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A note of explanation
before you read this application and sign it.
I do the pre-production of this festival entirely
by myself
every year, including all the booking, publicity
and liason
with artists. Individually responding
to the literally hundreds of
artists who have contacted me about performing is
just an
amazing drain on my time and energy and , in order
to continue
to be a vital solo artist in my own right, I
have radically streamlined
the process of application and communication to
reduce the amount
of work it takes to coordinate 2 or 3 venues and 60
some odd artists
(without a budget). I do this
because I dearly love this community
and feel committed to the whole community and
aesthetics of live
looping in all it's manifestations.
I don't wish this to appear too formal or
impersonal but I had to do
it to continue to produce the festival without
sacrificing my own
personal life and artistry.
This said and done, I appreciater your
understanding and ask one
very important
thing:
Please do not communicate with me
individually with any questions about the
festival. I
will send information about it in a timely manner to all accepted
applicants.
Also, do not expect replies to posts at Loopers
Delight. When the festival gets
thick I frequently don't have time to read the L.D.
digest.
I cannot stress this last point more
vigorously.
Please be patient and all your questions will
be answered. Write me , of course, in
an emergency, or if you are a featured or
headliner performer.
Make all correspondances go to BOTH of these
addresses (for backup in the advent of harddrive failure----
it's happened........lol)
Also, demand for the festival is larger than the
number of slots by a large factor. If you don't get in
this year, don't worry or be afraid that the
process is unfair, I'll attempt to get you in the first
conventient time.
Thanks so much, Rick
Walker festival organizer www.y2k8loopfest.com
Thanks, and now, here's the POOP on the
festival
PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING,
SEND THE PACKAGE and SIGN THE CONSENT FORM
if you want to be considered for the performance
Where: Santa Cruz,
Pearl Alley Studios (120 Pearl Alley, SC
95060)
When: Opening
Night:
October 17, Friday, 8 p.m. (for headliners and special events
only)
the MAIN Festival
October 18, Saturday, noon to midnight
October 19,
Sunday, noon to midnight
Annual Loopers Festival Decompression Bruncheon
October 20th, Monday 1 p.m . site
TBA
We'll try to accomodate as many sleeping bag
equipped loopers as possible in
our compound and look for others in town to put
travelling loopers up.
If you want the privacy of a hotel and have the
moolah, then I can provide
recommendations (put Y2K8 HOTEL NEEDED
into an email to me)
APPLICATION to
PERFORM at the Y2K8 Live Looping FESTIVAL
Dearest applicants for performance at the Y2K8 International Live Looping Festival: INTENT OF THIS
FESTIVAL:
This festival is the
largest of it's kind on earth and celebrates the
myriad forms of live
looping in all of it's idiosyncratic manifestations.
Artists who rely
primarily on prerecorded loops will NOT be accepted
for this
festival. As much as I respect and admire many artists who
use precanned loops,
there are
dozens of festivals in
the world that cater to such artists.
Thanks for understanding this distinction in
advance.
Be prepared to have a
very large portion of your performance use
live looping techniques.
If you have serious doubts about whether you would
fit this criteria,
save yourself the trouble and don't
apply.
So,
Thank you so much for
applying to perform on October 17-19, 2008 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. 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 Y2K8 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: ******************************************************************************************************************************* Y2K8 RULES of PERFORMANCE: Performances all occur on two adjacent stages. Up to 60 artists from up to 10 countries will 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. 1) Artists have 20 minute maximum completely silent load in (Line checks can be accomplished with supplied headphones,
also silently)
2) Artists have 30 minute maximum
performance
3) Artists have 10 minutes maximum complete silent evacuation of the stage Importantly: 1) Artists who take longer to load will 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. Essentially, please be concious and DON'T
screw the next performer.
WE WILL STAY ON SCHEDULE COME HELL OR HIGH
WATER <laugh>
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 just not large enough to acomodate more people. This includes roadies or friends who help
you load in.
They need to be prepared to pay for their entrance
or have you pay for them.
We just can't afford to do this festival
without sticking religiously with this
rule.
This is all pretty harsh but the only way we can
keep this gowing without
losing our shirts (which I cannot afford to do).
I hope you understand and will
still come to play.
I have read the above rules of performance and
agree to them.
signed ____________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________ *********************************************************************************************************************************** I try as hard a possible to make this thing bigger and better every year but we are a very new art, still unable to draw large crowds of people, and the whole thing is a gigantic (and wonderfully creative and fun)
labor of love on everyone's part.
Look around you at all the staff and
volunteers. They are all working for 72 hours
for FREE.......just to serve this wonderful
burgeoning and creative community.
Thank you very much for showing interest in this wonderful festival. We'll be blessed to have you come play. with the deepest respect for everyone's artistry who applies for this festival Rick Walker founder Y2K International Live Looping Festivals |