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Wow...While I can completely understand the need to have a life (whatever that is...) I have to say the Y2Ks have been an incredible experience . I think we should all give Rick a big round of applause. Hope to see you all in '10! J.D.Devros deafrose58 > Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 03:28:20 -0800 > From: looppool@cruzio.com > To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com > Subject: Last Y2K Live Looping Festival? was: The Branding of Live Looping > > FRO DIDDLY asked about the Y2K-X International Live Looping Festival > next year. > > *"last one? bummer-"* > > Yeah, at least for my foreseeable future. I hope you will plan on coming > and performing so you don't miss out, Fro. Your are cordially and officially > invited and I'm taking invitations now from everyone. > > I love this festival and it has had a huge impact on my live in the past > ten years but each year it has taken longer and longer to produce and taken > up more and more of my own artistic energy. > > I've been very ambitious in the past 3-5 years and have tried to do a lot of international > touring, national touring and the festival and I've ended up exhausted and not > finishing projects that I've had in the pipeline for literally years. > > Two years ago it took 6 months to do the festival > This past year it took 7 1/2 months. > I've been working a little bit every day less than a month after the festival > this year for next years' festival so that will put it up at 11 months for this year. > > I just need to have a bit of a life for myself and I need to be a full time artist again. > I figure I have worked my butt off to try and serve this community (and I've received immeasurable > awards for doing it so I'm very grateful) so I think I've earned a break for a while at least. > > Some of this is my own fault as I've tried to make it more and more impressive; > more and more inclusive, but, at the same time, it has not increased in > attendance or in it's ability to create income so it has hurt me financially > quite a bit (especially in the past 2 years because of this horrible recession > that Northern California is not nearly out of yet). > > I love doing theme-oriented festivals so I'm sure I'll do other things, but I just need > a break. I'm also curious to see whether this mode is sustainable and whether this community will pick up the ball > in the United States and produce future looping festivals without me putting the lions share of energy > into doing them. > > *"do you have dates lined up yet? or a general time frame?" > > *Yes, October 13th - October 18th, 2010 > > and, unlike past years, I think I'm going to make the entire thing be in > Santa Cruz and expand the dates for the festival here. > > In past years I've always tried to create an event for traveling artists so that they have > more than one date to come play but it has been tremendously draining for me to not only coordinate > small festivals in other cities but it also consistently drained financial resources to do so. > > Next year I've decided to really make it a Festival/Convention and include > multiple venues, coordinated clinics and basically turn my traveling artists onto > the potential of producing shows in other cities on their own (or letting someone in the community > step up to produce the shows that have typically been done in SF, San Jose, the East Bay, etc. > in past years). > > Lastly, I'm going to recreate what I think was the first self conscious Live Digital Looping monthly gig in > history at the site where it occurred (MOBO SUSHI) in 1995 and I'm going to bring GARY REGINA here from > Arizona and together, with my brother, BILL WALKER, the three of us will celebrate that monthly gig we did for > almost a year as THIRD WAVE. That will probably occur on Wednesday, October 13th. > > By the way, loop historians, I have not found anything online that indicates that such a thing existed before this > date. In the spirit of our dearly departed loop historian, Dr. Richard Zvonar, I want to make sure that > my claim about this is accurate. Please let me know if anyone knows of an advertised, regular and ongoing > live looping performance existed before this time so I know that I'm not engaging in historic hyperbole. > > Later on, I will post some thoughts about the future as I see it and what will happen > after this large festival stops under my direction. That's going to be a longer post and > I"m really curious to hear what people think about the future at that point. > > It's been a true pleasure trying to serve this community and it has enriched my life > immeasurably that this festival has occurred and that so many amazing artists have sacrificed so much > to come to my home town and play their version of live looping music. > Hotmail: Free, trusted and rich email service. Get it now. |