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Introducing experienceaws.com
A living archive of where we’ve been and a lens on how we got here. experienceaws.com traces the history of Alarm Will Sound from its
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Land of Winter—A Journey Through Light, Time, and Sound
Donnacha Dennehy: Land of Winter by Donnacha Dennehy, Alarm Will Sound, Alan Pierson 2026 GRAMMY® WINNER Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance 2026 GRAMMY® Nominee: Best
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Matt Marks Impact Fund
The Matt Marks Impact Fund offers up to $7,500 seed money to begin development on exciting, ambitious projects with Alarm Will Sound that have potential
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Announcing the Matt Marks Impact Fund
About a year ago, Alarm Will Sound started conceiving a special fund to increase our impact on today’s culture. Two aspects of our work call
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INTERACTIVITY, TECHNOLOGY, and the AWS / GOOGLE COLLABORATION
One of my great joys as Alarm Will Sound’s conductor is that when we perform John Luther Adams’s Ten Thousand Birds, I have absolutely nothing
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“Unremixed” – Alarm Will Sound and Four/Ten Media
Alarm Will Sound and Four/Ten Media are excited to share the debut video of Unremixed, composed by Stefan Freund, a member of Alarm Will Sound.
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This Music Should Not Exist – Sold Out at Carnegie Hall
“This performance was a marvel… this made for approximately 25 minutes of the best live music I’ve heard so far this year.” – The New York
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New Release! “Mind Out of Matter”
“A tour de force on the idea of ideas…” – The Boston Globe “Atop and around the many direct instrumental mirrors of Mr. Dennett’s voice is a
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MICF Resident Composers 2018
Congratulations to the 8 composers selected to work with Alarm Will Sound, Chen Yi, and Alex Mincek at the 2018 Mizzou International Composers Festival. The festival
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Before Alarm Will Sound
In 1996 at the Eastman School of Music two conversations met. I had been talking to my friends about a problem fellow composers faced getting music for
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Time is Money: The importance of notation in new music
Due to some scheduling conflicts, I recently found myself in the very unusual position of being in the audience at an Alarm Will Sound concert,
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Recording Radio Rewrite
A few weeks ago a former student of mine asked for advice about recording. Her quintet was heading into a professional recording studio for the
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Fear of the unfamiliar future. Fear of the familiar past.
Alarm Will Sound Presents Modernists is available now from Cantaloupe Music. Modernism scares people. Is it because it’s new? That can’t be the whole explanation
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The Future is “Now”
It is in Alarm Will Sound’s DNA to be current: one of the missions of the group is to perform music that reflects the contemporary world. It
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Old and New: Alan Pierson conducts the Alabama Symphony
Alan Pierson, Alarm Will Sound artistic director, will lead the Alabama Symphony in a concert featuring music of Vivaldi, Haydn and Ruehr. I spoke to
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