Moto immoto (sinfonietta)
Work by Martin Lohse for sinfonietta
Score, parts and performance
The work is published on UE Universal Edition: Direct link
Preview (full score): Universal Edition
Recording
Moto immoto
Collage de temps
- CD release with works for piano, sinfonietta and chamber ensemble performed by David Lau Magnussen,The Danish Chamber Players, Bjarke Mogensen, Claudio Jacomucci, Christina Åstrand, Toke Møldrup and conducter: Casper Schreiber,
- Release date: 28 Marts 2018
- Record label: Dacapo Records: 8.226590
Versions
The work is orchestrated in 7 versions.
| Work | Year |
|---|---|
| Moto immoto (tape) | 2009 |
| Moto immoto (accordion duo) | 2009/2010 |
| Moto immoto (accordion) | 2009/2011 |
| Moto immoto (accordion duo, short version) | 2009/2011 |
| Moto immoto (accordion, violin, cello and contrabass) | 2009/2011 |
| Moto immoto (sinfonietta) | 2009/2016 |
| Moto immoto (symphony orchestra, second edition) | 2009/2018 |
Info
Composer Martin Lohse
Title Moto immoto
Subtitle Mobile I
Work number W.35g
Composition year 2009/2016
Movements 1
Duration 11 min
Genre orchestral music
Number of instruments +10
Instrumentation sinfonietta
Score notation computer (Sibelius)
Pages 25
Free score yes
Published no
Recording type studio
Musical styles and elements modal, meditative, expressive
Program note
Moto immoto
Mobile I
for sinfonietta
Moto immoto (motion in the motionless) was composed in 2009 as an electroacoustic piece, created with samples from Vienna Symphonic Library as a virtual piece for symphonic orchestra. The scoring and rearrangement for sinfonietta in 2015.
A simple pattern of 6 major thirds represents all the harmonics in the piece. It counts in 5/4 and are slowly moving through all the keys forming an irreversible feeling of lost times and sorrow. Insistent figures across the rhythm of the chords in the strings and especially in the brass creates a counterpoint to the slow music, but it really doesn't change the somehow transcendental feeling of the work.
Mobile
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.
I've developed the technique by combining different musical methods used in older works.
- Use of multiple layers of music, which have been a important part of my music since 2000.
- A simple repeating sequence of chords as the only harmonic material in the piece, which creates a music on the move, in a never ending modulation from the start to the end. Used in works like Haiku (1999), In liquid... (violin and piano) (2003) and Image balancantes (2004).
- A 'rhythm across harmony' principle, where different together sounding motives are played in individual tempos across the rhythm of the chords.
First used in Smoke (2000) and developed as a technique in Liebestraum (Liszt arrangement from 2005), and later used in 8 momenti mobile (2008) before it finally evolved to the technique used in Concerto in tempi from 2010 and forward.
Martin Lohse 2015
Danish
Moto immoto
Mobile I
for akkordion duo
Moto immoto (bevægelse I det ubevægelige) blev I 2009 komponeret som et elektroakustisk værk med samples fra Vienna Symphonic Library som et virtuelt stykke for symfoniorkester. Værket blev instrumenteret for sinfonietta i 2015.
Et simpelt mønster af 6 store tertser bevæger sig langsomt igennem alle tonearter i en musik med ingen eller ganske få dissonanser, hvilket skaber en ren men også sorgfuld følelse af tabt tid. Undervejs afbrydes den mere transcendentale musik af hurtigere mere tætte afsnit, hvilket dog ikke ændrer på den grundlæggende stemning i værket.
Martin Lohse 2015
Performances
All versions of - Moto immoto
Studio Scene Royal Danish Academy of Music, Copenhagen, Denmark
Wednesday 7 September 2016, 19:30
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Holbæk Kunsthøjskole, Holbæk, Denmark
Friday 14 September 2012, 16:00
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List of orchestral music
- Magma (2001)
- Awakening (2002)
- Serenade for violin and orchestra (2008)
- Den Standhaftige Tinsoldat (2004)
- Ember (sinfonietta) (2008)
- In liquid... (accordion concerto, first version) (2008)
- In liquid... (accordion concerto, second version) (2008/2010)
- In liquid... (accordion concerto, string orchestra) (2008/2010/2019)
- Concerto in tempi (accordion and string orchestra) (2010/2012)
- Moto immoto (symphony orchestra, second edition) (2009/2018)
- Moto immoto (sinfonietta) (2009/2016)
- Collage de temps (piano and sinfonietta) (2013)
- Collage de temps (piano duo) (2013)
- Lurid Light (1998)
- Concerto in G (recorder and baroque strings) (2018)
- Symphony in one movement (2020)
- Transition (accordion and orchestra) (2022)
- Transition (symphony orchestra) (2022)
- Concerto piccolo I (accordion concerto) (2023)
- Accordion Concerto No.2 (2024)
- Accordion Concerto No.3 (2025)
- Concerto piccolo II (accordion concerto) (2025)
- Recall (small sinfonietta) (1968/1977/2015)