Moto immoto (tape)
Versions
Pure electroacoustic work by Martin Lohse, made with samples from Vienna Symphonic Library
The work is recomposed in 7 versions.
| Work | Year |
|---|---|
| Moto immoto (symphony orchestra, second edition) | 2009/2018 |
| 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 (tape) | 2009 |
Sound
Moto immoto
Made with samples from Vienna Symphonic Library
Info
Composer Martin Lohse
Title Moto immoto
Work number W.E-6
Composition year 2009
Movements 1
Duration 11 min min"min" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 11.
Genre electroacoustic
Instrumentation tape
First performance 30 Aug 2009
- by Tape
- place Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
Recording type studio
Musical styles and elements modal, meditative, expressive
Program note
Moto immoto
Mobile I
for tape
Moto immoto (motion in the motionless) is 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: Moto immoto (symphony orchestra, second edition)
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 2009
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 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)