Memorizing "Intégrales" | Alarm Will Sound

On February 20th, Alarm Will Sound and Dance Heginbotham presented “Twinned” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. As part of the performance Alarm Will Sound performed Intégrales by Edgard Varèse while moving around the Engelhardt Court in the American Wing of the museum. To be able to pull off playing and moving AWS members devised some ingenious ways to memorize their parts. Here’s a gallery of showing some of the notation systems and ways of carrying it around they developed:

Oboe - iPhone — Christa Robinson uses her phone strapped to her arm with a scrunchie.

Piccolos - Gloves and Velcro — Erin Lesser and Alex Sopp wore matching gloves with their music attached with velcro

Percussion - mini-notation — Miles Brown used mini-notation for his percussion part

Percussion - Highlighter — Nadia Sirota and Luke Rinderknecht attached their part to the bass drum

Trombone - Hieroglyphs — Michael Clayville wrote bits of his part on his bell with grease pencil

Trumpet - Lyre 1 — Jason Price made a lyre from a plastic fork, cardboard and some black tape

Trumpet - Lyre 2 — Mike Gurfield used a conventional lyre with a postcard backing

clarinet - mini-scores — Elisabeth Stimpert printed and wrote full parts and scores on tiny paper attached with key rings

Authored by Michael Clayville

Trombone

Memorizing “Intégrales”

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