Posts by Gavin Chuck
Managing Director, Composer

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 because everybody likes to discover new things, right? Maybe it’s the amount of newness. While discovery always involves a degree of unfamiliarity, modernism can drive really far into unfamiliar territory, […]

April 29, 2016 | , , , , , , , ,

Remaking cultural infrastructure

We are announcing our St. Louis Season that will begin our ongoing presence in the midwest. Reaching an audience, and cultivating the need for contemporary music in St. Louis and the midwest are part of Alarm Will Sound’s mission to further enrich American culture.

August 9, 2012

Get to Know the Mizzou 2012 Resident Composers

Ahead of the 2012 Mizzou New Music Summer Festival, we asked the eight resident composers about themselves and their music. And we asked them to choose between Mad Men and Game of Thrones.

July 20, 2012