Y2k24 Performers

  • Henry Kaiser – USA

    Henry Kaiser – USA

    Henry 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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  • Philipp Zuercher – | PHIL & ZOIA – Switzerland

    Philipp Zuercher – | PHIL & ZOIA – Switzerland

    PHIL 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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  • Juan Carrizo’s dada – Argentina

    Juan Carrizo’s dada – Argentina

    dada 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

    Bill Walker – USA

    Bill 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

    Trianna Feruza – USA

    Singer-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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  • Ryan Price – USA

    Ryan Price – USA

    Ryan 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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  • Tripform – USA

    Tripform – USA

    Formed 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

    Dominika Belanska – Slovakia

    I 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

    MORTICAI – USA

    Morticai, 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

    Max Scott Bortnick – USA

    Max 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

    Pirate Doctor Lazer Monkey – USA

    Pirate 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

    Paul Scott – England

    Originally 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

    Matt Herman – USA

    Originally 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

    Rejyna – USA

    Festival 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

    George Demarest – USA

    George 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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  • Rick Walker – USA

    Rick Walker – USA

    Live 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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  • Bob Amstadt – USA

    Bob Amstadt – USA

    Bass 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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  • John Connell – USA

    John Connell – USA

    Festival 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

    Hideki Nakanishi – Japan

    Hideki 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

    Mikko Biffle – USA

    The 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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  • David Tristram – USA

    David Tristram – USA

    David 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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  • Eliud Ernandes – Mexico

    Eliud Ernandes – Mexico

    Festival 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

    R Duck – USA

    The 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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  • The Rhythm Method 3.0 – USA

    The Rhythm Method 3.0 – USA

    The 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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  • Katja Šulc – Slovenia

    Katja Šulc – Slovenia

    Singer, 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

    Grant Stoner – USA

    I’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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  • ANI – USA

    ANI – USA

    ANI (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

    Daniel Thomas – USA

    A 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…

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