Category: Features
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Artificial – Translating Electronics
Composer Daniel Wohl is known for music that blends electronics with acoustic instrumentation to often “surprising and provocative effect” (NPR). His…
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‘Omnisphere’ with Medeski Martin and Wood at Brooklyn Steel
“…it’s time to drop everything and groove.” The Bowery Presents “The sound was big, of course, cinematic and grand.” JamBase…
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INTERACTIVITY, TECHNOLOGY, and the AWS / GOOGLE COLLABORATION
One of my great joys as Alarm Will Sound’s conductor is that when we perform John Luther Adams’s Ten Thousand…
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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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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…
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New Music Gathering 2015
From January 15-17, 2015 New Music Gathering took place at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Performers, composers, educators, administrators and…
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World Premiere of “Ten Thousand Birds” by John Luther Adams in Social Media
https://twitter.com/w0px/status/524001189579739136 John Luther Adam's piece has the kids (people) captivated at #publicmediacommons — Willis Ryder Arnold (@WillisRArnold) October 20, 2014…