Author: Michael Clayville
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…