Around (flute and delays)

Chamberwork by Martin Lohse - second revision

Recording

<pdf page=4 >http://martinlohse.com/wpscores/smoke_22p_A4.pdf</pdf> <mp3 text='Smoke' >http://martinlohse.com/wpsound/Moto%20immoto%20orchestra%20110103%2044hz16bit.mp3</mp3> Cd-recording on Dacapo by Ensemble Nordlys

Info

Composer Martin Lohse
Title Around
Subtitle Mobile II

Composition year 2011
Movements 1
Duration 9 min min"min" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 9.

Genre electroacoustic
Number of instruments 1

Score notation computer (Sibelius)
Pages 7
Free score yes

First performance 30 Oct 2011

by Hélène Navasse

place National Gallery of Denmark

Recording type sample

Musical styles and elements minimalistic, tonal

Program note

Around
Mobile II

Around is in three parts where the flute player change instrument for every part, starting with the bass flute, then the alto flute in the middle and the normal flute in the last part. It's a classic ABA form where the first part is repeated in the end with a little variation.
The work starts with a canon between the player and the electronics which consist of one delay three beats behind the musician. I tried to make the illusion of two individual flutes playing, the combined music between the player and the speaker is perceived as music in 3/8, but the musician actually plays in 5/16, thereby giving the illusion of music with two individual voices.
In the middle part we hear five fast delays making a special change ringing rhythm, before we return to the first part in the end.

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.

1. Use of multiple layers of music, which have been a important part of my music since 2000.
2. 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... (2003) and Image balancantes (2004).
3. 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 this work and Concerto in tempi from 2010.

Martin Lohse 2011