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From: Robin Haas www.santacruzcollage.com
rob@robinhaas.com
To: Looper's Delight and beyond:
About: Santa Cruz Live Looping Festival --
Y2K3 CDs (2003)
See new listing of this on my website
Message 2 of 3
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Santa Cruz Live Looping Festival --
Y2K3 -- Volume 1 Guitars, etc.
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Performer List: 1. Michael Klobuchar
"Mon Petite Choux" -- Looped guitar (Carvin AE-185 > Alesis "Ineko" > Boomerang > p.a.). 2. Mark Hamburg
"Embers" -- Looped guitar. 3. Stan Card -- Stanitarium
"Nunes the Killer" -- Looped guitar, and big California-made amps and big speakers. 4. Gareth Whittock
"Facing the Infinite One" -- Looped double guitar, voice effects and prepared track. 5. Scott Kungha Drengsen
"A Brilliant Cloud that Appears" -- Looped guitar and poem. 6. Max Valentino and Rick
Walker
"Rockin' the House Loop" -- Looped guitar, percussion, horn, voice, clapping and etc. 7. James Sidlo with Rick
Walker
"Heavy Mental" -- Looped guitar, percussion. 8. John Whooley
"Loop Do Loop" -- Layered looped voice. 9. Joe Balestreri -- Metaman
"Pyramid #5" -- Looped trumpet with prepared track. 10. Bill Walker
"Autumnal Arrival" -- Looped guitar and percussion. 11. Phyll Smith -- Dark Muse
"Umbra" -- Looped voice, percussion, and sonic alchemy. 12. Ted Killian and the Phantom Drum
Machinist
"Santas Cruzadas" -- Looped guitar with drum machine. 13. Rick Walker
"Sweet Beat Suite" -- Various looped percussion instruments. 14. Amy X Neuburg
"Insomniac" -- Techno-cabaret style song, with keyboard, sampled effects and looping. 15. Wayne Jackson
"Layered Thought" -- Looped voice collage and electronic circuits sounds. All rights to the material on this CD are held by
the respective performers, and are here used by their kind permission. This
edited CD compilation is copyrighted by Robin Haas 2004, and this in no way
restricts the musicians from their full use of their own material. Amy X
Neuburg's material is copyrighted by her and published by Spoonerism Music/BMI
and is used by her permission.
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Ucard (back) For Volume One: Guitar,
etc.
On October 10th, 11th, and 12th, 2003, about 30
live looping musicians from all around the US, and a guitarist from Wales,
performed in Santa Cruz, California at one of the largest events of its kind in
history: the Live Looping Festival Y2K3. The event was organized by one of
live looping's best champions and performers, Rick Walker. He has made Santa
Cruz what may be considered the live looping center of the world with this
annual festival.
Live looping is done by digital or analog
electronic delay equipment which allows a musician or other performer to clone
their sound creation on the fly, while playing live in front of an audience.
This sound manipulation can be as simple as repeating a phrase, or merge into
varied and complex sound structures, or become atmospheric, rhythmic backgrounds
for a solo or group musical performance. Other forms of sound processing are
often used with looping. The possibilities are endless...
As this "Volume One: Guitars, etc." demonstrates,
the live looping movement has no musical genre that defines or limits it,
although it usually remains very musical. The techniques cross many musical
boundaries of styles. This CD serves as a sampler of about half of the
performers from the festival, with 15 tracks of music (and some voice),
including looped performances by guitarists, percussionists, a trumpet player, a
techno song artist, a circuit bending voice collage artist, and other points of
departure (further details included within). I feel certain you will enjoy the
beautiful music and sounds as they bring some new, yet very listenable
experiences to the ears and mind from the Y2K3 looping festival's many fine
performances.
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Inside liner notes Volume 1 Please see the companion CD made at Y2K3. It is
called "Santa Cruz Live Looping Festival Y2K3, Volume Two: Percussion, etc." As
this present "Guitars, etc." CD also includes a variety of other sound making
methods, the "Percussion, etc." CD also includes looped tracks made with guitar
and other sound making methods, as well. Variety is what the "etc." means in the
title.
My website, www.santacruzcollage.com, from which
these two CDs can be ordered, has more information on the included performers
and how to get in touch with them. The performers may have CDs or want to tell
you about their upcoming performances. Also, see Looper's Delight (www.loopersdelight.com) which has much
on the topic of looping. Rick Walker's own website is www.looppool.info. The cover photograph of
James Sidlo on guitar and Rick Walker on tambourine with looping equipment was
taken during the looping festival by Ted Killian.
I give my appreciation to the many musicians and
performers who made this project possible by their kind permission and help. And
many thanks to Peter Coates of Cayuga Vault (www.cayugavault.com) where this
performance took place. He was of great help in having the festival at his
venue, running the audio board and accommodating my connecting to his board with
my recording equipment. A Windows-based IBM clone, with four audio input
channels was used to record the loop festival. Two channels were connected to
the sound board and the musicians and two were used for the ceiling-mounted
mikes for ambient sound. Two Lynx One cards and Cool Edit Pro were used for both
the recording and editing of this project.
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