TEM132: Gavin Chuck and Michael Clayville of Alarm Will Sound on having conversations with your fans, creative collaborations and sharing meaningful experiences with your audience (TEM Rewind)
Alarm Will Sound is a 20-piece chamber ensemble that challenges and reshapes musical conventions through performances of music by today's composers.
What You'll Learn:
- How Alarm Will Sound began as a group at Eastman and what has enabled them to survive for so long when most student groups dissolve after college
- The importance of communication and transparency in any group
- Why they rely on a Strong Executive Model rather than a straight up democratic process
- How working as a team in any healthy organization is a moving target as the amount of effort individuals are able to put forth shirts over time
- Why groups like Alarm Will Sound are not only competing for gigs with other ensembles with similar missions but with any artists offering an experience which is literally everyone
- How musicians can learn from dancers and actors who are taught to perform from the moment they are even on the wings of the stage
- The details behind an initiative called Alarm System, where Alarm Will Sound does unconventional collaborates with a variety of musicians
- Their collaboration with one of my favorite groups in the world, Medeski, Martin & Wood
- The group’s overall approach to marketing and branding and how Michael goes about executing it
- Why sharing an experience with your audience at concerts is more important than it’s ever been
Links:
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Produced by Andrew Hitz