Patrick Neas interviews Mason ahead of the Kansas City premiere of The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs.
“[Bates’] music is also some of the most distinctive new music out there. Having grown up on English psychedelia, Bates is not afraid to use the latest technology in his music, a quality used to great effect in (R)evolution.”
“Bates’ technological innovations couldn’t be put to a better use than in an opera about the ultimate technological innovator. “The first sounds you hear are samples of old Macintosh gear,” Bates said. “You hear keyboards, you hear little beeps. I thought it would be fascinating to open the opera with the actual sounds the protagonist created. We also hear Buddhist meditation sounds that have been recorded and electronically processed to represent the world of Kobun, Jobs’ spiritual adviser.”
Read the full article on the The Kansas City Star website.
The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs will be at the Lyric Opera of Kansas City on March 11 and 12 and on March 13 at Muriel Kauffman Theater, Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts.
