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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." |
Events in winter 2001: Get René Mogensen's printable Winter Concert Calendar 2001 in PDF file.
January 16 - 8pm - René Mogensen performed on saxophones with the David Ullman Quintet on the Knitactive Soundstage of the Knitting Factory, 74 Leonard Street, New York City. Original works by Ullman and Mogensen.
January 28, 9:00 to 11:30pm - René Mogensen in solo concert with special guest percussionist Tom Beyer at the Cornelia Street Cafe performance space on 29 Cornelia Street, between Bleecker and West 4th Streets. The concert featured René Mogensen performing solo works for saxophones and electronics including Winter Waves II, and Fragment 23B. These, along with other new and recent works, combine genres, creating a postmodern unity of chamber music, sound art and jazz. Mogensen and Tom Beyer performed works such as Rune Songs, as well as new works for saxophone, percussion and electronics products of an ongoing collaboration, entitled "Extensions," that began some five years ago. Info:(212)989-9318
February 16 - 8pm - René Mogensen solo and with special guest percussionist Tom Beyer on the Knitactive Soundstage of the Knitting Factory, 74 Leonard Street, New York City.
February 28, 9:00pm - solo concert of works for saxophone and electronics at the Galapagos Art & Performance Space, 70 North 6th St., between Wythe and Kent Avenues in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Doors to performance space open at 8:30pm. Info:(718)782-5188
March 15, 7:30pm - Works by René Mogensen, with guest musicians Christine Perea, Elizabeth Ball, George Rush, and Vincent Scialla in Mogensen's fourth annual concert at the DCA Gallery, 525 West 22 St., New York City. The program included a collection of works for woodwinds, contrabass and percussion. Info:(212)255-5511
March 20, 11pm - Mogensen's work Winter Waves II from Five Seasons was broadcast on New Sounds with John Schaefer, WNYC-FM, New York City in a program entitled "new music from Scandinavia."
March 22, 8:00pm - The European premiere of Five Seasons in surround sound in concert at the Steno Museum Planetarium, in Aarhus, Denmark. Sponsored by the Danish Institute for Electroacoustic Music.
"Five Seasons er en forstilling der vil give publikum i Aarhus en indspr¿jtning af nytænkende New York City-baseret musik og lydkunst."
April 1, 7:00pm - solo concert in Aal Kirke (Aal Church) in Oksb¿l, Denmark. Aal Kirke is a beautiful church from medieval times - renovations of the church have been completed recently.
Vesterhavsposten skrev om koncerten: "Alle, som var m¿dt frem, godt 50, blev hurtigt klar over RM's store instrumentale kunnen, og alt i alt blev det en fin musikalsk oplevelse."
April 7 - solo concert at the opening of the Easter exhibition at the Vestjysk Art Museum in the new Janus Building in Tistrup, Denmark. The Janus building is a new arts center, exhibiting works of many contemporary Danish artists. See the Concert Program in PDF format.
Jydske Vestkysten skrev om koncerten: "Den fede tone fra en spr¿d tenorsaxofon, bearbejdet gennem et st¿rre arsenal af mikrofoner og elektroniske effekter, gav genlyd i hele Janusbygningen."
May 3 and 4 - Mogensen's 40 minute work Menneskeoffer (Human Sacrifice), a cutting edge soundart work based on the text by philosopher Lars Aagaard-Mogensen, was first broadcast on Danish National Radio (DRP1) in August 2000, and was broadcast again in May, 2001. See Lydmuren
June 14-17 - Mogensen took part in the organizational work for the Mix.01 International Festival of Electronic Music in Aarhus, Denmark.
July 21 - Mogensen performs on soprano saxophone in a concert in the Pisa D'estate Performing Arts Festival in Pisa, Italy. The festival included the movement Room 2 from Mogensen's work Place Rum Chamber: Lyd for ensemble, electronics and electroacoustic tape in surround sound.
In August 2001, Mogensen created the new sound work Four Synthetic Mating Chants at IPEM studio in Ghent, Belgium, and presented the work as a guest speaker in their summer course on electroacoustic music:August 28, 12 noon - Mogensen presents the new electroacoustic work Four Synthetic Mating Chants in the Zomercursus "Initiatie tot de Elektroakoestische Muzeik," at the Instituut voor Psychoacustics en Elektronische Muzeik, at the University of Gent, Belgium. See the Program in PDF format.
In August, Mogensen also worked with Logos Foundation to realize the programming of their mechanical instruments to perform his new work The Swarm Breaks Through the Net, which was premiered in December 2001, in Gent, Belgium.
October 11, 7:30pm - René Mogensen performed solo concert of original works in surround sound in Kunstcentret Silkeborg Bad (Modern Art Museum in Silkeborg, Denmark). Sponsored in part by the Danish Institute for Electroacoustic Music.
October 26, 9:00pm - solo concert by René Mogensen: original works in surround sound on the Theater Stage (Teatret Sthyr & Kjær) in Huset in Magstræde, Downtown Copenhagen, Denmark. Sponsored in part by the Danish Institute for Electroacoustic Music.
November 25, 14.30 and 22.30 - the premiere two broadcasts of Mogensens new 1/2 hour long electroacoustic soundpoem Terror og Penge in the program Ultralyd on Danish Public Radio (DR P1) in Copenhagen. The work is available in streamed format from Ultralyds online archive.
November - The electroacoustic work Four Synthetic Mating Chants was broadcast on Fretless Artsound FM, Australian radio.
December 4, 20.00 - concert at the Logos Foundation in Gent, Belgium included premiere of Mogensens work The Swarm Breaks Through the Net for automatum instruments.
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René Mogensen works across many musical areas, combining electroacoustic sound art with jazz and chamber music, and investigates improvisation as well as a broad range of approaches to notation. See a list of works in PDF file format. Contact René Mogensen via e-mail:[email protected] Return to René Mogensen's main page. |
| Photos of René Mogensen by Gerri Hern‡ndez. |