Following is an email from over 10 years ago listing all the possible names for the group before we chose “Alarm Will Sound.” There were 147 candidates!
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From: Alan Pierson
Date: Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 11:02 PM
Subject: the list
Dearest committee members — here is the list of all 147 names that have been suggested. Now, while you’re all still welcome to suggest new ideas, the focus is now on considering and discussing the names already on the table. (That’s right, folks: time to argue!) By Tuesday night at midnight, you should each send me your five favorite names (they need not be ranked).
Thanks! Happy naming …
Alan
0167
404
abacus
Acoustic Ritual
Activation Energy
Aerie
The Alan Pierson Group
Alan Pierson Project (or, if you like, Projekt)
Alan Pierson’s Power Plant
Alarm Will Sound
All Clear
Amp
Aphid
Band Two
Bandwidth
BandWidth
Batton Down
The Beat Generation
Belligerence
Bend
Bending Brains
Breathe
Broadband
BroadBand
Broken Record
Broken Record Consort
The Broken Record Consort
Can of Worms
Chapter 11
Chiasmus
Clearing
Collective Unconscious
Come Out
Coming Together
Cortext
Critical Mass
dB
diagnol
Downtown Beats
Ear Chow
Earful
Earfull
Eighteen Musicians
Ensemble X
Exalted Content
Familiar Objects
Feed Your Ears
Field Test
Flashpoint
Focus Group
Force
Fracture
Friendly Fire
Furious Harmony
High Gear
House of Sound
Industrial Arts
Inertia
Kick in the Pants
Kinetic Construction
Lava
Left Turn Only
Magma
Mantra
Maze
Members of The Committee for Serious Music
Minutiae
Musicircus
My Kid Could Do That
No U Turn
The NEXT Group
New York Underground
No Left Turn
No Outlet
No Right Turn
Noisy Children
Nova
Nyarlathotep
Ossia Outbound
Ossia Outside
Outbound
Pangea
Parataxis
Parralax
Pendulum
Penumbra
PitchSpace
Plum Loco
Power Plant
Public Address
Public Address Ensemble
Push
Rapid Transit
Red Shift
Resolution
Ripple the Air
Rise
Secret Theater
Shudder the Air
Sign
Signal
Signal to Noise
Slab
Slack
Slant
Slithy Toves
So Much Noise
Sound and Fury
Sound and the Fury
SoundForm
Sounding Form
Spark
Speak Up
Spin
Stand Clear
Steady State
Stop
Strange Attractor
Swerve
Synapse
Threshold
Thump on a Jug
Too Much Noise
Torque
Track 0
Track 1
Transit
Transit
Umbra
Underground
Underscore
Undertow
Unlisted (or The Unlisted Ensemble)
Valence
Vector
Verge
Vex
Vexation
Volume
Walls/Ears
Walls Have Ears
The Walls Have Ears
The Zap Band
Zero Point Energy
Zeugma
Ziff Bam Pow
Zone
