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Martyna Kosecka & Idin Samimi Mofakham

Tuesday, 17 September 2024   |   18:00 - 19:30

Martyna Kosecka & Idin Samimi Mofakham

The tuba trio Microtub is a breath of fresh air in contemporary music! At the heart of their music lies a deep fascination for time, space and the possibilities of microtonality. They explore frequency intervals that are so unusual that the listener feels transported to alien dimensions.

The concert offers pieces specially adapted to this unusual tuba-trio ensemble. And it offers surprises if you primarily associate the tuba with deep tones. The concert is performed in various rooms in the Central, and offers pieces by composers from NMK (nyMusikks Komponistgruppe), and Forrest Moody, a promising young American composer. The music ranges from microtonal exploration and electroacoustic soundscapes, to non-Western voice systems inspired by Persian music.

Program

The trustees’ hall

Thomas Bergsten: spendinghalfadaytryingtoplaya 7/4 onanuntunedpianousingthreetubas

Forrest Moody: list and tessellation

Hermod Ringset Bentsen: Hysteresis

The stairs

Ulf A. S. Holbrook: Half-light

Elias Schomers: three halves of a whole

The winter garden

Martyna Kosecka: /ˈspɛktrəm/ for three microtonal tubas and live electronics

Idin Samimi Mofakham: Gā’hān

  • Composer(s) Martyna Kosecka & Idin Samimi Mofakham
  • Title(s) of the Work(s)

    - Martyna Kosecka: /ˈspɛktrəm/ for three microtonal tubas and live electronics
    - Idin Samimi Mofakham: Gā’hān
  • Performer, Ensemble or Orchestra Microtub

Date

Sep 17 2024
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Time

18:00 - 19:30

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Location

Oslo, Sentralen, Norway
Oslo, Sentralen, Norway
Øvre Slottsgate 3, 0157 Oslo, Norway
Website
https://www.sentralen.no/english

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Gā'hān

for three instruments and electronics
Idin Samimi Mofakham
Year of composition:
2024
Duration:
00:12:00
Publisher's Number: 23829
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/ˈspɛktrəm/

for three instruments and live electronics
Martyna Kosecka; MaxMSP Patch by Przemysław Pacek
Year of composition:
2024
Duration:
00:12:00
Publisher's Number: 24079
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Composer

Martyna Kosecka

Martyna Kosecka was born in 1989, Gdynia, Poland. She obtained an MA degree in the composition class of professor Krzysztof Meyer, BA degree in orchestral conducting in class of maestro Rafał Jacek Delekta in Music Academy in Kraków, and MA in orchestral conducting in the class of maestro Szymon Bywalec in Music Academy in Katowice.
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The music of Iranian composer/performer Idin Samimi Mofakham (b. 1982) is deeply rooted in the traditional and regional music of his home country. Since 2015, he has been developing his own musical language based on non-Western tuning systems, just intonation and psychoacoustics. In 2023 he received his PhD from the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo with a research thesis on medieval tuning systems from Iran and their creative use in contemporary composition.

Since 2013, Idin has been the co-founder and artistic manager of Spectro Centre for New Music. Between 2015 and 2019, he was a board member and senior curator of the Tehran Contemporary Music Festival, the only international festival focusing on contemporary and experimental music in Iran. He plays in the experimental band Spectro Duo, which he founded with his wife, composer Martyna Kosecka. Their musical focus is on drone, noise, beat phenomena, glitch, field recording transformation, microtonality and oriental modalities.

Idin’s music has been performed or recorded by ensembles such as Klangforum Wien, S.E.M Ensemble, Hermes Ensemble, Omnibus Ensemble, Moto Perpetuo, AuditivVokal Dresden, Momenta Quartet, IAMA Trio, Ostravská Banda, Stockholm Saxophone Quartet, Xelmya Trio, Oslo Sinfonietta, Abbyss Quartet and, in Iran, most notably by Nivak Ensemble and Nilper Orchestra.

The music of Iranian composer/performer Idin Samimi Mofakham (b. 1982) is deeply rooted in the traditional and regional music of his home country. Since 2015, he has been developing his own musical language based on non-Western tuning systems, just intonation and psychoacoustics.
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