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Biography, Per Boysen, Sweden “I play music that is open, improvising, breathtaking and sometimes a complete failure!” Swedish multi instrumentalist Per Boysen is a crossover crusader that loves music and hates genres. Enthusiastic listeners have hinted at “Nu-Jazz” or “Minimal” while others refer to “ambient sound art” or "noise". On stage Per plays the Alto Traverse Flute, the Tenor Sax, the Fretless Electric Sustaniac Guitar and the Electric Wind Instrument. The most important instrument to glue everyhing together is the live looping laptop rig of interactive electronics, to be played instantly by feet. A powerful meta instrument, an experience in live sampling that expands the sonic palette into "live performed musique concrète", but withouth the restriciton of any pre recorded material. "Among the many festival highlights was Swedish guitar/flute/wood-wind player Per Boysen's Jon Hassell-like soundscapes". - Guitar Player Magazine June 7/2007 reviewing Santa Cruz International Live Looping Festival. “Multi lateral improvisation” In jazz it is common that one musician improvises lead themes over a fixed chord structure background played by other musicians. In my music the same musician, or musicians, typically improvises both the lead themes and the chord structures at the same time. This multi lateral improvisation is made possible by advanced live-looping techniques. It is a very simple and intuitive way of creating music. - Per Boysen. Playing the music rather than the background - and vice versa... I think “playing the music rather than the background”, as Ornette Coleman once put it, is one side of what I’m doing. The other side is that in a certain sense I’m “exclusively playing backgrounds”. Whatever way the listener choses to interpret my music, there will always be some empty part of the screen to be filled in by the listening mind’s imagination. In my opinion this psychologic aspect of participation is a key element in “psychedelic” or “open” music. - Per Boysen Per Boysen has performed many live looping shows in USA, Sweden, Switzerland and Italy, both as a solo performer and with ensembles. He is fond of multi media based collaborations, as for example when the Italian Festival Internazionale di Andria Castel dei Mondi 2006 gave him a budget big enough for assembling a temporary quartet, the Boysen Network Ensemble, to improvise a micro opera with amplified painting canvas percussionist and musicians clamped with cameras projecting over a big screen by the stage. He has also composed and produced recordings of surround soundtrack music for films in the DVD format. The Swedish Art Grants Committee helped financing a few of Per’s projects. One such, particularly successful, event was the 1st Swedish Looping Tour 2003, that received media coverage by the national public service television’s art documentary Musikspegeln while for the international audience by The Music Room of CNN. For this tour he invited Brasilian/Swiss guitarist Matthias Grob, inventor of the legendary Digital Echoplex Pro looping machine, and American looping percussionist Rick Walker. The 2nd Swedish Live Looping Tour in 2008 includes collaboration with the Finloop festival in Helsinki as well as performances in Norway. As a consulting musician Per Boysen is also working with a row of software developers to help out in the creation of tomorrows musical instruments. Besides playing music he has also written expert studies for WIPO in Geneva, the Nordic Musician Union and The Swedish National Council for Cultural Affairs (Kulturrådet: "Omvärldsanalys"). Other works including books in Swedish on the music business as well as being a freelance journalist, editor and columnist for Scandinavia’s biggest guitar and computer music studio magazines. Per Boysen is also frequently booked as a speaker, trainer and consultant regarding Apple Logic, Ableton Live and assorted live-looping techniques. Former credits include international major label releases with extremely visual punk-electronic dance-pop band Plastico (artist) as well as Swedish gold seller Peter LeMarc (studio musician). Per Boysen has also appeared in art performances directed by Swedish multi artist Dan Fröberg (Stockholm Art Show, “Nya Gärdesfestivalen” etc). Many other credits not mentioned here ­ but who cares?		MySpace Last.fm Jamendo My videos at YouTube Buy my music on CD at CD Baby Buy my music digitally at iTunes 2nd Swedish Looping Tour Per Boysen & Costas Andreou releases the album Nanetora. PRESS KIT Download of high resolutio resolution pictures for print. Download of PDF biography.
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