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Arild
Andersen (Norway)
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Upright
bass |
http://www.arildandersen.com/ |
Born
in Norway October 27 -1945 . He has been one of Europe's leading
bass player since the early 70- ties. Andersen started out as a
member of Jan Garbarek Quartet(67-73) . The group also included
Terje Rypdal and Jon Christensen.In the same period he also worked
with Norwegian singer Karin Krog and played in the rhythm section
for visiting American musicians such as; Phil Woods , Dexter Gordon,
Hampton Hawes, Johnny Griffin, Sonny Rollins, and Chick Corea. He
also worked with Don Cherry and George Russell in this years.
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Erdem
Helvacioglu (Turkey)
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Guitar |
www.erdemhelvacioglu.com
www.myspace.com/erdemhelvacioglu |
Erdem
Helvacioglu is one of the most renowned electronic music composers
of his generation in Turkey. His music has been performed and broadcast
all around the world. His compositions have been included in prestigious
festivals such as: The San Francisco Tape Music Festival, Sonorities
Festival of Contemporary Music, Seoul International Computer Music
Festival, Musica Viva Festival, Primavera en La Habana and Third
Practice Electroacoustic Music Festival. He has received numerous
international awards for his electronic music including prizes from
Luigi Russolo, Insulae Electronicae and MUSICA NOVA Electroacoustic
Music Competitions. His album "A Walk Through The Bazaar"
was judged "outstanding" by a number of music magazines.
Besides this album, his compositions have been included on various
labels like chmafu nocords, quiet american, and/OAR, vox novus for
various compilation albums, such as "ctrl-alt-del", which
also included works by Scanner, Kim Cascone and Merzbow. He has
collaborated with artists Mick Karn, Kevin Moore, John Wilson, Kazuya
Ishigami, Ros Bandt and Saadet Turkoz.
He
has received commissions from artists and organizations such as
the 2006 World Soccer Championship, Bang on a Can All Stars, Todd
Reynolds, Kinan Azmeh, Margaret Lancaster and Cem Duruoz. His
sound installations have been included at galleries like Los Angeles
Track 16, Indonesia Soemardja, Köln Museum für Angewandte
Kunst, London Menier and the 10th International Istanbul Biennial.
His film music has been included at Cannes, Sarajevo, Locarno,
Seoul, Sao Paulo, and Sydney film festivals. Helvacioglu received
the "Best Original Soundtrack" award in the 2006 Mostramundo
Film Festival. His latest solo album "Altered Realities"
has been released by the US label "New Albion" in august
2006. Besides his electronic music works, he also continues to
compose for theatre, film, multimedia productions. Helvacioglu
performs his music worldwide and produces major acts in Turkey.
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Leander
Reininghaus (Germany)
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Guitar |
www.myspace.com/lealoop
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Leander
Reininghaus aka Lealoop currently lives in Berlin and works on his
Cymatics project.
The
world is sound - and driven by sound he is, who was a student
of Robert Fripp's Guitar Craft Circles before he developed his
unique character of guitar play. Though the guitar is his instrument
of choice, it seems as if Lealoop is capable of playing any other
instrument within a short time only, so I look at him as a gifted
multi instrumentalist as well, having heard him on drums and percussion,
on the piano, the cello and the erhu, though he always denies
that this was of any use and he won't have me mention it here,
still I do.
During
the past years he worked as a composer, producer and acoustic/electric
guitarist for several CD-, movie-, dance- and theatre productions,
as well as for exhibitions and multimedia events, covering styles
form progressive rock, fusion, pop, electronic and ambient to
Eastern European, Asian and contemporary classical and minimal
music.
As
I see it, there's no limit yet to what he may be up to next; he's
good for surprises and also highly appreciated in spontaneous
formations and sessions, adding sparks of inspiration to improvisation,
while performing as one of the rare musicians who do not focus
exclusively on themselves when playing with others, yet show an
openness for that dialogue within tones and notes.
He
was the founder of the cross-culture band MOKA EFTI, with which
he performed over 10 years, travelling the most European countries
and recording three CDs, the latest with guests Charlie Mariano,
Roland Schaeffer (of 70ies Krautrock cult-band GURU GURU) and
Heinrich von Kalnein.
His
fondness of loops, improvisation (live on stage since 1986) and
textural music led him to the recordings and solo performances
of "STARSCAPES - Music inspired by Views of Space".
These soundscapes have a truly healing quality; I've been using
them for my work with young students as well as for recreation,
and looking at pictures from space makes this audio journey a
deep experience for every listener.
In
2003, Lealoop initiated the 1st Berlin Live-Loopfestival, and
he was very happy to present Rick Walker, Matthias Grob, Andreas
Willers, Michael Schiefel and Michael Peters.This was a first
step to spread the fascination that goes along with live looping
to a broader public in Northern Europe, and soon we can expect
part two of this approach as the interest is on the rise.
More
artists Leander Reininghaus enjoys/ed working with are: Hans York,
Jochen Vogel, Michel Wack, Ralf Goeldner, Michael Peters (VELOOPITY),
Markus Reuter (TUNER, CENTROZOON), Frieder Zimmermann, Matthias
Ebbinghaus, Farhad Darya, Andreas von Garnier (SYNTHASIS), Ornah-Mental/Dirk
Schlömer (ex-TON STEINE SCHERBEN), Michael Kiessling, Slobodan
Savic and - fortunately, me.
(Nic-D,
singer and teacher, Berlin)
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Fabio
Anile (eterogeneo) (Italy)
Fabio
Anile sponsored by Universal Audio
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Piano/Keyboard
Setup
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www.eterogeneo.com |
Studied
classic piano from his childhood and played as a keyboardist with
differents bands and artists in Sicily, where he worked in different
contests, from rock to ethnic music, from electronic to soundtrack.
In 1992, under the name Suite Verlaine, co-founded an ambient
band with F. Ferrara, inspired to the aestethic of Baudelaire,
Rimbaud and Verlaine. The band performed live in a visual installations,
titled "Fucktory", that took place in 1994 at "La
Porta Rossa" art gallery, in Catania. In 1995, autoproduced
his first solo demo, titled ParallelaMente, a work of electro-acustic
music, soundtrack oriented. In 1996 moved in Rome, where co-founded
the enoLogica, an electronic music trio inspirated to the Brian
Eno's experimentations, producing enoLogica (1999) and Cuglio
Nero (2001). This band is actually active and gigging in the Roma
area. In 2004, started the e t e r o g e n e o solo project, a
minimal ambient music project focused on looping technics and
recycling electronics. In the same year realized the short film
First Call From the Moon, in collaboration with the spanish VJ,
Xavier Plagaro Mussard. In 2005 exhibited at the First International
Zurich Loopfestival, with over 40 artists coming from all over
the world In 2005 published In a land of stars in the Looper's
Delight Compilation Vol. 3 (electr-ohm production).
In the last years published his compositions in some CT-Collective
projects (CT-Film, CT-MRI) and coordinated the Great Speeches
Project focused on composing a music to "furnish" a
famous speech, and collaborated at Xperimentus, by Krispen Hartung
and friends. Attracted more by expression in its essentiality
than by virtuosity, eterogeneo chosen a personal musical and creative
field of action. His area of interest lies especially in the colour
of sound and in the dynamic balance between notes. Currently plays
live in the Roma area.
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Henry
Kaiser (USA)
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Guitar |
http://www.henrykaiser.net/ |
Henry
Kaiser was definitely the first guitarist to use an EBow on a record
album. He was also one of the very first guitarists to employ digital
looping; likely the first to use it on a record album, back in 1976.
Kaiser has traveled to Antarctica four times as a member of the
US Antarctic Program. Each time he has worked as research diver
beneath the 20 foot thick ice of the Ross Sea. Last January he returned
from his most recent Antarctic deployment with director Werner Herzog;
where Henry functioned as underwater cameraman and producer of a
new Herzog feature film for Discovery Channel International's theatrical
release unit. Henry's collaborations with Werner Herzog have included
the soundtracks for Grizzly Man and Encounters at the End of the
World; as well as cinematography on The Wild Blue Yonder. Widely
recognized as one of the most creative and innovative guitarists,
improvisers, and producers in the fields of rock, jazz and experimental
music, California-based musician Henry Kaiser is one of the most
extensively recorded as well, having appeared on more than 200 different
albums. Mr. Kaiser not only produces and contributes to a staggering
number of recorded projects, he performs frequently throughout the
USA, Europe and Japan, with several regular groupings as well as
solo guitar concerts and concerts of freely improvised music with
a host of diverse instrumentalists including Herbie Hancock, Terry
Riley, Mike Keneally, Michael Stipe, Jerry Garcia, Wadada Leo Smith,
John Zorn, Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, Harvey Mandel, Richard Thompson,
David Lindley, and Cecil Taylor.
As
one of the "first generation" of American free improvisers,
Kaiser has helped unfetter the guitar from the conventions of
genre-bound techniques, but his instrumental virtuosity and technological
breakthroughs are always deployed in the service of deep and immediate
personal expression. Some of his musical sources include traditional
blues, South-East Asian traditions, Classical North Indian, and
Korean shamanic music, free jazz, free improvisation, American
steel-string concert guitar, and 20th century classical, but he
also draws creatively from other abiding interests, which for
Mr. Kaiser include Information Theory, experimental cinema, mathematics,
experimental literature and SCUBA diving.
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FEATURED
PERFORMERS
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Randolf
Arriola (Singapore)
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Guitar |
http://myspace.com/theembryo
http://www.myspace.com/the_embryo
Soundclick |
Randolf
Arriola, a self-taught guitarist and singer-songwriter, performs
solo five nights a week at Harry's HarbourFront and Harry's Millennia
Walk. He plays a Godin Multiac Steel Duet acoustic/electric guitar
that is equipped with a sound pickup and microphone system that
allows him to capture and amplify his finger picking, strums and
hand percussion, which are fed into a live looping station.
Live looping is a new way to create music, where the musician
records as he plays live using a device that captures and plays
back multiple recorded tracks in continuous loops. Arriola employs
looping devices to repeat musical phrases and stack them in layers,
so that during live performances it sounds as if numerous instruments
are playing simultaneously. It is important to note that in live
looping the performer never uses pre-recorded samples - all music
is played live.
Arriola's work is known for combining music with technology, through
his use of live looping mechanisms as well as electronic guitar
effects pedals that he personally modifies, stamping his own unique
sonic fingerprint on his songs. He is a sought-after speaker at
events that feature guitar effects gear, having mot recently been
showcased at TGAS (The Art of Gear Stomping) 2007 in June at the
Singapore Arts Museum. For the WOMAD (World of Music, Arts &
Dance) Festival 2007, to be held in Singapore in August, Arriola
will represent Gibson guitars during two demonstration performances.
The Embryo, a trio that includes bass and drums, is another creative
vehicle for Arriola's original compositions. A firm believer that
great works of cultural and social relevance always transcend
trends and eras, his objective is to move listeners rather than
to simply impress an audience. The Embryo has performed at venues
around Singapore that includes The Arts House @ Parliament, The
Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay, and Timbre Music Café
at The Substation.
Arriola debuted on the local music scene in the 1980s playing,
and winning, a number of music competitions for which he received
a great deal of critical recognition. He went on to become one
of the top professional show-band guitarists, playing at some
of Singapore's most popular nightclubs. He has also composed music
for film, television and stage soundtracks; engineered and produced
recordings for local indie bands; contributed guitar for television
and radio commercials and other artists' recordings; produced
radio programmes; and coordinated live music events.
Throughout his career Randolf has sought a balance between commercial
viability and artistic merit in his work. Currently, he is recording
a series of projects both as a soloist and with The Embryo. His
music can be heard at the websites listed above.
Randolf
Arriola is sponsored by the National Arts Council of Singapore.
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Per
Boysen (Sweden)
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Alto
flute, EWI, electronics
Setup
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http://www.looproom.com |
I
play music that is open, improvising, breathtaking and sometimes
a complete failure!
Swedish
multi instrumentalist Per Boysen is a crossover crusader that
loves music and hates genres. Enthusiastic listeners have hinted
at Nu-Jazz or Minimal. For the Californian
October 2k7 sejour he is bringing a g-flute plus live looping
laptop.
Per
Boysen has performed many live-looping shows in USA, Sweden, Switzerland
and Italy, both as a solo performer and with ensembles. He is
fond of multi media based collaborations, as for example when
the Italian Festival Internazionale di Andria Castel dei Mondi
2006 gave him a budget big enough for assembling a temporary quartet,
the Boysen Network Ensemble, to improvise a micro opera with amplified
painting canvas percussionist and musicians clamped with cameras
projecting over a big screen by the stage. He has also composed
and produced recordings of surround soundtrack music for films
in the DVD format.
The
Swedish Art Grants Committee helped financing a few of Pers
projects. One such, particularly successful, event was the 1st
Swedish Looping Tour 2003, that had interviews and concerts covered
by the national public service televisions art documentary
Musikspegeln while for the international audience by The Music
Room of CNN. For this tour he invited Brasilian/Swiss guitarist
Matthias Grob, inventor of the legendary Digital Echoplex Pro
looping machine, and American looping percussionist Rick Walker.
As a consulting musician Per Boysen is also working with a row
of software developers to help out in the creation of tomorrows
musical instruments. Besides playing music he has also written
expert studies for WIPO in Geneva, the Nordic Musician Union and
The Swedish National Council for Cultural Affairs. Other works
including books in Swedish on the music business as well as being
a freelance journalist, editor and columnist for Scandinavias
biggest guitar and computer music studio magazines. Per Boysen
is also frequently booked as a speaker, trainer and consultant
regarding Apple Logic, Ableton Live and assorted live-looping
techniques.
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Michael
Klobuchar
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Guitar
Setup
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www.ct-collective.com
http://mysite.verizon.net/vzepmeci/
http://www.myspace.com/klobuchar11 |
BANDS:
"VOODOO PIGS", "NUEVO TACO", "KLUTTER"
.....founding member of the "AMBIENT PUNK" movement.....presently
a "FOLK LOOPER" playing "SIMPLE MUSIC"......he
is old but smells good.....be nice to him for he is not wrapped
tight enough. |
Krispen
Hartung (USA)
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Mini
electric guitar, laptop, MAX/MSP, Reaktor
Setup
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www.krispenhartung.com
www.myspace.com/krispenhartung
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Krispen
Hartung, artistic
director of the Boise
Experimental Music Festival, has been a key player
in placing Boise, Idaho (the state's capital and the third largest
city in the North West of the USA) on the map of experimental,
avant-garde, and loop-based music. Approaching it's third annual
instance, the festival has recieved a grant from the National
Endowment for the Arts and has attracted cutting edge, creative
music artists from all over North America. Krispen has also supported
and coordinated many creative music programs in Boise, which revolve
around raising awareness and appreciation of avant-garde music
and art.
Krispen's
28-year music performance and recording background is an experimental
and continuously evolving road trip marked by many excursions
and detours - from classical guitar, progressive rock, and world-beat,
to fusion, traditional jazz/bebop, and avant-garde. In 1993, after
leading a series of modern jazz and fusion groups, Hartung began
studying and exploring the method of real-time looping. Since
then, he has become one of the North Wests (USA) most accomplished
and prolific real-time looping artists and Idahos leading
member of the international looping community Loopers Delight.
Hartungs debut solo CD Places
was released for sale in April of 2004 and consists of a series
of colorful, innovative, and thought/mood provoking looping compositions
that he improvised and recorded on the spot in one take.
As
a result of his diverse background and studies, Krispen now exhibits
a dynamic and atypical performance style that integrates multiple
genres and stands in relief within the world of improvisational
and experimental guitar. His discography includes 1) Places
(described above), 2) a world fusion, free improvisational work
entitled Live
at the Kulture Klatsch, featuring didjeridu artist and
percussionist Vincent Miresse, 2) his second solo CD,
Descent to Self, a collection of improvised and computer-based
avant-garde compositions, 3) Xperimentus,
a collaborative project comprised of duo compositions of he and
13 other looping artists from around the world, 4) Interstellar
Delirium, a delightful entanglement of insane free-improvisation
and experimental electronica inspired by imagery of a spaceman's
last dying moments and twisted hallucinations in the vacuum of
space, with Jared Hallock on electronic percussion, marimba, acoustic
drums, sound effects, and 5) Mandolin
from Mars, a set of improvisational pieces performed on
the 6-string mandolin and processed by the laptop computer using
MAX/MSP and Reaktor.
Hartung
is currently working on two new live CDs with Jeff Kaiser and
Ted Killian, as well as a new experimental CD "Music Unfit
for Children," featuring an array of children's toys, his
2 1/2 year old twins, guitar, other gadgets.
His performance system now consists of an RME Fireface 400 audio
interface, a ThinkPad T60p laptop computer, MAX/MSP, and Reaktor.
The majority of the effects you will hear at Krispen's performances
are generated by his own MAX/MSP effect patches.
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GUEST
PERFORMERS
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Matthias
Grob (Switzerland/Brazil) |
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RICK
WALKER (Y2K7 Festival Coordinator)
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Percussion,
Found Sound Percussion |
www.looppool.info
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Composer,
multi-instrumentalist and master percussionist/drummer, Rick Walker
has been on the cutting edge of music for the last 25 years. One
of the original founders of the World Beat movement, and now an
influential performer and promoter in the emerging international
live looping movement, he incorporates a vast array of world music
and pop styles in his repertoire combining instruments from the
most primal to the most modern with state of the art digital looping
and signal processing instruments.
An
exceptionally versatile and sensitive musician, he is eccentrically
creative, finding rhythm and melody in hundreds of everyday objects.
He
is also the founder of the Y2K_ International Live Looping Festivals,
the largest international live looping festival series on the
planet and has been responsible for producing or directly inspiring
35 live looping festivals in 15 countries around the world as
well as producing several creative new music festivals in Northern
California (the Festival of Found and Invented Sound, The Festival
of Voice and Electronics, the 1st Bass Looping Festivals, the
Festival of Emerging Santa Cruz Electronica, the First Woman's
Live Looping Festival, the Spirit of Africa and many more).
He
has also performed, toured and recorded with many master musicians
from around the globe, collaborating and backing artists like
Bob Brozman (USA), Debhashish Battycharya (India), Martin Simpson
(England), Djeli Moussa Djawara (Guinea), Babatunde Olatunje (Nigeria),
Amel Tafsout (Algeria), Rene Lacaille (La Reunion), Ali Farke
Toure (Mali), Hamza El Din (Nubia),Takashi Hiryasu (Okinawa),
Pajoe Amissah Aidoo (Ghana),Massimo Liverani (Italy) Familia Valera
(Cuba), George Pilali (Greece), David Hidalgo (Los Lobos/USA),
David Lyndley (USA), Michael Manring (USA), Steve Lawson (UK),
Per Boysen (Sweden), Matthias Grob (Switzerland/Brazil), Ile Aye
(Brazil), Olodum (Brazil), Luca Formentini (Italy), Sunao Inami
(Japan), Phantasmagoria (Japan), Paul Marshall (Northern Ireland),
Bernhard Wagner (Switzerland), Luis Angulo (Mexico), Andreas Willers
(Germany), Andre LaFosse (USA), Titos Sompa (Congo), Abdoulaye
Djakite (Senegal), Krispen Hartung (USA), Jeff Kaiser (USA), Henry
Kaiser (USA) and many others.
He
has opened for acts such as Los Lobos, Santana, the Neville Brothers,
Huey Lewis and the News, Cher, Kenny G, Todd Rundgren, the Residents,
Youssou NDour, Thomas Mapfumo, Sly and Robbie, Steel Pulse, Wailing
Souls, the Thompson Twins, Berlin and many others.
He
resides in Santa Cruz, California with his wife, singer/songwriter
Chris Wedertz, where he teaches, performs, records and releases
original recordings as:
|()()p.p()()|
(found sound/live looping), PurpleIHand (abstract electronica),
nO thiN-g (dark ambient, noise, experimental), Ultra Violette
(synth goth, industrial, ebm) and the RICK WALKER TRIO (modal
acoustic jazz).
Rick
also was the first recipient of the Gail Rich Award for Service
to the Arts, the Calabash Award for Excellence in the Ethnic Arts
and served as Arts Commissioner for the City of Santa Cruz from
2002-2005.
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Peter
Cor
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Guitar
/ Keyboards |
www.innercormusic.com
www.jazzydevils.com |
New
York Native Peter Cor has lived and worked both East and West coasts,Europe,Central
America,Carribean,and north africa.
Classically trained in piano,also plays guitar,bass,drums,percussion,and
influenced by a wide and diverse range of musical and cultural influences.
His credits include writing multiplatinum hits,Film/TV credits,
Theater and modern dance performance scores. |
Craig
McCoullough |
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http://www.craigmccollough.com/pages/main.php |
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Chris
Roberts |
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CYPOD
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Electribe,
voice, and pure data |
www.cypod.co.nr
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Academically
trained and street tested in the ways of beatmaking, Cypod has transformed
through many mediums and spaces. From the concert hall, forest,
cafe, mp3 player, computer, and beyond. Based in the west coast
metropolis of Northern California, San Francisco, Cypod works with
such local groups as the Drum Machine Museum, Artseed and Dimension7. |
Chris
Cohn |
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MATT
DAVIGNON
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Drum
Machine |
www.ribosomemusic.com
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Matt
Davignon is an experimental musician living in Oakland, California.
Since 1993, he has developed his own unique style of music, which
focuses largely on textures, arrhythmic patterns and musical imperfections.
His first experiments as a teenager were constructed using 2 boom
boxes, combining household objects, CD/tape samples and heavily
effected improvisation on a variety of real instruments.
Since then, he has spent time studying (in a non-academic sense)
bass guitar, live sound collage, consumer-grade electronics, prepared
acoustic guitar, real-time sampling/looping, experimental turntablism,
and field recordings on handheld cassette recorders.
Since 2004, he has been working almost exclusively with a drum machine.
Instead of using it as a rhythm device, he plays the pads manually
while processing the sounds through an array of effects devices
and samplers, improvising music made of organic-sounding textures,
hums, gurgles and crackles. |
Kevin
Kissinger
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Theremin
and electronics
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http://kevinkissinger.com |
Kevin
Kissinger utilizes Theremin, software and hardware live-looping
techniques, and synthesizers to create musical compositions. Kevin?s
interest in electronics and music started nearly 40 years ago with
a Hammond organ, 50-in-1 electronic project kits, and classical
piano and organ training. In the 1970s Kevin built a large Aries
modular synthesizer. In addition to the (now vintage) Aries instrument,
Kevin?s equipment includes the remarkable Kurzweil K2600 synthesizer,
Etherwave Pro Theremin, and modern recording facilities.
Kevin?s
current interest is to create music in surround sound and to incorporate
live looping techniques. In keeping with the live-looping theme
of the Y2K7 Loopfest, Kevin will play music that is entirely real-time
without pre-recorded elements.
Over
the years, Kevin has created classical transcriptions, original
compositions, and experimental/aleatoric soundscapes. Kevin?s
latest works are his attempts to merge traditional and experimental
techniques and to create challenging works for live performance.
Kevin
is a precision Thereminist and a member of the ?Spellbound? artist
list. Kevin?s compositions and transcriptions for theremin have
received recognition from the Thereminworld community and the
?Spellbound? program. Kevin?s ?Meteor Mallets? received recognition
as Spellbound?s ?Best Neo-Classical Composition of 2006?. Kevin's
recent performances include the 2007 Electro-music festival and
the 2007 Electronic Music Midwest Festival. He plans to release
a cd album in the first half of 2008.
Kevin
earned his Bachelor of Music Degree with a major in Pipe Organ
Performance from the University of Missouri at Kansas City ? Conservatory
of Music. Besides his electronic music work, Kevin holds the AAGO
(professional organist) certificate and continues to be in demand
as a professional organist
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Aaron
Leese
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Guitar
and an electronic percussion |
www.flyloops.com |
Aaron
is an inventor and musician working in collaboration with Mike Nelson
of Boomerang Music on a new looping software suite called FlyLoops.
With Flyloops we intend to put together a product that focuses on
using parellel loops in a group looping setting. The world debut
for this product will be at Y2K7, and it will be available commercially
in early 2008.
I live currently, and will return next year to Alaska ..... so if
you find yourself headed north in a canoe swing on in for some smoked
salmon in a low lit bar full of bluegrass musicians. Until then,
I am moving to San Francisco and look forward to meeting some of
the friendly community loopers thereabouts (we seem to be in ample
supply in down there). I try to play bluegrass jazz fusion ....
manage reaonable funky blues most of the time ..... and end up ambient
if having a rough night ....... but always enjoy the music. |
Monk
(USA) |
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JOE
RUT
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Guitar |
www.joerut.com |
Joe
Rut was born, and then later started playing guitar and writing
songs. Joe loves donuts, although he understands they are killing
him. Most donut shops have crappy coffee, and most good coffee shops
don't have actual donuts. Joe finds this sad.
In
addition to his solo performances, Joe has been happy to collaborate
with other humans over the years including, experimental guitarist
Henry Kaiser, The Spikedrivers (bluegrass), 86 (Velvet Underground
Jug Music), Loretta Lynch (weird-ass country), and Lucio "The
Reverend Screaming Fingers" Menegon (as the experimental/ambient
guitar duo Lumper/Splitter).
Joe
has been fortunate enough to play with these fine people in swell
places such as UK's Glastonbury Music Festival, The Fillmore in
San Francisco (opening for Richard Thompson), Nevada's Burning
Man Festival, the Shoreline and Sleep Train Amphitheaters and
an empty parking lot in Berkeley. All of these places were fun,
but the only one that had a decent donut was Glastonbury. The
Brits know how to make a donut.
Joe
is a member of the Immersion Composition Society, a group of upstanding
citizens dedicated to QUANTITY songwriting. An obsessive tinkerer,
Joe builds original instruments out of found objects and contact
microphones, which he plays in addition to guitar, lap steel,
mandolin, ukelele, charango, bass, drums, and Hammond organ. Joe
still thinks College Music Journal (CMJ) sucks for replacing Loretta
Lynch's legitimately charting (KALX) first CD with it's own pay-to-play
compilation in the charts, even though they feebly claim it was
a clerical error.
Joe
lives in Oakland, CA, likes to write about himself in the third
person, and was bi-polar when bi-polar wasn't cool.
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Bill
Walker (USA)
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Guitar/Lapsteel |
billwalker@baymoon.com |
Bill
Walker is one of the most sophisticated guitar players active
on the West Coast of the United States. His breadth of styles
and wide technological range gives him a broad musical palette
that he applies to every different musical setting with tremendous
lyricism and taste. Armed with an array of electric and acoustic
guitars, and utilizing state of the art looping and sound processing
technology, Bill has taken the one-man-band concept in a bold
new direction. State of the art digital live looping technology
allows Bill to record himself as he is playing and create lush,
multi-layered guitar ensembles, otherworldly sounds, and textures.
He has an impressive range of style and timbre: From searing electric
leads to beautiful lap steel slide guitar, guitar synthesizer,
and finger picking steel and nylon string acoustic guitars, he
runs the gamut of style and taste. He is renowned as a master
of Digital processing, midi, guitar synthesizer programming, and
guitar sound design. Bill is also a warm and engaging performer,
blending humor with serious musicianship.
As one of the San Francisco, and Monterey Bay Area's most versatile
guitarists, Bill has enjoyed a 25 year performing, recording,
touring and teaching career that has spanned rock, pop, jazz,
RnB, blues, world beat, and a host of other genres, including
stints with drum legend Babatunde Olatunji, RCA recording artist
" Opafire" and New Wave provocateurs "Tao Chemical".
He was a founding member one of the first world beat Bands to
play in the United States, started in the late 70s. The
band 'Rhythmical' began fusing a polyglot of styles, including
Africa, India, Indonesia, the Middle East, Celtic, and American
roots. He later formed, with his brother Rick, the innovative
successor to that band, 'Worlds Collide'., that toured Japan in
the early 90s.
Bill Walker has shared the stage as a supporting act for many
acts including the Tony Levin Band, Marotta /Griesgraber, the
Neville Brothers, King Sunny Ade, Ali Farka Toure, Thomas Mapfumo,
Youssou N Dour, Michelle Shocked, the Psychedelic Furs, the Thompson
Twins, Missing Persons, Johnny Clegg, Kenny G, Cher, Huey Lewis
and the News, and a host of others. In addition to a busy playing
and recording schedule, Bill also works as a private guitar Instructor,
and as a demo artist for Rick Turner and Renaissance Guitars,
the Seymour Duncan, and DTAR companies, and The Bose Corporation.
He is a representing artist for the latest state of the art hardware
live looping device, the Looperlative, also using the device in
his live shows and helping with ideas for design innovation. He
has just recently completed his first film score and is completing
his first solo CD of live looping based music. Bill lives with
his wife , and songwriting partner, Nancy Milin, and dog Finny,
in Santa Cruz, California.
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GENIE
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Slide
guitar, live-sampling, beat boxing |
www.myspace.com/thegenie
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The
renowned pioneer of "scratch guitar", Genie blends blues,
jazz, electronica, bossa nova, latin and middle-eastern rhythms
via slide guitar, beatboxing, live sampling, and turntablism to
create a visually stunning and truly unique show.
After
being voted #1 on Current TV, his current video "What is
Scratch Guitar?" was selected for television and is currently
airing in the US and UK, check it out at: http://currenttv.com/watch/16180242
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Chinapainting
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Acoustic
guitars, mandolin, cassette Portastudio, cassette Dictaphone |
http://www.chinapaintingmusic.com |
Chinapainting
is one of the very few - if not the only - international, virtual,
improvisational, acoustic, analog looping duos. Though the two musicians
live far apart, Jim Goodin in Brooklyn, New York and Daryl Shawn
in Oaxaca, Mexico, they have developed a musical relationship solely
through the Internet, using an open-source application called NinJam.
The acoustic-guitar-based collaboration is enhanced by the unique
use of cassette tape loops, essentially creating new instruments
from the humble four-track tape recorder and the office dictating
machine, as well as the use of various types of guitars, including
fretless, 12-string and flamenco styles in addition to mandolin.
If you can picture the California Guitar Trio jamming on Terry Riley
with Sonic Youth, remixed by Christian Marclay, you might begin
to get a sense of the unique territory this duo is mapping out. |
Barry
Cleveland
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Guitar
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http://www.barrycleveland.com
http://www.myspace.com/barryclevelandmusic
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Greetings.
All sorts of information about my music may be conveniently viewed
on my MySpace
page, so I won't post it here. You'll also find a few mp3s and
30-second Snocap teasers there. My main Web site hasn't been updated
in eons, but
anyway, here's the skinny on my looping activities:
I
have incorporated looping into my music since the early '80s.
The 19-minute-long title track on my Mythos album (Audion Recording
Company, 1986, and included on the Memory & Imagination compilation,
2003) is based on guitar loops created using a pair of Revox A-77s
à la Enotronics. The guitars were played using a violin
bow, an Ebow, and Masley Bowhammers-as well as in the conventional
manner.
In
the early 90s, I experimented with a prototype of the Paradis
Loop Delay. Guitar and percussion loops from that period became
the basis of the first five pieces on disc two of Memory &
Imagination, and the basic tracks for the 24-minute-long title
track from that album were created using a Lexicon PCM-42. Another
track from M&I, "Echoes on Echoes," was recorded
live for the Echoes radio program in 2001 using a Gibson EDP.
Currently,
I am working on new loop-based music using the EDP, an Electro-Harmonix
2880 Loop Delay, an Eventide TimeFactor, and other gizmos. Some
of the loops have found their way into my "rock" project
(which features bassist Michael Manring, drummer Celso Alberti,
pedal-steel guitarist Robert Powell, and vocalist Amy X Neuburg),
and lots of them will probably make it onto my collaboration with
French loopist Richard Pinhas planned for 2008. Cheers! Barry
Cleveland.
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Dustbunnies
(Duke Sexton)
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Fretless
Electric Oud (11-string Guitar) and Synthesizer, Electronics
Setup
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http://www.dustbunnies.info/
http://www.m3ch.net/
http://www.disquieting.org/ |
As
an instrumentalist for over a quarter-century, Duke Sexton began
his career playing saxophone as a young student before taking up
synthesizers, guitar and bass. He worked live sound and broadcast
as a professional audio engineer, eventually owning and running
his own commercial recording studio for several years. A fixture
on the early Industrial/IDM and Electronica scenes, recent years
have seen him turning away from traditionally structured Rock &
Alternative music, in favor of Ambient, Free Improvisation, and
the emerging Live Looping movement.
Sexton
currently produces spontaneous Looping performances under the
name Dustbunnies. Additionally, he composes Electronica as M3ch,
and performs electronic Free-Form as an adjunct member of Chicago
area's MEME (Midwest Electronic Music Ensemble).
An
avid traveller, he has visited 27 countries and been around the
world at least twice. He now divides his time between Thailand
and Japan, where he lives with his wife, son, four cats, and a
lot of electronics.
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Glenn
Smith
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Voice |
www.soundseeds.com
www.myspace.com/glennsmith1 |
Glenn
Smith is a vocalist and multi-instrumentalist who has played mostly
improvised music for dance jams, dance classes, theatre performances,
festivals, artreceptions, kindergartens, cafes, clubs, raves, t.v.
and radio shows, silent movies, and more. Recent workfocuses on
facilitating vocal sounding groups for kidsand adults, as well as
creating ecstatic sound and
movement gatherings. |
Bob
Amstadt
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Bass
guitar |
http://www.looperlative.com/ |
Best
known as the creator of Looperlative, Bob has also played bass guitar
for nearly 20 years. With the desire to play bass as a solo instrument,
Bob entered the looping scene. To extend what is possible, he developed
the Looperlative LP1 and incorporated ideas from Steve Lawson, Rick
Walker, Bill Walker, and the customers of Looperlative Audio Products.
As a musician, Bob plays looped solo 6-string bass often in the
creation of ambient soundscapes. |
Harry
Weinberg
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Saxophone |
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Harry
Weinberg, Brooklyn bred musician, lawyer and unrequited Met Fan,
has been playing music since the age of 6 (43 years for those who
are counting). Primarily a wind player (but also a dabbler in keys
and mandolin), his focus is jazz and, recently, the use of electronics
to create improvisational sequences to entertain himself. This will
be his first effort at looping in front of anyone except his dog,
Mollie, who is a big fan. |
Addamantium
the Plumber |
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JD
Devros
J.D.Devros
with Bruce Beaton (of Gypsy Caravan, Mizna, & Graphic Recliner)
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http://www.gypsycaravan.us/ |
J.D.
is a composer and writer of songs, as well as poetry, short stories,
and even a screenplay or two. He has played guitar and related stringed
instruments for many years and in many genres, from proto-metal,
hard core punk, and ska, to blues, alt-rock, and avant-garde/experimental.
He currently plays oud, cumbus, and saz and Middle Eastern/N.African/Indian
influenced music for the Gypsy Caravan Dance Company with the group
Mizna, and sits in with avant-ambient Graphic Recliner. A newbie
to the looping world, this perfectly fits his Soto Zen need for
meditation and soundtrack.
He
also has a beautifully supportive wife and two brilliant sons,
none of whom like his music.
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Greg
Williams
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www.myspace.com/gregwilliamsguitarist |
Greg
Williams has been an active guitarist, composer, and teacher in
the Sacramento area for over 20 years. He has composed over 150
works in various musical disciplines including contemporary classical,
jazz, folk/rock, heavy metal, and specialized music for radio, television
and film. His works have been broadcast on NPR, Capitol Public Radio,
and other local television and radio stations. He has been awarded
3 Sacramento music awards and been featured in Electronic Musician
and 20th Century Guitar magazines. His most recent work is the 2007
CD "A Circle of Hidden Intentions", in which he combines
solo acoustic guitar and live-looping technology to create minimalistic,
multi-layered, grooving instrumental pieces all perfomed live in
the studio. Greg performs regularly throughout Northern California,
and he has performed in the United States, Canada, England, Scotland,
Ireland, and Wales. Greg received his Bachelors Degree in classical
guitar performance at CSU Sacramento under Dr. Richard Savino, and
his Master's Degree in Composition under Stephen Blumberg. Greg
is currently on the faculty at CSU Sacramento teaching beginning
guitar classes and general education music history classes, and
spends his summers and winters performing, touring, composing, and
recording. Greg is also a member of Gamelan Dharma Santi, under
the direction of Daniel Kennedy.
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Gary
Regina |
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MOJOW
& the VIBRATION ARMY
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http://vibrationarmy.com |
Mojow's
stage show is an eclectic mix of original danceable compositions
inspired by music from around the world. Using a variety of musical
instruments and modern looping technology, Mojow creates a captivating
full band sound which is not only appealing to the ear and irresistible
to the feet, but is also intriguing to watch. They perform both
as a duo and with a drummer. |
Craig
Green
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Guitar
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http://www.craigjgreen.com/ |
Guitarist
and composer Craig Green has scored music for stage, film, ballet
and chamber ensembles with collaboration and improvisation as the
focus. He has performed and studied?throughout the United States,
Mexico, Canada, Europe, Asia and North Africa as both a leader,
backup musician and student of sound. He continues to work with
visual artists, dancers and other musicians from around the world. |
Carl Weingarten
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Electric
slide guitar |
http://www.mphase.com/weingarten.htm |
Composer,
producer and slide guitarist Carl Weingarten first toured in the
mid 1980s performing loop-guitar shows along the east coast, and
once as the opening act for Bill Bruford's Earthworks in Boston.
Carl's current music reflects over two decades of experimentation
with world music, country, blues and progressive rock. Described
by some as "Ambient Americana," the arrangements combine
both roots-based and contemporary elements. The net result proffers
an sound rife with atmosphere; a meandering through rhythms from
America and beyond, while under the creative spell of modern studio
effects.
Drawing
influence from a range of sources, Weingarten's hometown of St.
Louis, laid the groundwork for his rhythmic pursuits, where, he
attested, "Blues was part of the culture.
"While
it was certainly the starting point for my music, I became interested
in jazz, electronic and world music, mixing them together to find
my own voice," he said.
In
1980, he founded Multiphase Productions, a collaborative label
that continues today, boasting a medley of artists, including
jazz guitarist Fareed Haque, bass guru Michael Manring and percussionist
Brain Knave; the latter two also contributed extensively to his
recent release, Local Journeys.
Weingarten,
having little prior exposure to Eastern music, recalled collaborating
in 1993 with classical Indian musicians. "I was blown away,"
he said. "I saw so many similarities between Eastern and
Western music. Rather than view them as different worlds I tried
to blend these influences into the music I was writing."
Such
experiences embolden his persistent drive for innovation, evident
in the CD Hand in The Sand, which includes assemblages from multiple
genres in addition to experimentations with sound effects and
the unconventional use of instruments such as the dobro, an early
20th century acoustic resonating guitar.
"I
follow the path of painters and sculptors," he stated. "You
keep changing. You keep challenging yourself. You keep the music
evolving."
John
Kelman of All About Jazz wrote, "Some artists view their
instruments as ends unto themselves; others view them as means
to an end. With Local Journeys, Weingarten clearly sits in the
latter camp, more interested in the broader aural potential of
his instrumental palette. An album that is as much about freeing
the imagination as it is engaging it, Local Journeys is a graceful
addition to Weingarten's gradually evolving body of work."
For
more information on Carl Weingarten and his latest release, Invisibility
(Foundry Records, 2006) with synthesist Forrest Fang, visit www.mphase.com
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Cyoakha
Grace
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Noise
toys, casio, harmonium & vocal effects |
http://www.myspace.com/cyoakhagrace
http://www.landoftheblind.com
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Tribal
Noise Looping "I love looping because it's instant one of a
kind creation. I have 6 cds out with my 12 year project "tribal-trance"
band, Land of the Blind, the last 3 cds are based on my loops. I
use looping in Blind as a way to layer ethno-exotic instruments
up into actual songs, & as a trio, it's possible with 2 live
loopers (myself & local SC Rhan Wilson) midi-ed together to
end up sounding like an 8 piece band. I also use looping in my soundtrack
writing, I used it throughout my 96 minute avant soundtrack for
H.P. LOVECRAFT's Search for Unknown Kadath, an indie animated feature
film with great avant otherworldly results . I am currently writing
music for a Zombie movie using my looper. My solo looping is mixing
odd ethnic instruments with noise toys & effected vocal layers
to create dreamtime soundtracks live.
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Mark
Hamburg |
Guitar |
http://www.baymoon.com/~mark_hamburg/ |
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