Re: history of looping question: Live Looping Day

[sean echevarria <fuckthespam@creepingfog.com>]

It seems like the mailing list stopped getting updates re: Santa Cruz 
Y2K loopfest years ago.


On 2018.02.23 11:28 AM, tedkillian wrote:
> Tyler,
>
> I suspect that since the latter week or so of October — every year since the very early 
> years of the millennium — has been the time around which Rick Walkers’ Y2K? 
> Loopfests occur in Santa Cruz, that that day and announcement have something to do with that.
>
> Almost if not every year during that festival, Rick has somehow able to 
> entice the mayor (or some other city official) of Santa Cruz to appear one 
> night at the event and declare International Live Looping Day and present 
> official certificates honoring the headliners of the multi-day long show.
>
> If International Live Looping Day was posted about on the LD list only ever on that one 
> day — Oct. 21, 2006 — I am greatly surprised, because it happened pretty 
> much every year I was there (and I was there for all of them in the beginning, both as a 
> performer and audience member).
>
> Ted Killian
>
> > On Feb 23, 2018, at 8:02 AM, Tyler Zahnke <programmer651@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I was just curious, I have a loopfest album from 2006, I believe it's
> > a recording from the Y2K6 loopfest, that mentions October 21 as
> > International Live Looping Day. However, this was apparently only
> > celebrated once; in 2006. What exactly is International Live Looping
> > Day? Did it only happen once, never to happen again? It seems like it
> > would have happened again in 2016, if the anniversary of Looper's
> > Delight is indeed the reason for its existence. But it appeared to
> > happen in 2006, and then it never happened again. Will you clarify
> > what Live Looping Day is and why it only happened once in history? I
> > almost asked this question in 2012 but I decided to wait to see if it
> > would happen in 2016, and it didn't, but now I'm remembering the
> > question.