Janco Boy Bystron

Janco Boy Bystron, born 1979 in Hannover /Germany, studied drums and percussion (jazz/rock/pop) at the University of Music Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden, Germany. As a drummer and percussionist he plays a wide range of different musical styles on a high professional level and worked with lots of different international artists. For his PhD in musicology, he focused on the musical culture of Brazil and published the results in books and articles were he describes the exposition of macro- and micro-rhythmic structures in popular music and their embedding in sociocultural practice and ways of thinking in modern societies. With his works he wants to contribute to a detailed reflection on motives for artistic activities and their reception. Janco currently works as a freelance drummer, author and music teacher in Berlin in Germany.