The ongoing collaboration between WNYC, Q2, and LPR has brought a fantastic recording of Alarm Will Sound performing the music of Caleb Burhans. The Feb. 23 performance was gorgeous. Listen to a sample below and then go to this Q2 page to hear the entire concert.
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Listen to Alarm Will Sound performing the music of Caleb Burhans
The ongoing collaboration between WNYC, Q2, and LPR has brought a fantastic recording of Alarm Will Sound performing the music of Caleb Burhans. The Feb. 23 performance was gorgeous. Listen to a sample below and then go to this Q2 page to hear the entire concert. 
Monday, July 27, 2009
The New York Times on Alarm Will Sound
From "A Classical Approach to Electronic Sounds" by Allan Kozinn:
"It is hard to tell whether Alarm Will Sound is finding itself or losing itself, but it may be a bit of both. A reasonably straightforward new-music band in 2001, when it made the jump from college orchestra (at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester) to professional ensemble, it has preserved its freshness by thinking about repertory in ways that most groups do not...
Mostly the group slips these transcriptions into programs otherwise devoted to composers with more solidly classical pedigrees, but it occasionally devotes an evening almost entirely to its adventures in electronica, as it did on Wednesday evening at Le Poisson Rouge. The occasion was the fifth anniversary of “Acoustica” — the CD of works by the electronic composer Aphex Twin it released on Cantaloupe in 2005, which has become its biggest-selling disc — celebrated a bit early...
...Caleb Burhans’s melancholy “oh ye of little faith ... (do you know where your children are?)” moves deftly from gentle Minimalist scale figures to electric-guitar power chords, touching on murky brass figures along the way. Mr. Burhans’s work was written for Alice Tully Hall’s reopening festivities this year. It delivered a more visceral punch in the tighter confines of Le Poisson Rouge."
Read all of "A Classical Approach to Electronic Sounds."
"It is hard to tell whether Alarm Will Sound is finding itself or losing itself, but it may be a bit of both. A reasonably straightforward new-music band in 2001, when it made the jump from college orchestra (at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester) to professional ensemble, it has preserved its freshness by thinking about repertory in ways that most groups do not...
Mostly the group slips these transcriptions into programs otherwise devoted to composers with more solidly classical pedigrees, but it occasionally devotes an evening almost entirely to its adventures in electronica, as it did on Wednesday evening at Le Poisson Rouge. The occasion was the fifth anniversary of “Acoustica” — the CD of works by the electronic composer Aphex Twin it released on Cantaloupe in 2005, which has become its biggest-selling disc — celebrated a bit early...
...Caleb Burhans’s melancholy “oh ye of little faith ... (do you know where your children are?)” moves deftly from gentle Minimalist scale figures to electric-guitar power chords, touching on murky brass figures along the way. Mr. Burhans’s work was written for Alice Tully Hall’s reopening festivities this year. It delivered a more visceral punch in the tighter confines of Le Poisson Rouge."
Read all of "A Classical Approach to Electronic Sounds."
Monday, July 13, 2009
Just Added: Nic Offer (Of !!!)
ON SALE NOW
Nic Offer of the dance-punk band !!! will be performing at LPR on July 22 with Alarm Will Sound.
Nic Offer is a New York City-based musician. He is best-known as the charismatic vocalist of the dance/punk band !!!, which he helped form in Sacramento, California in 1996. Offer also played guitar for the electronic band Out Hud from 1996 until 2005.
More information here.
Nic Offer of the dance-punk band !!! will be performing at LPR on July 22 with Alarm Will Sound.
Nic Offer is a New York City-based musician. He is best-known as the charismatic vocalist of the dance/punk band !!!, which he helped form in Sacramento, California in 1996. Offer also played guitar for the electronic band Out Hud from 1996 until 2005.
More information here.
Monday, June 1, 2009
Just Added: Late Show for Alarm Will Sound Perform the Music of Derek Bermel
On Sale Now
Alarm Will Sound is a 20-member band committed to innovative performances and recordings of today's music. They have established a reputation for performing demanding music with energetic skill. ASCAP recognized their contributions to new music with a 2006 Concert Music Award for "the virtuosity, passion and commitment with which they perform and champion the repertory for the 21st century." Their performances have been described as "equal parts exuberance, nonchalance, and virtuosity" by the London Financial Times and as "a triumph of ensemble playing" by the San Francisco Chronicle. The New York Times says Alarm Will Sound is "the future of classical music" and "the very model of a modern music chamber band."
More information here.
Alarm Will Sound is a 20-member band committed to innovative performances and recordings of today's music. They have established a reputation for performing demanding music with energetic skill. ASCAP recognized their contributions to new music with a 2006 Concert Music Award for "the virtuosity, passion and commitment with which they perform and champion the repertory for the 21st century." Their performances have been described as "equal parts exuberance, nonchalance, and virtuosity" by the London Financial Times and as "a triumph of ensemble playing" by the San Francisco Chronicle. The New York Times says Alarm Will Sound is "the future of classical music" and "the very model of a modern music chamber band."
More information here.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Just Announced: Alarm Will Sound perform Aphex Twin
On Sale Now
Commemorating the five-year anniversary of their groundbreaking Acoustica album, the 20-piece chamber orchestra Alarm Will Sound returns to New York with a program of arrangements from electronic composers Aphex Twin, Autechre, and Mochipet.
BIO:
Alarm Will Sound is a 20-member band committed to innovative performances and recordings of today's music.
Alarm Will Sound has established a reputation for performing demanding music with energetic virtuosity.
Their performances have been described as "equal parts exuberance, nonchalance, and virtuosity" by the London Financial Times and as "a triumph of ensemble playing" by the San Francisco Chronicle. The New York Times says Alarm Will Sound is "the future of classical music."
The versatility of Alarm Will Sound allows it to take on music from a wide variety of styles. Its repertoire ranges from European to American works, from the arch-modernist to the pop-influenced.
The group fosters close relationships with contemporary composers, premiering pieces by Steve Reich, David Lang, Anthony Gatto, Cenk Ergun, Aaron Jay Kernis, Michael Gordon, Augusta Read Thomas, Stefan Freund, and Wolfgang Rihm. Alarm Will Sound may be heard on three CDs.
The latest ("Acoustica"
July, 2005 release) features acoustic arrangements of music by Aphex Twin. This unique project taps the diverse talents within the group, from the many composers who made arrangements of the original electronica tracks, to the experimental approaches developed by the performers. Transforming music written for computerized equipment into live performance is precisely the kind of original, genre-bending challenge Alarm Will Sound actively pursues.Members of the ensemble began playing together while studying at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. With diverse experience in composition, improvisation, jazz and popular styles, early music, and world musics, they bring intelligence and a sense of adventure to all their performances.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Just Announced: Alarm Will Sound
On Sale NowAlarm Will Sound
Bio:
Alarm Will Sound is a 20-member band committed to innovative performances and recordings of today's music.
Alarm Will Sound has established a reputation for performing demanding music with energetic virtuosity.
Their performances have been described as "equal parts exuberance, nonchalance, and virtuosity" by the London Financial Times and as "a triumph of ensemble playing" by the San Francisco Chronicle. The New York Times says Alarm Will Sound is "the future of classical music."
The versatility of Alarm Will Sound allows it to take on music from a wide variety of styles. Its repertoire ranges from European to American works, from the arch-modernist to the pop-influenced.
The group fosters close relationships with contemporary composers, premiering pieces by Steve Reich, David Lang, Anthony Gatto, Cenk Ergun, Aaron Jay Kernis, Michael Gordon, Augusta Read Thomas, Stefan Freund, and Wolfgang Rihm. Alarm Will Sound may be heard on three CDs.
The latest ("Acoustica" July, 2005 release) features acoustic arrangements of music by Aphex Twin. This unique project taps the diverse talents within the group, from the many composers who made arrangements of the original electronica tracks, to the experimental approaches developed by the performers. Transforming music written for computerized equipment into live performance is precisely the kind of original, genre-bending challenge Alarm Will Sound actively pursues.
Members of the ensemble began playing together while studying at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. With diverse experience in composition, improvisation, jazz and popular styles, early music, and world musics, they bring intelligence and a sense of adventure to all their performances.
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