Summon, Episode 5 in Alarm Will Sound’s Video Chat Variations series, uses feedback and delay – common video chat annoyances – to inspire artistic creation. As musicians of Alarm Will Sound improvise solos based on Jlin’s composition, Alan Pierson, Alarm Will Sound’s Artistic Director and conductor, captures the music in real time with microphones to generate feedback. In […]

  Alarm Will Sound’s Video Chat Variations transitions to physical space with Latent Seeds, an audio-visual work by Daniel Neumann, AWS sound engineer. Latent Seeds was developed through a multi-stage process of listening and improvised playing over the internet – a reflection on spatial awareness, on being present and being part of an acoustic environment that extends beyond the constrained and isolated spaces […]

Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang joins Alarm Will Sound for his new work, if, the latest episode in the Video Chat Variations series. Lang based the piece on a quote from Senator Bernie Sanders: Lang performs Sanders’s text himself, and the ensemble reinforces Lang’s recitation, each musician in dialogue with the composer. The result is a […]