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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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Derek Bermel interview
Our latest album, Canzonas Americanas, is of music by Derek Bermel, who is a long time collaborator of ours. Our conversation about the album covered…
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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…
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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…
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Crowdsourcing Song Books: Solo 61
We’re looking worldwide and webwide for performers to take part in our Song Books shows. It doesn’t matter where on the planet you are—as long…
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Crowdsourcing Song Books: solo 6
Through Twitter, folks from far and wide submitted tiny sentences that combined adverbs, verbs, nouns and adjectives to be used in Solo 6. The I…
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Create and perform Song Books with us
Through social media, anyone can help create and actually participate in our production of John Cage’s “Song Books” in Cork (June 6), Amsterdam (June 9)…
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The blank staff paper
I never, ever write music by hand. Never. So imagine my surprise this last summer when my new Alarm Will Sound piece began on a…
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John Cage and “specific things, beings or events”
Cage’s music often demands more from performers than simply learning the notes and rhythms. In the case of Atlas Eclipticalis the notation is unique leaves…
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The way we name music (and babies) now
When it comes to naming music and babies, I feel like it takes a brilliant linguist or a sort-of-crazy-person to do something truly original.
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Compose a piece for Alarm Will Sound
Alarm Will Sound are the Artists-in-Residence at the Mizzou New Music Summer Music Festival, held every July at the University of Missouri Columbia and sponsored by
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Get to Know the Mizzou New Music Summer Festival Resident Composers
We caught up with the 8 Resident Composers of the 2011 Mizzou New Music Summer Festival to ask them about their music and themselves. AWS:
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ASCAP Foundation Supports Alarm Will Sound
The ASCAP Foundation is supporting Alarm Will Sound’s residency at the Mizzou New Music Summer Festival. Along with Roger Reynolds and Anna Clyne, Alarm Will
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