Larum is the collaborative “classicaltronic” duo of American electronics player- sound artist Micah Frank and Canadian reed and electronics player Chet Doxas, both are based in Brooklyn. Larum means in Archaic English the sound of warning or danger, a commotion, or, simply, the archaic form of the word alarm, and this word corresponds faithfully with Larum’s music. Their previous albums incorporated field recordings, custom-built software, and real-time synthesis techniques, including in their irreverent interpretations of the works of Hildegard Von Bingen (The Music Of Hildegard Von Bingen Live At Public Records, Puremagnetik Tapes, 2024).
Frank was fascinated by the challenge of interpreting the seminal graphic score of Cornelius Cardew’s Treatise (comprising 193 pages of lines, symbols, and various geometric or abstract shapes, 1963-67), especially by
