Paul Dooley: Masks & Machines

For the first time on record, four of Dooley’s orchestral scores—Point Blank, Mondrian’s Studio, Masks & Machines, and Circuits & Skins—demonstrate the quick evolution of electronics in the concert hall and its growing place in creativity. “While all of these compositions have been ‘successful’—with two of the works being among my most-performed—finishing each resulted in my asking ‘What the heck am I going to do next?’,” explains 41-year-old composer Paul Dooley. “The four works presented here became important compositional milestones between which I went through extended periods of grinding and experimentation.”