The transmogrification of string quartet 1 continues with the second movement, which, I admit, is difficult listening due to the density of texture and harsh dissonances in high harmonics strings. The melody and harmony are underneath as this pieces tears up your innards and burns your soul. 1999-2022

String Quartet #1, second movement redux

Miles in Dreamtime

A Ghost Romance

Peter Thoegersen meow meow

Branco di Lupi (D&B Mix)

Drum and bass with blues vocals on the existential difficulty of life.

Woke Up this Morning

Italian opera meets jump up, time to dance!

Raccio

Raccio (Ladies Lead Mix)

As always, Dani and Mat making things up in front of people. Recording is off the desk so a bit better quality than normal zoom offerings - May post some more

Kirby/Ward LIVE @The Container Stage

Space Filling Curve, in 31TET,  for Marimba, Harp, Harpsichord and Organ

This piece came to me in a dream fully formed.  I set about realizing it, exactly as it came to me, as soon as I woke up.  Fortunately (as far as I'm concerned!) I received no visit from any person on business from Porlock.

The piece is very mildly indeterminate, as the 8 tones on the implied "base line" are chosen at random.  The pitches combine the overtone series, to the 23rd partial, above these 8 fundamentals.    Then the complex rhythms emerge from a process that takes account of the precise intonation of the pitches.

No Visitor On Business from Porlock, for MIDI piano

To all concerned: 
I am announcing publication of my new book, NOW AVAILABLE:
https://www.routledge.com/Maqam-Melodies-Pitches-Patterns-and-Developments-of-Music-in-the-Middle-East-and-other-Microtonal-Writings/Thoegersen/p/book/9789815129052
My book, Polytempic Polymicrotonal Music, is available on Amazon. 
https://www.routledge.com/Polytempic-Polymicrotonal-Music-The-Road-Less-Traveled/Thoegersen/p/book/9789814968294

I have a new album out through Magic&Unique Group Records on Spotify and other digital streaming platforms:
https://open.spotify.com/album/5qWHmcvyAemvVn2TJH1bio?si=OD5TmPptQ-ypr8WOI0EZKA&nd=1

https://whitecentipedenoise.com/products/peter-thoegersen-facebook-cantos-cdr-flea
My CD via Flea label has been out since April, 2021, featuring the wonderful Lore Lixenberg singing over my microtonal piano accompaniment
Hope you enjoy it!

https://www.newworldrecords.org/collections/vendors?q=Peter%20Thoegersen

From the liner notes on my CD now available on AMAZON and New World Records:
"The author of these notes has spent his life explaining radical music, and the music on this disc may be the most radical I've ever written about. Peter Thoegersen (b. 1967) is not yet a name known to the music world; not for any lack of connection to other famous musicians, but because he came to composition late, and because his artistic aims are so broad and complex that they have taken years to evolve. His aesthetic is well defined, and he is upfront about having a name for it: "Polytempic Polymicrotonal Music." That means he has musical layers simultaneously moving in different tempos, plus, even more radically, that he has different microtonal scales playing at the same time. Few composers have aimed at such fervent and heterogeneous multidimensionality. And yet, while Thoegersen's music can seem overwhelming at first, running through it is a level of charm and simplicity that belies the initial impression.

In total, these three pieces emphasize a particular side of Thoegersen's output. The image his music creates of ornately mathematical structures filled with intuitively friendly melodies maps on to the personality of the man himself: outspoken and acerbically ruthless in his musical opinions, Thoegersen is also marked by a jolly sense of humor and an inexhaustible love of cats and other animals that make him ultimately less imposing and more personable than he might seem at first. The same can be said for his music. And by going further than anyone else has gone in terms of this particularly American concept of fusing the polytempic with the polymicrotonal - extending and combining the conceptual worlds of Ives, Cowell, Nancarrow, Partch, Carter, even Frank Zappa and many others - he has created a special place for himself within American music."                                                             

-Kyle Gann (from the liner notes)

String Quartet #1, second movement redux

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