SFS Media Presents
Mason Bates: Works for Orchestra
A premiere album recording from the Grammy-winning Michael Tilson Thomas and San Francisco Symphony.

SFS Media Presents
A premiere album recording from the Grammy-winning Michael Tilson Thomas and San Francisco Symphony.
“This is new music as you always hoped it would be—exciting, beautiful, surprising, and full of a vivid sense of discovery.”
–SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony release an exhilarating album of composer Mason Bates’s large-scale works for orchestra and electronica. Hear the first-ever recordings of his colossal Liquid Interface and the SFS-commissioned The B-Sides alongside Bates’s supercharged work, Alternative Energy. One of the most creative and ingenious synthesists of our 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.
San Francisco Symphony
Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
Mason Bates, electronica
The B-Sides 1. Broom of the System Liquid Interface 6. Glaciers Calving | Alternative Energy 10. Ford’s Farm, 1896 |
Total Playing Time: 01:11:14