Mason Bates: Digital Loom

Mason Bates (electronica) (Artist), Antares (Artist), Biava Quartet (Artist), Chanticleer (Artist), Isabelle Demers (organ) (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 12, 2009)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: MSR Classics
• ASIN: B0029MYGIO
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #126,115 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #99 in Music > Classical > Instruments > Electronic

Track Listings

1. Mason Bates: Intro Blues7

2. Mason Bates: Digital Loom, Dusk On A Static Empire

3. Mason Bates: Digital Loom, Fanfare With Breaks

4. Mason Bates: Digital Loom, Through The Atmosphere

5. Mason Bates: Digital Loom, Geraldine s Parlour

6. Mason Bates: Digital Loom, Deliver Us From Evil

7. Mason Bates: Interlude: Siren Music

8. Mason Bates: From Amber Frozen

9. Mason Bates: Interlude: Amber

10. Mason Bates: Red River - The Continental Divide

11. Mason Bates: Red River - Interstate 70

12. Mason Bates: Red River - Zuni Visions From The Canyon Walls

13. Mason Bates: Red River - Hoover Slates Vegas

14. Mason Bates: Red River - Running Dry On The Sonoran Floor

15. Mason Bates: Outro: Rhombus

Editorial Reviews

The music of MASON BATES fuses innovative orchestral writing, the rhythms of electronica and techno, and imaginative narrative forms brought to life by cutting edge sound design. A composer of symphonic music who often includes live electronica in his orchestral music, he has become known as an artist who moves fluidly between those two worlds performing on electronic drum-pad and laptop, for example, with the National Symphony Orchesta in his Liquid Interface at Carnegie Hall; or, creating an evening of concert music and electronica with members of the Berlin Philharmonic at the Volksbühne in the former East Side. Recent commissions have explored everything from the marriage of orchestral sonorities and earthquake recordings (Music From Underground Spaces, commissioned by the California Symphony) to the fusion of techno beats and the ancient sounds of a pipe organ in Digital Loom. Repeat performances of his works have occurred throughout the United States, from the Oakland Symphony to the New York Philharmonic, and he is a frequent guest at summer music festivals such as Tanglewood, Cabrillo, and Aspen. Current events bring the premieres of The-BSides for orchestra & electronica, which will be premiered by the San Francisco Symphony in May, and Sirens for the renowned male chorus, Chanticleer. He currently serves as composer-in-residence with the California Symphony. Active as a performer, he has played his Concerto for Synthesizer with the Atlanta and Phoenix Symphonies, and he also stays busy as a DJ of trip-hop and electronica in San Francisco s many clubs, lounges and art spaces. With Maestro Benjamin Schwartz of the San Francisco Symphony and set designer Anne Patterson, he recently launched Mercury Soul: An Electro-Acoustic Evening, which brought over a thousand people to the San Francisco club Mezzanine to hear contemporary classical music interspersed with DJs and live electronica. Studying English literature and music composition in the Columbia-Juilliard program, he worked primarily with John Corigliano, and has also studied with David Del Tredici and Samuel Adler. Now living in the San Francisco Bay Area where he worked with Edmund Campion at UC Berkeley, he is currently a Guggenheim Fellow and the composer in residence for the California Symphony.

Customer Reviews

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3.0 out of 5 stars Mason Bates: Digital Loom..., April 21, 2010

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This review is from: Mason Bates: Digital Loom (Audio CD)

I heard his "Liquid Interface" on National Public Radio (KUAT - University of Arizona - those Wildcats) playing his brand of Electronica with an Orchestra (Pacific Symphony?) no less. It was an excellent presentation of his work! Though not "Liquid Interface," Digital Loom stands up well, as Mr. Bates brings "real" composing skills to bear in this collection. I recommend it!

I rate "Digital Loom" 3.5 stars...

P.S., I look forward to "Liquid Interface" showing up someday, I'll snatch that up in two seconds flat!