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RE: Amazing thing happened at Y2K12



I also thought he was really cute when he said I  was playing a pumpkin guitar. ( an Orange Charvel Surfcaster )

> Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 13:25:22 -0700
> From: looppool@cruzio.com
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Subject: Amazing thing happened at Y2K12
>
> One of our volunteers, Todd Kramer, brought his
> son, Neville to the the Y2K12 loop festival.
>
> While Todd graciously did the door, Neville had his eyes glued to the
> stage.
> He saw many performances (as well as with his dad when he wasn't working).
>
> Maha told me that he went to his school right afterwards and beatboxed
> for the kids and then taught them how to do it. He also taught them
> about live looping,
> which they didn't know about.
>
> He also said that one of his favorite artists was Stan Card (aka
> Stanosaur) who only
> used high volume feedback to create his looping performance.
>
> Afterwards, Neville went home and put microphones into different drums,
> turned up
> the volume to create feedback and then manipulated the feedback as he
> looped the
> results live. All on his own.
>
> Neville is 9 years old!
>
> All the hard work we did for the festival this year was worth it if only
> for this story of
> creativity, growth and excitement. This story is so inspiring to me.
> I'm going to
> go out and put mics in my drum and create some feedback today.
>
> Rick Walker
>