Composer Mason Bates visits with students

Prior to his sound check with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra tonight at Hill Auditorium, composer Mason Bates stopped by the School of Music, Theatre & Dance to talk with students about integrating electronic and sampled sounds into compositions for orchestra. He talked about some of the challenges of editing, equalizing, and pitch-shifting recorded sounds to make them fit with acoustic sounds. Tonight's concert will feature his composition Alternative Energy, for which some of the electronic sounds were recorded at the particle accelerator lab Fermilab outside of Chicago.
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