Music historical meetings

Danish composer Martin Lohse (b. 1971) writes contemporary music, drawing on music history. The CD Collage de temps by Martin Lohse is a collage of times. Both musical ‘times’ – tempi that are put together with other tempi – and a mixture of times and idioms from musical history, from the dance suites of the Baroque through the elegance of the Rococo and the emotional outbursts of Romanticism to the rhythmic swing and motif repetitions of Minimalism.

All three works on the album are written with the featured artists in mind, fronted by the pianist David Lau Magnussen accompanied by the Danish Chamber Players (Ensemble Storstrøm) and the accordionists Bjarke Mogensen and Claudio Jacomucci, violinist Christina Åstrand and cellist Toke Møldrup.

Acoustic mobiles

Martin Lohse works with a composition technique, which he calls ‘mobile’, in which independent figures – mobiles – constantly show new sides of themselves, but are still easily recognized. We hear ‘the same’, but we have been changed by the time that has passed, so the music is not identical either to what we heard before.