René Mogensen: The Unfolding of an Impossible Building

The unfolding of an impossible building: short version
(poetic program notes:)

Numbers projected, spring from technological analysis of real events - the numbers are a virtual understanding of the events - the understanding of numbers. The idiomatic beauty of the Quasi-Tarantas for solo guitar gradually accumulates a heaviness from sound artifacts that grow from it, and eventually the idiomatic line is dissolved. A new idiom appears - a Fantasy Dance for solo guitar. The materials and their sonic effects crumble, the virtual understanding must be replaced by reality.



		René Mogensen composition: The Unfolding of an Impossible Building - Short Version in collaboration with dancers Domenico Giustino, Ophra Wolf, and guitarist Laura Maes.
		Premiere performances: three shows, October 17-18, 2003 at the Vooruit, Gent, Belgium during the IPEM 40th aniversary festival; with Laura Maes, Guitar, Dancers Domenico Giustino and Ophra Wolf, and composer René Mogensen on electroacoustic sound&music.
			The unfolding of an impossible building: short version (poetic program notes:) Numbers projected, spring from technological analysis of real events - the numbers are a virtual understanding of the events - the understanding of numbers. The idiomatic beauty of the Quasi-Tarantas for solo guitar gradually accumulates a heaviness from sound artifacts that grow from it, and eventually the idiomatic line is dissolved. A new idiom appears - a Fantasy Dance for solo guitar. The materials and their sonic effects crumble, the virtual understanding must be replaced by reality. René Mogensen, October 2003


			Instrumentation of the score: guitar (classical), Max-MSP patch with live processing, and dancers with sound objects, in quadrophonic surround sound Duration in performance with dance: approx. 15 minutes Development support for this work was given by: IPEM, Univ. Gent, and Experimental Intermedia, Gent, Belgium.

René Mogensen composition: The Unfolding of an Impossible Building - Short Version

in collaboration with dancers Domenico Giustino, Ophra Wolf, and guitarist Laura Maes.