submitted on Tue, 01/29/2008 - 07:06 in Jazz Group by Serginho 
For its third release on the intrepid new music classical Cantaloupe label, Alarm Will Sound shifts away from its chamber music interpretation of Acoustica: Alarm Will Sound Performs Aphex Twin (2005) to a piece of music that, while not exactly new, has been documented for the first time. Composer and Bang on a Can Artistic Co-Director Michael Gordon wrote this six-part theatrical piece in the late 1980s. First performed in collaboration with video artist Elliott Caplan in the 1990s as Van Gogh Video Opera, in 2005 he removed the video aspect and rearranged it for a scaled-down version of Alarm Will Sound. Van Gogh reflects Gordon's penchant for breaking down musical barriers and the constraints and formats of conventional classical music...
Source: allaboutjazz
