Dr Peter Alexander Thoegersen

Peter Alexander Thoegersen, DMA, (1967)

Born in Los Angeles in 1967, Thoegersen earned his Doctorate in Music Composition at the University

of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 2012. Thoegersen has had his works premiered in Europe, Australia,

and the United States and his eponymous CD Three Pieces in Polytempic Polymicrotonality, released

by New World records, 2019, has had nine reviews and has made three top ten lists for 2019's best cd's.

Currently, Thoegersen has had his song-cycle Facebook: What's on your mind? released on Flea

records in April, 2021, and Alien Music released on Magic&Unique streaming label in March, 2022.

Thoegersen wrote his thesis on Polytempic Polymicrotonality, previously untouched as a stylistic genre,

with only one single precursor in the literature, Charles Ives's Universe Symphony, 1915,

(unfinished until Reinhard's version, 1996). Polytempic Polymicrotonality offers

expansive potential for the re-emergence of pitch and rhythm in contrast to extended technique noise

gestures prevalent today. Thoegersen, a drummer, extrapolates rhythms and explores polytempo and

four way independence, wherein each independent "limb" becomes its own part, or voice, with its own

tempo, and ultimately, its own microtonal system--approaching a radical new polyphony not yet

practiced in musical literature. Thoegersen lives in Urbana, Illinois.