Richard Zvonar: a fond memory from the first Y2K2 festival

["loop.pool" <looppool@cruzio.com>]

I went back and read some of the posts by and about Richard Zvonar
after Kim's post announcing the anniversary of his death.
I felt really sad and also really proud of this whole community reading my 
impressions
of the first big festival,  the start of the Y2k series which has it's 5th 
anniversary this
year on October 21 and 22.

For those who didn't know him,  Richard was our resident scholar and 
researcher.
If you posted something that you hadn't done your homework on,  Richard 
would post
a reply with every relevant link about the subject from the web.     He 
always did this
with a big heart.   We really lost an amazing human being when he passed 
away last year.

Here, for nostalgia's sake and a fond nod to a wonderful looper and human 
being,  Richard Zvonar, Phd.

*********************
July, 2002,

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..........