Y2K5 International Looping festival

["William Walker" <billwalker@baymoon.com>]

Hey there Music lovers, wont you join us  for the Y2K5 Looping festival,
details below, or at www.loopfestival.com/y2k5

 I'm playing an early set on Wednesday night in Big Sur and an early set
Sunday evening in Santa Cruz as well, and we have a bunch of really cool
musicians from out of town decending upon Santa Cruz.
Hope to see you beautiful people.
Bill



Y2K5 International Live Looping Festival - USA 2005
>From October 5th to 9th 46 live looping artists from several countries 
>will
perform at the Y2K5 International Live Looping Festival in Big Sur, Santa
Cruz and San Francisco, California .

Presenting artists from the USA, UK, Japan, and Switzerland, the festival
will feature the creme de la creme of this burgeoning international musical
movement (there were 20 live looping festivals in 11 countries in the last
12 months and http://www.loopersdelight.com, the mecca website of the
movement averages about 900'000 page views per month).

The live looping movement has no musical style or genre that defines it.
Indeed, there will be performances by solo guitarists, cellists,
percussionists, flutists, vocalists, found sound artists, as well as avant
garde electronic musicians. It is defined by the technology that allows the
musicians to digitally clone themselves while playing live in front of an
audience.

The main festival will feature looping acts Ryusei Hattori (Japan), Hideki
Nakanishi aka MandoMan (Japan), and Bernhard Wagner (Switzerland) as
headliners and Roberto Zorzi (Italy), Philipp "zurrigo" Zürcher
(Switzerland), and Andy Butler (UK) as featured performers. The main
festival will occur on October 8th and 9th in Santa Cruz where all 46
loopers will perform on two stages with continuous music from noon to
midnight.

There will also be a 'Best of Y2K5 Loop Festival' performances at the Henry
Miller Library in Big Sur on Wednesday, October 5th and the JavaCat Coffee
in San Francisco on Friday, October 7th, as well as a special Experimental
Looping edition of the festival at the Luggage Store on Thursday, October
6th.





News
Schedule
What When Where How Much
Best of the Y2K5 Loop Festival (tentative): Hideki Nakanashi aka MandoMan
(JP), Ryusei Hattori (JP), Bernhard Wagner (DE/CH), Bill Walker (US), Rick
Walker (US) Wednesday, October 5th, 8 PM Henry Miller Library, Highway 1,
Big Sur, CA 93920 (mapquest, yahoo map) $10/door - no one turned away for
lack of funds
The Avant Edge of the Y2K5 Loop Festival (confirmed): Roberto Zorzi (IT),
Philipp ZURRIGO Zürcher (CH) Thursday, October 6th, 8 PM The Luggage Store
(mapquest, yahoo map) $10/door - no one turned away for lack of funds
Best of the Y2K5 Loop Festival (confirmed): Hideki Nakanashi aka MandoMan
(JP), Ryusei Hattori (JP), Bernhard Wagner (DE/CH) Lx Rudis (US),
Christopher Fleeger (US), David Molina (US), Beau Casey (US), Rick Walker
(US)  Friday, October 7th, 8 PM Javacat Coffee, 5549 Geary Boulevard; San
Francisco, CA 94121 (mapquest, yahoo map) $10/door - no one turned away for
lack of funds
Festival: 46 live looping artists will perform 30 minute sets on two 
stages.
October, 8th and 9th, noon to midnight E3 Playhouse; 433, Front Street;
Santa Cruz (mapquest, yahoo map) All shows $10/door - no one turned away 
for
lack of funds
Annual Loopers' after­fest Brunch (tentative) October 10th, 1:00 PM E3
Playhouse The price of brunch plus a healthy tip to the fabulous staff of
the E3 Playhouse who will have put up with this ragtag lot for the past 72
hours.
Y2K5 AFTERPARY (definite) October 10th, 9:30 PM The Box, Santa Cruz's
Premier Goth Club. BLACK ATTIRE requested but not mandatory. (mapquest,
yahoo map)

Planned Appearances
Hint: Click on the table's column headers to sort the entries by that
criterion. When Artist Act From Instrument Style Stage
Sat 8th, 12:00 PM Greg Powers Greg Powers USA
Sat 8th, 12:30 PM Papa David Potter Papa David Potter The World
Sat 8th, 01:00 PM Herb Heinz HOOPLA USA
Sat 8th, 01:00 PM Tim Thompson HOOPLA USA
Sat 8th, 01:00 PM Joel David HOOPLA USA
Sat 8th, 01:30 PM Trey Donovan Trey Donovan USA Chapman Stick, NS/Stick
Sat 8th, 02:00 PM STANOSAUR STANOSAUR USA electric guitar
Sat 8th, 02:30 PM Chris Cohn Chris Cohn USA
Sat 8th, 03:00 PM Scott Khunga Drengsen Scott Khunga Drengsen USA bass
Sat 8th, 03:30 PM Pushing Air Pushing Air USA vocals
Sat 8th, 04:00 PM Koorosh Daryaie Dark Numbers Persia/USA
Sat 8th, 04:00 PM Rick Daren Dark Numbers USA
Sat 8th, 04:30 PM Matt Davignon Matt Davignon USA drum machine 
experimental,
ambient
Sat 8th, 05:00 PM Ross Artese Atomic Mobius Machine USA
Sat 8th, 05:00 PM Dan Moore Atomic Mobius Machine USA
Sat 8th, 05:00 PM Chris Roberts Atomic Mobius Machine USA
Sat 8th, 05:30 PM Adrian West Adrian West USA
Sat 8th, 06:00 PM Ghost 7 Ghost 7 USA bass guitar melodic experimental
Sat 8th, 07:30 PM James Sidlo James Sidlo USA electric guitar
Sat 8th, 08:00 PM Ryusei Hattori 1 Ryusei Hattori JAPAN
Sat 8th, 08:30 PM Ted Killian Ted Killian USA '77 Gibson RD Artist not
easy-listening
Sat 8th, 09:00 PM Rick Walker R.Walker/J.Wagner/B.Beede USA found
sound/percussion found sound/ live looping/ abstract electronica
Sat 8th, 09:00 PM Jon Wagner R.Walker/J.Wagner/B.Beede USA
Sat 8th, 09:00 PM Bob Beede R.Walker/J.Wagner/B.Beede USA
Sat 8th, 09:30 PM Andy Butler 2 Andy Butler UK electric guitar live-looping
Sun 9th, 12:00 PM Addam Ant the Plumber Addam Ant the Plumber USA
beatbox-rap
Sun 9th, 12:30 PM Ute Bonn Ute Bonn Germany
Sun 9th, 01:00 PM Doug Wright Doug Wright USA Akai EWI, Tenor Saxophone
improvisational live-looping
Sun 9th, 01:30 PM Genie Genie   USA slide guitar blends blues, hip hop,
reggae, drum n’ bass, middle eastern rhythms, bossa nova, and jazz via 
slide
guitar, live-sampling, beat boxing, and unconventional syncopation
Sun 9th, 02:00 PM David Molina David Molina USA
Sun 9th, 02:30 PM Amar Chaudry Amar Chaudry USA
Sun 9th, 03:00 PM Darin Shaeffer Darin Shaeffer USA
Sun 9th, 03:30 PM Nico Luminous Nico Luminous USA
Sun 9th, 04:00 PM Wally Schnalle Wally Schnalle USA
Sun 9th, 04:30 PM Krispen Hartung Krispen Hartung USA acoustic guitar
improvisational, avant-garde, experimental
Sun 9th, 05:00 PM Joe Rut Lumper/Splitter USA
Sun 9th, 05:00 PM Lucio Menegon Lumper/Splitter USA
Sun 9th, 05:30 PM Bill Walker Bill Walker USA electric guitar
Sun 9th, 06:00 PM Goh Nakamura Goh Nakamura USA
Sun 9th, 08:00 PM Bernhard Wagner 1 Bernhard Wagner SWITZERLAND electric
guitar
Sun 9th, 08:30 PM Max Valentino 2 Max Valentino USA
Sun 9th, 09:00 PM Hideki Nakanishi 1 Hideki Nakanishi JAPAN
Sun 9th, 09:30 PM Philipp "zurrigo" Zürcher 2 Philipp "zurrigo" Zürcher
SWITZERLAND electric guitar mutant guitar music and dynamic loops
Legend:

1: headliner
2: featured performer
3: unconfirmed


Huge thanks go out to
Simran Gleason, Craig McCollough, and Mark Hamburg
who graciously gave up their slots to accomodate the fact that we lost
6 evening slots due to the atrocious lack of support exhibited by the SC
Police department in giving us a temporary permit for the festival

All three of these wonderful artists will be special featured
live loopers in our ongoing 2nd Sundays Live Looping Series in coming
months.

They are all wonderfully creative artists whose performance presence I will
sorely miss.
The festival is going to be amazing. Thanks for everything all of you and
especially Simran, Craig and Mark.


Note: The trio HOOPLA will be using the loop software "HOOPS" created by 
Tim
Thompson for their performance.

Organization
Festival Organization
For more information or to set up interviews with any of the visiting
artists or the organizer please write Rick Walker at
rickwalker@looppool.info .
Official Stage Manager
TBD
Webcast
webcast page
Poster