The physicists at Fermilab usually don't pay much attention to the hums and growls and other mechanical sounds emanating all around them. It's the sort of background noise one tends to block out in the workplace. But to contemporary composer Mason Bates, those sounds were music to his ears.
Currently composer in residence for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO), Bates found inspiration in the sound of Fermilab for his latest symphony, "Alternative Emergy," commissioned by the CSO, which performed the piece for the first time on Feb. 2...
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