Mason joined Mary Lee on CBS News to talk all things classical and electronic music including Philharmonia Fantastique, The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs and Mercury Soul’s Symphonic Techno event.
“San Francisco is where it all came together for me,” said Bates. “By day, I was writing symphonies for the Phoenix Symphony or the LA Philharmonic. And then at night, I would get out and DJ in SoMa. I finally decided one night, I was sitting at the turntables at an old place named Varnish, which has since disappeared. And I thought, why can’t I have an orchestra play with these beats at the same time?”
“For Mason, he’s a DJ and he’s all out in the community,” said Red Curtain Addict founder Kari Lincks Coomans. “He’s so charismatic. He’s an innovator, and getting to work side-by-side with him for events with Mercury Soul has been so exciting. He’s always pushing the envelope.”
Watch online on the CBS website.