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Accurate Naming ,Live Looping Festivals and some embarrassing egodeath
Hi everyone,
I really loved Luis Angulo's vocal loop at the Antwerp Live Looping
Festival.
I was backstage at the time and didn't even realize that he did
everything with vocals.............
It was really beautiful and inspiring.
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Not to take away from anything at all from his wonderful video posts on
line,
but I had a little ego death when I read that he read that he had named
that festival the
ANTWERP Y2K9 LOOP FESTIVAL Belgium 2009 and the one
in Koln last year, "live at Y2K8 Koln, Germany.
I feel a little bad about having an ego attack about it, but I have
worked incredibly hard
to produce the Y2K9 (and 7 other) Live Looping Festivals, annually in
Santa Cruz and used
the Y2K-? International Live Looping Festival for many years now.
I'm really proud what we've accomplished as a community in those annual
festivals
and aware that they have inspired other events in other countries
(though I can't take any
credit for that, of course)
Each festival (as festival producers Sjaak Overgauw, Fabio Anile,
Massimo Livernani, Luca Formentini, Bruno Kleinedfeld, Michael Peters,
Leander Reininghaus, Andreas Willers, Rainer Straschill Bernhard Wagner,
Andy Butler, Os, Gareth Whittock, Peter Koniuto, Hans Lindauer,
David Kirdorffer, Sunao Inami and so many other people who I may have
missed in this cursory list, have learned the hard way) takes a tremendous
labor of love to pull off and , literally months of hard work. I'm,
currently, in month 4 of working on it with 2 and a half months
left to go, as an example All without payment
About the Y2K-? International Live Looping Festivals:
I'm very proud of a few things that have distinquished it (not made
it better, mind you
because the festivals in the past two summers alone in the UK and Europe
have been amazing) from all the other
wonderful looping festivals that have been produced with so much hard
work from their producers.
1) I'm proud that I have constantly tried to have 'newbies' play in
the early hours of the 48 hour
marathong of the mainfestival. This is NOT a popular thing to do if
you look at other festival producers
which is okay, but I"m proud of having helped to turn many, many young
talented musicians on to looping through
the use of the loan of my own personal gear to get them to create a
'newbie' set.
2) I'm also proud that it has been the largest festival of it's kind
each year on the planet and I've been told by several
live looping festival producers that it was a direct inspiration on
their decisions to put on the wonderful looping festivals
they'd put on.
Soooooooo, please forvive me but would it be too much ego
to ask that
people not call other live looping festivals by the Y2K moniker?
None of them have been called that, to my knowledge
so far.
For one thing such inaccurate mentions really effect my website hits to
have several festivals referred inaccurately by
the Y2K handle (one, which I admittedly borrowed and morphed from
Michael Peter's
and I'm counting on publicity from those website hits when strangers put
live looping festival into a search engine.
I don't have this term legally registered. I have no right to it at
all. In fact I borrowed it and morphed it from
Michael Peter's My2K website originally in 2000.
So I'm merely asking as a favor to keep that moniker for this festival.
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Like I say, I'm really nervous about an ego smackdown for admitting
that I have an ego attachment to that moniker (at least until I stop
doing the festival, or pass it on, some time in the next few years) but
I do think I've earned it.
By the way, I adore Luis Angulo. He is like a brother to me so I'm not
upset with him about this at all in any personal way.
I am sending this message along to him now as well as to the L.D. Daily
Digest.
I just felt sheepish but realized that it was causing me a bit of ego
death and I felt under appreciated (which I KNOW is not
Luis's intention-----he's just putting up the amazing performances that
garnered him a return visit to the Antwerp Live Looping Festival
next summer...............amazing and inspiring stuff as always from Luis.
Okay.....................let me know if you think I'm out of line.
Let the flames begin.....................lol
yours, respectfully,
Rick Walker
Y2K9 International Live Looping Festival
www.y2kloopfest.com