Fast Track (organ)

Solo work by Martin Lohse

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Score and performance

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Recording

Fast Track
Studio-recording by David Lau Magnussen at Værløse Kirke 2017

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Live performance 28 June 2022

Anne Kirstine Mathiesen, organ

Versions

The work is orchestrated in 3 versions.

Work	Year
Fast Track (organ)	2017
Fast Track (sheng and accordion)	2017
Fast Track (guitar duo)	2017/2018

Info

Composer Martin Lohse
Title Fast Track

Work number W.49b
Composition year 2017

Duration 5 min

Genre solo work
Number of instruments 1
Instrumentation organ

Score notation computer (Sibelius)
Pages 13
Free score yes
Published yes

First performance 17 Sep 2017

by David Lau Magnussen

place Hareskov Kirke, Denmark

Recording type studio

Musical styles and elements minmalistic, modal

Program note

In English

Fast Track
for organ

Fast Track is in several versions. This was composed simultaneously with the original version for sheng and accordion.
The movement is repetitive and minimalistic, almost static with small changes that slowly amend the expression and character of the work. The musical material is based on a fast broken chord presented in the first few bars. The broken chords are slowly transformed while descending, and tones are pulled out of the web and gradually becomes more independent of the fast repeating pattern from the beginning.
In the second part, the movement changes character, when a deep and sonorous tone returns several times and a new rhythmic figure in 7/8 disturbs the original broken chords in 6/8.
The movement ends on a long tone in the deeper middle register of the organ.

Martin Lohse 2017

In Danish

Fast Track
for orgel

Fast Track er i flere versioner. Denne blev komponeret samtidig med den originale version for sheng og akkordion.
Værket er repetativ og minimalistisk, næsten statisk, med små forandringer der langsomt ændrer værkets udtryk og karakter. Det musikalske materiale er baseret på en hurtig akkordbrydning, der præsenteres i de første takter. Akkordbrydningerne transformeres langsomt i en faldende bevægelse nedad, mens nye toner trækkes frem af vævet, og efterhånden bliver mere og mere selvstændige i forhold til det hurtigt repeterende mønster fra starten.
I anden del ændrer satsen karakter, når en dyb klangfuld tone vender tilbage flere gange og en ny rytmisk figur i 7/8 forstyrrer de originale akkordbrydninger i 6/8.
Satsen ender med at falde til ro på en lang tone I det dybere mellemregister på orglet.

Martin Lohse 2017