Re: DEFINING CULTURAL YEAR of THE DECADE?

["L.Angulo" <labaloops@yahoo.com>]

Rick happy new year as well!
This email is very inspiring man,thank you seriously for putting so much 
effort to keep us all going,and everyone else who has been so helpful,i 
specially want to thank Per Boysen,Jeff Larson,Bill Walker and Andy Butler 
for their unconditional help,i have learned so much from this list and 
gotten to know great people through the festivals
everyone open up that champagne and lets have a toast!
loop on
Luis

www.myspace.com/luisangulocom


--- On Wed, 12/31/08, Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com> wrote:

> From: Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com>
> Subject: DEFINING CULTURAL YEAR of THE DECADE?
> To: "RICK WALKER" <looppool@cruzio.com>, "Y2K8 LOOPFEST email saves" 
><y2k8loopfest@yahoo.com>, "LOOPERS DELIGHT (posting)" 
><Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
> Date: Wednesday, December 31, 2008, 1:33 PM
> Happy New Years,  EVERYBODY!
> 
> I was meditating on what this next year will bring
> artistically for our community.
> 
> Here's what I thought:
> 
> We haven't had a defining cultural year in this past
> decade yet  ( like '68 in the sixties,  '75 in the
> 70's ,   '82 in the 80's,   etc.)
> so this feels like the right year to make a very, very
> strong cultural imprint on history.
> 
> Because I"ve been involved in a lot of interviews in
> recent months and also in correspondances with
> loopers,loop promoters, journalists, radio DJs and others, 
> I have noticed that there has
> been a huge proliferation of interest in live looping in
> the past year alone.  There has also been an
> attendant surge in new software and features in hardware
> and the creation of new techniques commensorately.
> 
> From talking to journalists, I have also noticed that our
> community is now very solidly on their radar whereas
> five years ago, we were just a blip.
> 
> In the past couple of years a lot of new high profile
> artists have emerged from the
> pop and jazz worlds and started incorporating live looping
> in their musical  sets.
> 
> I say that we make a huge concerted effort this coming year
> to release new records in this community
> and help make live looping be one of the emergent trends of
> this past decade, historically speaking.
> 
> If you've been telling yourself that you really should
> finish that project you've been working on forever---
> I exhort you to put it out this year, or even get up off of
> the couch and push play on  the plethora of high quality
> recorders (both portable and
> computer or analogue based that now exist)  if you
> weren't thinking about making a release this year.
> 
> You can reference the excellent thread on how to release a
> new project in the new digital era and
> even on a budget (of money ,  or time )
> 
> Some famous visual artist once said that 'being
> prolific is a form of generosity' 
> In that spirit,
> 
> I'll book anyone who debuts a CD this year at the Y2K9
> International  Live Looping Festival,  hands down,  no
> questions asked!
> 
> Here's to this wonderful community and all of it's
> amazing members.
> It's been a huge blessing in my own life to be here
> with you all.
> 
> Happy New Years and may 2009  define our decade in the
> coming years.
> 
> Rick Walker
> 
> 
> 
> ..................