Alarm Will Sound: Heard
$20
Bora Yoon — Casual Miracles
Tania León — Toque
Damon Davis — Ligeia Mare: Episode 4 (world premiere)
Elijah Daniel Smith — Vermilion Glare
Christian Quiñones — Hasta que no pueda
Tania León / John Orfe — Gran Toque
Chris P. Thompson — Hanabi (in-ear remix)
Alarm Will Sound returns to Missouri with HEARD, a program that intertwines music and storytelling to share how composers convey their personal narratives through music. This performance also highlights the breadth of Alarm Will Sound’s stylistic range and musical omnivorousness with works ranging from Tania León's Toque, inspired by Cuban dance to Hanabi by Alarm Will Sound members Chris Thompson and Miles Brown, a piece inspired by electronic dance music and drum line. Alarm Will Sound will be joined by special guests, including Bora Yoon for her work Casual Miracles and Damon Davis for the premiere of an excerpt from his science-fiction opera Ligeia Mare. Also on the program is Līlā by Texu Kim, a work supported by the Barlow Prize and written for AWS, the London Sinfonietta, the Oakland Symphony Orchestra, and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra.
About Alarm Will Sound
Alarm Will Sound’s twenty artists perform today's music with classical skill and daring curiosity.
https://www.alarmwillsound.com/About Damon Davis
Damon Davis is an award-winning post-disciplinary artist who works and resides in St. Louis, Missouri. His work spans across illustration, painting, printmaking, music, film, and public art. His solo exhibition, Darker Gods in the Garden of Low Hanging Heavens premiered in St. Louis in 2018, later traveling to Art Basel Miami 2018. Davis has work in the permanent collection at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture and has exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary African Diaspora Arts and the San Diego Contemporary Museum of Art. For the documentary short A Story To Tell (2013), which profiled Davis, his work, and the creative process, Davis won an Emmy Award Mid-America for Best Short Form Program. His work has been nominated for Critics’ Choice Award, Gotham Award, and NAACP Image Award; Filmmaker Magazine selected him and Director Sabaah Folayan for their "25 New Faces of Independent Film 2016" for their work on critically acclaimed documentary Whose Streets?, chronicling the Ferguson rebellion of 2014. Davis is a 2015 Firelight Media Fellow, a 2016 Sundance Music and Sound Design Lab Fellow, a TED Fellow (2017), and a Root100 Honoree (2017).