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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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Northern Lights – For Medeski, Martin and Wood and AWS
As we were discussing which artists to approach for Alarm System, John Medeski’s name was suggested as someone who was familiar with some of our
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New Music Gathering 2015
From January 15-17, 2015 New Music Gathering took place at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Performers, composers, educators, administrators and fans gathered to discuss everything
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World Premiere of “Ten Thousand Birds” by John Luther Adams in Social Media
https://twitter.com/w0px/status/524001189579739136 John Luther Adam's piece has the kids (people) captivated at #publicmediacommons — Willis Ryder Arnold (@WillisRArnold) October 20, 2014 http://instagram.com/p/uWzysLr_vu #tenthousandbirds @alarmwillsound #pmcstl pic.twitter.com/P422KsS6ud
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Maneuvering in the Classical Cloud
There’s an interesting Alex Ross article in this week’s on classical music’s migration to the cloud and what might be lost in the process. My transition to
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Kate Moore:The Art of Levitation
Alarm Will Sound will premiere The Art of Levitation, a new work by Kate Moore at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall on April 27. Kate took the time to
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Kaki King:Other Education
Kaki King will join Alarm Will Sound on stage at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall on April 27 to premiere her new work Other Education, written specially for
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Conducting Digitally
Last year, on my way out the door to JFK and a gig in Dublin, I thumbed through the D section of my bookcase of
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Alarm Will Sound Discusses Steve Reich
In preparation for our visit to the Community Music School, and for a workshop designed for beginning and early intermediate students on the characteristics of
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Memorizing “Intégrales”
On February 20th, Alarm Will Sound and Dance Heginbotham presented “Twinned” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. As part of the performance Alarm
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Alarm Will Sound’s Staged Realization of Edgard Varèse’s “Intégrales”
Nigel Maister, Alarm Will Sound’s theatrical director, laid out some details for the performers. Below are Nigel’s words to which we’ve added audio excerpts. As
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Living Toys at the Metropolitan Museum
When I learned that we were to perform Living Toys at the Metropolitan Museum, I was excited because I could immediately see connections between the
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Pitch Patterns in Steve Reich’s “Clapping Music”
Alarm Will Sound will perform Steve Reich’s Clapping Music on the 16th at Stanford. (If you don’t know the piece, see here.) It will be a full ensemble
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