René Mogensen: Komponist og Musiker

Rene Mogensen Music and Sound logo René Mogensen: komponist, saxofonist, elektronisk musiker,  producer af original musik og lyd for koncert, multimedie, teater, koregrafer og lydoptagelser. Produktioner og nye partiturer, improvisation, interaktiv computermusik, og meget mere...
Hurtig-links til info om projekter igang nu:
1. Multimedie-Kammermusik
2. Bits and Pipes Dialoger: Orgel og Computer Projekt
3. Jazz projekter

Kontakt René Mogensen via e-mail (ReneMogensen@hotmail.com)


Mere info om René's værker og produktion

in English
Rene in Gent, Belgium
updateret d. 12. oktober 2008 Koncert: percussionist Henrik Larsen premiere mit værk Floating Spaces for vibrafon og computer i CRUSH festival, Aarhus, November 21-22, 2008.
   

Projekter lige nu og fornyligt:

Multimedie-Kammermusik  lyt til uddrag af optagelser på www.MySpace.com/ReneMogensen

ANL on stage All Numbers Language
for cello, interactive electroacoustics and video

(Duration: approx. 45 minutes)
Cellist: Nicolas Deletaille, or Susanne Engelmann, depending on availability

    All Numbers Language is a multimedia-work where the interplay between visual impressions, symbolic images, music, sound and human performance is very strong. The score builds on the shoulders of the literature for solo cello, especially the suites by J.S. Bach, and Benjamin Britten. Mogensen's music, while combining traditional instruments with electroacoustics and interactive computer technology,  reaches a very immediate artistic expression, that the general concert-going audience finds quite accessible. The projected video is based on images by the artist Johan Lievens, that are processed in real-time, depending on 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 cellist Nicolas Deletaille in September 2006, in Gent, Belgium, with René Mogensen.

Koncerter:

d. 22. maj  2008:
  Susanne Engelmann  Multimedie- kammermusik i Musikhuset Aarhus rytmisk sal.

d. 8. marts 2008, 18:30:  Susanne Engelmann i RAMA festival i Musikhuset Aarhus.

d.23. november 2007:  Susanne Engelmann i CRUSH festival hos Musikcafeen, Aarhus,.

Marianne Leth WARNING: Flute at Large
for flute with interactive electroacoustics and video,

performed by Marianne Leth

creates the illusions of new spaces for the flute to live within and to break out of. Real-time computer analysis of the flute playing is used to change the electroacoustic sound-rooms in which it exists during a performance. A feedback cycle is created between the performer, who is listening to speakers in the space, and the computer analysing the sound of the flute. This cyclical feedback system creates an immediate connection, or interface, between musician and machine. This interface allows great freedom for the performer and at the same time the electroacoustic sound can ”breathe” (in timbres, tempos, character, etc.) together with the performer. The computer sound becomes more musical, and therefore more relevant and even necessary for contemporary audiences.

Koncerter:

d. 22. maj 2008:
  Marianne Leth i koncert i rymisk sal i Musikhuset, Aarhus, Denmark


January 31, 2007:  Marianne Leth in a Flutronics  Recital at DJM in, Aarhus, Denmark

se også www.marianneleth.dk
Rene Mogensen i concert René also performs works for solo saxophone and computer.

The Norway Times writes about Mogensen's Concerts:

René Mogensen "does more than just entertain the audience - he mesmerizes spectators with his interesting combination of electroacoustic sound, chamber music, and jazz... there is no doubt that his music and art will be a part of not only Danish contemporary music history, but also the entire worlds contemporary music history."

Oct. 12, 2007: 

Whatever Delayed and Autumn Rune Song 2 for saxophone and computer in concert in the "Kultunat" at the Danish Ministry of Culture in Copenhagen. 

Sept. 2, 2007:
Bird Dance for saxophone and electronics in a concert for the opening of the new conservatory building and concert hall in Aarhus, Denmark.

Nogle Ny Musik CDer med René: links for mere info: til toppen af siden
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Fornyligt: d.20. april, 19:30, Aarhus Sinfonietta i Musikhuset Aarhus Lille Sal.


Bits and Pipes Dialoger: Orgel og Computer Projekt
 lyt til audio uddrag på www.MySpace.com/BitsAndPipes
 

Bits And Pipes:
David Schmidt spiller nye værker for orgel og computer af René Mogensen og Morten Carlsen

Koncerter:
René Mogensen


David Schmidt
René Mogensen: Dialoger for orgel og computer

    Dialog 1: Tiden
    Dialog 2: Indre
    Dialog 3: Meditation - in memoriam Nigel Howard (1934-2008)

Programnoter:

Dialog er en af de vigtigste aktiviteter, eller redskaber, som mennesket har til at skabe forståelse af sig selv og imellem hinanden. Dialog er kommunikation, og udveksling af ideer. Dialog skaber forbindelse imellem mennesker. Disse forbindelser giver muligheder for bedre liv, og en bedre verden for menneskeheden.
    I mine Dialoger for orgel og computer udforsker jeg en lydlig form for dialog på forskellige niveauer. Der er rent fysisk en udveksling af lyd imellem to poler i det store kirkerum: orglet ved hovedindgangen i skibet, og computerens højtalere ved koret. Orglet som musikinstrument fandtes i forskellig form helt tilbage til den græske oldtid, hvorimod den transistor-baserede computeren og højtaleren er fra det tyvende århundred. I Dialogerne er sammenspillet imellem orgel og computer en udveksling imellem det gamle og det nye; musik der på traditionel vis er melodi og tonalt-baseret er i dialog med den ny digitale elektroniske lydkunsts mangfoldige klanglige muligheder. Gamle musikalske ideer står i dialog med nye muligheder fra moderne teknologi. Nye muligheder for et gammelt instrument som orglet spiller også både med og imod traditionelle ideer programmeret på computer.
    Disse musikværker i form af partiturer og computer-programmer, og til sidst som klingende musik, er manifesteringer af komponistens dialoger med sig selv, sin omverden, og med de musikalske ideer og lydmaterialer som er taget i brug. Dette er en gave til den udøvende musiker, som i sin øvening og koncertopførsel finder sig selv og sit instrument i dialog med en nyere teknologi, en klang-palette der er fremmed for orglet, men som integreres og fornyes, som orglet fornyes, igennem dialoger. Musikernes gave til publikum er musikken, som søger dialog imellem det specifikke personlige og det universalt menneskelige.  
  

April 7,  2008:
Musikkonservatoriets Koncertsal, Esbjerg, DK.

April 10, 2008:
Aarhus Domkirke, DK

April 15, 2008:
Markus-kirken, Aarhus, DK
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Jazz projekter lyt til audio tracks på www.MySpace.com/ReneMogensenJazz
RM 4tet Renés nye jazz projekt med pianisten Frank Roberts er undervejs. Der er nogle prøve-optagelser på myspace-siden.

Preferring to perform on the soprano and tenor saxophones, René offers a warm and powerful sound, with high lyric quality in the modern jazz arena. According to the Norway Times in New York, his performance "...does more than just entertain the audience - he mesmerizes spectators..." He has written many jazz tunes, also works for bigbands, and his music "exhibits a real talent for writing." according to SOS Jazz, Ohio, USA. His music is "Honey for the ears" according to Ugeavisen for Varde, Denmark.
His combo have included Tom Beyer (drums/perc.), Steve Brown (guitar), Pat Cosmo (guitar), George Reed (drums), Tony Moreno (drums), Ron Velosky (bass), Woody Peters (trumpet), David Ullman (guitar), Jeff Barone (guitar), and many others...
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