| I don’t have a problem with leaders or leading.
I applaud anyone sticking to a real live looping concept and creating real music, rather than the endless copy cat “producers” DJ’a and wannabe performers/musicians.
We go through painful years of hard, unappreciated work for little to no money, while they “just” put on make up, buy a 32key mini keyboard, hire a producer to make the actual music, fuck an exec to land the gig, you get the idea. Those are often the types who will bitch at authorities or leaders, because they don’t have an inch of leadership in them themselves. They are the types to wear a mask without questioning the reasons why they’re being told to do so, without understanding it’s effect or lack thereof. And they’ll be quick to bitch or leave when they see YOU having success, being a leader, or God forbid, speak the truth - go figure 🤦🏼
It takes brains, guts, heart, determination and an unwavering belief in yourself to be a real artist and leader in times when most act like obeying mindless sheep drone zombies.
I could go into much more detail, but suffice to say I respect the hell out of Rick (never met him, but from what I know) and I respect real people that speak the truth, who have their integrity intact and who support real artists.
So cudos to everyone on the list for being awesome real musicians, real creatives. And hopefully real thinkers.
And let’s end this fake plandemic disaster crime agains humanity while we’re at it, or else there will be no more real music or art, just pop garbage run through a fake fact checker.
Beat Regards Torben Scharling Aka GME (Genuine Music Experience) On 21 Oct 2020, at 04.52, Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com> wrote:
Hi, Rick Walker here:
I just wanted to say, that I apologize
that two people who are
both important members of our community
unsubscribed because
I mistakenly, sent a private message here instead of to my
looppool address.
It was an honest mistake and I'm deeply upset I made it and I want
to go
on record and say, I hope that the people who unsubscribed will
reconsider and come back an join, for the important members
of the community that they are.
Towards that end,
I also have emailed both of those people privately to
1) apologize for having sent that out,
publicly
2) to let them know that Loopers Delight's Daily Mailing Digest
is not a 'leadership' forum. It's collection of loopers who've
been
here since Kim started the website. It does have members who
have been loopfestival producers over the years, but no one
has used it as a leadership forum.
and MOST IMPORTANTLY, to let them know that both of them are
important and long
standing members of our looping community and that it would
be sad if they quit this daily digest because they were upset with
me.
Kim Flint, our founder, was dead set against there being any
definition
about what makes looping, looping and though I disagreed with
him,
initially, I really have come around to see the wisdom in his
decision to never moderate this list.
And to everyone else, I want to go on record and say.
There is no 'leadership forum', anywhere.
The Loopers Delight Daily Mailing Digest is certainly not one.
In the production and creation of the Y2K Loop Festivals, I do
have an
email list of all those who have produced loop festivals all over
the world,
But I only use that list when it is time to try and coordinate
loop festivals
in Europe, the UK, America and Southeast Asia so that loopers can
join 'loop tours' in the late spring/summer. This email list,
even, is
not a leadership forum.
It's important to know that all of the looping festivals produces
have a very loose association with the Y2K Main Festival (and many
have no
association with it). The philosophies about how festivals are
created
and how there are defined are very unique and frequently
divergent
from the Y2K Main Festival...........so there is no consensus
or over guiding philosophy. A lot of people have similar
definitions of
what constitutes 'live looping' and some of us agree about those
definitions
but there is No overriding RULE for any of the festivals
aside from the rules that people set individually.
Lastly, my entire intention with the production of Y2K and my
attempts to try
and spread it to other countries is to create community, foster
creativity and innovation
and generate support for each other's artistry.
COMMERCIALIZATION:
In the Y2K Santa Cruz loopfest, I do, and very purposefully,
eschew attempts to commercialize the festival so the only
'sponsors' we have for the festivals
are the result of individual contributions for members of the
community.
Even when we've had corporations donate to us, they have been
corporations that, specifically
have members of our community as their heads.
This is not true of many other festivals. I'm really fine with
that difference
Y2k IS, specifically defined as a live looping festival and I am
unapologetic for
that approach (mostly because I couldn't accommodate all of the
groups
that use looping in a more D.J., pre recorded loops with real time
processing
kind of way or groups where only one member of the group uses
looping).
But that is only defined by me in the one instance.
There are those who agree with me, but there are also lots of
loop festivals that don't have
"making loops live only" rules for performance and they are all
equally legitimate
approaches in my eyes.
So, there is no formal leadership approach. It would be
impossible to have one
because as anyone who has ever produced a festival knows: Trying
to get
live loopers to agree to agree on philosophy is tantamount to
herding cats.
So, if you know the peeps who unsubscribed personally, please
encourage the
to resubscribe............I would never in a million years wish
them to unsubscribe
in the first place.
Peace, and ,again, my continued apologies for accidentally
sending
that post that caused all of this. It won't happen again.
I've memorized the Daily Digest email addy and removed it from my
stupid email software
<sheepish grin>
If you made it this far, (I can be
oververbose)
I appreciate it, happy looping, Rick Walker
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