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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Bill Walker – USA
Read more: Bill Walker – USABill Walker is a guitarist of uncommon stylistic range who blends a world of influences in to a unique and lyrical personal voice. His solo performance creates a rich tapestry of layered sounds, blending electric and acoustic guitars, lap steel guitars, and percussive guit-boxing techniques, with state of the art live looping techniques and sound…
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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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Rick Walker – USA
Read more: Rick Walker – USALive looping artist Rick Walker is an electronic music composer, percussionist, trapset drummer, multi-instrumentalist and found sound musician. “I am a found sound/live looping/abstract electronica/world percussionist/drummer/lo fi toy digital video filmaker/multi media inventor living in Northern California with my wife, the talented multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, Chris Wedertz. I’m a found sound/live looping/abstract electronica/multi-instrumentalist who specializes…
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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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MORTICAI – USA
Read more: MORTICAI – USAMorticai, the creative persona of sound designer and musician Jeddy Grant, immerses audiences in ambient soundscapes and ethereal rhythmic melodies that transcend genre. Making use of bass and baritone guitars along with an array of effect pedals, Morticai weaves intricate, nonlinear compositions that transport listeners to realms of introspection and empathy. Their latest album, “Please…
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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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Rejyna – USA
Read more: Rejyna – USAFestival Headliner. A multidisciplinary sound, visual and word artist, enticing inspiration from fortuity and improvisation and assembling them onto paper, photo, video and sound recordings. Rejyna’s lyrics, drawings, songs and stories are the foundation of a dozen releases by prog folk/symphonic metal band, Citadel. She’s an endorsed DigiTech artist, referred to as a JamMan guru…
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George Demarest – USA
Read more: George Demarest – USAGeorge Demarest earned degrees in trumpet performance and computer science from the Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music, studying trumpet with Raymond Mase of the American Brass Quintet. He has performed with the Cincinnati Ballet, Carmen McRea, the Santa Cruz Symphony, Ensemble Monterey, New Music Works and many others. He regularly records and performs in the…
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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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Martin Janíček
Read more: Martin JaníčekSoundartist, sculptor and musician investigating acoustic qualities of various materials and spaces. Creates original sound instruments, interactive objects and installations, radiocompositions, spatial compositions. Studied at Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, 1990-1997 and later assisted at conceptual department of prof. M.Šejn–till 2002. Often site specific works, since 2000 member of mamapapa c.a., where with T.Žižka relised…
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Bob Amstadt – USA
Read more: Bob Amstadt – USABass player, Looping inventor: drawn to bass guitar 30 years ago, and the new wave/punk/post-punk (now termed dark wave) musical styles before that, Bob was intrigued by what could be done with the early looping technologies. In 1994, he decided to create his own looping technology based on his own needs. This is now known…
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Dan Robbins
Read more: Dan RobbinsDan Robbins has played and recorded in settings ranging from solo, duo, trio, etc. to big band and orchestra, and is known for driving, creative, harmonically and melodically rich background and lead parts on bass. He doubles on both acoustic bass, and four, five, six, and seven-string electric bass, in styles ranging from solo jazz…
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Steve Uccello
Read more: Steve UccelloSteve Uccello is an upright/electric bassist, multi-instrumentalist, and composer. He has playing experience in many genres including jazz, blues, folk, bluegrass, R & B, mariachi, and classical. In addition to being a musician for hire, Steve also produces his own compositions. As a bassist Steve plays gigs around the Monterey & San Fransisco Bay areas.…
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The Daisy-Chain Repetitive Project
Read more: The Daisy-Chain Repetitive ProjectThe Daisy-Chain Repetitive Project is all about surviving on stage using some unsophisticated set up and random instruments to deliberately maximize the number of failed parameters. Because, well, let’s face it gearheads, functionality is no longer a safe bet when reality is heading towards complete chaos and you’re not even sure you’ve got electricity. Better…
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John Connell – USA
Read more: John Connell – USAFestival Headliner. John Connell AKA Future Cassette is an electronic/experimental/live looping musician from Santa Cruz, CA. John infuses his modular synth & iOS sound design with many influences, including the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, early industrial music, and UK Bass. John has performed at the Y2K International Live Looping Festival in Santa Cruz since 2008, and…
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Hideki Nakanishi – Japan
Read more: Hideki Nakanishi – JapanHideki Nakanishi (aka MANDOMAN) is a live looping electric mandolin player/luthier from Osaka, Japan. Hideki uses most of him time in his Sol Anemo workshop building special order handcrafted stringed instruments for superior musicians with fine touch, and when that touch comes to music he creates with many looping pedals and one electric mandolin to…
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Mikko Biffle – USA
Read more: Mikko Biffle – USAThe nine-year-old son of a rabble rousing, ukelele playing Mother, I had begged for a drum set for months, having fallen in love with Sandy Nelson’s song, “Let There Be Drums”. That very same year, I joyously discovered a set of drums on Christmas day and proceeded to drIve my Mother absolutely mad the following…
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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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R Duck – USA
Read more: R Duck – USAThe R Duck show is a cooperation between man and machine in order to sculpt organic, improvised electronic music. The show nods its head toward old time variety shows and modern radio -life in the day- spoken dry as the coastal sands at low tide. Tune in for live improvised electronic music drama, performed by…
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Philippe Ollivier
Read more: Philippe OllivierPhilippe Ollivier has had a diverse musical career, from traditional music to contemporary circus. A genuinely iconoclastic bandoneon player who mixes acoustic technique with electronics, this self-taught musician and programmer creates original compositions for films, theater, contemporary circus or installations. In association with Christophe Baratay, he invented Logelloop, a looper software that’s essential to his…
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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…
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Grant Stoner – USA
Read more: Grant Stoner – USAI’ve been looping for at least 10 years. I enjoy how it enables a “one man band” person like me to bring that to a live situation. I grew up back east, but have resided in California for the last 25 years. I’ve always been into music. I’m primarily a guitarist, but I attempt to…
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Otros Cronopios
Read more: Otros CronopiosFrom Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico. https://twitter.com/otroscronopios
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ANI – USA
Read more: ANI – USAANI (Amy Lee) is a multi-instrumentalist who makes DJ-style dance and funk music with wild synth solos and pumping beats. But this year, she is bringing a special guitar: a Rick Turner Model 1. Hear her latest half hour set that blends pop, R&B, and metal in a continuous mix looped on a BOSS RC-600 pedal.…
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Daniel Thomas – USA
Read more: Daniel Thomas – USAA busy musician, recording engineer, and producer, Daniel has contributed to dozens of CDs, soundtracks, and video game titles. His work includes chart topping albums for international recording labels, original compositions for film and television, and genre defining sound design work for major instrument manufacturers. Daniel has travelled the world supporting many international recording artists…