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October 13, 2007
Best of the Y2K7 Int'l Live Looping Festival at Anno Domini!
ANNO DOMINI presents:
BEST of the Y2K7 INTERNATIONAL LIVE LOOPING FESTIVAL
The 'Best of the Y2K7' features six international headliners from the largest live looping festival ever held. Artists from Turkey, Sweden, Italy, Brazil, Germany and Switzerland will descend upon Anno Domini for a night of 30 minute performances by each artist giving the audience a sense of the variety that this musical movement represents.
featuring:
Erdem Helvacioglu (Turkey)
www.erdemhelvacioglu.com
www.myspace.com/erdemhelvacioglu
Fabio Anile (Italy)
Leander Reininghaus (Germany)
www.myspace.com/lealoop
Per Boysen (Sweden)
www.looproom.com
Matthias Grob (Switzerland/Brazil)
Rick Walker (USA)
www.looppool.info
Artist bios available here:
www.y2kloopfest.com/bios.html
Date: Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
Time: Doors open 7:30pm/ Performances at 8pm
Admission: $10 door no one turned away for lack of funds
Location: Anno Domini // the second coming of Art & Design
366 South First Street, Downtown San Jose, CA
408.271.5155
www.galleryAD.com
Festival website: www.y2kloopfest.com
Some thoughts from Rick Walker, the festival organizer...
It's been a heady year in this relatively new musical movement:
The mecca website of the movement (started by Bay Area looping hardware designer Kim Flint), www.loopersdelight.com is now getting over a million hits a month from all over the world.
In the last two years alone, suddenly, artists as diverse as Madonna, Bjork, Peter Gabriel and Nine Inch Nails have featured live performances that are use this new technology. This couldn't be said as early as only two years ago. Live looping's technology is mushrooming and innovating continually and it's presence is expanding at an exponential rate in the pop music world.
Production of brand new techology has also doubled in each of the past three years in both hardware and software. Many of those designers have been inspired by the Santa Cruz festival which they have all performed or shown at.
All of this has resulted in large multi-page feature articles in Guitar Player magazine, DRUM! magazine and there are planned features in upcoming months in Electronic Musician magazine, Modern Drummer, Tape Op and Make magazine as the efforts of 'the looping capital of the world: Santa Cruz" begin to have national and international recognition.
To read more about the individual headlining artists, find hi-res photographs for publicity and/or downloadable mp3s, please visit http://www.y2kloopfest.com/bios.html
For more information and/or interviews:
Rick Walker, festival organizer
looppool [at] cruzio.com
Brian Eder, Anno Domini gallery
rEVolution [at] galleryAD.com
408.271.5155
Posted by Brian at October 13, 2007 01:51 PM