Moto Immoto - Martin Lohse - MYTHOS - Kjøller/Mogensen (live)

MYTHOS Classical Accordion Duo:

Rasmus Kjøller & Bjarke Mogensen

www.bjarkemogensen.com

www.accordeon.dk

Moto Immoto(2010)

Martin Lohse - Classical composer, poet and visual artist born in Copenhagen, Denmark 1971.

"In my music, I try to encircle small musical moments and atmospheres, which can timeless progress and unfold. The collocation and collision of a "pure" and clear music with a disintegrated and multi-layered music is one of the main characteristic of my music. In the heart, the music often emanate a harmonic and melodic reminiscence of past experiences in glints or longer periods which combined with a floating sensation (accelerando, decelerando etc.) creates a music with the organic form as one of its main foundations."

Martin Lohse 2002 -

In the last years my music has evolved to a more pure expression, involving very simple patterns of successive major thirds. I've called the technique Mobile, and it was developed around 2009 by combining polystylistic elements with a simple repeating sequence of chords.
Sometimes creating a simple nearly transcendental music and at other times creating a cacophonous collection of minimalistic, romantic and baroque music on top of each other, all in different tempos but with no or very few dissonances.

In my visual art I'm deeply inspired by the abstract art community COBRA which existed in Denmark from 1948-51 and by the American expressive art of Jackson Pollock etc.
At the moment I use a scraping technique developed by Gerhard Richter, making paintings where the viewer can look through several layers of paint, and thereby creating the illusion of several events in time existing together at the same time.



MYTHOS is a classical accordion duo whos repertoire covers a wide range of genres. Numerous collaborations with living composers has resulted in many new works dedicated to MYTHOS.
The duo also excels in re-arranging works for symphonic orchestra by famous classical composers.
MYTHOS comprises Bjarke Mogensen and Rasmus Kjøller who both grew up on the Danish Island of Bornholm. Here they started playing together at a very early age and within a few years they won the national contest for
accordion duo. They have performed at Festivals all over Europe and in 2011 MYTHOS had their american debut in Carnegie Hall.
MYTHOS was the 1st prize winner of the Danish Radio Chamber Music Competition 2011 and also received the prize for best performance of a contemporary work.

In 2012 MYTHOS won the 1st prize in the Almere International Chamber Music Competition. Furthermore they received the prize for best performance of a Dutch piece for Jacob Ter Veldhuis work for accordion duo, "Views from a Dutch Train".

In april 2013 MYTHOS' first album will be released with music by Igor Stravinsky, Mussorgsky, Borodin and Tchaikovsky.

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http://www.martinlohse.com/

www.accordeon.dk

www.bjarkemogensen.com