Live Stick video Y2KX+1 Festival, CA, USA

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 […]

Psychemusic.org is putting our album on this weekends radio playlist called "PIONEERS AND CREATIVE VISIONARIES: MASTER PIECES OF ELECTRONIC MUSIC, TAPE MUSIC & ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC MUSIC & COMPUTER MUSIC". Review: Live electronics has been used more and more not only as a tool to chose some new effects or distortions on the instrument, but also […]

The instrumental album Sub City 2064 was produced as a long distance collaboration between Turkey and Sweden in the cinematic vibe of a chilly sci-fi horror soundtrack. Radiation Patrol by erdemhelvaciogluandperboysen Erdem and I first met in Santa Cruz California 2007 where we both performed at the International Live Looping Festival. We became friends as w […]

On this ice cold February day, I found myself alone on a remote hill near Berlichingen (a small Southern German town), visiting an old Jewish cemetary while taking a walk. I had been here before some years ago and wanted to feel that atmosphere again. The cemetary (used from the 17th century until the early 20th century) has a very special feel to it, someth […]

Lots of rain, the Rhine has grown and some of the meadows on Cologne's northern end are flooded. The ducks seemed to love it.  […]

Here are three ambient movies that I put online recently, each of them about 30 minutes long: "Mouse Pointer Feedback Ecstasy", "Arboreal Ecstasy", "Symmetric Jellyfish Ecstasy". Wow, 90 minutes of ecstasy?Ecstasy is not something we usually encounter in our daily lives, and different people have very different ideas about what […]