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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   FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 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 year’s 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. Looper’s 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 festival’s 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 Larson’s 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 FEATURED PERFORMERS ARTIS theSPOONMAN (MARS) JEFF KAISER (USA) KRISPEN HARTUNG (USA) ZOE KEATING (USA) SPECIAL GUESTS MANDO MAN (Japan) RYUSEI HATTORI (Japan) LOOP ! STATION (USA) AMY X NEUBURG (USA)   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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When	Artist	Act	From	Instrument	Style	Stage
12:00pm 10/21/2006	UTE BOHN	n/a	California, USA	Voice	TBD	2
12:30pm 10/21/2006	PETER COR	n/a	Santa Cruz, CA (USA)	Guitar / Keyboards	jazz/world/free	1
1:00pm 10/21/2006	CRAIG McCOLLOUGH	n/a	Santa Cruz, CA (USA)	Trumpet, flugelhorn, laptop	Ambient	2
1:30pm 10/21/2006	CHRIS ROBERTS/ROSS ARTESE	cheese	California, USA	Guiter, Voice, Found sound	Improvixperimentaloise	1
2:00pm 10/21/2006	LUCIO MENEGON & JOE RUT	LUMPER SPLITTER	California, USA	Guitars	Experimental	2
2:30pm 10/21/2006	WARREN SIROTA	n/a	Greenwood Lake, NY (USA)	Nylon-String Guitar Synth, Voice, laptop	Classical/Jazz/World/Verbal Minimalism	1
3:00pm 10/21/2006	STANOSAUR	AMPLIFIER WORSHIP	California, USA	ELECTRIC GUITAR/AMPLIFIER	AMBIENT LOW FREQUENCY DRONE	2
3:30pm 10/21/2006	DANIEL THOMAS	n/a	TBD	TBD	TBD	1
4:00pm 10/21/2006	WAYNE JACKSON	n/a	TBD	TBD	TBD	2
4:30pm 10/21/2006	DANIEL LEWIS	n/a	TBD	Electric Bass Guitar	TBD	1
5:00pm 10/21/2006	KIM FLINT	Loopers Delight Panel	California, USA	TBD	TBD	2
5:30pm 10/21/2006	WALLY SCHNALLE	n/a	TBD	Drums, Sampling	TBD	1
6:00pm 10/21/2006	DAN SOLTZBERG & Special Guest Vocalist T.	ghost7	Santa Cruz, CA (USA)	Bass guitar	!	2
6:30pm 10/21/2006	n/a	DINNER BREAK	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
7:20pm 10/21/2006	Santa Cruz Mayor, CYNTHIA MATTHEWS	presents the	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
7:30pm 10/21/2006	RAINER STRASCHILL (1)	n/a	München (Bayern)	Laptop, guitar and keyboard, voice	Instrumentalist in action	2
8:00pm 10/21/2006	AMY X NEUBURG (3)	n/a	California, USA	Voice, electronics	Avant-Cabaret	1
8:30pm 10/21/2006	ARTIS the SPOONMAN (2)	n/a	TBD	Spoons	TBD	2
9:00pm 10/21/2006	PER BOYSEN (1)	n/a	Sweden	Tenor sax, alto flute, electronics	Instrumental, experimenting	1
9:30pm 10/21/2006	ZOE KEATING (2)	n/a	USA	Cello	TBD	2
10:00pm 10/21/2006	MATT DAVIGNON	n/a	USA	Drum Machine	Experimental	1
10:30pm 10/21/2006	JEFF KAISER (2)	n/a	USA	Quarter-Tone Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Electronics	TBD	2
11:00pm 10/21/2006	RYUSEI HATTORI (3)	n/a	Japan	Bass guitar	TBD	1
11:30pm 10/21/2006	KRISPEN HARTUNG (2) / RICK WALKER	n/a	USA	Guitar/Percussion, notebook computer, electronics	Avant-Garde, Free-Improvisation, Free Jazz	2
11:30am 10/22/2006	BOB AMSTADT	n/a	USA	TBD	TBD	1
12:00pm 10/22/2006	PATRICK CRESS	n/a	Oakland CA	Bari saxophone	Telepathic Jazz	2
12:30pm 10/22/2006	PUSHING AIR	n/a	San Francisco	Voice	Avant World Bop	1
1:00pm 10/22/2006	ROBERT EDGAR & ROGER WINKELMAN (bass)	The Duchamp Examinations	California, USA	Guitar Synth, laptop, Boomerang Loop Pedal, vocals	Experimental	2
1:30pm 10/22/2006	JOHN HANES	n/a	TBD	Percussion	TBD	1
2:00pm 10/22/2006	CHRIS COHN	n/a	TBD	TBD	TBD	2
2:30pm 10/22/2006	DANIEL ROBBINS	n/a	USA	Fender bass, double bass, six string bass, Moogerfoogers, and other electronics and effects	Mixture of Jazz, Funk, Latin, Electronic, and original compositions and improvisations	1
3:00pm 10/22/2006	BARRY CLEVELAND	n/a	San Francisco	Guitar	Improvisation	2
3:30pm 10/22/2006	LARRY the ‘O’	n/a	TBD	TBD	TBD	1
4:00pm 10/22/2006	MARK HAMBURG	n/a	USA	TBD	TBD	2
4:30pm 10/22/2006	DARIN SHAFFER	n/a	USA	Four-string piccolo bass	Jazz, classical East Indian, folk and ambient pop	1
5:00pm 10/22/2006	NIHIL COMMUNICATION	NIHIL COMMUNICATION	TBD	Synthesizer, effects	TBD	2
5:30pm 10/22/2006	PHYLL SMITH	DARK MUSE	USA	Voice, found sound	TBD	1
6:00pm 10/22/2006	GARY REGINA	n/a	TBD	TBD	TBD	2
6:30pm 10/22/2006	n/a	DINNER BREAK	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
7:30pm 10/22/2006	MIR - O (1)	n/a	Finland	NO SYNTHS and NO SAMPLES; ethnic or self-made; percussion, flutes, tubes + guitars, bass and mandolin + speechless voice	TBD	2
8:00pm 10/22/2006	GOH NAKAMURA (2)	n/a	USA	Acoustic guitar, voice	Electro-acoustic singer songwriter	1
8:30pm 10/22/2006	CARL WEINGARTEN	n/a	USA	Electric slide guitar & dobro	Ambient Americana	2
9:00pm 10/22/2006	BILL WALKER (1)	n/a	USA	Guitar, lapsteel	TBD	1
9:30pm 10/22/2006	LOOP!STATION (3)	n/a	USA	Cello / Vocal	Modern / Hardcore / Classical	2
10:00pm 10/22/2006	MANDOMAN (3)	MANDOMAN	Japan	Mandolin	TBD	1
10:30pm 10/22/2006	né Luis Monterrosa	GENIE	USA	Slide guitar, live-sampling, beat boxing	TBD	2
11:00pm 10/22/2006	TED KILLIAN	n/a	USA	Guitar, electronics	Postmodern Guitarchitecture	1
11:30pm 10/22/2006	CYOAKHA GRACE	n/a	TBD	Noise toys, casio, harmonium & vocal effects	TBD	2

Legend:

⁽¹⁾: headliner
⁽²⁾: featured performer
⁽³⁾: special guests

Stage left stage = 1
Stage right stage = 2

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