Around (flute and delays)
Solo work with electronics by Martin Lohse
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Recording
Around
Mix from live-recording of the redrawn work Time of Sorrow (flute and electronic) played by Marianne Leth at Vesthimmerlands Museum, Aars, Denmark 9. Sep 2012
Around
Pre-recording made with samples from Vienna Symphonic Library
Info
Composer Martin Lohse
Title Around
Work number W.39
Composition year 2011
Movements 1
Duration 9 min
Genre electroacoustic
Number of instruments 1
Instrumentation flute with delays
Score notation computer (Sibelius)
Pages 11
Free score yes
First performance 30 Oct 2011
- by Hélène Navasse
- place National Gallery of Denmark
Musical styles and elements minimalistic, tonal
Program note
In English
Around
for flute and delays
(bass flute/alto flute/concert flute)
Around is in three parts where the flute player change instrument for every part, starting with the bass flute, then the alto flute in the middle and the normal flute in the last part. It's a classic ABA form where the first part is repeated in the end with a little variation.
The work starts with a canon between the player and the electronics which consist of one delay three beats behind the musician. I tried to make the illusion of two individual flutes playing, the combined music between the player and the speaker is perceived as music in 3/8, but the musician actually plays in 5/16, thereby giving the illusion of music with two individual voices.
In the middle part we hear five fast delays making a special change ringing rhythm, before we return to the first part in the end.
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A musical technique where different layers of music in individual tempos, metric and musical style are combined in a simple pattern of chords, which slowly modulate through all the keys in a newer ending sequence, creating a music with no or very few dissonances.
- Martin Lohse 2011
In Danish
Around
for fløjte og delays
(bas, alt og tværfløjte)
Around er i tre dele, hvor musikeren skifter instrument for hver del. Først basfløjte, derefter altfløjte for til sidst at ende med tværfløjte i den sidste del. Værket er i en klassisk ABA form, hvor første del gentages til sidst med en smule variation. Værket starter med en kanon mellem musikeren og højtalerne. Jeg har forsøgt at illudere to selvstændige fløjter der spiller. Den samlede musik opfattes som værende i 3/8, men fløjtenisten spiller faktisk i 5/16 og giver derved en illusion af en musik med to selvstændige stemmer. I midterdelen hører vi fem hurtige delays, som frembringer en særlig ”Change ringing” rytme, før at vi vender tilbage til første del i slutningen af værket.
Mobile
En teknik hvor forskellige lag af musik i hver deres tempo, metrik og musikalsk stil kombineres i et simpelt mønster af akkorder, som langsomt modulere igennem alle tonearter i en uendelig sekvens, skabende en musik med ingen eller ganske få dissonanser.
- Martin Lohse 2011
Performances
All versions of - Around
Engholm Kirke, Allerød, Denmark
Sunday 29 September 2013, 16:00
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KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg, Denmark
Saturday 21 September 2013, 14:00
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Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark
Sunday 30 October 2011, 14:00
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List of electroacoustic music
- Entity (violin and delays) (2002)
- Entity (viola and delays) (2002)
- Entity (cello and delays) (2002)
- Tempo de hielo (clarinet, violin, contrabass and electronic) (1997/2002)
- Change ringing (clarinet, vibraphone, harp and electronic) (2009)
- Wood on Strings (string quartet and delays) (2010)
- Speed (marimba and delays) (2010)
- Around (flute and delays) (2011)
- The Earth and the Sea (cello and delays) (2019)
- Echoes off cliffs (accordion and live electronics) (2021)
- Transition (accordion and orchestral samples) (2022)
- Vibration in blue and yellow (tape) (2000)
- Vibration in blue and yellow II (tape) (2000)
- Salme 22 (tape) (2004)
- Slow movement (tape) (2004)
- Sorrow (tape) (2006)
- Moto immoto (tape) (2009)