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Y2K2 LOOOPFEST diary: Installment

Hi fellow loopers,

    Well it's 2:21 a.m. and the festival has been incredible!!!
I"m in my kitchen with Larry the "O" (who had a really nice set
with Gary Hall today), Matt Davignon and Michael Klobuchar.
We should be sleeping because we hit it again hard tomorrow
for the last 11/12 hours of looping madness.  Gary and Ted Killian
and Jon Wagner (who had a very cool percussive looping exploration)
are out sleeping in the garage which is clean for the first time in 
history.
It feels so great being part of this community.  There was
so much creativity on display tonight.   A couple of people broke their
live solo looping virginity (Logan Kroeber, the youngest amongst us and
Eric Oberthaler who had a beautiful set----one an wonderful high tech
trumpeter he is)and then there were incredible sets from Amy X Neuburg
___who tore the house down with her incredible set of vocal looping---
funny; intense; scary and completely thought provoking......I think she
probably had the most 'talked about' set of the entire day.

We also had a wonderful lecture by Richard Zvonar on the history of
Looping.  I was excited to hear him say that he plans on formally writing 
it
up and, I hope, publishing it in some form.  We also had demos
by my brother Bill Walker (Electrix Repeater) and Andre LaFosse (on the
intensely powerful and deep and elegant Loop IV software for the Echoplex)
and me (Line 6 DL 4)....a cassette looping performance by proto-looper
Ramon Sender and a cool panel discussion (which was too brief due,
unfortunately, to our having run behind in our 12 hour schedule).

I'm exhausted and it's time to sleep!!!!   More to come..........anyone 
else
with some impressions?

One incredible note:   All the loopers made this show incredible with
their strong sense of community and solidarity:   Everybody was helpful.
Everybody busted ass to get on and off stage very quickly.  I had
half a dozen people come up to me and ask if they could go get me food
(since I was MC, stage cop, and performer demoer and could not really ever
leave)...........I felt so supported and appreciated.

......and the t-shirts sold like hot cakes......there are only two left!!!!

A lot of artists sold a lot of CDs and that was gratifying and we had a
healthy crowd the whole day.

Good night.............sleep tight


yours,  Rick