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Big thanks to Rick for the thorough review! Wish I had been there. I had a pizza out tonight and froze my ass off before getting back home, that's how fun Stockholm is right now :-) ... Greetings from Sweden Per Boysen www.perboysen.com http://www.youtube.com/perboysen On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 6:31 PM, Rejyna MDW <rejyna@msn.com> wrote: > Just amazing! I have never been so stretched in one day, I'm still > trying > to latch on to everything I heard and saw. Just amazing stuff from > everyone, I knew this was going to be a good source to replenish brain > cells > I sacrificed all those years 'outside the loop'. Such a surplus of > inspiration that I will be looking to lease some cranial space to house > the > boatload of new thoughts lathered upon me yesterday. > > I am deeply honored to have been included, humbled beyond words by all > the > kind comments and wonderful response to my set. I hope that the > exhilaration and ecstasy that I experienced was obvious on my face if > not in > my delivery - my hope is that some of my joy splashed on you too... > > I'm so hooked...so deeply addicted to this expression vehicle. > > To Rick and Noah, and all those who make this thing a reality: My deepest > gratitude and biggest hugs! > To all the loopers: Thank you for being such a warm, tight family and > for > welcoming me, my mom and daughter into the fold. My daughter has been > inspired to try looping with her harp and my mom has been inspired by > seeing > her vision for my music unfold. > > Yes, this all makes me cry with joy right this moment. How could I be > more > blessed? > > See ya today! > > > Rejyna > rejyna@msn.com > 818-314-4968 > > > > > >> Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 08:18:52 -0700 >> Subject: Y2K13 LOOPFEST: Insomniac's report >> From: looppool@cruzio.com >> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com >> >> Well, I've been just too busy trying to put this festival on to do much >> posting, but I have insomnia before the last night of the festival (I >> play >> last at 10:30 tonight and I'm nervous) so here goes: >> >> We've been blessed with a fantastic festival so far. San Jose's 'best >> of' show with our foreign artists was sublime; San Francisco's Luggage >> Store, "Experimental Side of Looping" was equally good and we had a >> really >> nice and enthusiastic turnout for S.F. >> >> It's hard to pick standout performances as , literally, every >> performance at both shows was very, very strong. >> >> I feel so lucky that our hosts, the Brian and Cherie at the Anno >> Domini Gallery and Matt and Rent at the Luggage Store reserve us a >> space every single third week of October. The only downside to either >> show was artist John Connell having his entire set stolen in the form >> of his iTouch with all of it's lovingly selected and beautiful samples >> was stolen in the tough neighborhood that surrounds the Luggage Store >> at 6th and Market. >> >> John triumphed, however, the next night at our opening Santa Cruz >> concert. >> He spent the whole day reconstituting his entire set (a LOT of work) at >> our first 'house concert' at Brad and Sandy Taylor's lovely home just >> outside of downtown Santa Cruz and did a great 'comeback' set. >> >> What a beautiful and intimate spot Brad and Sandy's place is. >> Semih Yanyali had to cancel (after a beautiful mixture of turkish and >> contemporary electronica styles set on Wednesday night) with a stomach >> flu >> so we had a very short and intimate evening. A standout performance were >> Noah Peterson's rocking, Americana Sax driven R&B. Noah has >> enthusiastically and professionally jumped into our community this year >> with two excellently produced Y2K13 looping festivals in Portland, >> Seattle >> (and right after the main fest, San Antonio, Texas). It was just pure >> joy to me to see how he rocs thousands of people at San Antonio's 6 >> Flags >> Theme Park in 105 degree heat during the summer. He is a fantastically >> strong saxophonist and is very inventive with his looping (including >> wonderful and strong percussion.....something that always ranks high in >> my >> own personal looping book). He's also a really great guy too, with a >> wonderful and epxansive laugh and sense of humor. It's really such a >> treat to have him so prominent in our community in his first year of >> having 'found' us. Thanks, Noah, for everything you've done this year >> to promote and expand live looping! >> >> It was such a mellow evening......really quite intimate and a good sign >> for the weekend to come. >> >> Today (well, yesterday technically, but I can't sleep) was just >> awesome.........top to bottom. >> >> I confess that I have been very, very worried about attendance because >> we >> are in our new home at the Treasures Roadhouse which is decidedly >> outside >> of downtown Santa Cruz for the first time. I was completely surprised >> that our early day attendance was stronger than the last two years, >> however which says a lot considering that we didn't have great luck with >> our press efforts this year (outside of one nice article in the Good >> Times). >> >> The true marvel, though, is just how wonderful the Treasures Roadhouse >> is >> as a venue. Bourn Archer, the owner has created a beautiful and intimate >> performance space with a great sound system. It's comfortable, well >> heated (and ventilated); it has a really nice and spacious 'green room' >> for staging and pre-setting artists' equipment; beautiful theatrical >> curtains and a very, homey and intimate feel with really great >> acoustics. >> Almost every single person I talked to from audience members to >> performers >> said that it was the best venue we've ever had for the looping festival. >> >> And people CAME!!!!!! That was really exciting to me. We had a really >> good house last night. >> >> I just marvel at how strong this community has become musically and >> technologically speaking since we started these festivals 13 years ago. >> >> The day concert was really great from top to bottom with some real >> standout performances with the three pre-dinner artists: Rejyna, Marya >> Stark and Luis Angulo; who , fighting through a bad head cold and >> complete loss of sound in his right ear after a bad plane ride >> delivered a >> knockout performance of all orginal songs. I cried during one of is >> tunes, >> it was so beautiful to me. >> >> To single out anyone one from the day, though is very difficult because >> everyone had strong sets. I really loved Bob Amstadt's opening set, >> using two new completely redesigned LP-2s. This was Bob's first abstract >> set that I've seen him do and it was really lovely. He did a couple of >> things with the LP-2 that I'm going to steal (and that's the highest of >> compliments). Stanosaur also rocked us one more time with high decibel >> feedback looping. >> He's the only artist I let play the festival without a specific >> 'looping' >> device because of his dedication to manipulating and surfing high volume >> guitar feedback between two massive Sunn amplifiers (not before handing >> out 33 db earplugs to everyone in the house). >> >> Another standout was David Tristram's beautiful looping graphics work. >> David has added not only beautiful new algorthms to his syncrhonizing >> graphics but has also really gotten deep into his ability to meld with >> the >> performers. There was some truly beautiful stuff happening visually. >> >> Next, I had one of those typical 'put out the fire' experiences as, >> instead of taking a dinner break, I had to rush back into Santa Cruz to >> borrow a projector for Maha!'s upcoming LoopyCam visuals for the >> Headliners show. We had borrowed a projector, after having ours stolen >> last year :-( but it didn't have the right connectors to hook up to Tim >> Thompson's loopycam. >> >> Hoffman's restaurant , home of my weekly jazz trio, came to the rescue >> though (man, I love the staff and owners of that place) and lent us >> their >> projector in the 11th hour and I was able to get back 5 minutes before >> the >> start of the show.........which was JAW DROPPING in it's entirety. >> >> Henry Kaiser opened up with a beautiful demonstration of the square wave >> modulation possibilities in two ancient Lexicon PCM 42s. He then went >> on to explain the method of improvisation that he has been mining for a >> long time with beautiful results and then showed us how different the >> computer manipulation 'emulation' of those instruments are. It was >> really cool to hear his detailed explanations and then to truly see the >> difference between the analogue performance back to back with it's >> 'emulate' digital one. Some people, notably Grammy Award winner, Bill >> Putnam, really appreciated the difference between the two sounds, but I >> confess, they both sounded great to my somewhat challenged middle aged >> ears. >> >> Next Daniel Thomas put on the most elaborate and high tech looping show >> I've seen yet. Playing what looked like an entire mobile studio (with >> replete with multiple controllers, two MACbook pros and keyboards, >> guitar >> and voice, he encountered a couple of very minor technological >> 'glitches' >> but his performance and song writing were just beautiful and very, very >> emotional for me. I was so impressed with his performance and equally >> impressed that he attempted such an elaborate and truly daring attempt >> at >> bringing complex song forms to live looping (something live looping is >> NOT >> typically good at doing). >> >> Next, living live looping legend, Andre LaFosse played his first Y2K >> appearance with a tour d-force of guitar playing and absolute seamless >> mastery of the Gibson Echoplex. Glitch and funky with his 'guitar >> turntablism' approach of corralling and shaping the glitchy >> possibilities >> of quantized replace and the real time shortening and lengthening of >> loops >> that the EDP is so famous for, he had heads and feet bopping for the >> entire set. He's such a fantastic and inventive guitarist as well and it >> was wonderful to see where he's gone since the last time I played with >> him, Michael Manring and Steve Lawson back in 2002/2003. As much as I >> love his funky stuff, my standout performance, both at the Luggage Store >> and at the Headliners gig was a piece he plays using FEEDBACK set to 0 >> and >> Reverse........He has just mastered this art that makes the instrument >> seem completely and utterly elastic in his hands. The entire set was a >> tour d'force! >> >> Lastly, Bill Walker delivered a beautiful and very emotional set (he >> played three tunes in a row in the memory of my mother, father and our >> fearless 'non-leader' Kim Flint. Bill was celebrating the release of >> his first solo CD and he just played beautifully, mixing in humor and >> pathos in the set. I confess, I cried twice during his set thinking >> about how much my parents loved us and how much we love and miss them. >> I also sat grinning and cheering with Daniel Thomas as Bill tore it up >> in >> 6/8 on his memorial to my father, 'Cass County Waltz' , one of the >> standout tracks on the new CD. >> >> I always am a little afraid that people will think I'm being nepotistic >> in >> my enthusiastic endorsement of Bill's talent, but he is just a fantastic >> and inventive musician with a deep heart, filled with a great sense of >> humor and compassion. He's also been, quite frankly, my tech guru, >> in all of these years of looping. It was great to see him tear it up. >> >> So, we all got into our cars and came back to the Looping compound; ate >> popcorn and drank beer and laughed and laughed with Nancy LeVan, Nelly >> Munier, Noah Peterson, Hideki Nakanishi and his friend, Hiro , Stephen >> Briggs, Emmanuel Reveneau, Laurie Amat and Maha......one of my very >> favorite things to do at all of the loop festivals. >> >> Okay, maybe now I can sleep...........we've got a killer day ahead of us >> with the lions' share of the foreign artists slated to play the really >> good closing night of the festival and a very strong day concert, as >> well. >> >> I hope to see some of you down there today. >> >> Blessings everybody and thanks so much for all of your support and for >> this wonderful community. >>