New Video DVD of All Numbers Language released on Contreclisse in Belgium, featuring cellist Nicolas Deletaille! Listen to an excerpt in the first track on this myspace page. More information also available on the web pages: www.Nicolas
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All Numbers Language is a multimedia chamber music work where the interplay between visual impressions, symbolic images, music, computer sound, and human performance is very strong. The score builds on the shoulders of some of the core literature for solo cello, especially the suites by J.S. Bach, and Benjamin Britten. Mogensen's work reaches for an immediate artistic expression through the integration of traditional instruments with electroacoustics and interactive computer technology. In the multimedia environment of All Numbers Language, there are dialogues between old technology (the cello) and new technology (the computer), between older music styles and new computer-based sound art, between nuances in human performance and the interactive computer media. There are interpretive feedback cycles at work, when the computer uses real-time analysis of the cello playing to modify the electronic sound and video, and the cellist adjusts his interpretation of the written score to be in balance with the electronic sound.
The projected video is based on images by the Belgian visual artist Johan Lievens, that are processed in real-time, depending on computer analysis of the cello sound. The performance reaches for a poetic synthesis of all elements involved, centered on the expressiveness of the cellist's interpretation of the score. The work was premiered by Nicolas Deletaille and René Mogensen on September 5th, 2006, at the University of Gent, Belgium, with sponsorship from the Lucien Goethals Foundation, Belgium, and the Danish Composers' Society. In 2007 and 2008 the work has been performed in the CRUSH and RAMA music festivals as well as in several recitals in Denmark.
Niels-Ole Bo Johansen performs Ares Dreams of Love
iTunes single page direct link here: Ares Dreams of Love on iTunes
also upcoming on iTunes: René Mogensen, (composer, saxophonist, producer) was born in Denmark, earned a BA from the University of Rochester in 1993 (with teachers Fred Sturm, Bill Dobbin, Ramon Ricker), a MA in Contemporary Music from New York University in 1996 (with teachers Esther Lamneck, Jim McNeely, Tom Boras), and later took a Master of Electronic Music Composition from the Royal Academy of Music (with Wayne Siegel), Denmark in 2008.
Premieres during 2008-2009 of René's compositions include Havblik for chamber orchestra and computer in Musikhuset Aarhus, Dialogues for organ and computer in Aarhus Cathedral, and Floating Spaces for vibraphone and computer in CRUSH Festival for New Music, Denmark. His chamber music, multimedia concert works, as well as works for jazz groups, are performed in concert programs by soloists including Nicolas Deletaille, Marianne Leth, Niels-Ole Bo Johansen, Henrik Larsen, David Schmidt, and ensemble concert programs by the DJM Chamber Ensemble, the Tivoli Promenade Orchestra, Esbjerg Ensemble, and Duo Corto in Denmark, Eonta String Quartet in Belgium, the Ensemble Rosario in Argentina, and by the Neosonic Ensemble, David Ullmann Group, and NYU New Music Ensemble in New York City.
René has completed several commissions for Danish Public Radio (DR). He has created new works during residencies at STEIM, Logos, and other music & technology research centers in Europe and the USA. Some completed commissioned works for modern dance/theater have included Heaven or Cell and Terror and Money and two strings quartets: Air and Marble and For Four One for productions in New York City with choreographer Renata Celichowska. Other recent theater/dance multimedia productions for which René has composed music include Five Seasons in Amsterdam and Brussels, Umano, Troppo Umano in Italy, The Unfolding of an Impossible Building in Belgium, and Zorg og den usynlige hund in Denmark.
René is active as a saxophonist in performing new chamber music and multimedia concerts, and has given solo concerts with saxophones and computers in concert halls, churches and theater performance spaces during tours in USA, Denmark, Belgium and Italy. He is also a soloist in the jazz arena, and has performed with Tom Beyer, Steve Brown, Pat Cosmo, George Reed, Tony Moreno, Ron Velosky, Woody Peters, David Ullmann, and many others. René directed the René Mogensen Ensemble in New York during 1991-2001, which performed a wide repertoire, including many premieres of new works.
New recording releases in 2009 of René's compositions include the Video-DVD of Nicolas Deletaille performing All Numbers Language, and a series of release through iTunes including Niels-Ole Bo Johansen performing Ares Dreams of Love, and Marianne Leth performing WARNING: Flute at Large. René's work is also released on various labels including Capstone Records, Wassard, and WetCashRecords in New York, DR Focus Records and AV-Art Records in Denmark, Contreclisse in Belgium, and Hwa-Eum Records and Notation Records in South Korea. He is the recipient of awards for his work from numerous foundations including the Danish Institute for Electroacoustic Music, Meet the Composer USA, the John Anson Kittredge Fund, the Yvar Mikhashoff Trust for New Music, the Danish Music Council, Danish Composers' Society, and the Eubie Blake Fund.
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