Keygan R. Boesiger

An update from last night. A rough "finished version" of the opener of the Apparatus show I've begun to work on. Look for more in the future.

With inspiration from Cavaliers' 2006 show and part of Norris' fall show, this is what came from it. There's some obvious restructuring that needs to happen with some of the parts instead of just building up with the percussion and unloading the fury of the machine right away. But I've been on a roll the past 2 days and refused to stop. Not nearly done, but what I have so far...

Well, I'm sure you all forgot that I had this podcast because obviously, even I had for a while. Hadn't really had anything appropriate to post the past few months. Until this came about... This is an update on "Never Ending Blue" which has been renamed to (right now) "After It's Finished." This will eventually end up being the second movement of a three movement work based off of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus. This is post mortem, perhaps the feelings of his mother Mary, or brother John, or any of the disciples.

In my theory class a while ago we had to write a piece using the same kind of technique Chopin did in his "Prelude in E minor." I received a 97% on the assignment but decided to continue on with the piece.

Started this Friday night. May add more, not sure yet.

My freshman and junior years of high school, our winter line performed arrangements made by our instructor at the time to 2 songs by Tool. I liked the group and recently was listening to their song "Eulogy." So decided to try my hand at arranging and adapting (most if not all of everything I write is original). So this is it. All the battery parts are original. Front ensemble parts, in some form or another are related back to the song.

Spent about 2 hours on this. Last night and tonight. I dig, you will too.

It's late, but I got on a roll through the end of this piece. Still in the sketching stages, but got a lot of ideas thrown out there and have a lot to work with as I continue to develop this show. Everything is original. "We open with Nathan. A mere boy scout four years ago who has recently found himself lost in the woods at the age of seventeen. You'd figure he'd be well suited for this type of situation, however, there is something the scouts neglected to tell him... He manages to get a fire going to keep himself warm throughout the night. It'll be easier to find out where he is in the morning. As he begins getting ready to get some sleep he starts hearing things; from his right, his left, and immediately behind him. He hears what seems to be thunder, but doesn't feel any raindrops. Again, something on his right moves; he swears something is there. Finally, deciding that he's just paranoid, Nathan lays down to slumber. Suddenly, he feels an enormous shock and his fire is put out. Something is here! He leaps up trying to retrieve his flashlight as hasty forces seem to be coming from every direction. He desperately fumbles his light around before he eventually grabs it, shields his eyes and throws it in the face of whatever is that's after him. Trembling, Nathan looks up to see nothing in front of him. Something was there. Too spooked to sleep, his heart thumping out of his chest, he tries to understand what just happened. Was it a bear? Why would it run off like that with nothing? It couldn't have been...someone?"

Lately, I've found myself to be in a somewhat depressing mood. One piece I'm working on consists of setting text from Lamentations 3 to baritone and piano, and if you've read any of it, you know how depressing it is. This is an effort to get something out that's not nearly as dark. It has no name yet, but I swear I've heard this melody before, somewhere. If you know, tell me. Enjoy.

The following is somewhat of an update from what I had posted last spring. Instead of hearing the computer playback of my piece "TREK: Hardships." It was performed recently on the Wet Ink recital at UNL. Also included is the fourth movement. I cannot thank my performers enough. Very easy to work with and just awesome people. Boom! Flute- Amber Knight Oboe- Laura Clark Clarinet- Lauren Taylor Horn- Amy Rischling Bassoon- Laura Pawlowski

This piece is based off of Solomon's writing in Ecclesiastes, specifically in the first chapter. Lyrics are the text, as posted below. Sorry for the lame Finale playback! 1 The words of the Teacher, [a] son of David, king in Jerusalem: 2 "Meaningless! Meaningless!" says the Teacher. "Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless." 3 What does man gain from all his labor at which he toils under the sun? 4 Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever. 5 The sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises. 6 The wind blows to the south and turns to the north; round and round it goes, ever returning on its course. 7 All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To the place the streams come from, there they return again. 8 All things are wearisome, more than one can say. The eye never has enough of seeing, nor the ear its fill of hearing. 9 What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. 10 Is there anything of which one can say, "Look! This is something new"? It was here already, long ago; it was here before our time. 11 There is no remembrance of men of old, and even those who are yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow. --Ecclesiastes 1

This is an update to my post last week called "PE Jam 05/2010." As was said before, I just went with it and this is what came out. A concept I've been looking at doing for a winter show is disease, particularly an epidemic. Something that could coincide with this topic would be high heart rate or even cardiac arrest, which is where "tachycardia" comes into play as a abnormally rapid heart rate of around 160 to 170 beats per minute.

I apologize for the lack of posts in the past month. My computer's hard drive crashed on me and I finally got it back a couple weeks ago and was able to download Finale 2011 a few nights ago. I lost a lot of files and information, but thankfully, I still have a good amount of my stuff in my head. The following is one of them. Written around the time of finals, the purpose was intended for a percussion ensemble piece possibly for Beatrice's winter line. I realized halfway through that adding a drumset was for the better. Not sure where it's going now, but I'm going with it.

I come from a percussion background, so this duet between vibes and marimba shouldn't be too surprising. I wrote this (and am still working on it) beginning of the spring semester, but didn't really get much into it until around spring break. I'd been under a lot of stress.

Welcome to my first podcast! In general, most of the things I post will only be samples of things I'm working on and aren't quite finished just yet, unless otherwise noted. This piece was originally written first of this four movement work for woodwind quintet earlier this fall. This just so happens to be finished. Enjoy!