MUSIC AND MEDIA
VOCAL WORKS
For My Mother, and The Mother I Am
for soprano and piano accompaniment
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Performed by soprano Lisa Williamson and pianist Brett Hodgdon | May 15, 2022
Dowland Impressions
for voice and electric guitar
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Performed by soprano Carley DeFranco and guitarist Hayes Cummings | February 19th, 2022
Songs for the People
for soprano and piano accompaniment
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Performed by Shannon Cochran (soprano) and Christina Lalog Seal (piano) | May 16th, 2021 Cincinnati Song Initiative Season Finale "Let It Be New" Concert
Commissioned by the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS)
The House
for tenor and piano accompaniment (available for mid-high voice)
poetry by Gertrude Stein
Performed by Nick Alessi, tenor and Yukiko Nishimura, piano | March 12, 2020
CHORAL WORKS
Epiphanytide
for SSSAATTB choir
Commissioned and Premiered by Emmanuel Music
Three Dialgues,
for SSAATTBB choir and piano accompaniment
I. Bury Me in a Free Land
II. Not They Who Soar
III. A Child of Night
poetry by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, and Langston Hughes
Premiered by Pine Forge Academy Choir (directed by Jarrett Rosenborough) and commissioned by Philadelphia Chamber Music Society
Incipient Sonority
for SSAA choir and handbells
poetry by Kathryn I. W. Sparks
Performed by Hamilton College's Hamilton Voices, treble voices (conducted by Charlotte Botha)
Nebula
for SSAATTBB choir (a capella)
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Composed, Directed, and Produced by Mason Bynes
Performed by Nightingale Vocal Ensemble
STARDUST: Songs of the Cosmos Concert- October 16th, 2020
Somebody Else (opb: The 1975)
for SSAATTBB a capella choir
Performed by University of North Texas's Green Tones
Arranged by Mason Bynes (2018)
CHAMBER WORKS
Spring, Sprang, Sprung
for chamber orchestra
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Commissioned and Premiered by Parlando
Merkin Concert Hall -- Kaufman Music Center NYC, NY | April 24, 2022
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Two Stepping
for wind quintet
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Commissioned and Premiered by WindSync
Performed at the Midtown Arts and Theatre Center Houston | March 10, 2022
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For Rosa
for brass quartet
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Commissioned and Premiered by The Westerlies
Festival of New Trumpet Music (FONT) 2020
ZEUS
for three electric guitars, electric bass, and drumset
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Premiered at The Merril Ellis Intermedia Theatre | "Goddess of Spring" Recital February 2019
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Broomsticks (2021)
Arranged by Alejandro Montiel for guitar quartet
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Commissioned by Ex-Aequo and Austin Classical Guitar Society
Performed by student members of Virtual Guitar Orchestra
SOlO WORKS
The [WRECK]oning
for double bass
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Performed by bassist Daniel Murray | Virtual Premiere 2020
Series presented by Bass Players for Black Composers
Broomsticks
for classical guitar
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Commissioned by Ex-Aequo and released as a visual album (available on all streaming platforms)
Performed by guitarist Hannah Murphy | Virtual Premiere 2022
Persephone
a three movement work for cello
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Premiered at The Merril Ellis Intermedia Theatre | "Goddess of Spring" Recital February 2019
Music for Meditation
for double bass and electronics
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Composers Feature interview and demonstration with bassist, Jason Heath, exploring the commissioned compositions in Jason's New Course.
MUSIC FOR FILM AND MEDIA
DRY (2019)
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Director/Cinematographer: Claire Dejarnett
Original Song and Sound Design: Mason Bynes
Pleiades (2019)
an audio-visual "entrance" piece
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Original Score and Sound Design by Mason Bynes
Following Orpheus (2019)
an audiovisual work
Poetry and voice over by Kathryn I. W. Sparks
Original Score and Sound Design by Mason Bynes
Seeking Persephone (2019)
an audiovisual work
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Poetry and voice over by Kathryn I.W. Sparks
Original Score and Sound Design by Mason Bynes
Matt's Theme (2019)
segment from director Claire DeJarnett's film "Lookouts" ​
Original Score and Sound Design by Mason Bynes
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LOOKOUTS
Film (2019) directed by Claire Dejarnett. A man and woman seek refuge from the struggles of life in an abandoned watch tower.