Written for Alarm Will Sound, amplified sinfonietta and live keyboard sampler for the electronics.

Hasta que no pueda (2023)

From as review by Garrett Harris: http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2015/nov/09/classical-sarah-chang-bruch-barry-white/#

A dramatic reading of Sarah Chang + Bruch = Barry White from San Diego Reader

Kick off your zip-up, leather booty slippers and enjoy the latest instalment of Zoon van snooK's (Lo Recordings) Oddtronica™ radio show.
The special guest on 'Tunes For Zoon' is Warp Records' Mira Calix.

So, if you want to hear 2 hours of brand new and forthcoming releases and to find out which tenses not to use non-action verbs with, come on in...

First aired 31/03/16

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Mira Calix: http://www.miracalix.com/

1. Slackk 'Pigeons'
2. Ash Koosha 'Biutiful'
3. Cialyn 'Neuromodulation'
4. Ocoeur 'Timeless'
5. David August 'J.B.Y'
6. Jameszoo 'Flake'
7. Throwing Shade 'Underneath My Eyelids'
8. Dollkraut 'Fire' (Invisible Conga People Remix)

'Bring the Nois'
9. BeGun 'Mobasi Pt.2' (Free Download - Soundcloud)

10. Moiré 'Lines + Colours'
11. Recondite 'Warg'
12. Concubine 'Kingfisher'
13. Henri Texier 'Les "Là-Bas"' (Bonobo Remix)

'Tunes For Zoon' w/ special guest: Mira Calix
(x 5 - a surprise, you'll have to listen!!!)

19. Mira Calix 'I May Be Over There (But My Heart is Over Here)'
20. DJ Tennis 'Chirality' (Plaid Remix)
21. Mella Dee 'Deep Soul'


'Left of Field'
22. The Soft Pink Truth 'Awesome'

23. Greed 'Burning'
24. Figure Ground 'Figure Ground 09'
25. Carl Finlow 'Hyperloop'

Zoon van snooK presents: Oddtronica #10 w/special guest: Mira Calix

For the second year in a row, I composed a track dedicated to those we lost during 9/11.  This one is for them..... Bless

9-11-16 
Written, Produced and Mixed by King Britt for Cosmic Lounge Music (ASCAP) 

Equipment used:
Fender Rhodes 77
Moog Source
MiniMoog (Original)
Moogerfooger Analog Delay
Moogerfooger Ring Modulator
Roland Scooper
Roland Demora
Roland JX3P

9-11-16 - KING BRITT

violin, drones & live electronics
//
clara kim, violin
daniel silliman, electronics, production
//
recorded, mixed & mastered at woolworth studios, princeton, nj

scanner/scrawler

Medeski Martin & Wood and Alarm Will Sound have announced the release of a new collaborative album, 'Omnisphere,' due September 14 via MMW's own imprint, Indirecto Records. The collection poses a compelling question: What would happen if one of the most adventurous groups to emerge in jazz and improvised music in the last three decades were to join up with an orchestra that counts among the boldest forces in contemporary classical? The results are both expected, in the peerless level of the musicianship, and stunning, in the sweeping stylistic range of the program. But more than anything, 'Omnisphere' speaks to the respect and creative kinship shared between these two trailblazing ensembles.

Recorded live at The Newman Center in Denver, Colorado in February 2015, 'Omnisphere' fulfills a long-held aspiration for Medeski, drummer-percussionist Billy Martin and bassist Chris Wood. In the earliest days of the band, they would often listen to classical and chamber music as a source of musical inspiration, conceptualizing the idea of how to merge their freewheeling improvisational jazz explorations with the more composed approach of orchestral music.   

The album's seven-track program strikes an ideal balance, with original music by members of both groups, plus new AWS arrangements of two cuts off MMW's 'End of the World Party (Just in Case)'—the title track for which was is the album's first single premiered today at DownBeat (listen and share here). That 2004 release featured the trio's trademark avant-grooves underneath an array of keyboards—including plenty of Mellotron—with pop-savvy production by the Dust Brothers' John King. On these reinventions of "End of the World Party (Just in Case)," arranged by cellist Stefan Freund, and "Anonymous Skulls," arranged by violinist Courtney Orlando, the album's atmospheric replicas of strings and choir are made real through Alarm Will Sound's rich orchestral tapestry. Think of classic soul-jazz-with-strings LPs, though on another plateau of insight and imagination.

Martin's "Coral Sea," given an impressionistic arrangement by founding AWS trumpeter Jason Price, explores "colors and hues and nuance—all these things that are barely there," the composer says. Medeski's offering, "Eye of Ra," is a 20-minute tour-de-force that reflects the panoramic scope of his influences and experience—from shades of Stravinsky and Shostakovich that underscore his training at New England Conservatory, to rollicking, hard-grooving sections that summon up the NYC downtown scene.

The lead-off composition, "Kid Tao Mammal (Unworldliness Weirdo)," was commissioned for the project and written by founding AWS percussionist Payton MacDonald, and it sets the pace for the beyond-genre music to follow: speedy, cresting waves of strings and woodwinds, with startling punches of brass; funky rhythms bolstering Medeski's psychedelic electric piano; an ambient, near-dissonant section split open by Martin's drum solo; a thrilling finale. Other works composed by AWS personnel include multi-instrumentalist Caleb Burhans' "Oh Ye of Little Faith...(Do You Know Where Your Children Are?)," which evokes the gorgeously emotive, slow-burning side of the Minimalists; and Miles Brown's cyclical, noirish "Northern Lights," named in part after the Detroit lounge where the bassist had a regular jazz-trio gig. Onstage, Brown called his contribution "an opportunity for me to write for my band, and for a band that I've been listening to for a long time that I know could handle some improvisation. Just a little bit,” he added, chuckling.

Medeski Martin & Wood w/ Alarm Will Sound's 'Omnisphere' is out September 17, 2018 on limited edition 2-LP vinyl and digital formats.

OMNISPHERE
Track Listing

1. "Kid Tao Mammal (Unworldliness Weirdo)"
2. "Anoymous Skulls"
3. "Coral Sea" 
4. "Oh Ye Of Little Faith... (Do You Know Where Your Children Are?)"
5. "Eye Of Ra"
6. "Northern Lights"
7. "End Of The World Party (Just In Case)"

Medeski Martin & Wood - "End Of The World Party"

A soupy blend of experimental sounds from New York's Eartheater.

For more information and tracklist head here: http://www.factmag.com/2018/10/31/fact-mix-678-eartheater/

FACT Mixes

FACT mix 678 - Eartheater (Oct '18)

Chelsea Komschlies, composer
Performed by Alarm Will Sound

Live at the Mizzou International Composers Festival, July 27, 2019

Notes by the composer:
Hexactinellida: a class of ancient, unusual sea sponges whose skeletons are composed of a complex lattice of six-pointed spicules made of silica, earning them the name "glass sponges." Lacking an epidermis like other sponges, hexactinellids are wrapped in a covering of multinucleate cytoplasm which can send electrical impulses through their glass skeletons better than any fiber optics humans have created. In contrast to this lightning-fast reaction time in their extreme longevity; one currently living specimen is estimated to be 15,000 years old.

The music evokes glass sponges' structure: hard, densely-packed, buzzing lattices lit up by pulses of electricity; their texture, crunchy and spiky rather than smooth and crystalline; and their bodily shapes, which simultaneously resemble ultra-futuristic algorithmic architecture and Dr. Seussian plants.

Alarm Will Sound:
Alan Pierson, conductor and Artistic Director
Erin Lesser, flute
Christa Robinson, oboe
Bill Kalinkos, clarinet
Elisabeth Stimpert, clarinet
Michael Harley, bassoon
Laura Weiner, horn
Tim Leopold, flugelhorn
Michael Clayville, trombone 
Matt Smallcomb, percussion 
Chris Thompson, percussion 
John Orfe, piano 
Alan Pierson, piano
Courtney Orlando, violin 
Stefan Freund, cello
Miles Brown, bass
Daniel Neumann, audio engineering

Executive Director, Gavin Chuck
General Manager, Annie Toth
Production Manager, Jason Varvaro
Assistant Director of Artistic Planning, Peter Ferry
Librarian, Chihiro Shibayama

Special thanks to Patti Kilroy (violin), Beth Myers (viola), Yuri Yamashita (percussion), and Nathan Koci (horn).

Hexactinellida

"The very model of a modern music chamber band." - The NYTimes

Hexactinellida

Alarm Will Sound

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