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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 i […]

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 ster […]

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. Continue reading → […]

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 […]

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 P […]

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. Ban […]

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. E […]

Sub City 2064 was among Editor's Top Three CDs in Guitar Player magazine's september issue of 2010. It's a big honor to be mentioned together with icons like Stockhausen, Hassell, Eno, NIN and Pink Floyd! I made this music because Erdem inspired me in our collaborative duet experiment and also because I've always wanted music like this; m […]

After having my new instrument, the Chapman Stick, for five months I finally decided to shot a video of it. What makes the Stick so fun to play is that you can use both hands more or less as "two musicians that jam together". The playing experience is very open and creative. Quite different compared to most ordinary instruments that force you to tr […]

Wow, what an honor only to be mentioned by such a great webzine as CDM, Create Digital Music! "Dreams of a Musical Future: Digitópia Winners’ Wondrous Creations". As a matter of fact I did use my Steppophononic Looperformer at one track on the recently released duo album Sub City 2064 with Erdem Helvacıoğlu. Here’s a link to a track where I use tha […]

this morning, the large bamboo in the attictaught me a lesson, not for the first time:it has taught for years, but I did not listen.this morning, in a slightly pensive mood(years whizzing by faster than ever, and not many left)picking up the dried leaves from the carpetsuddenly remembered "only this",stopped trying to get the job doneand started do […]

depths of feelings,a joy, a lightness, unfathomed landscapes,a deciphering of messages,maybe disappointment, sadness, hopes,but what is really here?some depth of an unknown quality, no doubtplus some movie,and if the movie doesn't work, another movieand a wondering - if the movies stop, what is here?do we really need movies?what if the movie that we lov […]

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