Nina Shekhar, composer
Performed by Alarm Will Sound 

Notes from the composer:
During the COVID-19 pandemic – a highly unusual yet new normal, surreal, and yet painfully real time – artists have been challenged to think about what community means. In an artform in which physicality is essential, how is this affected during a pandemic in which our bodies are at risk? Our connection to our physical bodies has deepened, becoming hyper-aware of every breath, every ache, and every anxiety. Furthermore, due to social distancing we haven’t been able to physically connect with each other in the same ways as before, simultaneously craving and fearing each other’s human contact. As society reopens, we’re all itching to get up and dance after sitting on our couches for an entire year. Turn Your Feet Around brings the nightclub to the concert hall. Using deconstructed and warped fragments of the ever fabulous Gloria Estefan’s “Get On Your Feet,” performers have a chance to reconnect with their own physicality by dancing to wild reimagined grooves and 80s-style drum beats. Whether socially distanced or not, it’s time to get on our feet and find the rhythms and movements that have been waiting to unleash this entire year! Because as Gloria says, “Find it, I know it will pull you through.”

Turn Your Feet Around

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

scanner/scrawler

Michael Clayville is a musician who is passionate about drawing audiences deeply into the art of sound. His abilities as a trombone soloist, chamber musician, and improviser have taken him to prestigious venues around the world including Carnegie Hall, Walt Disney Hall, the Barbican (London) and the Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ (Amsterdam) and have led to him working with some of the most prominent classical and popular artists today including Pulitzer Prize-winning composers Steve Reich, John Adams, John Luther Adams, Charles Wuorinen, and David Lang, and experimental groups like Medeski Martin and Wood, and the Dirty Projectors. Michael is a founding member of Alarm Will Sound, a group that has been awarded the ASCAP Concert Music Award for “the virtuosity, passion and commitment with which they perform and champion the repertory for the 21st century” and which has been called the “future of classical music” by the&nbsp;New York Times. In addition to being its trombonist, Michael is also the Director of Marketing for Alarm Will Sound. 

In this episode, we cover:  Playing with Medeski, Martin and Wood Picking repertoire in Alarm Will Sound by quasi-democratic methods 
Marketing efforts/social media for AWS Splitting Adams CD 
The Mizzou International Composers Festival Georg Friedrich Haas 
Teaching at Lawrence, working for/with Brian Pertl  

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The Brass Area of the Mary Pappert School of Music at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh PA is our new partner (and Lance has been teaching euphonium there since 2000). 

Check out Parker Mouthpieces fine offerings (including the Andrew Hitz and Lance LaDuke models)! 

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Last but not least, we are now on Instagram! 
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Expertly produced by Will Houchin with love, care, and enthusiasm.

TBJ72: Trombonist Michael Clayville from Alarm Will Sound...Lawrence University

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)

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

Turn Your Feet Around

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