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Works for orchestra, Mason Bates

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Mason Bates

Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony release an exhilarating album of composer Mason Bates's large-scale works for orchestra and electronica. One of the most creative and ingenuous synthesists of recent time, these works show Bates reimagining the dimensions of symphonic music by integrating jazz, techno, drum-n-bass, field recordings of a FermiLab particle collider, and more. Features recording from The B-Sides; Liquid Interface; and Alternative Energy

The B-sides (21:43): I. Broom of the system (4:12) ; II. Aerosol melody (Hanalei) (4:00) ; III. Gemini in the solar wind (5:32) ; IV. Temescal noir (3:14) ; V. Warehouse medicine (4:45) -- Liquid interface (23:34): I. Glaciers calving (6:47) ; II. Scherzo liquido (3:54) ; III. Crescent city (8:24) ; IV. On the wannsee (4:29) -- Alternative energy (25:57): I. Ford's farm, 1896 (7:07) ; II. Chicago, 2012 (5:53) ; III. Xinjiang Province, 2112 (8:05) ; IV. Reykjavik, 2222 (4:52)

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