René Mogensen: Five Seasons for soloist

" Five Seasons: a fruitful embedding of works that are as different and as connected as are the seasons. The fruit is a chaos which sounds through time. The sounds are music, noise, and spoken words in a unity of sorts. The chaos is entirely filled with meaning; there is a achievement of the simultaneity of sound and silence. The time is now. Just listen - eat the fruit.

In the common perception of sound, many categories have been established - such as genres of music, types of noise, and manners of speech. These categories are used here as bricks in a sound construction, or as cards in a card house. The bricks are fragmented - something shattered is openly vulnerable, and its essence becomes more apparent. The bottom cards may be jokers. The categories are taken for what they are - just blocks of sound that can be used, and should be thrown in various directions, until we can get beyond them, and listen to the humor that is in, and after them. "



René Mogensen: Five Seasons for saxophone and electroacoustic music
Some of the first performances: DCA Gallery, New York City, March 23rd, 2000; Knitting Factory, New York City, July 23 and September 21, 2000, Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn, NY, February 28, 2001; Steno Planetarium, Aarhus, Denmark, 22 March 2001; Huset, Copenhagen, October 26, 2001...
The Norway Times writes about Mogensens 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."
		" Five Seasons: a fruitful embedding of works that are as different and as connected as are the seasons. The fruit is a chaos which sounds through time. The sounds are music, noise, and spoken words in a unity of sorts. The chaos is entirely filled with meaning; there is a achievement of the simultaneity of sound and silence. The time is now. Just listen - eat the fruit. In the common perception of sound, many categories have been established - such as genres of music, types of noise, and manners of speech. These categories are used here as bricks in a sound construction, or as cards in a card house. The bricks are fragmented - something shattered is openly vulnerable, and its essence becomes more apparent. The bottom cards may be jokers. The categories are taken for what they are - just blocks of sound that can be used, and should be thrown in various directions, until we can get beyond them, and listen to the humor that is in, and after them. " René Mogensen, August, 2000

Five Seasons consists of four parts: 1. Autumn Rune Song (click for 1 minute audio excerpt). 2. Winter Waves II 3a-d. Place-Rum-Chamber: Lyd (Rooms 1-4) 4. Spring Decomposition II

		Instrumentation of the score: soprano (doubling tenor and baritone) saxophone, live effects processing and spacialisation, and electroacoustic recorded part in 5.1 or 4.1 surround sound. Duration in performance: 65 minutes Development support for this work was given by: Danish Institute for Electroacoustic Music More information is available from René Mogensen via e-mail at: [email protected].






	Five Seasons live recording of concert in the planetarium in Aarhus, Denmark. In the archives of the Danish Institute for Electroacoustic Music (2001). René Mogensen at the Knitting Factory, two downloadable internet releases in Liquid Audio format, will be available for sale from the Knitting Factory. Live concert recordings, including Three Fragments and movements from Five Seasons, from concerts on July 23, and December 17, 2000.

René Mogensen: Five Seasons

for saxophone and electroacoustic music