Re: Introduction (long)

["max valentino" <ekstasis1@hotmail.com>]

Hi...just read your (lengthy) bio post on Looper's Delight. Sounds very 
interesting from a number of fronts. I am a bassist/looper, and I use 
sound 
treatments of the bass as my principle texture (in a very eno-esque sort 
of 
way). As of late I have been concerning myself with the acoustic bass, and 
treatments thereof, but had previously "dabbled" into the techno/dance/DnB 
styles using processed bass/bass loops and multiple drum loops. Your 
experience, creative and computer, sounds fascinating.
I am writing you because I live in Tehachapi (in the mountains SE of 
Bakersfield) and come to SLO often (in fact will be there this weekend), 
and 
as an electronica/looping performer composer am always on the prowl for 
venues to play....and for possible collaborators.
I have performed at several of the Northern California Festivals of 
Emerging 
Electronica, and the recent Solo Bass Looping Festival.
I am very interested in what you are doing over there as far as the 
electronica/dance culture goes. Sounds as tho you might be creating a meld 
of the intellectual and viscereal....
I would like to open communications with you concerning A) possible 
collaborations between your computer-based electronica and my own 
bass-derived sonic manipulations. As a composer (several film 
scores/commercials) I am always eager for true collaborations...it seems 
to 
bring out my best. B) the possibility of performing in SLO soon and 
re-indulging my interest in loop-based dance music.
C) My colleague Rick Walker (Loop.pooL) ...a freq. contributor to Looper's 
Delight and promoter of many NorCal Looping events, as well as a world 
class 
percussionist and outstanding electronica artist and producer...a planning 
a 
small (california) LoopFest Tour and would like to put SLO in that 
itinerary.  Perhaps you can help us out there. Previous Looping Festivals 
have been quite succesful (and fun).
Please e-mail me if you are open to any of these ideas.

Thanks for your time and consideration...Max Valentino



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