Producing octaphonic surround concerts

surround_04I’d like to share my recent experiences from performing live with surround sound. The system dealt with is the diamond shaped surround field of eight full-range speakers. I will go into planning, preparation and stage setup strategies. The general approach is to create the most exciting live performance experience for the audience.[......]

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London concert, October 2012

Hello everyone,
Someone filmed at this concert and a few video clips are posted at http://www.youtube.com/perboysen

The Retro Venue, 50, Bosworth Road, London, W105EG

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Lovely Harp Guitar!

Just a quick video upload testing out my new Tim Donahue signature Electric Fretless Harp Guitar. I think it plays like a dream… in fact I have been dreaming for decades about certain aspects of what this instrument has to offer. Tim designed it and has been playing this and the fretted version since the eighties and just recently initiating manufacturing of his harp guitars. You’ll find more on that at http://www.timdonahue.com/

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Playing at North Sea Jazz 2012 and more

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 el[......]

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Sub City 2064 – The Concert Trailer

Erdem Helvacıoğlu and Per Boysen performs Sub City 2064 live in eight channel surround audio. [......]

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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. [......]

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Live video from Présences Electronique 2011


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. [......]

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Dates, late spring 2011

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:
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Concerts, early spring 2011

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 Livelo[......]

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Unexpected – improvisational live album released!

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, p[......]

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