CLOT Magazine presents HECQ - Clusters and Textures

CLOT Magazine

The next mixtape comes from Heqc (an alias of Ben Lukas Boysen), an electronic music composer, producer and sound designer based in Berlin, with a selection of tracks that give a insight into some of his compositional interests. Boysen has classic training, being the son of opera singer Deirdre Boysen with the works of Bruckner, Wagner and Bach laid an important foundation in shaping his practice. With his moniker Hecq, he’s released several albums since 2003, exploring a wide range of styles from ambient to breakcore and releasing mostly on Hymen records. Under his own name, the artist has also released a series of productions on labels such as erased tapes and ad noiseam. His latest release as Hecq this year after a break since 2017, Form, released on Mesh, Max Cooper's record label, is defined as an echoic take on rave and electronica and a modern shapeshifting of styles, showing the artist's poly-faceted compositional ranges. Pulsating and syncopated synth lines built up with minimal ambient melodies, dub bases, and breaks fill the album with a breathable summery feel. His own productions aside, Boysen has led numerous workshops on composition and sound aesthetics, as well as creating custom sound designs for films, commercials, video games and installations. The mix he has prepared for us is mainly based on pieces that play with overlaying frequencies and oscillations, focusing on the fabric of music without going overboard compositionally. Boysen shares that these pieces are always a good reminder and exercise in exploring and understanding the nature of sounds around us (primarily while working with electronic instruments)and appreciating the beauty of simplicity. Tracklist: 01 Ben Lukas Boysen & Martyn Heyne - Orgeltod 02 Start Greiner - Final Sleep (Hecq Remix) 03 Set Fire To Flames - Kill Fatigue Frequencies 04 Alvin Lucier - I’m Sitting In A Room 05 Illusions Of Safety - P.O.E. 06 Jean-Claude Risset - Mutations 07 Jakob Ullmann - Solo III Für Orgel 1992 _ 1993; 2012 (Excerpt) 08 M U H D - Dalhem 09 Walter Fähndrich - Viola 1 (Excerpt) 10 Max Loderbauer - Au 11 NSI - 16 12 Hecq - Mare Nostrum, Part 2 13 Christine Ödlund - Lightning & Voices 14 Stephen Vitiello - Marfa Mix 15 Ricardo Villalobos & Max Loderbauer - Rensenada 16 Frank Bretschneider - Polaris (Hecq Remix)