| 07.24.06
- Press Release
Guitar
Player Article
Y2K6 International Live-Looping Festival
By Barry Cleveland | June, 2007
Last fall, more than 50 performers from around the globe gathered
in Santa Cruz, California, for the Y2K6 International Live-Looping
Festival. The two-day event, which took place at the Alchemy performance
space on October 21 and 22, marked the fifth anniversary of the
festival, as well as the tenth anniversary of the Loopers-Delight
Web site, the virtual Mecca of worldwide looping activities.
Half-hour performances occurred on dual stages each day between
noon and midnight, with artists performing on one stage as teardown/setup
took place on the other, making for a continual flow of music.
Additional performances took place in San Jose, Oakland, and San
Francisco during the week preceding the main festival, and there
were real-time Internet jams between artists located in the U.S.,
Europe, the U.K., South America, the Near East, and Japan via
Ninjam technology.
Performers at the festival included guitarists Bill Walker, Krispen
Hartung, Goh Nakumura, Ted Killian, Warren Sirota, The Genie,
Rainer Straschill, Carl Weingarten, and yours truly. But there
were also bassists, cellists, trumpet and sax players, keyboardists,
vocalists, percussionists, an electric mandolinist, and even a
MIDI spoon player. Among the many highlights were Hartung and
drummer Rick Walker’s telepathic jazz improvisations, Swedish
synth/woodwind player Per Boysen’s Jon Hassell-like soundscapes,
and Amy X Neuburg’s “avant-cabaret” vocal/sampler
tour de force.
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