Category: Featured Post

Ten Thousand Birds / Ten Thousand Screens

“The coolest music video EVER…” – David P Stearns, Philadelphia Inquirer   “…charmingly lo-fi and brilliantly inventive. And fun.” – John Schaefer, WNYC   Filmed in a single take, this immersive walkthrough experience of John Luther Adams’s Ten Thousand Birds was conceived by Alan Pierson and performed by members of Alarm Will Sound on 27 different screens (many antique […]

June 10, 2020

Get Out The Vote

Music has always accompanied the march towards a more just society. Our fellow citizens have for decades sung “¡El Pueblo Unido Jamás Será Vencido!” to move us and to push our democracy forward. We’ve made this video as our response to “¡El Pueblo Unido Jamás Será Vencido!” We invite you to share your own musical response […]

September 15, 2020

In Solidarity

We in Alarm Will Sound are angered and saddened by the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, only the most recent victims of racism in a centuries-long history of violence against black and brown people in our country. We recognize that our world of classical music participates in that racism. We will […]

June 1, 2020