The
Main Y2K6 Festival occurs on October 21 and 22 (Saturday
and Sunday), at ALCHEMY, 120
Pearl Alley, Santa Cruz, CA.
Alchemy is located in the northern side of the parking lot
that borders Pearl Alley at the corner of Lincoln and Cedar
Streets, one block due west, of the Pacific Garden Mall.
MapQuest
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Contact: Rick Walker, looppool@cruzio.com,
831-425-8659
Y2K6 Live Looping Festival Celebrates Fifth Year with Expansive
Program and Internet Jam
Over 50 artists from around the globe will converge on the San
Francisco Bay Area this fall for the Fifth Annual Y26K Live Looping
Festival. Perfomers from across the United States and as many
as 10 other countries will appear in Santa Cruz, Calif., on October
21 and 22, for the main two days of the festival. Additional festival-related
events will be held in San Jose, San Francisco, and Oakland during
the week preceding the main festival.
The brainchild
of live looping artist and promoter Rick Walker, Y26K and other
looping festivals he has created have inspired similar festivals
in 15 countries around the world, including the Zurich Live Looping
Festival last summer, which drew 40 artists from nine countries
over its three days.
In a demonstration
of the technological edge defined by the live looping genre, the
Y26K festival will be streamed in real time to the web, and will
feature a real-time Internet jam, using NINJam technology, between
musicians at the festival and live loopers from Europe, the UK,
South America, the Near East and Japan.
This years event coincides with the 10th anniversary of
loopersdelight.com , the website that serves as the central gathering
point and information exchange for the international live looping
movement. Loopers Delight currently receives over a million
hits a year now.
About Live Looping and the Loopers Community
Looping is a broad class of music based on the idea of performances
and recordings built using long delay lines. Looping artists use
a variety of sources to generate layered textures which are manipulated
in real-time in various ways (including reversal, time or pitch
shifting, etc.), resulting in complex interactive compositions.
The breadth of the looping genre will be well demonstrated at
the Y26K festival, which will guitarists, cellists, trumpet players,
solo singers, fusion bands, avant-garde musicians, circuit benders,
abstract electronica artists, even comedians and spoken word artists.
What is fascinating about the loopers community is that it is
a tightly knit group of musicians and sound artists not tied by
style of music. With the use of delay lines as a medium being
the only commonality, the range of musical styles created by loopers
is diverse and may be, by turns, hypnotic, propulsive, ethereal,
or simply bizarre.
In another sign of the dedication of looping devotees, neither
the festivals organizers nor the musicians performing at
the festival receive any compensation, and all travel at their
own expense.
The high level
of activity in the fast-growing live looping field has had a huge
impact on the rapid development of its technology in the past
three years. Some looping artists and other members of the community
run small companies designing live looping tools. Some examples
include Matthias Grob of Brazil, inventor of the Gibson Digital
Echoplex; Bob Amstadt , creater of the Looperlative, currently
the most sophisticated live looping hardware device; Andrew Ostler,
with his Augustus Loop; and Jeffrey Larsons Mobius. As a
result, in addition to its musical role, the Y26K festival has
also consistently served as the site for world premieres of this
cutting-edge technology.
Y26K Festival Roster of Performers
(51
total, 48 performance slots)
HEADLINERS
PER
BOYSEN (Sweden)
MIR-0 (Finland)
BILL WALKER (USA)
RAINER STRASCHILL (Germany)
Per
Boysen's performance will be officially sponsored by
Universal
Audio
Rainer
Straschill is sponsored by Goethe Institut and the Federal
Foreign Office of Germany
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FEATURED
PERFORMERS
ARTIS
theSPOONMAN (MARS)
JEFF KAISER
(USA)
KRISPEN HARTUNG (USA)
ZOE KEATING (USA)
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SPECIAL
GUESTS
MANDO
MAN (Japan)
RYUSEI HATTORI (Japan)
LOOP ! STATION (USA)
AMY X NEUBURG (USA)
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OTHER
PERFORMERS
NIHIL
COMMUNICATION
BARRY CLEVELAND
BOB AMSTADT
CARL WEINGARTEN
CHRIS COHN
CHRIS ROBERTS & ROSS ARTESE
CHRISTIAN DAVID
CRAIG McCOLLOUGH
CYOAKHA GRACE
DANIEL ROBBINS
DANIEL LEWIS
DANIEL THOMAS
DARIN SHAFFER
DARK MUSE
GARY REGINA
GENIE
GOH NAKUMURA
GHOST7
JOHN HANES
KIM FLINT
(Kim will lead a panel discussion on "10
Years of Loopers Delight)
LARRY the O
LUMPER/SPLITTER (Lucio Menegon + Joe Rut)
MARK HAMBURG
PATRICK CRESS
MATT DAVIGNON
PETER COR
PUSHING AIR
RICK WALKER
ROBERT EDGAR
STANOSAUR
TED KILLIAN
UTE BONN
WALLY SCHNALLE
WARREN SIROTTA
WAYNE JACKSON
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