Y2K24 Artist

Confirmed performers for the Y2k24 festival

Juan Carrizo’s dada – Argentina

Festival debut, Y2K24 Artist

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 and so on).

Born in Patagonia and living between Mexico and Argentina, Juan Carrizo is an independent guitarist and Live looping artist. He is member of the contemporary jazz project “Renewal Music Collective” and symphonic metal act “Anna Fiori”. 

Juan has worked with Grammy winners Steve Thompson (Metallica, Madonna, Korn) and Hernan Hecht (A Love Electric, Ely Guerra, Loli Molina) and Heavy Metal legends Tony Martin (Black Sabbath), Blaze Bayley (Iron Maiden) and Hansi Kürsch (Blind Guardian) among others. 

His credentials include, besides music, filmmaking (UNS) and a sound postproduction (UNLa) degrees. He has taken courses with such talented people as Leo Sujatovich, Martin Pavlovsky, Pino Marrone, Gary Burton and Alan Parsons. Now he is a student of the Sound Creation with New Technologies course in the CMMAS.

Juan publishes his music with copyleft licenses

Links

Dada home page: dadalivelooping.com
Dada store: dadalivelooping.bandcamp.com
Juan home page: juancarrizo.com

Video

La hazaña (live streaming)
DejarseSer (Comision)
Live at Mexico Y2K 2024

Rejyna

Y2K23 Artists, Y2K24 Artist

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 due to her advanced utilization of sonic gadgetry, and a hyper-tutorial ethos. “I’m not a magician guarding illusionary secrets, I’m a muse-cartographer – aiding seekers with willowy maps into forests of creativity.”

Rejyna has been performing at loopfests since 2013, including Seattle, Portland, Santa Cruz and Long Beach. She is building a looplab in Burbank to showcase group looping using 360 video. She teaches, produces and collaborates, doing shows when time allows. She currently works at the largest localization studio in the world, adapting movies and television shows into every language and access service, where she recently coordinated adding sign-language into cinema using tablets and AR glasses.

George Demarest

Y2K23 Artists, Y2K24 Artist

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 San Francisco Bay Area as a freelance trumpeter, vocalist, wind synth player, keyboardist, live looper and electronic musician. He featured in the inaugural Y2K festival as well as Y2k festivals in 2003, 2004, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017 and 2018.

https://www.facebook.com/gfdemarest/

Bill Walker

Y2K23 Artists, Y2K24 Artist

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 design.

A gifted composer and instrumentalist, Bill’s music has been described as cinematic, adventurous, and innovative. Recently featured in Guitar Player magazine for his collaboration with musician/composer/producer Erdem Helvacioglu on the critically acclaimed CD, “Fields and Fences”, Bill’s Solo Cd “Sanctuary”, also produced by Helvacioglu received a a top 10 pick by online zine Guitar Modern released in 2013.

Recent collaborations include work with Hindustani slide master Debashish Battacharya, percussion and table master Subhasis Bhattacharjee, Guitarists Henry Kaiser, and Stephen Thelan of the band Sonar

Rick Walker (Y2K Loopfest Founder)

Y2K24 Artist

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 in drum set and world percussion instruments. I also am very interested in making lo fi toy video ‘animations’ for the abstract electronica compositions I make.

I also founded the Annual Y2K Series of International Live Looping Festivals held every third week of October in Santa Cruz California. We’ve hosted 200 artists from 15 different countries in the festivals 8 years of existence.
I live with my talented singersongwriter/multi-instrumentalist/produce wife in Santa Cruz, CA.”

Wayne Jackson

Y2K23 Artists, Y2K24 Artist

Engineer 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 sound engines for immersive VR and games, his private work has focussed on usage of “emergent systems”, specifically the genetic algorithm, to develop “augmented creativity” tools for himself and other sound and/or visual artists. With this in mind, be forewarned that his infrequent musical performances have a fly-by-night DIY aesthetic where the unexpected may occur for audience and performer alike.

Today’s performance features sampling experiments including a new “mutation loop diver”, granular synthesis, and a recent innovation in “artificial life” sampling…

Web links:
http://www.darwinarts.com
https://soundcloud.com/darwinarts
https://www.facebook.com/stanley.jackson.1848/

Katja Šulc

Artist, Y2k22 Artist, Y2K24 Artist

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 the globe, from France, Italy, Germany, Czech Republic, Spain, Portugal, Turkey to Morocco, China, Nepal, USA, Mexico, Guatemala, Bolivia, Brazil.

Katja’s solo performance fuses voice and ukulele loops, sound effects, spoken word and improvisation. Her work is inspired by contemporary, old and indigenous poetry, ancient invocations and animal calls and traditional songs that range from Balkans to Mexico.

‘Balkan voice with Mexican sensitivity.’ – Boletines Dependencias

’Fascinating, not fitting into any neat genres or boxes. You get the drift: this is fieldwork, turned into contemporary, experimental folk song.’ – Songlines

‘Katja’s subtlety speaks to the essence of everything, to flowers filled with sunshine, to trees scented with birdsong, to mountains growing into the depths.’ -Pripovedovalski festival

www.katjasmusic.com



Grant Stoner

Artist, Y2K18 Artist, Y2K24 Artist

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 play everything. I’ve been recording for as long as I’ve been playing, all kinds of music, all kinds of instruments. The possibilities are endless.

ANI

Artist, Y2K18 Artist, Y2K24 Artist

ANI (Amy Lee), a San Francisco Bay Area native, has been doing improvised music since early childhood. Who knew that piano lessons and jazz band would have gotten crossed with her second love: computer technology. But she’s left the comfort of Cubase and Renoise in her home studio to play live sets with ultra-portable iPads, iPhones, and synths. Her music is a blend of beats, chord progressions, and wild synth solos. Every performance is unique and never to be repeated again. She is NOT a DJ.

Her appearances include Y2K Loopfest, NW Loop Fest, and CODAME events. She is also a coordinator of the San Francisco Electronic Music Meetup.

Additionally, she works as a software engineer and created a pretty rockin’ iPad app: sBASSdrum Drum and Groove Machine