Author Archives: Per Boysen

About Per Boysen

Musician, speaker, author, consultant. Typically good at balancing a general view at the edge of personal expression.

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 Guit[......]

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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 Orto[......]

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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 Synt[......]

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Guitar Player Magazine: Editor’s Top Three CDs


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 wi[......]

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I love my Stick!

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 tha[......]

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CDM covers one of my electronic instrument designs!

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[......]

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First reviews of Sub City 2064

Psychemusic.org is putting our album on this weekends radio playlist called “PIONEERS AND CREATIVE VISIONARIES: MASTER PIECES OF ELECTRONIC MUSIC, TAP[......]

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Sub City 2064 by Erdem Helvacıoğlu & Per Boysen

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[......]

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