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Thax for reporting Rick wish i was there,but this year i think im broke like never before wish you all a great festival! Luis On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Jeremy devros <deafrose58@hotmail.com> wrote: > You're killing me, Rick! I wish I was there! Actually, I wish I was > anywhere but at work right now... > J.D. > >> Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 04:41:54 -0700 >> From: looppool@cruzio.com >> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com >> Subject: 1st Night of the Y2KX+1 LoopFest >> >> We had a really nice first night of the festival tonight. >> >> It was the best attended show we've ever had in San Jose at the Anno >> Domini >> Gallery (thanks to a superlative publicity campaign by Steve Uccello). >> >> Bill and I started things off and had a really nice set together. >> Nat Grant said it was really wonderful because we played so >> effortlessly. >> >> Per Boysen came next with his new beautiful, small red Stick. >> It's the first time I've seen him perform with it and it was a really >> beautiful >> and very musical performance. >> >> Next up, newcomer, Patty Stucki (playing under the moniker Eela Soley) >> did a very beautiful set with voice, alto saxophone, silver flute and >> bamboo >> flute. She has a very nice combination of darkness with some strong >> 3rd world (especially middle=eastern) influences melodically. I really >> enjoyed >> it. >> >> Next Hideki Nakanishi (aka Mandoman) played what was, for me , the most >> compelling >> set I've seen him play in his numerous festival appearances. He really >> mixed it up, >> playing very rhythmic pieces with ambient pieces and also included some >> really nice >> Daxaphone playing as well to take it into an abstract direction. >> >> Georgina Brett came next. I really like the direction she is taking, >> mixing long layered >> loops of vocal, completely eschewing anything I've heard people do in >> the A Capella >> looping world. She's doing fascinating work by singing lines with out >> any consonants >> in them and going back in and overdubbing the consonants. It's a really >> unique approach >> that fascinates me. Her set, unfortunately, was plagued with feedback >> though and the sound from the P.A. >> was continually frustrating to her so she ended early. I felt bad >> that she had a hard >> set and promised her that we will set things straight, sonically , when >> she plays the >> main festival on Sunday. She is really as talented as all the buzz >> about her, as well >> as being a really sweet human being (who treated us to an amazing home >> made vegetarian >> soup when we got back from the venue) and I look forward >> to hearing her have a happier set on Sunday night at 10:00. >> >> Nat Grant finished off the evening with a very interesting and evolving >> set mixing all kinds of interesting >> percussive textures. Her set was easily the most avant garde of the >> evening and I, personally, >> loved it. The synchronicity between what she was doing and the >> beautiful Loopy Cam work >> of Maha Taitano really created a great atmosphere. Tim Thompson, >> Loopy Cam's inventor >> has graciously taught Maha and I how to use the Loopy Cam and also lent >> us the high powered >> computers to project it at the festival. Tim will be doing his own set >> with his new amazing visual >> and audio invention, the Space Palette, at 6:00 on Saturday. >> >> I walked on stage and played some non-looped Sonica (which is a 60's >> invention that combines >> a diatonic touch strip with organ like sounds) to accompany Nat's final >> minutes of her set. >> I just love how this artist thinks so it's always a thrill to play with >> her. >> >> At the headliners concert with Andrea Centazzo (Italy) and Matt >> Davignon, Nat and I will combine the >> end of her set with the beginning of mine with a couple of >> improvisations. >> I'm really looking forward to that (right after Santa Cruz Vice Mayor, >> Don Lane, presents the >> "International Live Looping Day" proclamation to the headlining artists. >> >> For the first time in many years (due to a miscommunication on my part >> with the Luggage Store) >> we actually have a day off tomorrow and then the main festival begins on >> Friday evening. >> >> It's a strong lineup this year and we'll even have a world technology >> premiere to end Friday evening's >> concert by the Sennheiser Research Lab of Palo Alto of a Wireless >> Midi/Microphone Controller used with a portable live looping rig. >> >> We came close to showing the LP-2 Mini Looper and Bob Amstadt is >> actually going to miss the festival (after having >> provided sound for us tonight) because he's home all weekend assembling >> LP-2 to begin mailing out. >> I can't wait to get mine. >> >> Okay................the whole house is full of snoring loopers and it's >> probably time for me to hit the hay! >> >> Rick Walker >> > -- www.luis-angulo.com