Mason Bates: Works for Orchestra

Client San Francisco Symphony
Deliverable CD packaging
Year 2016

Mason Bates is a contemporary composer who integrates electronica, sampling, and found recordings into his orchestral works. The San Francisco Symphony recorded several of his pieces for this Grammy-nominated album.

Bates drew inspiration from various aspects of technology and the natural world. From samples of NASA recordings, to electrons humming in a nuclear reactor, to the rumble of calving glaciers, it seems to encompass the whole world, from minute to enormous.

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