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    The Main Y2K6 Festival occurs on October 21 and 22 (Saturday and Sunday), at ALCHEMY, 120 Pearl Alley, Santa Cruz, CA.

    Alchemy is located in the northern side of the parking lot that borders Pearl Alley at the corner of Lincoln and Cedar Streets, one block due west, of the Pacific Garden Mall.

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    Contact: Rick Walker, looppool@cruzio.com, 831-425-8659


    Y2K6 Live Looping Festival Celebrates Fifth Year with Expansive Program and Internet Jam


    Over 50 artists from around the globe will converge on the San Francisco Bay Area this fall for the Fifth Annual Y26K Live Looping Festival. Perfomers from across the United States and as many as 10 other countries will appear in Santa Cruz, Calif., on October 21 and 22, for the main two days of the festival. Additional festival-related events will be held in San Jose, San Francisco, and Oakland during the week preceding the main festival.

    The brainchild of live looping artist and promoter Rick Walker, Y26K and other looping festivals he has created have inspired similar festivals in 15 countries around the world, including the Zurich Live Looping Festival last summer, which drew 40 artists from nine countries over its three days.

    In a demonstration of the technological edge defined by the live looping genre, the Y26K festival will be streamed in real time to the web, and will feature a real-time Internet jam, using NINJam technology, between musicians at the festival and live loopers from Europe, the UK, South America, the Near East and Japan.


    This year’s event coincides with the 10th anniversary of loopersdelight.com , the website that serves as the central gathering point and information exchange for the international live looping movement. Looper’s Delight currently receives over a million hits a year now.


    About Live Looping and the Loopers Community


    Looping is a broad class of music based on the idea of performances and recordings built using long delay lines. Looping artists use a variety of sources to generate layered textures which are manipulated in real-time in various ways (including reversal, time or pitch shifting, etc.), resulting in complex interactive compositions. The breadth of the looping genre will be well demonstrated at the Y26K festival, which will guitarists, cellists, trumpet players, solo singers, fusion bands, avant-garde musicians, circuit benders, abstract electronica artists, even comedians and spoken word artists.


    What is fascinating about the loopers community is that it is a tightly knit group of musicians and sound artists not tied by style of music. With the use of delay lines as a medium being the only commonality, the range of musical styles created by loopers is diverse and may be, by turns, hypnotic, propulsive, ethereal, or simply bizarre.


    In another sign of the dedication of looping devotees, neither the festival’s organizers nor the musicians performing at the festival receive any compensation, and all travel at their own expense.

    The high level of activity in the fast-growing live looping field has had a huge impact on the rapid development of its technology in the past three years. Some looping artists and other members of the community run small companies designing live looping tools. Some examples include Matthias Grob of Brazil, inventor of the Gibson Digital Echoplex; Bob Amstadt , creater of the Looperlative, currently the most sophisticated live looping hardware device; Andrew Ostler, with his Augustus Loop; and Jeffrey Larson’s Mobius. As a result, in addition to its musical role, the Y26K festival has also consistently served as the site for world premieres of this cutting-edge technology.


    Y26K Festival Roster of Performers

    (51 total, 48 performance slots)

    HEADLINERS

    PER BOYSEN (Sweden)
    MIR-0 (Finland)
    BILL WALKER (USA)
    RAINER STRASCHILL (Germany)

    Per Boysen's performance will be officially sponsored by Universal Audio
    Rainer Straschill is sponsored by Goethe Institut and the Federal Foreign Office of Germany

    FEATURED PERFORMERS

    ARTIS theSPOONMAN (MARS)
    JEFF KAISER (USA)
    KRISPEN HARTUNG (USA)
    ZOE KEATING (USA)


    SPECIAL GUESTS

    MANDO MAN (Japan)
    RYUSEI HATTORI (Japan)
    LOOP ! STATION (USA)
    AMY X NEUBURG (USA)

     

    OTHER PERFORMERS

    NIHIL COMMUNICATION
    BARRY CLEVELAND
    BOB AMSTADT
    CARL WEINGARTEN
    CHRIS COHN
    CHRIS ROBERTS & ROSS ARTESE
    CHRISTIAN DAVID
    CRAIG
    McCOLLOUGH
    CYOAKHA GRACE
    DANIEL ROBBINS
    DANIEL LEWIS

    DANIEL THOMAS
    DARIN SHAFFER

    DARK MUSE
    GARY REGINA
    GENIE
    GOH NAKUMURA
    GHOST7
    JOHN HANES
    KIM FLINT
    (Kim will lead a panel discussion on "10 Years of Loopers Delight)
    LARRY the O
    LUMPER/SPLITTER (Lucio Menegon + Joe Rut)
    MARK HAMBURG
    PATRICK CRESS
    MATT DAVIGNON
    PETER COR
    PUSHING AIR
    RICK WALKER
    ROBERT EDGAR
    STANOSAUR
    TED KILLIAN
    UTE BONN
    WALLY SCHNALLE
    WARREN SIROTTA
    WAYNE JACKSON




Overall Program

What When Where How Much

"Best of Festival" Performance

Poster

Wednesday, October 18

8:00 pm

Anno Domini Gallery, San Jose 366 South First Street

MapQuest

$10/door

ALL AGES WELCOME

"Y2K6 EXPERIMENTAL LOOPING FESTIVAL"

Jeff Kaiser / Krispen Hartung / Rick Walker / Rainer Straschill

Poster

Thursday, October 19

8:00 pm

The Luggage Store, 1007 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94103 USA

MapQuest

$10/door

ALL AGES WELCOME

10th Anniversary Loopers Delight Celebration (and 5th anniversary of the Y2K6 Loopfestival)

RAINER STRASCHILL and MIR-0 8 p.m.

break 8:30-8:45

MICHAEL KLOBUCHAR and KRISPEN HARTUNG 8:45

AMY X NEUBURG and RICK WALKER at 9:15
add JEFF KAISER at 9:45

break 10:15- 10:30

RYUSEI HATTORI and HIDEKI NAKANISHI 10:30

break 11:15 - 11:30

BILL WALKER and PER BOYSEN at 11:30

Poster

Friday, October 20

8:00 pm to Midnight

ORBIS NEX

SUNSHINE BISCUIT FACTORY
851 81st Avenue
Unit 217 (dial 200 at the door)
OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA

Directions

$5 donation requested

ALL AGES WELCOME

"Y2K6 International Live Looping Festival: main festival"

At 7:20 p.m, the Mayor of Santa Cruz, Cynthia Matthews, will present the headlining and featured artists with a proclamation declaring Saturday, October 21st "International Live Looping Day" in the City of Santa Cruz.

Saturday, October 21

Noon to Midnight

Alchemy

120 Pearl Alley, Santa Cruz, CA 95060, USA (on the north end of the Pearl Alley parking lot, right behind the Pacific Garden Mall)

MapQuest

Note: ALCHEMY is located in the northern side of the parking lot that borders Pearl Alley at the corner of Lincoln and Cedar Streets, one block due west, of the Pacific Garden Mall.

$10/door

ALL AGES WELCOME

kyberloopfest - The Y2K6 International Live Looping Internet Sessions (click here for details)

Sunday, October 22


Noon to 7:00 p.m

Meta Music , 121 Maple Street, Santa Cruz, CA

MapQuest

Free

ALL AGES WELCOME

"Y2K6 International Live Looping Festival: main festival"

Sunday, October 22

Noon to Midnight

Alchemy

120 Pearl Alley, Santa Cruz, CA 95060, USA (on the north end of the Pearl Alley parking lot, right behind the Pacific Garden Mall)

MapQuest

$10/door

ALL AGES WELCOME

"Annual Live Loopers Brunch" Monday, October 23 (venue unconfirmed)

Free (except for personal food costs)

ALL AGES WELCOME

 

Main Festival Performance Schedule

Use this time converter to convert Santa Cruz time (US/Pacific) to your local time: http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzref.tzc

Legend:

(1): headliner
(2): featured performer
(3): special guests

Stage left stage = 1
Stage right stage = 2

Contact

For more information or to set up interviews with any of the visiting artists or the organizer please write Rick Walker at rickwalker@looppool.info