Y2KX+2
Musician Biographies
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Festival Headliners |
| Mental 99 with Joe Gore
and Dawn Richardson
http://www.mental99.com/ |
Mental 99 is a new instrumental
rock duo from San Francisco. The group consists of guitarist
Joe Gore [Tom Waits, PJ Harvey, Tracy Chapman, Eels, DJ Shadow,
Courtney Love] and drummer Dawn Richardson [Four Non-Blondes,
Tracy Chapman, Martinis, Angel Corpus Christi].
Mental 99 is a mere duo, but they conjure vast
panoramas of sound. Their music can be eerie or funny, abrasive
or beautiful, and sometimes all those things at once.
While Joe and Dawn use no prerecorded backing
tracks, they employ “live looping”— recording
passages of music as they perform them, and then improvising
new layers over them. They’re like ambitious trapeze artists:
Sometimes they fall on their asses, but when they’re good,
they’re breathtaking. |
| Philipp Zürcher: Electric
Guitar
www.mem.li |
Born in 1970.
Classical violin studies. Guitar and piano studies at the Swiss
Jazz School et al.
Compositions for guitar, various duos and trios.
Electroacoustic and multimedia productions.
Solo performances in Switzerland, England, USA.
Electric guitar tutor of Gürbetal Music School, Bern -
Switzerland.
Discography (CD albums only)
Philipp Zürcher: Sonne 4; mem.li CD 111 (2011)
The Virtual Clones String Orchestra: 73-D; stv/asm 032 (2008)
zurrigo: <©raft>; mem.li CD 051 (2005)
Philipp Zürcher & Tripod: Back Home; FMR CD64-V0799?(1999)
"An excellent Swiss guitarist, a talent not to be ignored."
Trevor Taylor, Avant, England |
| Whoolilicious
www.whoolilicious.com |
Whoolilicious, aka John Whoolilurie,
is a saxophonist, vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, composer
and looper. He is a lover of all music, especially jazz, funk,
latin, middle eastern, dance and pop.
Throughout the years, Whoolilicious has experimented
and performed using many approaches to looping. From his "looptility
belt-pack" to looping it up with the band, W! has enjoyed
fusing musical styles, instruments, vocal techniques and electronics;
all with the intention of breaking down the barriers that divide
style and form.
This year will be his fifth appearance at the
festival, and he is excited to debut his newest approach. Joining
him will be Mike Shannon on drums; a professional drummer based
out of Big Sur.
Whoolilicious will dedicate this show to his
baby boy, John, and his wonderful wife, Moriah. |
Featured
Performers |
| Emmanuel Reveneau
The Lucid Brain Integrative Project
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Born in 1970,
contemporary twelve days with Jimi Hendrix.
Mediocre guitarist in punk bands
since he was 15, Emmanuel Reveneau discovered improvised music
in the late 80's at the faculty of Nanterre, in contact with
the writer Philippe Jacquet.
After years of electro-acoustical
experiments in wacky bands, he bought his first looper, an RC
20, stopped drinking and created The LucidBrain IntegrativeProject,
an evolutive audio-video installation for one multi-instrumentist
playing pop songs, progressive tunes and free jazz.
He has also worked almost 15 years
as a sound composer and video artist in the context of theater
- with several collective, realizes short films and documentaries,
and plays guitar, cello and bass for the songwriter Blair, hidden
imam of “chanson française”.
In 2010, Jean-François Domingues
joined the Lucid brain to built a dedicated looping software.
Emmanuel Reveneau lives in the
contryside with his wife, kids, cats, fishes and a gecko. |
| Sylvain
Poitras
http://www.sylvainpoitras.com/ |
A philosopher by training (B.A.
and M.A.) Sylvain is particularly interested in language, thought
and art. Trombonist with various ensembles, he has played twice
at the Ottawa Jazz Festival. His recent musical explorations
lead him towards experimental and electronic music. Founding
member of Kino Outaouais, he produced some thirty short films.
Recently, he explores the world of comic books at Université
du Québec en Outaouais. Left to himself, he watches Star
Trek and writes poetry.
In his art, he explores the distinction between
the symbol (word, image or sound) and the object it represents.
By scrambling this distinction, the symbol can become artistic
building blocks and objects can acquire meaning. His approach
draws inspiration from the works of Magritte and Gödel's
theorem on the incompleteness of mathematics.
To accomplish this, Sylvain creates:
- self-referential films;
- images (films and comic books) by manipulating other images
or words;
- music from language;
- music where the notes are both musical material and control
signal to change parameters;
- and computer assisted poetry.
Recently, he also created a game that sends
control messages to change musical parameters based on what’s
happening in the game.
His two performances at this year's festival
will be very different. In the first one, he will create music
by sampling small parts of words that he will sing or speak
live. His other performance will be based around his meta-trombone
instrument. With purpose-made
software, the trombone notes that he plays will also manipulate
trombone loops that he created on the spot. |
| Jean-Paul De Roover
http://www.jeanpaulderoover.com/ |
Born in Thunder Bay, ON, Canada
but raised overseas, Jean-Paul De Roover is much more than just
a one-man-band. This ‘sonic architect’ uses live
looping to combine rock, folk, electronica and a cappella into
his own well constructed hook-filled post-pop.
He’s worked hard since starting his solo
adventures in 2007, performing at international festivals and
conferences across North America, and sharing stages with acts
like the Beach Boys, and the Goo Goo Dolls.
But whether it’s an auditorium or a coffee
shop, the “mad scientist of the Thunder Bay music scene”
(Earshot!) needs to be experienced live, so you too can “rekindle
the feeling of truly seeing something fresh” (Chronicle
Journal). |
| MandoMan
http://www.mandoman.net/ |
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| Luca Formentini
www.unguitar.com
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Luca Formentini
was born in 1968 in Brescia, northern Italy. He considers
himself a guitar user rather than a guitar player. Since the
beginning of his musical activity he has been considered out
of the purists circle as his sound has always been originated
by the meeting of guitar strings with processing.
He tells how when he was in his teens, his friends were saying
he was using effects because he was not able to play. He always
agreed on this. Processing is seen not as an “effect”
to put over a sound but as the sound itself, in fact he says
he is playing the sound, not the guitar. He is using guitar
as a sound source, processing the audio material in real time
through hardware and software. Looping is a technique he has
been extensively using since 1992.
He has been playing and recording with musicians coming from
many different contexts and countries, ranging from rock to
jazz to classical music like Markus Stockhausen, Holger Czukay,
Jean-Fracois Zygel, Steve Lawson, Frank Vigroux, Steve Jansen,
Theo Travis, Tellef Ogrim...
He has published two albums on his name: Subterraneans and
Tacet. He is part of the Flowers of Now ensemble with which
there is a live record “Intuitive music in Cologne”.
He is currently working on his next album.
He is coming back from a few years of absence from the scene.
official website: www.unguitar.com
soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/lucaformentini
myspace: http://www.myspace.com/lucaformentini |
| Paul Haslem
| Paul Haslem is one of Canada's
leading hammered dulcimer composers and performers. Over the
last number of years he has taken his music out of the more
traditional sounds and incorporated living looping creating
layers and textures to play his compositions over.
He has made 7 recordings of his own music and
been a featured artist on several others. For more information
on his music go to www.dulcify.ca |
| Shannon Hayden
| Shannon Hayden is a classically trained cellist
who has never been content to stay strictly within the confines
of the traditional course of study.
Having achieved early success in competitions both at home
and abroad she quickly began to experiment with other forms
of music as well as other instruments. Working with renowned
cellists such as Janos Starker and Aldo Parisot, with whom she
began a graduate level course of study at the age of 18 at the
Yale School of Music, did not keep her from playing lead guitar
in rock and experimental bands or writing music for amplified
cello. She feels that musicians who want to consider themselves
artists should go beyond mere craftsmanship and constantly look
to expand the repertoire of their instrument, fulfilling the
needs of the era within which they actively participate.
When not performing her own pieces, Shannon focuses on 20th
century and contemporary works and has enjoyed working with
composer Ezra Laderman, David Lang, percussionist/composer Andy
Akiho, Fay Wang and tours occasionally with Eric Genuis.
Having completed her studies she is currently supporting her
first album with shows around the United States and hopes to
meet other artists with similar interests whose focus is continuing
to stretch the boundaries of virtuosic classical music by composing
for and embracing technologies which she feels are underutilized.
Shannon also shares her parent’s passion for sustainable
living and alternative energy and spends as much time as she
can at the family’s off the grid organic vegetable farm.
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Merely
Excellent Performers |
| Addam Antium
Facebook/zigzagrobinson |
Addam Antium aka
Zig Zag Robinson is a testament to time in the relm of Under
Ground Hip Hop..this is his 7th loopfest and stoked to be apart
of it every year Haveing been a recording artist for over a
decade and a founding father of the Rap super groups Slop Opera,
The World Famous Pool Boyz , GRIMBZNS ,he has been determined
to out last most entertainers with cutting edge lyrics and sound
development.
Addam Antium picked up the Line 6 DL4 close to 9 years ago to
hown his skills as a beatboxer and sound enginer and to create
complex loops for the colabarations with Dj scratching to give
a unique spin on the formal hip hop experience..Useing it in
his live perfomances to set the tone and BPM,a true genius with
multiple levels of synergy to enhance the listeners imagination..beats
and lyrics are his true appetites ..nothing else seems to matter
when he is rocking the mic on his own humanized beat loops
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Amy X Neuburg
http://www.amyxneuburg.com
http://www.youtube.com/amyxneuburg
http://amyxneuburg.bandcamp.com
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AMY X NEUBURG has been developing
her own brand of irreverently genre-crossing works for voice,
live looping, electronics and chamber ensembles for over 25
years. She has performed solo at such diverse venues as the
Other Minds and Bang on a Can new music festivals, the Berlin
Intl. Poetry Festival, the Wellington and Christchurch Jazz
Festivals (NZ), and the Warsaw Philharmonic Hall.
Her “Secret Language of Subways”
for looped cellos and voice has been presented by YBCA, the
SF Symphony After Hours and the LA Philharmonic Left Coast Festival.
Commissions include works for Del Sol String Quartet, Pacific
Mozart Ensemble chorus, Robin Cox Ensemble, Present Music, Solstice,
Sqwonk, and numerous dancers and media artists.
As vocalist she toured Europe and
Japan with three Robert Ashley operas and has premiered many
contemporary voice works. Amy is currently recording her “Fill
as Desired” song cycle for eight looped voices, and the
piece will play at the East Bay JCC and Brava Theater this fall.
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Barry Cleveland
http://www.barrycleveland.com
http://barrycleveland.bandcamp.com |
Barry Cleveland's music spans a panoply of styles—from
ambient and experimental to world fusion to psychedelic and
progressive rock. His guitar playing is enhanced by cutting-edge
electronics and unorthodox playing techniques, and he has been
involved with looping technology since the early 1980s.
His latest release, Hologramatron [Moonjune Records],
pushes multiple musical envelopes simultaneously. Cleveland
is also an editor at Guitar Player magazine, and the author
of Joe Meek's Bold Techniques.
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BILL WALKER
http://billwalkermusic.com
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Among a unique vanguard of innovative guitarists, Bill Walker
creates evocative guitar soundscapes that showcase a staggering
range of musical influences and techniques.
Performing
on an variety of electric, acoustic and lap steel guitars, and
utilizing state of the art sound design and live looping technologies,
Bill pioneers bold musical frontiers in improvised performance.
Hypnotic
and transporting, Bill’s music is characterized by beautiful
improvised motifs, lush multi-layered guitar ensembles, and
otherworldly timbres which evolve serendipitously, creating
exotic music that defies categorization.
Eclectic, soulful, and original, are words that
best describe this unique musician |
| Carl Weingarten
http://www.carlweingarten.com |
Former
Delay Tactics slide guitarist Carl Weingarten will make his fifth
appearance at The Y2K Looping Festival, and will perform new works,
as well as music from his new CD Panomorphia (Multiphase Records).
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Michael Carlson and TripleOhNine
http://www.myspace.com/tripleohnine
http://www.youtube.com/provocals
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Michael Carlson loops solo a cappella, primarily using Mobius
hosted in Mainstage on his Macbook, “TripleOhNine.”
"It’s the best band I've ever had," he claims,
"because it doesn’t get paid and always arrives on
time." TripleOhNine did, however, recently demand an SDD
upgrade.
Michael studied music at Chapman University and UCSB, and now
teaches in Modesto, CA, where he actively advocates for keeping
the arts in education.
He directs vocal groups, but began looping solo in 2007 after
struggling to find singers that could handle complex rhythms
and harmonies. Now he has found “his people” in
the worldwide looping community, and his love of music and computers
consummates in eternal looping bliss.
With a deeply spiritual quality, his live looping resembles
sand painting with sound. He erases all loops at the end of
each performance. “That way, what goes around doesn’t
come around anymore,” he says.
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| JOHN CONNELL
A.K.A. MEZRAB
 |
John has been involved
with music in many different forms since he was a teenager.
From local Santa Cruz bands Wrestling Worms, Raining House,
and psychedelic noise/dance collective Violet Skull Troupe,
to Rick Walker’s goth club project nO-thiN-G, he has always
explored the outer orbits of sound.
DJing at local clubs, and a 10 year stint studying
and performing traditional Persian, Afghan, and Indian music
has imprinted a code of the future filtered through the past
onto his current activities. As 2010 blossoms, he is excited
to explore the vibrant strains of modern Electronica and Goth/Industrial
enraptured through small, touchscreen devices, making use of
iPod, Kaoss, Analogue, and Looping technology… |
| Krispen
Hartung
http://www.krispenhartung.com/hartung-davis/
Aaron Davis
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As founder and artistic
director of the Boise Creative and Improvised Music Festival,
Krispen Hartung’s efforts have revolved primarily around
raising awareness and appreciation of avant-garde and creative
music in Boise, Idaho and the Pacific Northwest.
His 30-year musical 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, and free improvisation.
His most current project, with keyboardist,
Aaron Davis, is a fusion of Electronica, Electronic Dance Music,
and Free Improvisation, which will be engineered to capture
the attention of diverse music enthusiasts and bring them together
onto the dance floor.
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| Aaron has been a musician since
the age of six, playing primarily piano and keyboards, but also
being fairly accomplished in hand-drumming, and barely-competent
on the guitar. In the past, Aaron has played keyboards in a fusion
group with the festival coordinator, Krispen Hartung, and has
also played with many other musicians in various projects. He
is, however, a somewhat agoraphobic misanthrope who doesn't get
out much. |
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Laurie Amat
http://www.soundcloud.com/AmatWorks |
Laurie Amat is an acclaimed vocalist, improvisational performer,
experimental composer and teacher. Her approach to singing is
informed by broad experience including pop, rock, traditional
and inventive opera, spoken word, video, dance, theatre and
performance art.
Ms. Amat’s unique talents stem from her focus on the power
of the pure voice as an instrument to convey a direct expression
of visceral human emotions and individual story told through
technique, raw talent and experimentation.
She has performed and recorded pure-voice, site-specific architectural
sound pieces internationally in traditional venues and alternative
spaces, most recently recording at Chicago’s Rockefeller
Chapel and Carillon.
Her collaborations include The Residents, Czech scholar Mirek
Vodražka, Industrial creators Deutsch Nepal and Der Blutarsch,
Trumpetist CJ Borosque, and she has also had the great opportunity
to collaborate with the lovely, brilliant (and absent this year)
Swedish Loop God Per Boysen.
This is Laurie's third appearance in the Loopfest, and she’d
like to thank the beautiful Rick Walker for all the opportunities
and the lovely Maha Allen for brilliant videos and for making
this Loop Universe run!
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| TR-187
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TR-187
is the latest in automated music-making technology. When Portland,
Oregon-based engineer Hans Lindauer’s musicianship ran
up against the physical and artistic limits of his own ability,
he decided that the next logical step in his musical evolution
would be to design and program a humanoid robotic replacement
that uses a simple set of rules and algorithms to create semi-random,
music-like rhythmic figures which arise, evolve, and collapse
into themselves before beginning anew.
Most critics agree that the result is better
than when Mr. Lindauer himself was creating the music, but at
the same time they’re left with the age-old question that
everyone asks when watching a faceless android press buttons,
turn dials, and flip switches on a bunch of cold, soul-less
electronic hardware: “Is it art?” |
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Moe! Staiano
www.moestaiano.com |
Moe!
Staiano is an experimental composer, drummer, percussionist,
songwriter and multi-instrumental performance artist who has
been at the forefront of the Bay Area creative music scene for
over a decade. He was a member of Vacuum Tree Head, Mute Socialite,
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Moe!kestra! and currently on his
latest project, Surplus 1980.
Moe!'s innovative solo percussion shows feature prepared drum
kit, found objects, audio looping and the inventive use of a
looped "percussion guitar" woven in with performance
art, which always gets the audience involved and eagerly expectant
of what might happen next.
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| Buddha B-Rad
BuddhaB-Rad.com
Facebook.com/BuddhaBrad |
BuddhaB is a vocal looper and multi-dimensional musician who
loves to create angelic a cappella choirs with his voice.
His looped soundscapes are accompanied by positive and enlightening
lyrics intended to inspire all who hear him. BuddhaB is also
a multi-instrumentalist, specializing in guitar and piano, who
is consistently trying to find new ways to bring more traditional
singer-wongwriter style into a wild looping world.
BuddhaB enjoys making many types of music, including; freestyle
hip-hop, electronic dance music, and acoustic folk-pop. He recently
moved to the East Bay area where he is working on several new
collaborative projects in different genres.
BuddhaB-Rad.com
Facebook.com/BuddhaBrad
BuddhaB@crystalheartrecords.com |
| Eric Glick Rieman
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Performing on a variety of instruments,
including the prepared/extended Rhodes electric piano, as well
as piano, melodica, celeste, organ, Waterphone, and toy piano,
SF Bay Area composer/improviser Eric Glick Rieman performs improvised
and previously structured music in several settings, both solo
and in groups, He has performed with the Mills College Contemporary
Performance Ensemble in Oakland, CA, USA since 1999, and received
an MFA from Mills in Electronic Music and the Recording Media
in 2001. Rieman writes for piano and for ensembles, and his work
for prepared Rhodes electric piano is featured in this performance.
His compositions include explorations
of Biosonicism (music created at the intersection of composition
and biology). The "Helix Aspersa Series"(2008) is
a series of graphic scores made in collaboration with snails.
"Felis Catus Series I" is a series of graphic scores
made in collaboration with a cat (2009). "Circle House
and Chutes"(2009) is a piece for small ensemble employing
techniques used to handle cattle in a slaughterhouse to herd
an ensemble through a score. "Snail Road House 2"
(2012), a structured improvisation using scores from the "Helix
Aspersa Series", premiered at the Berkeley Arts Festival
on 1/28/12.
Websites with more info:
http://www.ericglickrieman.com
http://www.myspace.com/ericglickrieman
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Eric-Glick-Rieman/197313795895?ref=ts
On twitter @ooglick
http://www.accretions.com/catalog/inmymind.asp
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| Michael DiNubila
http://snd.sc/onDcPw |
Michael DiNubila is
currently based in San Francisco after moving from New York six
years ago, and teaches writing and music. He plays psychedelic
ambient loop music influenced by Mick Turner, Brian Eno, Spacemen
3, and King Tubby. |
| Jerry Barnes
http://www.facebook.com/jerry.barnes.94 |
Jerry is an artist
and software engineer working in Silicon Valley, but living
in Santa Cruz.
Jerry's life-long passion is for music composition, but also
enjoys photography and software architecture as means of artistic
expression. Having both music composition and computer programming
skills, Jerry also enjoys developing algorithmic composition
software for personal use.
Jerry's main instrument has always been guitar but he also plays
piano, bass, and percussion instruments.
Jerry has a Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/jerry.barnes.94
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| Kaylon Rushing
| Hi, I am Kaylon Rushing. I'm a 17
year old pianist/looper. I've played for almost 10 years. I
learned mostly classical music. About 3 years ago I began trying
to make my own dubstep songs on a little iphone app called Beat
Maker. I later moved on to an app called Nanostudio where I
made my first song that wasn't based on pre-made loop samples.
I kept doing it and loved writing new pieces.
Eventually my family helped me setup a little bedroom studio
with a small desktop and some computer speakers. That's when
I finally started writing music on an actual computer using
FL Studio. After getting more and more used to sitting and writing
electronic music on the computer, I started to grow a giant
urge to perform electronic music.
The problem was that I couldn't find out any way to do it,
other than DJing which I never felt like taking the time to
learn. Then I accidentally stumbled upon this phenomenon of
live looping. A guy I talked to on youtube had a setup for FL
Studio that made live performance possible which has been my
dream almost since I started using it. He helped me configure
FL Studio to be a live looping machine and I took what I learned
and applied my own twist to it. I figured, since I already played
piano, I may as well use my keyboard skill as my base for performing.
Therefore I am now basically a Keyboard-Based Electronic Music
Live Looper.
I've taken this hobby much further than I ever imagined it
would go. And I have many friends and family who I appreciate
greatly for their support for me. Because of live looping, I
learned how to improvise on keyboard much better than I used
to know. This allowed me to start playing keyboard in my church's
youth band which I love doing.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/K3Z/311236368904238
http://www.youtube.com/user/gumdrops27
https://twitter.com/K3Z_Art
www.soundcloud.com/k3z |
| Tim Mungenast
www.reverbnation.com/timmungenast
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Guitarist/Composer/Vocalist
www.reverbnation.com/timmungenast |
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RICK WALKER (Y2K9 Festival Coordinator)
Percussion,
Found Sound Percussion
www.looppool.info
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.
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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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Disonova
facebook.com/disonova
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Disonova is a Bay Area duo consisting of a propulsive
drummer (Chris Taylor) and a guitarist that utilizes non-standard
tuning and sampling devices (Matt Herman).
A minimalist, groovy, at-times-raucous take on prog-metal,
the end result is deep, rhythmic baritone harmonies that lock
into intricate percussive patterns. All of this music is performed
and recorded completely live, on-the-spot with no overdubs,
using a dual-amp setup and simplistic loopers.
Disonova released their second EP 'Disonova 2' in August of
2012.
facebook.com/disonova
disonova.bandcamp.com
soundcloud.com/disonova
disonova@gmail.com
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| S T A N O S A
U R
http://stanosaur.com/ |
STANOSAUR
is a one man wrecking crew! With an old Les Paul, old Sunn amps
and cabinets; Stan creates a drone of immense proportions. The
low frequencies shake the world.
STANOSAUR played on the opening cut of the new mermen record
as a member of Sirens Orchestra. Check it out at http://mermen.net/index.shtml
For booking info contact STANOSAUR
phone: 415-771-2404 email:stanitarium@earthlink.net
An old man, old guitar, old amplifiers...what's
not to love? |
| Toaster
http://toaster.bandcamp.com
http://soundcloud.com/toaster-1 |
Toaster is a musician
from San Jose who makes music by programming things, and occasionally
borrowing them. He is huge in art galleries.
His work can be found at http://toaster.bandcamp.com
and http://soundcloud.com/toaster-1 |
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