Moto immoto (symphony orchestra, first edition)
Work by Martin Lohse for symphony orchestra.
The work has been replaced by Moto immoto (symphony orchestra, second edition)
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Recording
Moto immoto
Made with samples from Vienna Symphonic Library
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
Work status redrawn
Composer Martin Lohse
Title Moto immoto
Subtitle Mobile I
Composition year 2009/2010
Movements 1
Duration 11 min
Genre orchestral music
Number of instruments +10
Instrumentation symphony orchestra
Score notation computer (Sibelius)
Pages 28
Free score yes
Published yes
Recording type studio
Musical styles and elements modal, meditative, expressive
Program note
English
Moto immoto
Mobile I
for symphony orchestra
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 live symphonic orchestra was written in 2010.
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 2010
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, og fik sin endelige udgave for symfoniorkester i 2010.
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 2010
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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- 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)
- Fast track (two accordions and orchestra) (2025)
- Lurid Light (1998)
- Concerto in G (recorder and baroque strings) (2018)
- Symphony in one movement (2020)
- Transition (symphony orchestra) (2022)
- Transition (accordion, brass and string orchestra) (2022/2025)
- Transition (accordion, sampled electronics and string orchestra) (2022/2025)
- 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)