Re: ARTIST SUBMISSION Y2K7 LIVE LOOPING FESTIVAL, Santa Cruz, California OCT 19-21, 2007

["Fabio Anile" <fabio.anile@tiscali.it>]

Consider me in, Rick.
Soon, i'll send you the requested submission package

Ciao
Fabio

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "RICK WALKER" <looppool@cruzio.com>
To: "LOOPERS DELIGHT (posting)" <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Cc: "Y2K6 LIVE LOOPING FESTIVAL" <y2k6loopfest@yahoo.com>; "PURPLEHAND" 
<purplehand@hotmail.com>; "RICK WALKER" <rickwalker@looppool.info>
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 3:16 AM
Subject: ARTIST SUBMISSION Y2K7 LIVE LOOPING FESTIVAL, Santa Cruz, 
California OCT 19-21, 2007


> This is the official call for submissions of artists who wish to perform 
> at the
> Y2K7 International Live Looping Festival to be held
> October 19-21st, 2007 in Santa Cruz, California.
>
> Applications for the festival will be closed April 15th
> except for foreign artists who's applications I'll take on a
> case by case basis.
>
> and I will publish the Performance Roster by May 15th so that
> out of town artists have time to make plans for transportation.
> At that time, I'll include an alternates list.  Frequently we will have 
> cancellations
> as late as the actual weekend of the gig so you should let me know
> how late you can decide to play the festival if such an cancellation 
> occurs.
>
> If you are interested in performing this year please read the following
> requirements for submission to perform.
>
> yours, most sincerely and respectfully,
> Rick Walker
>
>
> 
>***********************************************************************************
>
>
> APPLICATION to PERFORM at the Y2K7 Live Looping FESTIVAL
>
>     Dearest applicants for performance at the Y2K7 International Live 
> Looping Festival.
> Thank you so much for applying to perform on October 19-21, 2007 in 
>Santa 
> Cruz.
>
> Due to the very large number of applicants for this festival and limited 
> performance spaces,
> we have decided that all performers will go through the same process of 
> applying for performance
> from now on.
>
> The festival took over 4 1/2 months of my life last year and I realized 
> that in order to keep having the energy
> to making it such a wonderful festival that I was going to have to make 
> the whole process more professional,
> streamlined and , hence,  more standardized.   I'm a casual guy so this 
> makes me a little sad but we have, thankfully, gotten big enough that 
>it's 
> time to start acting like a world class music festival.
>
> I know so many of you, so this may seem a  little over the top but in 
>this 
> way, I can determine
> who will play,  where to put them (stylistically) to make the show good 
> and also to insure, in one fell swoop,
> that I have recordings,  publishable .jpeg photographs and short 
> publishable bios of every artist.
>
> IF you'd like to perform please send the following information to me via 
> the snail mail.  I regret that,
> though convenient for the artists,  I do not have time to go to websites 
> or myspace pages to read or
> listen to mp3s.  There are just too many performers vying for spots on 
>the 
> festival and I want to have some
> kind of a personal and artistic life during the ensuing months.
>
> Please send the following submission package to
>
> Y2K7 SUBMISSION
> 412 Darwin Street
> Santa Cruz, California, USA
> 95062-2629
>
> It needs to contain:
>
> 1) CD or CDR of representative material.  Remember that this is a live 
> looping festival so artist who rely primarily on triggering premade 
>loops 
> in programs like Ableton's Live , Acid or Garage Band should not apply.
> Please no MP3s.........I just don't have the ability to play them and 
>most 
> of my perusal occurs in my car driving to gigs.
>
> 2)  A second and separate CD with .JPEG digital photographs (suitable 
>for 
> printing in a newspaper or magazine) of your act
>
> 3)  include a very short and pithy musical biography and description of 
> your life act on the same CD.
>
> Please make the music CD and the photo/bio CD be separate.
>
> 4)  reproduce the following rules of performance and please sign it  
>just 
> so I know that everyone is on the same page about making the whole thing 
> work. It' s a logistical nightmare and only works if everyone works
> for the whole team of artists.
>
>
> reproduce and sign the following:
> 
>*******************************************************************************************************************************
>
> Y2K7  RULES of PERFORMANCE:
>
> Performances all occur on two adjacent stages.  50 artists perform 
> continuously for a 24 hour period
> over two days.   There are no breaks between acts so the music is 
> continuous.
>
> 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 who is performing.
>
> Artists have  20 minute maximum completely silent load in (Line checks 
>can 
> be accomplished with
> supplied headphones,  also silently)
> Artists have 30 minute maximum performance
> Artists have 10 minutes maximum complete silent evacuation of the stage
>
> Importantly:
>
> 1) Artists who take longer to load have time cut off of their 
>performances
>
> 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.
>
>
> ARTIST COMPENSATION:
>
> We run in the red every year (out of my pocket always) and there is no 
> compensation for the artists, unfortunately, consequently.
>
> 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.
>
>
> GUEST and COMP LISTS:
>
> We charge at the door and don't allow guests at all because the venue is 
> usually too small and we wouldn't be able to do the festival at all if 
>we 
> let everyone in for free that the artists bring.
>
> I have read the above rules of performance and agree to them.
>
>
> signed ____________________________________
>
> 
>_______________________________________________________________________________________
> 
>***********************************************************************************************************************************
>
> It pains me horribly to state those last rules but they are the only way 
> that we can continue doing the festival.
>
> Having these draconian rules is necessary to pull off the unbelievable 
> feat of having so many artists play
> without running over time (which is illegal in the City and makes us 
> liable to be cancelled)
>
> I try as hard a possible to make this thing bigger and better every year 
> but we are a very new art form
> and the whole thing is a gigantic (and wonderfully creative and fun) 
>labor 
> of love on everyone's part.
>
> Thank you very much for showing interest in this wonderful festival. 
> We'll be blessed to have you come play.
>
> with the deepest respect for everyone's artistry who applies for this 
> festival
>
> Rick Walker
> founder
> Y2K International  Live Looping Festivals
>
>
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