17tet Oud, 24tet Celeste, and 12tet chamber cloud bowls endeavor a sweet, busy, and tranquil birthday to the composer.

Polymicrotonal Study #15 Happy Birthday to Me

Four instruments from middle ages to today in 12 2nd octave overtones, 19/31tet, 19tet, and 23tet play polymetric polyrhythmic 5's, 7's and other beasties in a soul-wrenching modern-day musodrama reflecting life's tortures. 2024

Poly micro tonal et ude 19

Multiple systems collide and frolick in a fiendish landscape of pure human desire mopping equilibrium off the tears of the sun in equinox. Fused, at bay. 2024

Polymicrotonal Study XXI: Satyr and Earth Female in the Garden of Eden

LMMS and Synthfont, with multiple layers in different tempi and tuning, quartertones and eighth tones, rave into the Nov. 5th elections as Trump loses the debate to Kamala Harris, on 9/10/24. Cheeto dictator goin down in flames.

Polymicrotonal Etude XXIa: Death of the Patriarchy

created in LMMS, Synthfont, Audacity, and SynFactory Modular synthesis, this piece is in 27/32 time, with quartertones, eighth tones and distorted with bit crushing, pulse width modulation and FM. 2024

Polymicrotonal Etude 22d: Distortion

Polymicrotonal etude on 15, 16, 41 and 43 TET. Reaper Zynaddsubfx and Reaktor.

Polymicrotonal Study 24

Poly etude 24 with Reaktor swapped out for Csound Cabbage vsti plug in of Iain Mccurdy's amazing FM synthesis Klang. I states that if anyone uses it without his mention he will kick some ass. So...I mention. All I did was convert it into a plug in and import it into Reaper. That's it. I swear. nothing more. OK Iain?

Poly29 mit Klangen Auf Der FM

This is a classical four part harmonic plan with four different timbres expressing themselves microtonally. the inharmonic overtones obscure the resulting pitches lending an air of ambiguity. The tone is contemplative, not somber. 2024

Polymicrotonal Etude #30: contemplative

synthesis all combined for the terror of being completely alone on a planet with 9 billion assholes. 2024

Polymicrotonal Study #31: Complete and Udder Alientation.

Csound in 6 layers of synthesis with three levels of tuning. Tunings are different but add more to the timbre than to the polyphony as this is "monophonic", yet with multiple voices. Monopolymicrotonality is a term I've used before. 2024

Polymicrotonal Study 33: Layered Melody in Multiple Tunings and Synthesis

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)

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