This festival
is a LIVE LOOPING festival. This means that artists who
perform must have a large amount of live looping in their
musical set. We have had artists in the pasts who merely
triggered precorded samples or loops and played over them.
This is NOT acceptable for this festival.
However, there is no
style or genre associated with the festival so anything
you want to do creatively is encouraged and supported. Be
as creative as you'd like to be. That's the spirit of this
beautiful festival. |
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Performances all occur on two adjacent
stages. Up to 70 artists from up to 16 countries will perform
continuously for a 24 hour period over three days. There are
no breaks between acts so the music is continuous. |
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Because the stages adjoin in view
of the audience members, set up and break down can be very
distracting to the audience so it is imperative that loading
Artists be as sensitive as possible not to draw focus from
those who are performing. |
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1) Artists have 20 minute
maximum completely silent load in (Line checks can be accomplished
with supplied headphones, also silently and many artists will
be on hand to help you load on and off silently when your
time comes) |
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2) Artists have 30 minute
maximum performance |
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3) Artists have 10 minutes
maximum complete silent evacuation of the stage |
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Importantly: |
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1) Artists who take longer
to load will have time cut off of their performances |
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2) Artist who perform
to long or take too long to evacuate the stage at the
end of their sets result in the next act having time shaved
off their set. |
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WE
HAVE TO STAY ON SCHEDULE OR
THE ARTISTS AT THE END OF THE EVENING WILL BE DENIED A SPOT.
MANY OF THESE ARTISTS HAVE COME THOUSANDS OF MILES AT CONSIDERABLE
EXPENSE SO PLEASE BE CONSCIOUS and HURRY OFF STAGE WHEN
YOU ARE FINISHED PERFORMING. ASK FOR HELP FROM ANYONE TO
HELP YOU EVACUATE THE STAGE ON TIME |
ARTIST COMPENSATION:
We run in the red every year (out
of my pocket always) so there is no compensation for the
artists, consequently and regretfully. |
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Over time, I am researching
new ways to get granting and to get subsidies from music companies.
These invariably will be offered, first, to the artists who
travel from out of the country to come perform but almost
always for just the official headlining artists. Realistically,
however, the recession has just killed donations in the past
year and this past year we did not have enough money to give
out any funding at all. We can find people free places to
stay , however, if you don't mind sleeping bag on blow up
mattress accommodations with other loopers. |
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GUEST
and COMP LISTS:
We charge at the door
and don't allow guests at all because the venue is just
not large enough to accommodate more people. This includes
roadies or friends who help you load in. They need to be
prepared to pay for their entrance or have you pay for them.
We just can't afford to do this festival without sticking
religiously with this rule. This is all pretty harsh but
the only way we can keep this growing without losing a lot
of money.
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ALL FUTURE
CORRESPONDENCES:
Please use all capital
letters and write your NAME and Y2K12 LOOPFEST in your subject
line of any email you send me for the festival so that they
are easy to archive and refer to. I get approximately 2,000
emails a year for the festival so it's a lot of information
to collate.
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