Entity (violin and delays)
Solo work with electronics by Martin Lohse, based on the redrawn work for solo cello: Kanon og rytmiske glissader
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Recording
Entity (violin and delays)
Live-recording by Christine Pryn from Warsaw Autumn 2002
Versions
The work is orchestrated in 3 versions.
| Work | Year |
|---|---|
| Entity (violin and delays) | 2002 |
| Entity (viola and delays) | 2002 |
| Entity (cello and delays) | 2002 |
Info
Composer Martin Lohse
Title Entity
Work number W.14
Composition year 2002
Movements 1
Duration 7.5 min
Genre electroacoustic
Number of instruments 1
Instrumentation violin with delays
Score notation computer (Sibelius)
Pages 5
Free score yes
Published yes
First performance 28 Sep 2002
- by Christine Pryn
- place Warsaw Autumn 2002, Warsaw, Polen
Recording type live
Musical styles and elements modern, expressive
Desciption, electronic part
The electronic part consist of four mono-delays
The instrument should be amplified to be mixed with the 4 delays. It is important that the dynamic of each delay is equal, or only a little below the dynamic of the instrument including the amplification of the instrument. This often means that the delays should be as loud as possible without getting feedback.
Delays in four speakers:
| Delay | Delay time | Front left | Front right | Back right | Back left |
| Original sound | 0 ms | 50% | 50% | - | - |
| Delay 1 | 1300 ms | - | 70% | 30% | - |
| Delay 2 | 2100 ms | - | - | 90% | 10% |
| Delay 3 | 3400 ms | - | - | 10% | 90% |
| Delay 4 | 5500 ms | 70% | - | - | 30% |
Delays in two (stereo) speakers:
| Delay | Delay time | Front left | Front right |
| Original sound | 0 ms | 50% | 50% |
| Delay 1 | 1300 ms | 100% | - |
| Delay 2 | 2100 ms | 67% | 33% |
| Delay 3 | 3400 ms | 33% | 67% |
| Delay 4 | 5500 ms | - | 100% |
Program note
In English
Entity
Entity is a piece for solo violin written to Christine Pryn. There is also a version for solo viola and solo cello, and all three versions can be performed with or without electronic.
The title means being, something that has an existence – a reality, and here I am thinking of a musical entity, that lives by itself by its own laws and purpose.
The piece is in two parts:
The first part starts with a theme with three tones with double stops, which is used almost like a passacaglia although the first part. The theme with the three tones is gradually displaced laying itself on top of each other in more and more layers as a kind of poly-voiced canon, while the piece gradually grow to a culmination before the second part.
The second part is saturated by a rhythmical obstinate over the strings of the violin, as a sort of baroque music which is slowly being distorted by glissandos and ends with a long glide to the top register.
The electronic part is relatively simple. It contains four delays, which delays the music with 1.3, 2.1, 3.4 and 5.5 seconds, distributed in the speakers.
Martin Lohse 20/8-02
In Danish
Entity
Entity er et værk for soloviolin, skrevet til Christine Pryn. Det kan opføres med eller uden elektronik. Titlen betyder væsen, noget der har eksistens – realitet, og her tænker jeg i høj grad et musikalsk væsen der lever i sig selv efter egne love og mål.
Værket er i to dele i hvert deres beslægtede musikalske rum. Første del starter med et tema på tre toner i dobbeltgreb, som nærmest udgør en passacaglia igennem hele første del. Temaet på de tre toner lægger sig efterhånden forskudt oven på sig selv i flere og flere lag som en slags flerstemmig kanon, imens værket vokser op til en kulmination før anden del. Denne del er gennemsyret af et rytmisk ostinat henover strengene på violinen, som en art barokmusik der langsomt forvitres af glissandoer.
Den elektroniske del er relativ enkel, og består af fire ”delays” der forsinker musikken med henholdsvis 1.3, 2.1, 3.4 og 5.5 sekunder, panoreret rundt i højtalerne.
Martin Lohse 20/8-02
Performances
All versions of - Entity
Kulturstationen Vanløse, Vanløse, Denmark
Saturday 12 November 2011, 12:00
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National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
Sunday 18 April 2010
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National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
Tuesday 13 April 2010
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Royal Danish Academy of Music - Concert Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark
Tuesday 19 October 2004
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Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
Monday 18 October 2004
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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)