Moto Immoto

versione tranguile

Composer: Martin Lohse Year: 2009/2011 Worknumber: W. 35c Category: Cat 2.9 (Solo) Duration: 5.5 min
Instrumentation: acc
Version for accordion solo, rearranged from the original 2009 electroacoustic version
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In English

Moto Immoto (2011/2018)
Accordion solo (tranquil version)

This version of Moto Immoto (motion in the motionless – 2011) for accordion solo is dedicated to Rasmus Schærff Kjøller and Bjarke Mogensen and is a reduced, more calm version of the original work from 2009.

Moto Immoto is slow, meditative, and permeated by an underlying sense of lost time. The music moves inevitably through all keys, circular and in perpetual motion, yet remains still, frozen in a time that was and perhaps is yet to be. The work is inspired by the great Japanese master Basho’s final haiku – his death poem – situated somewhere between dream and reality, the living and the dead, where consciousness wanders along unknown paths.

Sick
on my journey,

only my dreams
will wander

these desolate
moors

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Duration app. 5:30 min

Martin Lohse 2018

In Danish

Moto Immoto (2011/2018)
Akkordeon solo (versione tranquilla)

Denne version af Moto Immoto (bevægelse i det ubevægelige – 2011) for akkordeon solo er dedikeret til Rasmus Schærff Kjøller og Bjarke Mogensen og er en reduceret, mere rolig version af det originale værk fra 2009.

Moto Immoto er langsom, meditativ og med en underliggende følelse af tabt tid. Musikken bevæger sig uafvendeligt igennem alle tonearter, cirkulær og i evig bevægelse, men står alligevel stille, frosset fast i en tid som var, og som måske skal til at blive. Værket er inspireret af den store japanske mester Bashos sidste haiku-digt, hans døds-digt, der befinder sig et sted imellem drøm og virkelighed, det levende og det døde, hvor bevidstheden vandrer af ukendte stier.

Jeg rejser
syg

Stille over
visne marker

Strejfer
mine drømme

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Hans-Jørgen Nielsen: HAIKU – en introduktion og 150 gendigtninger.

Varighed ca. 5:30 min

Martin Lohse 2018

Performances

First Performance

Wednesday 6 April 2011 – Rasmus Schjærff Kjøller – Kastelskirken, Copenhagen, Denmark

Reviews

Please note: This list includes reviews across all versions of the work.

  • LOHSE: Collage de Temps; 5 Momenti Mobile; Moto Immoto
    (Nathan Faro - American Record Guide Nov/Dec 2018)
    ... It takes considerable willpower not to rewind to the beginning when it finishes...
    ... Like the rest of Lohse’s works on the album, it is a delight.
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  • MusicWeb International (2018)
    (Richard Hanlon - MusicWeb International)
    ... Lohse has given this (work) the lovely title Moto Immoto (Motionless motion), an apt oxymoron that utterly encapsulates this short, heartfelt piece...
    ... it certainly affected this reviewer in those terms - and easily bears repeated listening. It is revealing that this ten-minute panel lasts not a moment too long.
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  • Myriader af detaljer og intense klange
    (Henrik Friis - Politiken, kultur)
    The mobiles are breathlessly intense as they alternate between mournful and optimistic with equal parts chain dance and black melancholy.
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