Rick, checking in after the EAST meets WEST LOOPFEST

["Rick Walker/Loop.pooL" <GLOBAL@cruzio.com>]

Hi gang,

   I'm here getting over a particularly gnarly stomach flu after the
wonderful
if ill attended EAST meets WEST Loopfest.

    I had the dubious distinction of throwing up for 7 hours on the day of
the show
and wobbling onto stage and doing my set.  Talk about looping...........the
inside of my
stomach was doing a rather constant internal analogue loop..........lol.

    Amazingly, I got my sea legs about half way through my set and ended up
enjoying the rest of the night and playing with Michael Klobuchar and Sunao
(who are both wonderfully creative artists in their own right).

I was so weak that I didn't even set up my black lights
(and my Wind Synth failed to work with my Repeater for the 6 show in a
row --- and it was a brand new borrowed unit from Steve Rice so I finally
know that it's not just me----
although I feel insane because it ALWAYS WORKS PERFECTLY AT
HOME............LOL)so i felt
a little sad that I wasn't able to give my last local performance of
TRANSLUCENT DAYGLO
LIME GREEN PLASTIC the full treatment but that's life I suppose.

    I've just been working so hard to promote looping that I , ironically,
haven't had time to follow all of the definition postings started by
Matthias' thoughtful first post on the subject several days
ago...........I'm way backed up on Loopers Posts so I hope to
get into the discussion in a few days time.

    One quick observation.............when I promote our little community
(as I do continually to anyone and everyone who will listen) people always
say, what is looping.
I, firstly, always identify myself as a live looping artist.  I then say,
"You know about how loops are used in hip hop"? to which everyone says,
"Yes, of course".

I then say, "There is a burgeoining community of musicians who identify
themselves with
new technology that allows us to use that concept in real time"

I always stress that it is NOT A MUSICAL form and that, indeed, one of the
reasons
I love our community so much is that everyone comes from different places.

Interestingly enough, at the FOUND SOUND FESTIVAL (all kudos to our leader
Matt Davignon)
there were 4 members of L.D. on the night I played.  All four used the 
exact
same instruments that the audience brought us and some kind of looping
apparatus (as well
as other processing equipment) and NOBODY sounded the same.

This also struck me during both the Y2K2 FESTIVAL and the WOMAN's LOOPING
FESTIVAL.

This is a community that embraces a specific technology that carries with 
it
a very broad, yet still loosely definable aesthetic (looping, as it were)
and we are all
'smiling on each other's existence' and supporting each others 
individuality
and creativity.

I love this community for it's support;  it's creativity;  it's active
involvement;
it's intellect; and it's true artistic progressiveness.

In a funny kind of way.  Who cares what we label it.   I'M A LOOPER and I'M
FUCKING PROUD OF IT!!!!!  I also love to do shows with people who use
looping technology primarily who
hate to be called or defined as LOOPERS.    There it is...............my
mission statement!

Thanks for this community..........thanks for all of you.............I'm
going to go throw up now.....................ROFLMFAO!!!!!

yours, Rick Walker (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Rick,  we all know what your
moniker is)