The latest production music album with AMG Scandinavia’s Adapt label is now available for streaming over Bandcamp. Production music for sync licensing is offering media producers a fast and reliant music solution. This album focuses on bringing the vibe of contemporary science and technology.
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Finally I am allowed to tell the news that we’re booked to play at the North Sea Jazz festival on July 8. The Erdem Helvacıoğlu and Per Boysen Duo has more than an hour to perform our live extension of the album Sub City 2064. I like the format of this duo, we’re picking the best parts of precise electronic sound design and healthy risk taking by improvisation as the music happens on stage. Click the link to check out the full artist line-up over the three festival days, there are many acts I’d love to see if I just had some time off! Right after our concert I hope I will get a chance to run over and see Wayne Shorter Quartet and Archie Shepp Quartet.
At NSJ in Rotterdam I will be playing the Grand Chapman Stick with electronics extension. That will happen on July 8 but much earlier than so another big thing is about to rock my world; I just got word from Japan that my new fretless electric harp guitar is about to ship! Designed by the the great Tim Donahue himself that has been playing this wonderful instrument since 1984. Myself, I ruined my first electric guitar in 1978 by defretting it in a clumsy way. Since then I have defretted two more guitars “clumsy but good enough” searching for that special sound I keep hearing in my head from my future self – hopelully I will get there soon. Finally I realized that a good fretless really has to be build from the ground up as a fretless and I tried to buy a Vigier Sufragette from France. Luckily they never answered my emails and it turned out I got a Stick instead and stayed with my old clumsily defretted fretless guitar wrecks. By playing the Chapman Stick for two years I learned how much more fun it can be to use both your hands independently. 
Playing two-handed opened up a lot of new musical inspiration, I became able to enter poly rhythm territories traditionally dominated by instruments like the piano, harp and drum kit. So when I heard that Tim Donahue is starting up manufacturing of his harp guitar I just had to get one! A really good fretless guitar for tapping plus six harp strings for plucking by the other hand, all in the same instrument and instantly playable!
A closed corporate Stick concert is coming up in late May and in June it’s time for the the Bleking Jazz & World Music Camp. I just finished the second post production media music album for AMG Scandinavia and will now put more time into mixing the second album with The Erdem Helvacıoğlu and Per Boysen Duo. BTW, the TogaMan GuitarViol Erdem plays is also a fantastic instrument. TogaMan and Stick is such a perfect sonic match!
Written a month later:
Well, since I mentioned the Tim Donahue Fretless Harp Guitar I’m deciding to go back and edit this post to throw in a recent home video I recorded directly as the guitar arrived:
Erdem Helvacıoğlu and Per Boysen performs Sub City 2064 live in eight channel surround audio. An underwater epos and instrumental opera. Most scenes for this concert trailer were filmed at the Borusan Music House in Istanbul on Jan 7 2012. The concert’s duration exceeds an hour and is here cut down to 20 minutes with the surround audio converted to stereo.
A rough clip from my Oct 16 2011 concert at Santa Cruz International Live Looping Festival. Starting out with a basic sound-check I kept on improvising to make up a 9:00 minutes piece of music. SG12 Stick Guitar with Roland GR55 synth and my home-built “meta instrument” of interactive electronics.
Erdem HELVACIOGLU + Per BOYSEN Présences… by inagrm
This gig was performed in octophonics. At the soundcheck we were told they actually had set up two circles of eight speakers system. One big circle with the big speakers surrounding the audience and one inner circle… or should I rather call it “inner exploding core”? We decided to use both. I had re-routed my laptop outputs for octaphonic treatments and Erdem used his rack devices through a borrowed stage mixer to address the surround system. On stage we had a stereo mix of all eight surround channels, so the monitoring sound were rather flat.
If you click the source link there are more videos of many other artists. Among them many of my own favorites, like for example Biosphère and Supersilent.
June 19-23 Blekinge Jazz & World Music Camp
As I’m writing there is still room for a few more students.
May 21-22 Fuzz Guitar Show
Stick Guitar Looping clinic with Per Boysen. Sunday 4 PM.
May 6 Audiovisuella Loopar
Full day + night seminar + party. Falun, Sweden, Music University:
Samuel ”LOOP-TOK” Andersson Multimedial LOOP-artist, Tellef Kvifte Professor musikvetenskap Oslo Universitet också verksam i ensemblen ”Lucky-Loops”, Per Boysen Föreläsare, skribent och LOOP-artist, Joel Dittrich Audiovisuell guru från Klubb-scenerna i Stockholm och Berlin, Anders K Friberg Docent och forskare inom (TMH) tal musik och hörsel vid KTHJ.
April 2
Per Boysen, Cologne Live Looping Festival 2011
Darkroom, Reyn Ouwehand, Premonition Factory, Michael Peters, Pattysplanet, David Cooper Orton, Georgina Brett, Twilight Worldz and Uwe Schumacher.
Nach dem ersten Festival dieser Art 2008 im Loft zu Köln wird dies das zweite größere Livelooping-Festival in Deutschland sein. Zehn Solo-Livelooper bzw. Bands aus dem In- und Ausland präsentieren jeweils eine halbe Stunde lang ihre ganz individuelle Loop-Musik-Variante. Es gibt praktisch keine Umbaupausen – 5 Stunden Livelooping-Musik am Stück!
Dabei werden Ambient-Klänge und Drones zu hören sein, aber auch Gitarrengrooves, abstrakte Klänge aus dem Computer, groovende One-Man-Bands sowie Gesangsloops.
March 25, 26, 27:
Erdem Helvacıoğlu & Per Boysen, Paris,
PRESENCES électronique 2011.
We’ll be doing an eight channel surround concert on the 26th, sharing the stage with Jim O’Rourke (US, tape), Rafael Toral + Cesar Burago (Portugal, performance), Supersilent (Norway, performance. Arve Henriksen – Trumpet, Voice, Drums, Electronics. Helge Sten – Electronics, Guitars, Keyboards. Stale Storlokken – Keyboards, Synths, Electronics)
World Rhythm Fest
February 12:
Afrotronics, Östersund (north of Sweden)
January 21:
Per Boysen, Göteborg (west of Sweden),
Solo Festival
Exciting concept to put on a two day festival with solo performers! Dancers, jugglers, musicians, poets, actors…
This album is a live recording of a musical duo improvisation session that took place in Rome on June 5 2009. Fabio Anile plays the Piano and the Synthesizer and Per Boysen plays the Alto Flute and the EWI (Electric Wind Instrument). Both musicians simultaneously play also interactive electronics, particularly utilizing the technique known as Live Looping.
Exceptions are two tracks that were recorded later as a studio based long distance collaboration: Counterpoint (4) where Per plays the Chapman Stick and Bird’s View (7) where Per plays the Electric Guitar while Fabio doubles on Shakers, the Cajun and the Thelevi.
Mixing and Mastering: Per Boysen
Album and track artwork by Fabio Anile.
Unexpected is digitally distributed all over the Internet, but I would advice anyone to check it out at Bandcamp because that’s the only digi music web shop I know of that allows specific artwork for each song of the albums.
This page has now been expanded with a music section driven by the Bandcamp.com engine. This makes the site much deeper but yet simpler with only four main pages on the top header navigation bar. Minimal. Clicking the Music header calls in the Bandcamp engine that supports streamed listening as well as download and shopping.
Among other things, under the Music header, the recent album release Sub City 2064 is also offered in the physical CD format. That feels a bit odd and I need to get used to it ;-) Some people still like CDs and buy them even though a 24 bit FLAC download may sound better than the 16 bit CD audio.
When reworking the site I got the sudden idea today that I shall put out an album with free music. Free as in price tag zero. And since I think giving is a very important human activity I carefully picked out a recording of mine that I like a lot myself and imagine that some other folks may enjoy as well. Now I can hear you snorting “Wot – crazy sunnuvabäscher makes a one track album!!!!” Yep, it is free so I have no other obligations than sharing the very best. No “product”, no “quantity” – only artistic matters in the pot. Can it get any better! Well, maybe with some more songs on board. But don’t worry, it is an infinite album wich means its content will continue to grow over time. Fact is it will stay for ever in Glorious Release Party On Mode. Digital online music is by nature in a continuous state of release, because on the Internet there is no stock that will sell out at some moment later in time.
Disclaimer:
Since I wrote this post Bandcamp has decided to restrict the number of free giveaways to 500. That’s kind of crippling for this “Infinite Glorious Release Party On Mode” album concept. Oh well… maybe things will change again in the future. I do espect Nathan’s and his crew’s decision to keep 15 percent to cover their costs for providing the logistic backbone. And they were definitely not prepared for the surprise that so many Bandcamp users would just give away music for free – no 15 % there, you know ;-)
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