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About Me
- René Mogensen
- René Mogensen (composer/musician/producer) is a prolific composer for many different media and has completed commissions for chamber ensembles, soloists, radio, choreographers, and others around Europe and the USA. He has received awards for his work from the Yvar Mikhashoff Trust for New Music, Eubie Blake Fund, John Anson Kittredge fund, Meet the Composer, Danish arts Foundation and other foundations in the USA and Denmark.
All Numbers Language is a multimedia chamber music work where the interplay between visual impressions, symbolic images, music, computer sound, and human performance is very strong. The score builds on the shoulders of some of the core literature for solo cello, especially the suites by J.S. Bach, and Benjamin Britten. Mogensen's work reaches for an immediate artistic expression through the integration of traditional instruments with electroacoustics and interactive computer technology. In the multimedia environment of All Numbers Language, there are dialogues between old technology (the cello) and new technology (the computer), between older music styles and new computer-based sound art, between nuances in human performance and the interactive computer media. There are interpretive feedback cycles at work, when the computer uses real-time analysis of the cello playing to modify the electronic sound and video, and the cellist adjusts his interpretation of the written score to be in balance with the electronic sound.
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