Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas (MTT) and the San Francisco Symphony
(SFS) will release
a
new recording featuring
Bay Area composer
Mason
Bates’
s
three
largest electro
-
acoustic
orchestral
works
on the Orchestra’s Grammy Award
-
winning SFS Media
label on Friday,
March 11, 2016.
The
album of Bates’s
largest
orchestral
works
features the first recordings
of
the SFS
-
commissioned
The B
-
Sides
and
Liquid Interface, in addition to
Alternative
Energy
.
These
three works
illustrate Bates’s
exuberantly
inventive music that expands
the
symphonic
palette with sounds
of the digital age:
techno, drum‘n’bass, field recordings
and more, with the composer performing on electronica
.
MTT
and
the SFS have championed Bates’s
works for over a decade, evolving a partnership
built on multi-year
commissioning,
performing, recording, and touring
projects
.
“The three pieces on this album are my largest
electro
-
acoustic works, my wildest explorations into the power of an
expanded symphonic palette and its
implications for imaginative
new forms,” said Mason Bates.
“The sounds range from
glaciers to industrial techno to a NASA spacewalk.
New sounds have of
ten provoked new forms throughout music
history... and I look to the digital world as an important twenty-first century expansion of the orchestral sound world.”
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