Michael Clayville, Author at Alarm Will Sound

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…

March 9, 2013

Our latest album, Canzonas Americanas, is of music by Derek Bermel, who is a long time collaborator of ours. Our…

November 17, 2012

We are announcing our St. Louis Season that will begin our ongoing presence in the midwest. Reaching an audience, and…

August 9, 2012

Ahead of the 2012 Mizzou New Music Summer Festival, we asked the eight resident composers about themselves and their music.…

July 20, 2012

We’re looking worldwide and webwide for performers to take part in our Song Books shows. It doesn’t matter where on…

May 26, 2012

Through Twitter, folks from far and wide submitted tiny sentences that combined adverbs, verbs, nouns and adjectives to be used…

May 15, 2012

Through social media, anyone can help create and actually participate in our production of John Cage’s “Song Books” in Cork…

May 3, 2012

I never, ever write music by hand. Never. So imagine my surprise this last summer when my new Alarm Will…

April 22, 2012

Cage’s music often demands more from performers than simply learning the notes and rhythms. In the case of Atlas Eclipticalis…

March 13, 2012

When it comes to naming music and babies, I feel like it takes a brilliant linguist or a sort-of-crazy-person to…

October 28, 2011