experimental works at the Sun Tunnels, a land artwork in Lucin, Utah by Nancy Holt. Inspired by both the Sun Tunnel’s permanence in the desert and the gradual change experienced under the sun, the music suggests a long-form relationship with time and both subtle and sudden changes. The concert is structured loosely after James Tenney’s score: Having Never Written A Note For Percussion. We will gradually crescendo and decrescendo over the course of 3 hours of music. Included are works by Wandelweiser composers, the “composers of quiet”: Michael Pisaro, Manfred Werder, Craig Shepard and Anastassis Philippakopoulos, American avant-garde & experimental composers: John Cage, Christian Wolff, Milton Babbitt, Pauline Oliveros and James Tenney, Italy’s avant-garde Giacinto Scelsi and Giancarlo Sciaffini and a newer generation of composers who share these modern experimental roots: André Cormier, Devin Maxwell and Tim Parkinson.
Program:
Michael Pisaro Within (6) for solo clarinet (1998) pages 1-3, 30’
Michael Pisaro A Little Dance for percussion (2000), 5’
Craig Shephard Sheepshead Bay May 20, 2012 for clarinet and percussion (2012),10’
Tim Parkinson Drum Piece for solo percussion (2009), 10’
Giacinto Scelsi Preghiera per un’ombra for solo clarinet (1954),12’
John Cage One 4 for solo percussion (1990), 6’
Devin Maxwell Cloudseeding 4 (excerpt) for solo bass clarinet (2017), 7’
André Cormier Sommeil for clarinet and percussion (2002), 12’
James Tenney Having Never Written A Note for Percussion (1971), 10’
Milton Babbitt My Ends Are My Beginnings for clarinet (bass clarinet) solo (1978),16’
Giancarlo Schiaffini 10 AM for free instrumentation (1979), 5’
Pauline Oliveros All Fours for Drumset (1998), 4’
Christian Wolff Microexercises for one or more players, free instrumentation (2006), 6’
Manfred Werder, 2 ausfuhrende(r), 2 pages of 4000 page score for 2 players (2017), 8’
Michael Pisaro Turning for Bass Clarinet and Percussion (2001), 20’
Anastassis Philippakopoulos Song 9 for Bass Clarinet solo (2013), 6’
https://umfa.utah.edu/land-art/sun-tunnels
August 27, 2017, 3PM, Utah Museum of Fine Arts GRAND RE-OPENING PARTY
Katie Porter, clarinet & bass clarinet
Giacinto Scelsi Preghiera per un’ombra for solo clarinet ’12
Devin Maxwell Cloudseeding 4 for bass clarinet & electronics ’30 * World premiere
June 10, 2016 Infrequent Seams Record Release party for Devin Maxwell, Firehouse Space, Brooklyn, NY
Devin Maxwell Cloudseeding 4 for bass clarinet & electronics ’30 * World premiere
Red Desert will perform Devin Maxwell’s Chord Toss 3 for Bass Clarinet, Percussion and Live Electronics off the new Infrequent Seams release: Devin Maxwell Works 2011-14, as well as pieces by Alvin Lucier, Giacinto Scelsi and a premier by Lucie Vitkova.
