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I want to tell all those who produced and
participated in the Y2K3 festival here in Santa Cruz, how much I enjoyed the
performances for the three days over this last weekend. Although I was somewhat
tied up in the act of attempting to record the event on my computer, which was
the first time I connected to a house sound board before, I was able to also
experience the wonderful varied and creative display of real talent that was
presented.
My mouth many a time just dropped open at the level
of mastery of self, musical instruments, equipment and sounds that I saw
and heard! I have liked various forms of this general type of music, which I
first heard in its early evolution in the late 70's and 80's, and have attended
at least part of 2 loop fests in Santa Cruz in the last several years previous
to this one. I also know Rick Walker from talking to him at a local coffee spot,
which is always a joy and inpiration. He certainly works hard to present a fine
forum for looping. Despite many technical problems that came my way in
recording the festival, some on my side of the fence, some the other side, I am
now working on making a CD(s) out of what I have on hard disk.
When I got home, I checked my records, and it
turns out I had forgotten to pay Bill Gates his 2% no-crash tax, for Windows 98,
and unfortunately therfore paid the hard penalty. If only I had paid the Bill
and gotten up to 100% befor the event, things would have been smoother. (I
intend to get Window 2000, they say it is a "real" operating system, but wasn't
that the year the economy crashed?)
The crashes it turns out were positive. The
recordings were already in some cases corrupted as they were being
recorded, so crashing was a road to a cure, rebooting. So I have a few less
recordings to choose from, which is deeply painful to me, for having lost
some great material, but I am heartened by the quality of the recordings
that I DID get, which would not have otherwise been preserved, had I
not asked permission of Rick to record the event.
Now I will have to do my editing work to make
a completed project as a promo for future festivals. And the CD should
also function as sampler that can point the listener to musicians
that may have their own completed CDs to therefore sell to these same
listners.
Many thanks again for your fine vibrations. Robin
Haas rob@robinhaas.com
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