The Earth and the Sea (cello and delays)

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Solo work with electronics by Martin Lohse

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The Earth and the Sea
Live-recording by Ida Nørholm at Statens Museum for Kunst 25. Sep 2019

Info

Composer Martin Lohse
Title The Earth and the Sea
Supported by The Danish Arts Foundation

Work number W.56
Composition year 2019

Movements 1
Duration 11.5 min

Genre solo work with electronics
Number of instruments 1
Instrumentation cello and delay

Score notation computer (Sibelius)
Pages 12
Free score yes
Published yes

First performance 26 Sep 2019

by Ida Nørholm
place Statens Museum for Kunst, Denmark

Recording type live

Musical styles and elements minmalistic, modal



Program note

In English


The Earth and the Sea
The cliff
Proud, flaunting
in its slow decay
Surrendered to the grace of the sea


The Sea and the Earth is written and dedicated to Ida Nørholm as part of a major art project Danish Golden Age – World-class art between disasters at The National Gallery of Denmark

The piece is inspired by Johan Thomas Lundbye's A Danish Coast, depicting a majestic cliff that fills most of the right side of the painting with a stony beach in the middle and the sea to the left. The sea's erosion of the cliff is clearly seen, while the cliff's size and physical appearance are highlighted by two small figures standing next to a horse and a broken horse carriage.

For me, much of the power of the painting lies in the magnificent and powerful encounter with nature's eternal weathering. An inescapable breakdown of what is, as the foundation of what is to become.

The music waves back and forth between the two modes, and is in three parts plus a slightly longer coda. Throughout the entire work, the sound of the cello is delayed in the speakers, so that the cellist plays together with three to four delayed versions of herself. In the first part, an elongated accelerando is heard, culminating with the music of the cello and speakers hopefully falling rhythmically together. Then follows a shorter middle section before the music returns to a varied version of the beginning. The work ends in a coda based on the first four chords of Clara Schumann's Piano trio in g-minor, Op. 17.

Martin Lohse 2019


In Danish


The Earth and the Sea
Klinten
Stolt, knejsende
i sit langsomme forfald
Overgivet til havets nåde


The Sea and the Earth er skrevet og dedikeret til Ida Nørholm som en del af et større kunstprojekt Guldalder – Verdenskunst mellem to katastrofer på Statens Museum for Kunst.

Stykket er inspireret af Johan Thomas Lundbye's En dansk kyst, der forestiller en majestætisk klint der fylder det meste af højre side af maleriet med en strand i midten og havet til venstre. Havets erosion af klinten ses tydeligt, mens klinten størrelse og fysiske fremtoning fremhæves af to små skikkelser der står ved siden af en hest og en ødelagt hestevogn.

For mig ligger en stor del af maleriets kraft i det storslåede og kraftfuldes møde med naturens evige forvitring. En uafvendelig nedbrydning af det som er, som fundament for det som skal blive.

Musikken bølger frem og tilbage mellem de to tilstande, og er overordnet set i tre dele plus en lidt længere koda. Igennem hele værket forsinkes celloens lyd i højtalerne, så at cellisten så at sige spiller sammen tre til fire forsinkede udgaver af sig selv. I første del høres et langstrakt accelerando der kulminerer med, at musikken i celloen og højtalerne forhåbentlig falder rytmisk i hak. Derefter følger en kortere midterdel før at musikken vender tilbage til en varieret udgave af starten. Værket ender i en koda baseret på de første fire akkorder i Clara Schumann's klavertrio i g-mol, Op. 17.

Martin Lohse 2019



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