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Hi gang, There is a tremendous amount of material on the 22 hours of video that Eileen Sundet took at LOOPFEST at the behest of DIRT (who wasn't there but who convinced me to arrange for it). I can't believe that Eileen filmed the whole thing. This is an astonishing accomplishment as I'm sure you will all agree. Pete Coates also did a stereo audio recording off the board into his hardrive for Stage One artists (and panel discussions and demonstrations). David Fitzpatrick (my incredibly talented assistant of late) recorded all of STAGE TWO performance on DAY ONE with his DARWIN (which broke down later that evening, but we still have the material on the harddrive) and then on my 20-bit ADAT on DAY TWO. This material represents potentially hundreds of hours of editing to get it into releasable form. We first need to get the written permission to do so from the participating artists, one of whom has already forbidden us from releasing her work in any form. Ethically, this must be accomplished because neither of us 'owns' the material. That being said and done, we have to come to some decision about how to release the material (individual sets by special order? the whole two days on three VHS tapes in a more low fi and 'docuvideo approach', or whatever). Dirt, who really instigated the taping (even though he was not present at the event) really wants to do some professional editing and put it out as AVI or QUICKTIME files on a CD that could be played on a DVD player. This is all up for consideration. So, a couple of factors to consider: 1) Everyone is wasted from the festival still. Eileen just left on a 5 day vacation and I would if I had the dough right now, but alas. 2) we need to get artist release forms from the participants 3) I'd appreciate it if you would send any ideas you have about all of this stuff to me off list and I will bring them to the attention of all the people who will be required to put a lot of long and hard hours into getting this material ready. 4) We have to figure out how much to charge for such a thing. No one is interested in any way shape or form in 'making a profit' with this material, but I have asked these wonderful documenters for more than I'm wiling to ask them to do this for 'free'. Most of the coming decision will need to come from discussions with them. 5) I will gently shepherd this project, but have come to the point where I can't work too much longer on this incredible event. I took virtually 6 weeks of my life off to do it and i have to make some money now to keep my landlord at bay and myself in the triple venti espresso soy mocha's to which I am accustomed. ;-) In other words, this will not happen immediately. Please write me or the list and let me know how badly you want this to happen. There may be only a few people interested in which case, we won't go to such trouble to get it all highly slick. Talk amongst yourselves. yours, Rick Walker (loop.pool) ps please also do me a favor and CC me any posts about this to my home e-mail address at GLOBAL@cruzio.com as well as the list. I"m incredibly swamped with projects now and may not make it to the digest everyday, but want to stay abreast of the dialogue. Thanks.!