Y2k24 Performers
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Juan Carrizo’s dada – Argentina
Read more: Juan Carrizo’s dada – Argentinadada is a journey to spontaneous composition. Starting with a chord, a strum, a hit, a word, an image or a memory, the whole musical-sonic-visual journey unveils for the audience. The tools involved are live looping, improvisation, experimentation and the experiences of more than twenty years of breathing music, images and sound (and travels, people, cities…
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Trianna Feruza – USA
Read more: Trianna Feruza – USASinger-songwriter/multi-instrumentalist out of Santa Cruz CA. Givin’ a new school twist on Pop-Funk fusion with an R&B twist. Imagine Erykah Badu and Amy Winehouse’s lovechild. Coming from a family embedded in the Folk-World Music scene, Trianna has a diverse musical background, setting the stage for her unique sound and engaging performance. https://www.triannaferuza.com/ https://www.instagram.com/triannaferuza/ https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100007398421234
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Philipp Zuercher – | PHIL & ZOIA – Switzerland
Read more: Philipp Zuercher – | PHIL & ZOIA – SwitzerlandPHIL is Philipp Zuercher, a Swiss musician and music producer. Philipp plays original instrumental compositions and improvisations, juxtaposing progressive rock, modal jazz, modern classical and electronic music. In the late 1980s, he was one of the first electric guitarists in Switzerland to make live loops an integral part of his solo repertoire – inspired by…
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Ryan Price – USA
Read more: Ryan Price – USARyan Price is a multi-instrumentalist out of Santa Cruz, CA who has melded an array of genres spanning from Funk, to R&B, to Jazz and on into a unique style of his own. He is known for looping bass, guitar, vocals, and percussion all on the spot in front of a live audience. www.facebook.com/RyanPriceGrooves Ryan…
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Henry Kaiser – USA
Read more: Henry Kaiser – USAHenry Kaiser is an American guitarist and composer, known as an idiosyncratic soloist, a sideman, an ethnomusicologist, and a film score composer. Recording and performing prolifically in many styles of music, Kaiser is a fixture on the San Francisco Bay Area music scene. http://www.henrykaiserguitar.com/
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Oskar Elek – Visuals
Read more: Oskar Elek – VisualsOskar Elek is a cross-disciplinary scientist specializing in complex systems simulation, artificial life, data modeling and visualization, currently based at the University of California in Santa Cruz and the Open Source Program Office therein. His work has theoretical and applied aspects. On the theoretical side I explore novel algorithms for bio-inspired emergent network reconstruction and interactive 3D visualization of the resulting datasets. On the…
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Denise Gallant – Visuals
Read more: Denise Gallant – VisualsDenise was the first to do live visuals on the West Coast – LA in the 1980’s, SF in the late 1970s. She started editing at NBC LA in 1977. Here is a visual synopsis that explains it all:
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Tim Thompson – Visuals
Read more: Tim Thompson – VisualsTim Thompson is a software engineer, musician, and interactive installation artist. His wide-ranging artistic work over four decades includes a programming language for MIDI, interactive installations at Burning Man and other festivals, musical performances with Playstation dance pads and QWERTY keyboards, and realtime video looping and processing with a handheld security camera. Recently, Tim has…
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David Tristram – Visuals
Read more: David Tristram – VisualsDavid Tristram is an experimental musician and visualist. David has provided visuals for the Y2K International Live Looping Festival for many years using custom software and instruments of his own design. His live improvisational electronic ambient music ensemble Autumnal Rune performs regularly, and he releases music as Ancient Sponge. David has worked internationally and with…
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Tripform – USA
Read more: Tripform – USAFormed by Pablo Manzarek and Norm Reed in the year 2019. Tripform is based in Santa Barbara California. Tripform forged their far reaching musical style during their journey through the darkest of Covid lockdowns. Through it all, Tripform thrived! Composing by way of spontaneous, looping improvisation in real time, often videoing, or streaming live on Youtube, Instagram…
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Dominika Belanska – Slovakia
Read more: Dominika Belanska – SlovakiaI am a tree with diverse fruits: an artist, poetess, singer-songwriter, dancer and creative facilitator. I grew up in the middle of Europe and was trained as an architect, but what I build nowadays is rather relationShips. I reconnect people with themselves, their community and the place they inhabit. The power of art is that it…
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Max Scott Bortnick – USA
Read more: Max Scott Bortnick – USAMax Scott Bortnick is a Santa Cruz-born multi-instrumentalist whose music reflects a deep connection to the diverse influences that shaped him. Growing up immersed in punk rock, Hip Hop and reggae, Max developed a love for guitar and drums, playing in bands and creating energetic, raw sounds. Over time, his musical journey evolved to include…
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Pirate Doctor Lazer Monkey – USA
Read more: Pirate Doctor Lazer Monkey – USAPirate Doctor Lazer Monkey was born when Devon Brockopp-Hammer and Keeva Yvester chained their personal RC-505’s together and began to stream their completely improvised two-person jams online, continually improving upon their approach and bringing new gear, techniques and ideas into the mix with each iteration of their 2+ hour sets. What’s developed since is a…
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Paul Scott – England
Read more: Paul Scott – EnglandOriginally hailing from Northumberland in North-East England, Paul Scott has been living and making music in the Santa Cruz area for over 15 years now. He plays out in a singer-songwriter style Project Shooting Coal, a Britpop / Indie Covers and Originals band Common People, and previously as a male & female vocal led acoustic…
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Matt Herman – USA
Read more: Matt Herman – USAOriginally from the East Coast, I’ve resided in CA for much of my adult life and have played guitar in experimental groups in San Francisco. I began looping sometime around 2000, creating a feedback loop on my 4-track with cascaded digital delays in the effects send, embracing the decreased fidelity of each subsequent repeat (due…
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Michael Peters
Read more: Michael PetersMichael Peters is a guitarist from Cologne, Germany (he lives east of Cologne in the countryside now, close to the place where Karlheinz Stockhausen spent most of his life). Most of his musical output veers from the mainstream and has been difficult to categorize (WIRE magazine has reviewed two of his albums in their “Outer…
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Michael Frank
Read more: Michael FrankMichael Frank was born in 1957 in Cologne. He has been playing guitar since 1971 and engages in all kinds of music between psychedelic rock, jazz and classical music. He co-founded the band The Absurd in 1984 which still exists playing a wide range of music. Michael has continually used looping pedals for improvisation and…
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ROTTESØSTRE!
Read more: ROTTESØSTRE!ROTTESØSTRE! – The Multimedia Adventure Duo!!! ROTTESØSTRE! reunites the fabulous Punk Rock Orchestra’s RAT SISTERS, Multi-Instrumentalist/Vocalist Cindy Sawprano and Improvisational Vocalist and Sonic Explorer Laurie Amat. They have recently returned from command performances before the crowned heads of the Multiverse, Universe and a private concert for Oppy, to grace the stage of an even more incredible and…
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Liz Ruvalcaba
Read more: Liz RuvalcabaSinger, composer and multi-instrumentalist live looping artist from Guadalajara. Her main instrument is her voice which makes her music sound atmospheric and ethereal deep rooted in mexican tradition. Specialist in choir and vocal ensembles and participating in opera galas, concerts with several orchestras around Mexico for more than 20 years, some of them under the…
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Scott Kungha Drengsen
Read more: Scott Kungha DrengsenScott has been performing as a solo looping “bassartist” since 1998’s “Bassapes” CD . And, he was a part of the first International Looping Festival in Santa Cruz, California. He continues to explore and expand the parameters of the instrument, being influenced by Indian music, Spectralism, post-classical, Jazz and most any great bassist you could…
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Tim Thompson
Read more: Tim ThompsonFestival Headliner. Tim Thompson is a software engineer, musician, and interactive installation artist. His wide-ranging artistic work includes a programming language for MIDI, interactive installations at Burning Man and other festivals, musical performances with Playstation dance pads and QWERTY keyboards, and real-time video looping and processing with a handheld security camera. Recently, Tim has focused…
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Donata Greco – Italy
Read more: Donata Greco – ItalyDonata Greco is a wind player, multi-instrumentalist, singer and composer. She was born and raised in Naples, Italy. Her music is a mix between the nostalgia she learned from the classical neapolitan music and a bit of funk. She loves to experiment with various genres and to reinvent the role of her chosen instruments. Everything…
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Wayne Jackson
Read more: Wayne JacksonEngineer worker drone by day, Wayne Jackson uses his shreds of free time to dabble in the arts. He has hosted, promoted, and performed in experimental music events in the Santa Cruz area for 20+ years (Woostockhausen 1998-2007, µHausen 2010-present, Electron Salon, Looping Festivals, R Duck Show). While his professional audio development has centered on…
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Gary Regina
Read more: Gary ReginaBerklee College of Music alumnus Gary Regina live-records layers of music, producing trance-like grooves of increasing beauty and complexity, one piece at a time until the sound is that of a much larger band. His instruments include woodwinds, ethnic flutes, saxophones, percussion, guitar, wind synthesizer,vocals and a drum machine. His sound is very much his…
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Carl Weingarten
Read more: Carl WeingartenCarl Weingarten is an American guitarist, photographer and founder of the independent music label Multiphase Records. Described as “one of the best indie musicians working today” by the San Francisco Chronicle, Carl is best known for his atmospheric sound and his innovative use of the slide guitar and Dobro. Weingarten has played a signi#cant role…
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Eliud Ernandes – Mexico
Read more: Eliud Ernandes – MexicoFestival Headliner. Eliud Ernandes began his artistic training at the young age of four years old. He has received awards and recognition from institutions such as Yamaha in Mexico and Japan, the Consulate of Mexico in Houston, Texas, the office of Master Leo Brouwer in Havana, Cuba, and the Mayor’s Office of Santa Cruz, California.…
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Los Hijos de Doña Loope – aka Marcos Garcia Fregoso (Mexico)
Read more: Los Hijos de Doña Loope – aka Marcos Garcia Fregoso (Mexico)Marcos García Fregoso is an experimental guitarist from Guadalajara Jalisco who likes to use music as a vehicle to explore the inner-self. He is well versed in traditional regional Mexican song traditions and creates a strong combination of modern live looping sensibilities and Mexican roots music. Marcos performs as “Los Hijos de Doña Loope” (The…
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The Rhythm Method 3.0 – USA
Read more: The Rhythm Method 3.0 – USAThe Rhythm Method 3.0 is a duo experimenting with a blend of western blues, rock and funk combined with African melodies and rhythmic improvisation. The Rhythm Method 3.0 are: Djidé “Mont-Kamerun” Koffa is a native of Cameroon, a country in Central Africa, that is also called Africa in miniature because Africa in terms of its…
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Daniel Lewis
Read more: Daniel LewisDaniel Vee Lewis is bassist from Santa Cruz California. A former MCA recording artist and local performer for over 35 years. Jaco Pastorius , Mick Karn , among many others Bass players have been inspirational in his development. “The first looping I ever saw/heard was Jaco , performing ‘Slang’ , so magical and inspiring !”
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EToOto (aka Yasushi Matsui)
Read more: EToOto (aka Yasushi Matsui)Painting with Sound EToOto is romanized Japanese, which means “Painting with Sound”. Yasushi Matsui aims to establish new and innovative techniques that fuse together painting with sound since technological developments have made possible the unity of a brush stroke with a sound. This project started the end of 2013, and got evolved with new technologies,…
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Giacomo Fiore
Read more: Giacomo FioreItalian-born guitarist and musicologist Giacomo Fiore has premiered more than two dozen new works for justly-tuned, electric, and classical guitars, and released several recordings for Populist, Cold Blue, Pinna, Spectropol, Paper Garden Records, and his own impressum. As a scholar his research focuses on U.S. experimental music, intonation, and performance; he has published articles in…
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Katja Šulc – Slovenia
Read more: Katja Šulc – SloveniaSinger, songwriter and musician from Slovenia, intertwining poetry, folk and traditional heritage drawing from songs and storytelling. After studying music at New School in New York (Jazz & Contemporary Music), Katja Šulc released five studio albums – Mila (2008), Twisted Delight (2013), Kamlisajlan – Homage to Rromani poetry (2016), Caricias (2021), West Wind Blow From Your Prairie Nest (2024) – and presented her music throughout…