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Re: ARTIST SUBMISSION Y2K7 LIVE LOOPING FESTIVAL, Santa Cruz, California OCT 19-21, 2007



Hi Rick, am i still in? or would you like me to submit
:-)

margaret


--- RICK WALKER <looppool@cruzio.com> wrote:

> This is the official call for submissions of artists
> who wish to perform at 
> the
> Y2K7 International Live Looping Festival to be held
> October 19-21st, 2007 in Santa Cruz, California.
> 
> Applications for the festival will be closed April
> 15th
> except for foreign artists who's applications I'll
> take on a
> case by case basis.
> 
> and I will publish the Performance Roster by May
> 15th so that
> out of town artists have time to make plans for
> transportation.
> At that time, I'll include an alternates list. 
> Frequently we will have 
> cancellations
> as late as the actual weekend of the gig so you
> should let me know
> how late you can decide to play the festival if such
> an cancellation occurs.
> 
> If you are interested in performing this year please
> read the following
> requirements for submission to perform.
> 
> yours, most sincerely and respectfully,
> Rick Walker
> 
> 
>
***********************************************************************************
> 
> 
> APPLICATION to PERFORM at the Y2K7 Live Looping
> FESTIVAL
> 
>      Dearest applicants for performance at the Y2K7
> International Live 
> Looping Festival.
> Thank you so much for applying to perform on October
> 19-21, 2007 in Santa 
> Cruz.
> 
> Due to the very large number of applicants for this
> festival and limited 
> performance spaces,
> we have decided that all performers will go through
> the same process of 
> applying for performance
> from now on.
> 
> The festival took over 4 1/2 months of my life last
> year and I realized that 
> in order to keep having the energy
> to making it such a wonderful festival that I was
> going to have to make the 
> whole process more professional,
> streamlined and , hence,  more standardized.   I'm a
> casual guy so this 
> makes me a little sad but we have, thankfully,
> gotten big enough that it's 
> time to start acting like a world class music
> festival.
> 
> I know so many of you, so this may seem a  little
> over the top but in this 
> way, I can determine
> who will play,  where to put them (stylistically) to
> make the show good and 
> also to insure, in one fell swoop,
> that I have recordings,  publishable .jpeg
> photographs and short publishable 
> bios of every artist.
> 
> IF you'd like to perform please send the following
> information to me via the 
> snail mail.  I regret that,
> though convenient for the artists,  I do not have
> time to go to websites or 
> myspace pages to read or
> listen to mp3s.  There are just too many performers
> vying for spots on the 
> festival and I want to have some
> kind of a personal and artistic life during the
> ensuing months.
> 
> Please send the following submission package to
> 
> Y2K7 SUBMISSION
> 412 Darwin Street
> Santa Cruz, California, USA
> 95062-2629
> 
> It needs to contain:
> 
> 1) CD or CDR of representative material.  Remember
> that this is a live 
> looping festival so artist who rely primarily on
> triggering premade loops in 
> programs like Ableton's Live , Acid or Garage Band
> should not apply.
> Please no MP3s.........I just don't have the ability
> to play them and most 
> of my perusal occurs in my car driving to gigs.
> 
> 2)  A second and separate CD with .JPEG digital
> photographs (suitable for 
> printing in a newspaper or magazine) of your act
> 
> 3)  include a very short and pithy musical biography
> and description of your 
> life act on the same CD.
> 
> Please make the music CD and the photo/bio CD be
> separate.
> 
> 4)  reproduce the following rules of performance and
> please sign it  just so 
> I know that everyone is on the same page about
> making the whole thing work. 
> It' s a logistical nightmare and only works if
> everyone works
> for the whole team of artists.
> 
> 
> reproduce and sign the following:
>
*******************************************************************************************************************************
> 
> Y2K7  RULES of PERFORMANCE:
> 
> Performances all occur on two adjacent stages.  50
> artists perform 
> continuously for a 24 hour period
> over two days.   There are no breaks between acts so
> the music is 
> continuous.
> 
> Because the stages adjoin in view of the audience
> members,   set up and 
> break down can be very distracting
> to the audience so it is imperative that loading
> Artists be as sensitive as 
> possible not to draw focus
> from who is performing.
> 
> Artists have  20 minute maximum completely silent
> load in (Line checks can 
> be accomplished with
> supplied headphones,  also silently)
> Artists have 30 minute maximum performance
> Artists have 10 minutes maximum complete silent
> evacuation of the stage
> 
> Importantly:
> 
> 1) Artists who take longer to load have time cut off
> of their performances
> 
> 2) Artist who perform to long or take too long to
> evacuate the stage at the 
> end of their sets result in the next act having time
> shaved off their set.
> 
> 
> ARTIST COMPENSATION:
> 
> We run in the red every year (out of my pocket
> always) and there is no 
> compensation for the artists, unfortunately,
> consequently.
> 
> Over time, I am researching new ways to get granting
> and to get subsidies 
> from music companies.   These
> invariably will be offered, first, to the artists
> who travel from out of the 
> country to come perform.
> 
> 
> GUEST and COMP LISTS:
> 
> We charge at the door and don't allow guests at all
> because the venue is 
> usually too small and we wouldn't be able to do the
> festival at all if we 
> let everyone in for free that the artists bring.
> 
> I have read the above rules of performance and agree
> to them.
> 
> 
> signed ____________________________________
> 
>
_______________________________________________________________________________________
>
***********************************************************************************************************************************
> 
> It pains me horribly to state those last rules but
> they are the only way 
> that we can continue doing the festival.
> 
=== message truncated ===


 Margaret Noble
 Audio Artist 
 http://www.myspace.com/margaretnoble


 
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