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Alarm Will Sound's first concert, twenty-five years ago, was music of Steve Reich. Last month we returned to his music as the final cycle of Music for 18 Musicians: Staged Variations at @parkavearmory, a production conceived and directed by our own Alan Pierson (@alanconducts).
The idea was simple and enormous: the piece three times in a row, each pass handed to a different generation. The original Steve Reich Ensemble opened at the center of the Wade Thompson Drill Hall. Tactus (@tactus.msm), from the Manhattan School of Music (@msm.nyc), took it next. We closed each night from the edges of the room, a few feet from the audience, with Steve Reich in the house.
Swipe for what the critics heard: five stars from Bachtrack, and a night SPIN said made plainly visible the community that has grown around this music.
Music: Steve Reich
Conceived and directed by Alan Pierson
Performed by the Steve Reich Ensemble, Alarm Will Sound, and Tactus (Manhattan School of Music)
Movement and associate direction: John Heginbotham (@johnheginbotham)
Lighting: Urs Schönebaum · Sound: Mark Grey (@markgreymusic)
Presented by Park Avenue Armory, October 14–18, 2026
Photo by @stephaniebergerphoto, courtesy of @ParkAveArmory
#SteveReich #MusicFor18Musicians #StagedVariations #ParkAvenueArmory #AlarmWillSound
09 Nov 2026
A throwback to a throwback.
"Vole Sweeps Up!" started life in 2009 as a chiptune by Matt Rogers, a.k.a. Gameshow Outpatient. Chris P. Thompson's arrangement hands the 8-bit lines to piccolo, bass clarinet, marimba and drum kit. In 2020, with the band scattered, each of us filmed our part at home; Four/Ten Media cut the boxes together, conductor and all (@alanconducts), and ran the whole thing through a tape deck that had seen better days. Stay for the ending.
Out today on YouTube. Link in bio.
Music: Matt Rogers (Gameshow Outpatient) (@thsmthngpffs)
Arrangement: Chris P. Thompson (@chrispthompson)
Alarm Will Sound, conducted by Alan Pierson
Video: Four/Ten Media (@fourtenmedia)
From New Acoustica, out now on @cantaloupeny
newacoustica.com
#NewAcoustica #AlarmWillSound #chiptune #GameshowOutpatient #newmusic
06 Nov 2026
I somehow didn't initially think that I had anything to say about the loss of Patrick Stewart. But then I remembered how much his Captain Picard has forever been my north star for wise leadership and decision-making. A leader who assembles a trusted team, then gathers them to carefully weigh together the hard choices ahead, with each team member bringing an important perspective for consideration. In the midst of a crescendoing crisis that seemed to be building towards rash action, Picard would just quietly say "conference", and gather his team in the conference room to thoughtfully discuss the situation.
During the #musicfor18musicians Staged Variations tech process, I so treasured the decision-making sessions with @johnheginbotham, @peterferry, @hangrybrain, @myav.mp3, and @maileok around my dressing room table. So many challenging questions were sorted out in those collaborative conversations with these creative, thoughtful, wise people. I repeatedly joked that it felt like sitting around Captain Picard's Enterprise-D conference room (just with President Eisenhower on the wall rather than a bunch of starships; and lighting and staging and rehearsal time challenges to contend with, rather than quarrelsome Cardassians and Romulans...).
Thank you, John, Peter, Paul, Mya, and Maile for being the best starship crew I could hope for. And thank you, Patrick Stewart and Captain Picard, for setting so inspiring and enduring a model. May the values you imparted to us live long and prosper
#PatrickStewart #SirPatrickStewart #JeanLucPicard #NewMusic
04 Nov 2026
No arranger is credited on "Cabeza." That's because @lucreciadalt built this one out of us.
She sat with our players one at a time, found out what each instrument could do and what each musician wanted to do with it, and recorded all of it. Then she went home and composed on her computer the way she makes her own records, except this time the samples were Alarm Will Sound. What came back was a recorded part for every chair, orchestrated entirely by her. Our job was to write it down and learn to play ourselves back.
Dalt is a Colombian composer based in Berlin, known for ¡Ay! and A Danger to Ourselves on RVNG Intl. and for film and TV scores that make familiar rooms feel wrong. "Cabeza" runs ten minutes and is the last of the four pieces on New Acoustica written for and with the band.
"Cabeza" — Lucrecia Dalt
Alarm Will Sound · Alan Pierson (@alanconducts), conductor
New Acoustica · @cantaloupeny
🎧 lnk.to/NewAcoustica (link in bio)
#NewAcoustica #AlarmWillSound #LucreciaDalt #CantaloupeMusic
04 Nov 2026
Where do the electronics end and the ensemble begins?
King Britt (@kingbritt) made the electronic material and the structure. Marcos Balter (@marcosbalter) wrote Alarm Will Sound into it, layer by layer, until the two are hard to pull apart. The piece grew out of Britt's Atomic Theory and had its first performance with us in St. Louis in 2019. It's one of four tracks on New Acoustica written expressly for and with the band, not arranged from an existing recording.
Track 5 of New Acoustica, out now on @cantaloupeny.
"Electron Orbitals"
King Britt & Marcos Balter
Alarm Will Sound; Alan Pierson (@alanconducts), conductor
Cantaloupe Music
Listen: link in bio
#NewAcoustica #AlarmWillSound #KingBritt #MarcosBalter #NewMusic
30 Oct 2026
Rehearsing Georg Friedrich Haas's in vain at the @gardnermuseum.
Twenty-four players, about seventy minutes, and two long stretches in complete darkness, played from memory and tuned to one another by ear. In Calderwood Hall the audience is stacked above the players on all four sides, so when the lights go out, nobody is watching from a safe distance.
Georg Friedrich Haas, in vain (2000) · @universaledition
Alarm Will Sound · @alanconducts, conductor
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (@gardnermuseum), Calderwood Hall · Thursday Night Music
Alarm Will Sound
Erin Lesser, flutes
@brandonpatrickgeorge, flute
@robinson.christa, oboe
Bill Kalinkos, clarinet
@mads_green_stone, clarinets
@dav.jpegg, saxophones
@j.michaelharley, bassoon
Laura Weiner, horn
Nicolee Kuester, horn
@michael_clayville, trombone
Tim Albright, trombone
@chrispthompson, percussion
@smallyfunk, percussion
John Orfe, piano
@coco_orlando, violin
Christopher Otto, violin
@austin_wulliman, violin
@drewjgriff, viola
@johnpickrich, viola
@Irene.cello, cello
@allintervaltetrachord, cello
@pat_swoboda_the_bass_player, bass
@jacquikerrod, harp
@iwo.classicalaccordion, accordion
@alanconducts, conductor and Artistic Director
Alarm Will Sound's performance of Georg Friedrich Haas' in vain is made possible with the friendly support of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation.
Video shot by @mikkyfm
#AlarmWillSound #GeorgFriedrichHaas #invain #GardnerMuseum #PushMusic
29 Oct 2026
Kodak Hall, October 2.
New Acoustica at Eastman, the school where we started 25 years ago. Eastman students joined us onstage, and we premiered a new Squarepusher movement.
Thank you to @eastman.school and everyone who came out during Meliora Weekend.
Album out now. Link in bio.
📷 @johnschliaphotography for the Eastman School of Music
#AlarmWillSound #NewAcoustica #EastmanSchoolOfMusic #KodakHall #PushMusic
28 Oct 2026
SOPHIE's (@msmsmsm_forever) premise was that a surface can be anything it wants to be.
We took that seriously. Nearly every sound on our Faceshopping is a real object doing an impression of something digital. @alanconducts breaks one of them down.
Faceshopping — SOPHIE, arr. Alan Pierson, Tim Leopold (@othyleo) & Matt Smallcomb
From New Acoustica, out now on @cantaloupeny — link in bio.
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27 Oct 2026
Thank you all so much for the moving responses to Music for 18 Musicians: Staged Variations at the Park Avenue Armory. Making this production with all of these brilliant collaborators — @johnheginbotham, @peterferry, @hangrybrain, @myav.mp3, #UrsSchönebaum, @markgreymusic, @neumann.fragments, @maileok, @tactus.msm, @alarmwillsound, @carolineadelaideshaw, and of course #stevereich and his legendary ensemble — has been among the very greatest, most exhilarating joys of my artistic life. And your reactions have so warmed my heart.
I've been catching my breath after the marathon push. But I'm now rolling up my sleeves, and digging into everything you've all written to me about your experiences at Staged Variations. Responses coming shortly....
And in the meantime ... Check out these gorgeous photos by @stephaniebergerphoto, courtesy of @parkavearmory.
26 Oct 2026
It starts with an itch.
That's how Chris P. Thompson (@chrispthompson) and Alan Pierson (@alanconducts) describe hearing a certain electronic track and needing to get inside it to see how it could be translated. Twenty-one years ago that itch produced Acoustica, our reinterpretation of thirteen Aphex Twin tracks. Today it produces New Acoustica, out now on @cantaloupeny.
Aphex Twin is still the north star; he opens and closes the record. Alongside him: SOPHIE (@msmsmsm_forever), @jlin_p, @tim_exile, and Matt Rogers a.k.a. Gameshow Outpatient (@thsmthngpffs), taken apart and rebuilt for twenty acoustic instruments. And this time there's new work made with the artists: two pieces by @kingbritt, one with @marcosbalter and one with @starkcomposer; Back Against the Wall, which @jlin_p wrote for us to break down and rearrange with @igorseiti; and Cabeza, which @lucreciadalt built by sampling us, chopping and looping what she found, and handing it back for us to learn to play. Hanabi comes from Chris's own album Lot Hero (it was our bassist Miles Brown @awsbass who got the itch for that one).
"It was a really cool experience of looking under the hood and learning how this thing actually works." — Alan Pierson
01 Minipops 67 [120.2][Source Field Mix] — Aphex Twin, arr. @chrispthompson
02 Black Origami — @jlin_p, arr. @chrispthompson & @texu_kim
03 Faceshopping — SOPHIE, arr. @alanconducts, @othyleo & Matt Smallcomb
04 Family Galaxy — @tim_exile, arr. @obettison
05 Electron Orbitals — @kingbritt & @marcosbalter
06 Hanabi (In-Ear Extended Mix) — @chrispthompson, arr. Miles Brown [handle] & @chrispthompson
07 The Intention — @kingbritt & @starkcomposer
08 Vole Sweeps Up! — Matt Rogers a.k.a. Gameshow Outpatient (@thsmthngpffs), arr. @chrispthompson
09 Back Against the Wall — @jlin_p, arr. @igorseiti
10 Cabeza — @lucreciadalt
11 T69 Collapse — Aphex Twin, arr. Stefan Freund
Alarm Will Sound, Alan Pierson, conductor
Art: @untitled.josh
Cantaloupe Music (@cantaloupeny)
Bio: Dash Lewis
Stream and buy at lnk.to/NewAcoustica — link in bio.
#NewAcoustica #AlarmWillSound #AphexTwin #PushMusic #SOPHIE
23 Oct 2026
In 1999, Austria's far right took a share of power. A year later, Georg Friedrich Haas wrote in vain.
Alex Ross called it a "modern masterpiece." In the music, peace is won and then lost, over and over. Much of the work is played in complete darkness.
We bring it to @gardnermuseum next Thursday with Alan Pierson (@alanconducts), the second time we've played it this year after @timespansfestival in August. Footage above is from that night.
Georg Friedrich Haas — in vain (2000)
Alarm Will Sound, Alan Pierson, conductor
Thursday Night Music, Calderwood Hall, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Thursday, October 29, 7 pm
Video: TIME:SPANS / filmed by Merve Kayan / audio mix by Daniel Neumann (@neumann.fragments)
Alarm Will Sound's performance of Georg Friedrich Haas's in vain is made possible with the friendly support of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation (@evs_musikstiftung)
Tickets: link in bio / gardnermuseum.org
#AlarmWillSound #GeorgFriedrichHaas #invain #ThursdayNightMusic #ContemporaryMusic
22 Oct 2026
Eleven tracks with eleven moments to listen for.
01 minipops 67 — 2:54, a microtonal pitch bend in the trombone, clarinet and flute (a subtle part of the track that can be missed). Aphex Twin, arr. @chrispthompson
02 Black Origami — 0:00, a piano prepared with a sheet of paper. @jlin_p, arr. @chrispthompson
03 Faceshopping — 3:28, helium. SOPHIE @msmsmsm_forever, arr. @alanconducts, @othyleo & Matt Smallcomb
04 Family Galaxy — 2:30, the marching machine. @tim_exile, arr. @obettison
05 Electron Orbitals — 0:25, clarinets. @kingbritt & @marcosbalter
06 Hanabi (in-ear extended mix) — 5:53, marching tenors. @chrispthompson, arr. Miles Brown & Chris P. Thompson
07 The Intention — 7:39, the melody drops, very quietly, into the bass. @kingbritt & @starkcomposer
08 Vole Sweeps Up! — 0:15, a fader sweep created by changes in orchestration. Matt Rogers a.k.a. Gameshow Outpatient, arr. @chrispthompson
09 Back Against the Wall — 1:48, a microtonal double-stop unison. @jlin_p, arr. @igorseiti
10 Cabeza — 4:54, bassoon multiphonics. @lucreciadalt, arr. @texu_kim
11 T69 Collapse — 2:08, a piccolo and woodwind harmonic sweep. Aphex Twin, arr. Stefan Freund
New Acoustica is out Friday, October 23 on @cantaloupeny. Art by Josh Lambert.
🎧 Listening party that night, 9 PM ET, free on Bandcamp. Link in bio.
#NewAcoustica #AlarmWillSound #CantaloupeMusic #Bandcamp #ListeningParty
20 Oct 2026
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