Those Who Walk Away is the project of Winnipeg-based composer Matthew Patton,
which he describes as an "ever evolving working group of melodic constructivists."
Patton is perhaps best known for his highy acclaimed (and Emmy Award-winning
collaboration) Speaking In Tongues with the choreographer Paul Taylor, and has
worked with Mikhail Baryshnikov, Guy Maddin and many others. He is also the
curator of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra New Music Festival. The Infected Mass
is the first of several works Patton intends to release as Those Who Walk Away.
The Infected Mass is a haunted and profoundly emotive requiem of minimalist
composition that combines ghostly strings and choral voices with musique concr te;
melodic passages rise and fall amidst rumbling and sibilant drones sourced from
humming and whispering voices and the sound of human blood flow, punctuated by
cockpit voice recordings of airplanes in distress.
