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Mason Bates

George Hurd: Navigation Without Numbers

by Karl Ackermann
March 3, 2016

San Francisco-based composer George Hurd doesn't subscribe to any of the monolithic definitions around musical categories. In his own creative process he incorporates classical chamber music, home-grown electronics and acoustic instrumentation. Performed by the rotation of players making up his namesake ensemble, his debut album, Navigation Without Numbers, presents us with eleven Hurd original compositions that ...

Stereo Is King

By Mason Bates

Label: Innova Recordings
Released: 2014
Track listing: Stereo Is King; Observer in the Megellanic Cloud; Difficult Bamboo; Terrycloth Troposphere; String Band; White Lies for Lomax

Mason Bates: Stereo Is King

by Karl Ackermann
August 4, 2014

Modern composer and electronics artist Mason Bates is equally comfortable in the worlds of new classical and hip hop. Working closely with the symphony orchestras of San Francisco and Chicago, he has been a driving force in escalating the role of electronics in the orchestra setting. To that end, Bates has put years into the study ...