Alan Pierson creates original online projects that take us deep into composers' music in novel ways.

A home-made video that emerged out of longing to reconnect with the natural world and with far-off loved ones during the pandemic lockdown. The musical source material comes from Ten Thousand Birds, the book of bird-inspired songs that John Luther Adams created for Alarm Will Sound. The video is a 5-minute, single-take pass through a home installation of the piece, created using the 26 screens that Alan and Paul Melnikow (Alan’s boyfriend and the project’s assistant director) were able to dig up during the pandemic. 

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An ongoing video series, in which Alan Pierson looks deeply into the inner workings of favorite moments in favorite compositions.

György Ligeti: Piano Concerto

Donnacha Dennehy: The Hunger

Matt Marks/Stefan Freund: kinda asleep

​In addition to envisioning and creating these online projects, Alan Pierson appears in other music video work.

Margaret Singer and Max Freeman: 
​Zoetrope;
music by Charlie Piper

four/ten media: 
Escape Wisconsin (Alarm Remix);
music by Caleb Burhans

Deborah Johnson: 
"Keening" from The Hunger;
music by Donnacha Dennehy