Short test to try out my new csound distortion "dodecafuzz".

dodecafuzz test 01

All sounds created in Csound (except the voices of Dr. B and Max Mathews, and a short speak and spell sample) 
Then sampled and sequenced in Ableton, November 2019 for Intro to Csound class at Berklee College of Music

Image generated by Midjourney AI with prompt "Hello, I'm Dr. Richard Boulanger, pioneer of computer music" but then varied and selected for a face that looked closer to what could be a young Max Mathews.

Csound Catalog Competition Winner Fall 2019 Berklee ft. Max Mathews and Dr. B

Csound and midi file argue and make friends. very computery. 2024. Oompa Loompas make chocolate for xmas.

Microtonal Computer Music Etude for Oompa Loompas on Xmas

A track I produced and received 1st price in the "Csound Catalogue Competition" for, using only sounds from the Csound Catalogue. 

Particles

I recorded 15 layers of guitar, each processed through a different Csound instrument that I wrote anew for each layer.  Each layer is simple, each has its own timbre.  Somehow I find it all comforting.

Lullaby

Regrets, trauma, wrongdoings. There are things we ignore. There are things we want to forget. Effort spent pushing the beast into the darkness feeds it. No matter how tightly it is locked away, it seeps through in our aching throats. Our racing minds. Our turning stomachs. 

Permeation is composed entirely from original recordings manipulated in CSound. I was particularly inspired by Akira Yamaoka's work in Silent Hill 3. 


Permeation (unmastered)

A drone created in Csound using the Moogladder Filter's resonance to squeeze out some fat harmonics.

http://www.csounds.com/manual/html/moogladder.html

Drone Box Phrase Loops V2

Filtered noise, rational frequency ratios, more noisy/less noisy.

A short excerpt from my live set "پس و پیش"
3rd of February 2017
Photo by Aram Tahmasebi

Pas - O - Pish(excerpt)

Elaborazione di suono virtuale utilizzando CSound

Comp1

Sohrab Motabar (1984) is a composer from Tehran. With regards to states of suspension and dazzled motion his music resonates like a maze for the listener. He composes with algorithms, chaotic functions and non-standard synthesized sounds as a way to give rise to obscured dimensions and experimental modes of perceiving and listening. In 2018, Motabar graduated from the Institute of Sonology. In addition to this study he also actively collaborates in select projects with other artists and musicians.

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)

Started producing in garageband in 2009, 

I use Bitwig Studio now.

Sincere synthstrumentals, funky simplextro, melodic glitch-hop, hard bruhstep, and anything in between.

A math person making and modifying sounds with custom code, Csound, homemade electronics.

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