Mason’s Mass Transmission will be performed at The Crossing’s annual holiday concert in Philadelphia on December 16 & 18, 2022, alongside a newly commissioned work by Caroline Shaw.
Performed by The Crossing choir add conductor, and Scott Dettra on organ with sound design by Paul Vazquez, Mass Transmission brings to life the true story of a distantly-separated mother and daughter speaking over the first long-distance radio transmissions between Holland and Java. Adapted from an obscure 1928 government publication about the technological advances made by the Dutch in communicating with their colonists, the piece explores how the advent of radio technology brought us closer, yet magnified our distances and loneliness.
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