Transition

Composer: Martin Lohse Year: 2022/2025 Worknumber: W. 62c Category: Cat 4.3 (Electroacoustic) Duration: 13.5 min
Instrumentation: acc, elec
Version for accordion and live-triggered electronics (orchestral samples) (2025)

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In English

Transition (2025)
Accordion and live-triggered electronics (orchestral samples)

Transition is slow, expressive music that gradually develops into increasingly long phrases. The work is mournful and multifaceted, featuring numerous musical layers operating in different tempos.

The title is both concrete – referring to the slow evolution of these layers – and figurative, representing a movement from one state of mind to another, or perhaps even a passage toward what follows.

Versions:

•  Transition for symphony orchestra (2022)
•  Transition for accordion, brass and string orchestra (2025)
•  Transition for accordion and live-triggered electronics (orchestral samples) (2025)
•  Transition for accordion, live-triggered electronics (orchestral samples) and string orchestra (2025)


Martin Lohse 2025

In Danish

Transition (2025)
Akkordeon og live-triggered electronics (orchestral samples)

Transition er langsom, ekspressiv musik, der gradvist udvikler sig til stadig længere fraser. Værket er sørgmodigt og facetteret med talrige musikalske lag, der opererer i forskellige tempi.

Titlen er både konkret – med henvisning til den langsomme udvikling af disse lag – og figurativ, idet den repræsenterer en bevægelse fra en tilstand til en anden, eller måske ligefrem en overgang mod det, der følger.

Versioner:

•  Transition for symfoniorkester (2022)
•  Transition for akkordeon, messing og strygeorkester (2025)
•  Transition for akkordeon og live-triggered electronics (orchestral samples) (2025)
•  Transition for akkordeon, live-triggered electronics (orchestral samples) og strygeorkester (2025)


Martin Lohse 2025

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