Peter Thoegersen // Facebook Cantos CD
While the microtonal piano part of the song cycle is a potent example of Thoegersen’s poly-temporal and poly-microtonal explorations, the voice part, highly dramatic, is the contemporary equivalent of « Pierrot Lunaire ». Schoenberg’s sprechgesang with its moonstruck poetry has metamorphosed into a raving rant of the Facebook generation where the banality of obscenity finds its limits in expletives no longer deletable unless the culprit is placed in Facebook jail for having transgressed «community standards » whatever those might be...according to inscrutable censors.
Thoegersen’s work exists at an intersection of freedoms: musical and social, where one might at once sound the musical limit of free sound and the social limit of «free speech ». His work is both courageous and dangerous to academia. No easy categories for this music. We are in the no-mans’s land of unlimited freedom far from job security and clear social status. -Gerard Pape, May 18th, 2021
Peter Thoegersen // Facebook Cantos CD
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アメリカ・ポートランドの実験音楽家Jack Callahan主宰レーベルFLEA諸作を入荷しました。
本作は、ポートランドの音楽家Peter Thoegersenによる新作です。彼がFacebookに投稿した文章を大御所オペラ歌手Lore Lixenbergが歌い上げる奇妙な作品で、ピアノも感情が一切感じられないMIDIでの演奏です。
レーベルその他作品はこちら /// Click here to see more FLEA releases available at Tobira.
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Peter Thoegersen’s new CD on Flea004 is a recording of his Microtonal Song Cycle «Facebook: What’s On Your Mind » (2016-2020). Sung with hair-raising power by Lore Lixenberg, this is one of the most astounding works by Thoegersen whose music I consider to be a most significant and rare example of freedom in contemporary music.
While the microtonal piano part of the song cycle is a potent example of Thoegersen’s poly-temporal and poly-microtonal explorations, the voice part, highly dramatic, is the contemporary equivalent of « Pierrot Lunaire ». Schoenberg’s sprechgesang with its moonstruck poetry has metamorphosed into a raving rant of the Facebook generation where the banality of obscenity finds its limits in expletives no longer deletable unless the culprit is placed in Facebook jail for having transgressed «community standards » whatever those might be...according to inscrutable censors.
Thoegersen’s work exists at an intersection of freedoms: musical and social, where one might at once sound the musical limit of free sound and the social limit of «free speech ». His
work is both courageous and dangerous to academia. No easy categories for this music. We are in the no-mans’s land of unlimited freedom far from job security and clear social status. -Gerard Pape, May 18th, 2021
artist : Peter Thoegersen
label : FLEA
アメリカ・ポートランドの実験音楽家Jack Callahan主宰レーベルFLEA諸作を入荷しました。
本作は、ポートランドの音楽家Peter Thoegersenによる新作です。彼がFacebookに投稿した文章を大御所オペラ歌手Lore Lixenbergが歌い上げる奇妙な作品で、ピアノも感情が一切感じられないMIDIでの演奏です。
レーベルその他作品はこちら /// Click here to see more FLEA releases available at Tobira.
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Peter Thoegersen’s new CD on Flea004 is a recording of his Microtonal Song Cycle «Facebook: What’s On Your Mind » (2016-2020). Sung with hair-raising power by Lore Lixenberg, this is one of the most astounding works by Thoegersen whose music I consider to be a most significant and rare example of freedom in contemporary music.While the microtonal piano part of the song cycle is a potent example of Thoegersen’s poly-temporal and poly-microtonal explorations, the voice part, highly dramatic, is the contemporary equivalent of « Pierrot Lunaire ». Schoenberg’s sprechgesang with its moonstruck poetry has metamorphosed into a raving rant of the Facebook generation where the banality of obscenity finds its limits in expletives no longer deletable unless the culprit is placed in Facebook jail for having transgressed «community standards » whatever those might be...according to inscrutable censors.
Thoegersen’s work exists at an intersection of freedoms: musical and social, where one might at once sound the musical limit of free sound and the social limit of «free speech ». His work is both courageous and dangerous to academia. No easy categories for this music. We are in the no-mans’s land of unlimited freedom far from job security and clear social status. -Gerard Pape, May 18th, 2021
artist : Peter Thoegersen
label : FLEA
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