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I"m doing an exploratory show to design my 10 country European tour (I leave on May 1st for 10 weeks) this Wednesday in Santa Cruz

2008-05-05T20:50:55Z

I"m doing an exploratory show this coming Wednesday, March 26th at META MUSIC (320 Cedar Street, Santa Cruz)
as a way of developing new material for my upcoming 10 week/10 country solo headlining found sound/live looping
tour that I leave for on May 1st.

I will also be on the bill with the Norwegian live looping guitarist Tellef Orgrim
and we will also play a short duet set at the end of the evening.

I will go on at 8 p.m. and play until 9.

Tellef will play for about 20 minutes (his decision) and then we will improvise at the
end of the evening.

I hope you guys can make it out. I have some really fun musical things in store for Wednesday.

META MUSIC is right around the corner from the Blue Lagoon at the corner of CEDAR STREET and BIRCH LANE

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Amazing Laser Light Shows for all events!

2008-04-21T21:16:02Z

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Sublove Feb 16th /Doc Martin

2008-01-14T00:58:46Z

Thank you for a wonderful experience on NYE if you’d like to share with us another great night of good music,
Don’t miss the special 6hr set by LA’s own Doc Martin
Feb 16th
Doc Martin (6hr set)
Sub Live feat Lillia
Keith Evan
Matt Mau
Pre sales Advised limited capacity
Must be 21+ by purchasing your ticket you are acknowledging that you are 21 no refunds will be issued to anyone purchasing tickets who are under 21.
This event will run from 10pm – 6am
Please call 1 888 592 0555/ 1 323 386 4660 for directions on the night.
You can also log onto the website www.sublevelcalifornia.com to get info & directions will be posted on the night.

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Dancing Washing Machine

2007-12-26T23:03:11Z

I was playing Mandolin through some weird digital effects tonight when I realized that
our washing machine was kicking out a pretty consistent groove (randomly, of course)
in 6/8.

I took a short lo fi video with audio of it jamming.

I just love when machine noises sound sentient............this is one of the better examples
of this phenomenae that I've heard.

Check out the dancing bottle of TIDE while you are at it.

Caution: this is a hefty download (100 megs.) so only attempt this if you have a good DSL or Broadband
connection, otherwise it will take forever and your stolen music downloads will slow to a crawl .

www.looppool.info/washing_machine_six_eight

oh...............................and Merry Christmas everyone (if you celebrate it).

Here's to a wonderfully creative, healthy and happy 2008!!!!!

love, Rick

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AON: gear porn

2007-10-28T22:57:38Z

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRfVwcc8Wk4

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weasel?

2007-04-04T06:31:48Z

hey, Rick -- what's up with all of the Weasel stuff?

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2006 BOISE EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC FESTIVAL CDs released

2007-02-23T09:32:11Z

I am proud to announce that I have two tracks (one on each)
of the two volumes just released of the 2006 Boise Experimental Music Festival.

I have a solo vocal track in my headling set and also a trio improvisation with
two wonderful musicians: Jeff Kaiser and Ted Killian.

All proceeds go to helping support this amazingly creative music festival, one of the
most exciting, creative and well run festivals of new music that I've ever had the privilege of playing.

You can read about these discs and order them here:

http://www.boisemusicians.com/experimental/CD.htm

thanks, Rick Walker

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live dark experimental show (live looping, noise, found sound, extended vocal techniques) this Saturday in the South Bay

2007-01-13T10:06:17Z

By the way, I"m going to be doing an experimental show utilizing gongs, found objects and extended vocal
techniques at the Anno Domini Gallery in San Jose (366 South First Street between San Salvador and San Carlos)
this coming Saturday night with a creative touring group from Porltand, yourdrugsmymoney.
We will be doing a collaborative set at the end of the night and there is talk of putting this out on yourdrugsmymoneys' record label if it comes out well.

Because I've been so into Power Noize, Noise and Industrial/EBMish stuff lately, my performance will reflect a lot of that
sensibility.

I'm so excited, I just purchase a Feedback eliminator which will allow me to use very heavy distortion with vocals and found objects
without having all the uncontrollable feedback problems that occur with live microphones.

I'll also be projecting my new lo fi, toy digital video animations that I"ve been making at the show.
Come on out to an unusual creative show in the South Bay if you don't have anything to do.

It's 5 bucks at the door (8 p.m. start) and noone will be turned away for lack of funds.

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sounds like quite the quiet sculpture

2006-10-30T13:24:09Z

http://musicthing.blogspot.com/2006/10/sculpture-made-from-studio.html

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beach 4x4 music sports and a beach party

2006-10-12T16:23:03Z

hey
just stopping in to join the tribe and invite anyone interested in joining the 4X4 Players tribe..
it is a pretty good sport that with the acombination of great music and a beach party atmosphere becomes a great way to stay in shape, meet people and use loops to create excitment.

great tribe you have here, i could use some of your karma to help the 4x4 players tribe get started.

peace

The Moose

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you think youre so special mr walker but have you ever done a beer commercial huh have you

2006-09-11T21:22:32Z

http://bedazzled.blogs.com/bedazzled/2006/08/fantastic_moog_.html

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Performance at LUGGAGE STORE EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC SERIES: SF

2006-07-02T10:34:48Z

I'll be playing a found sound/vocal/electronica experimental performance
as the headliner at the LUGGAGE STORE EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC SERIES
this coming Thursday, July 6th from 8-10 p.m.

The LUGGAGE STORE is at 1007 Market Street in San Francisco.

Lx Rudis will also be doing a solo set that evening.

If you make the gig and heard about it through tribe, please come up and let me know you did.
I'm curious whether these posts have any effect at all.

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GUITAR LIVE LOOPING mini fest in SANTA CRUZ tonight

2006-07-02T10:31:29Z

I'll be playing a solo set along with one by Bill Walker (meee bro) and
headliner Massimo Liverani (from FLorence, Italy)
tonight in Santa Cruz from 8 to 10 p.m. (That's Sunday, July 2nd)
at ALCHEMY.

ALCHEMY is across the parking lot from the Pearl ALLEY Bistro at
120 PEARL ALLEY (the first parking lot north of the LOGOS parking
lot on the back of the Pacific Garden mall)

All ages are welcome.............there is a $5/donation requested and
no one will be turned away for lack of funds (we'll just be using them so
we don't lose money on the venue rental-----no personal gain, guys!)

See you there, I hope. I'll be doing a guitar only performance with prepared guitars,
toy guitars and toy amplifiers and processors.

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BOISE EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC FESTIVAL

2006-04-27T10:01:44Z

I"m proud to announce that I've been asked to be a
headlining artist at this weekend's Boise Experimental
Music Festival.

I will be doing a set that will include several pieces
for solo voice and electronics. I've really been working on
coming up with new extended vocal techniques for this particular
show.

I'll also be doing a piece for tuned bar pint glasses and clitoral vibrators.
As odd as that sounds, this piece has been coming out beautifully
in my warmup gigs.................some pieces for Green plastic tubing...........a
formal piece that I wrote to mourn the passing of my dear friend, Ali Farka Toure
scored for Shakuhachi, overtones and electronics................a piece for
toy bells and a piece to celebrate my new endorsement with the Cooperman
Drum company featuring a traditional Irish Bodrhan, a traditional South Indian Kanjira,
a middleeastern Riq, a Glen Velez Bodrhan-esque large frame drum and a new invention
called a Hadjira.

I'm really excited about this gig and on top of it all, on Saturday we will be trying out a brand new internet
technology called NINJA jam and will be the backup band (Krispen Hartung and myself) for Rainer Straschill's
headlining gig in a Munich, Germany nightclub...................this is amazing new technology that allows you to rhythmically
control the intrinsic latency of real time audio communication over the web.

Then I'll be doing a wonderful improvisatory set with my dear friend Ted Killian from Oregon and the amazing
Jeff Kaiser, experimental trumpet/electronics musician from Los Angeles.

Then Krispen (who is organizing this amazing huge shebang will be taking me out to the Boise Goth
club on Sunday and I'll be home on Monday..............................WEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!
I'm so excited, I can't sleep.

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Overtone vocals looped

2006-04-26T00:55:00Z

Yeah i do it and it is very strange to hear notes and scales appear that i dont sing.
soundwaves blending subsonically and appearing in form
http://soundclick.com/omnitoner

hi rick

eerrrrrrrru

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MUSICIANS FOR FREEDOM:

2006-03-19T00:49:29Z

Tribe Link

http://tribes.tribe.net/singer_songwriters_unite_for_freedom <<<< Please fell free to Join!

This is a place where all people who write, sing, play music, who DJ, love, create, and produce their own music get together to share their song, soul, & dreams with passion.....to exchange ideas, connect, inspire ................It's open to all: non-artists and artists alike! Come feel free & share with other musicians to connect, network, smooze, dance, groove....your inner dreams ecstatic. Music is a sacred force to be shared with all and honored collectively, not hoarded, censored and over processed in the vast shallow games of commercial competition and false fame that sometimes breathes its fumes into the industry...... . In essence Music is eternal and open to all who are free enough to tap into its unlimited streaming power. ....................Welcome to this Tribe!

Yo, In the Beggining was Music, sound, was the Word (tone) of immutable strength. All of creation is born from Sound. Imagine what the first 'note' or tone was? Aummmmm...... yea.........beautiful.

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Tribe: MUSICIANS FOR FREEDOM: Link

2006-03-19T00:32:42Z

http://tribes.tribe.net/singer_songwriters_unite_for_freedom <<<< Please fell free to Join!

This is a place where all people who write, sing, play music, who DJ, love, create, and produce their own music get together to share their song, soul, & dreams with passion.....to exchange ideas, connect, inspire ................It's open to all: non-artists and artists alike! Come feel free & share with other musicians to connect, network, smooze, dance, groove....your inner dreams ecstatic. Music is a sacred force to be shared with all and honored collectively, not hoarded, censored and over processed in the vast shallow games of commercial competition and false fame that sometimes breathes its fumes into the industry...... . In essence Music is eternal and open to all who are free enough to tap into its unlimited streaming power. ....................Welcome to this Tribe!

Yo, In the Beggining was Music, sound, was the Word (tone) of immutable strength. All of creation is born from Sound. Imagine what the first 'note' or tone was? Aummmmm...... yea.........beautiful.

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nO thiNg (aka Rick Walker) 3/11 at SF's 1st Dark Electronic Music Festival!

2006-02-20T10:18:49Z

This event concludes San Francisco's First Dark Electronic Music Festival- Binaural Dimensions: A Festival of Dark Elektronix.
Artists/DJs featured on nites 1 & 2 will include- Synapscape, Cylob, Richard Devine, Asche and much more!
For full details and pre-sale discounted packages-
http://www.dark-tekno.com/binaural

DIMENSION 3 - Spin THIS!
Saturday March 11th
$12 at the Door
Doors @ 930p - no one is left
1st Floor:
Cdatakill (Ad Noiseam)
eats tapes (Tigerbeat6, Community Library)
nO thiNg nO thiNg (looppool, AKA Rick Walker)
Loma Prieta (Dark-Tekno)

More TBA
2nd Floor:
Ghreg on Earth (MoE)
Heartworm (DHR) vs Jawa (DTC)
TeflonJacket (Tokyo Electric, Neurogenesix)
White Rabbit (S.P.A.Z, Lucid Dream Lounge)
More TBA.......
Video Artists, Performance Artists, and vending shall be announced shortly.

Info on Artists:
Cdatakill- The goal of the Cdatakill project is to pin opposites together, to bring sounds that normally oppose and conflict with each other into a seamless aural nightmare and daydream, to expose and glorify the beautiful alongside the violent.

eats tapes- http://www.eatstapes.com/
Eats Tapes are the duo of Gregory Zifcak and Marijke Jorritsma, who build and modify their own synths, toys, drum machines, etc. Local Favorites, suitcases full of fun!

nO thiNg-www.looppool.info
(Aka Rick Walker, aka |()()p.p()()|, aka Ultra Violette,aka PurpleIHand)
Working with everything from found sound objects to invented instruments: extended vocal techniques to state of the art digital signal processing, master percussionist/multi-instrumentalist Rick Walker has
toured the world as a solo headlining seminal figure in the International Live Looping Movement. Playing in 12 countries in the past 3 years alone including a featured spot at the prestigious Kobe Underground Festival in Japan last summer as a Goth/Industrial artist , he has started a new project called nO thiNg to explore the dark side experimental electronica.
Fresh from his debut of this project at the Disquiet Festival (Dark Ambient/Noise) he will be the Headlinig Artist at
the Boise Experimental Music Festival on April 28th.

Loma Prieta- http://www.dark-tekno.com/lomaprieta/
14 inches of uplift, 5.5 feet of lateral slippage, 7.1 on the Ricther scale, 20 seconds long, from a depth of 11 miles. This is the chaos that Loma Prieta unleashes, as duo Phreaki Boi and Jawa blend their styles of d'n'b, noize, broken beats, industrial, and even trance.

Ghreg on Earth- http://www.phosphene.org/
His distinctive sound, heavily influenced by his passion for Industrial Music from the 1980s, IDM from the early 90s and Dark Ambient, evolved and found its way into parties and festivals throughout the United States and the World. His intention is to convey a diverse range of powerful trance dancing experiences to the planet. With this intention in mind, he is quickly being recognized as one of the most sought after psychedlic electronic music producers.

Heartworm-
Disturbed landscape of deconstructed beats, bursts of pure noise and constantly shifting time changes, all tempered with subtle ambience, layered sampling and drenched in effects.(From DHR Bio) Tonight, he steps behind the decks to battle, DTC's very own, Jawa!

TeflonJacket- http://electroset.net
Holding a resident DJ spot with Tokyo Electric and Neurogenesix, TeflonJacket's musical taste was formed during the early 80s when bands like Kraftwerk, Depeche Mode and Nitzer Ebb were the norm. Harkening to days past, his style can best be described as "Techno Body Music" or new music with a very dark and retro feel.

White Rabbit- www.spaz.org, www.luciddreamlounge.zoomshare.com
Getting his origins from the old skool deathrock and goth clubs such as the Original One Step Beyond, in the South bay, the twilight Zone, Drug#6 and Catacombs to being one of the original creators of A Winter Gone By. Guest appearences at House of Usher and rodericks chamber. Current musical delima hits the dance floor with a twisted cross of wicked breaks, goth, dark electro and house mixed and up with an almost jack dangers style. Current projects include the Lucid Dream Lounge, a dark masquerade cabaret speakeasy and organizing/playing at spaz soundsytem events.

18+ w/ valid state ID
34 Mason Street, San Francisco
Fully wheelchair accessible
ATM on premises and credit cards accepted at food and bar
http://maps.yahoo.com/maps_result?addr=34+Mason+Street&csz=san+francisco&country=us&new=1&name=&qty=

Stay up to date on all the additions!
http://www.dark-tekno.com/binaural
www.dark-tekno.tribe.net/
www.groups.myspace.com/darktekno

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Dj Lyf saying big ups to everyone doing the good work but naughty at the same time, its quit time..

2006-02-18T18:51:26Z

My Bio

My Blog Event
Subject: On the Rox, Sat. March 11th (The Roxy, Los Angeles)

Sat., March 11th 7pm-2am

Benefit for Live to Walk Foundation & Quiet Party!
@ On the Rox
9009 Sunset Blvd.
Box Office: 310-278-9457
(Above The Roxy on Sunset Bl., LA)

featuring

Silent Auction, Live Music, DJs, Art
DJ Teck Money on the wheels of steel
Dirty Little Pedro & The Bastard Prince from Rondo Brothers
Sky Hy
Brotha Nyft w/ DJ Lyf
& Surprise Guests

Artists websites:
www.dirtylittlepedro.com
www.rondobrothers.com
www.sky-hymusic.com
www.chrisbrann.com
www.unincorporated.org/nyft.html
www.lafco.tv

Produced by Groove Essentials & Chocolate Soul
www.grooveessentials.net www.chocolatesoul.net

Strategic Partners, Alliances, Friends and Family of Live to Walk Foundation:
www.theroxyonsunset.com
Westy w/ Goldenvoice & Coachella
www.goldenvoice.com & www.coachella.com
www.inisound.com
www.caribelinq.com
www.musicares.com
www.fortminor.com
www.wantickets.com
www.aimco.com
www.estevanoriol.com
www.chapman.edu
www.soderlingproductions.com
Tom Brennan Media
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Bubble Brothers Marketing/ Productions 2006
We are launching a NEW Marketing/ Production company that has grown out of www.lafco.tv music dept. out of respect.
Please keep intouch and your eyes as well as ears open for events coming March 11th at the On the Rox. www.theroxyonsunset.com. For info. please email- esential@bellsouth.net www.grooveessentials.net and www.grooveessentials.net/bd
The event at the Rox is a charitable event for the LIVE TO WALK FOUNDATION to benefit physically challenged quadriplegics, paraplegics, and unfortunate citizens of the world.

Wayne Briggs with many skills in Concert, and smart club booking for many acts. And then theres Dj Lyf who started out Djaying in the middle 8o's up to today has grown from music producer into a promoting guru on the street level and beyond. Dj Kev with his witty quick factoring has become a fanominal business man. He's much more than just another Rave DJ, he is a man making a change in this game of film and performances on a higher level. Then theres Amen Ra who is a swift player that bring all the loose ends to a tight closer. "The Buble Brothers'' will be in your town soon.
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Singer Songwriters Tribe

2006-02-14T15:33:05Z

: Hey there beautiful people....I have just created a singer songwriters Tribe... feel free to join. http://tribes.tribe.net/singer_songwriters_unite_inthe_mystery

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the pic that inspired rick to take up music instead of cooking

2005-12-19T08:42:20Z

http://musicthing.blogspot.com/2005/11/and-modular-moog-for-barbie.html

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I thought I understood what "live looping" was

2005-12-07T00:27:49Z

but this explains it much, much better.
http://www.compfused.com/directlink/1046/
ableton live should pay this guy.

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apple music

2005-12-04T08:35:44Z

i remember the apples rick used to hand out to the audience so we would shake them. they made musical sounds.

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some newly posted free l()()p.p()()l mp3s

2005-11-23T09:59:12Z

I just made this post to the electronic music production tribe discussion on creating glitch effects. I was inspired by John Zorko's creative post about using wrought iron pieces to create acoustic glitch techniques and.........well, I put them on line..............they are from my live looping CD so they are a couple of years old.

my post:
Found Glitch Effects
John Zorko's suggestion of using a wrought iron work
jogged my memory for a great glitchey sound made from
found objects.

take several glasses (made of heavy glass NOT crystal or anything lightweight) that have different pitches if you clink them. Bar Glasses are fantastic for this.

and

1)Then go find an old piece of rusted rebar.

turn the glasses upside down and rub the
openings of them down the rusted rebar.............the irregularities in the metal will cause really fast glitching sounds that have the pitch of the glass you are rubbing against it

2) take one to several bullet clitoral vibrators with a high RPM motor.
Turn them on and drop them into the bottoms of the glasses.

What happens is the vibrator makes a very rapid staccato drilling sound on the bottom of the glass but occasionally, they will jump up and hit the glass higher up , ringing it rapicdly like a glass telephone bell (the old fashioned metal ringer styled telephones).

On my last CD, I came up with a 'found' minor-ish scale of six diffently pitched bar glasses (I went to a bar supply house and asked the manager if I could take half an hour and try out every bar glass in the place).

What is cool is that the 'chord' that is created by different glasses sounding at random times is constantly changing in rhythm and texture.

I then took the percieved fundamental tone of my found scale and
turned it on it's side letting it constantly ring the glass. I made a separate solo loop on my Elextrix Repeater and then used a midi wind synth controller to play the 'melody' over three octaves while my long random
'chord' looped.

If anyone is interested I'll post the two mp3s of the pieces I used those techniques at
www.looppool.info/Translucent...reenPlastic/

I also use very tiny ball bearings or shotgun shot in large brass candy dishes...................you gong the candy dish with your thumb and the ball bearings cause a glitchy sound.

I realize this isn't all that electronic, although I use a lot of DSP effects to process the results, but I am fascinated by trying to make acoustic sounds that sound as if they are electronic or computer manipulated sounds.

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Rick's keyboards

2005-11-23T09:57:17Z

http://homepage1.nifty.com/tajioku/rick_e.htm

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Analogue Heaven (or hell, depending)

2005-11-22T17:22:02Z

http://ilx.wh3rd.net/thread.php?msgid=6190922

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how to survive 5 months with ma DL4

2005-10-16T05:42:44Z

I'm on an island with just an acoustic. NO electronics or loopers...

I guess I'm finally going to be the looper. Chords instead of cords...

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Searching for steel drum samples

2005-08-15T01:29:06Z

Hi all,

I've been having a hell of a time finding some steel drum samples. I was wondering if anyone here had any, or give me some direction finding some.

I wouldn't ask, but my coffers are a tad low after xmas, and I'd appreciate any advice.

Thanks.

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great plugs for electronica

2005-07-20T11:05:14Z

http://www.oli.adbe.org/plugins.htm

have at it..mash em up..

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l()()p.p()()l Japanese Goth Tour

2005-06-20T11:05:11Z

I have just finished uploading the gallery of pictures from
my recent headlining tour in Japan (where I also performed as
a Goth/EBM/Synth artist/vocalist at the huge Kobe Underground Festival).

the tune that enabled me to do this tour (due to it's inclusion on the KUF compilation......the largest annual goth compilation) is here in it's full bandwidth glory for free download at:

www.looppool.info/UltraViolette/ (along with the KUF poster)

My entire live looping concert at the OTOYA club in Kobe
is available as a free download from:

www.looppool.info/JapaneseTour/

the picture gallery from the tour is at:

www.looppool.info/gallery/

and within two days the entire and fairly lengthy tour diary I wrote will be up at:

www.looppool.info just click on the tour diaries link

Enjoy. Boy, I sure did..................the best fucking tour of my entire life so far.

Yours, Rick Walker aka l()()p.p()()l
aka Purple Hand
aka Ultra Vi()lette
aka nO thIng

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LIVE LOOPING tribe begun

2005-06-20T10:59:01Z

I just started a LIVE LOOPING tribe to specifically talk
about the phenomenae and advantages and disadvantages
of using looping live in front of an audience.

Please come join it. The last thread would probably be answered better in that tribe than in this one just because this tribe
is more specifically about the musical entity loop.pool
(thanks to Choz for starting this tribe for me).

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Midi Loop Hardware

2005-06-20T01:43:12Z

I'm fairly new to midi, and I'm trying to find a piece of HARDWARE, that can loop midi information, ideally with a foot controller. I found something that Gibson makes, but it's close to $1000. Isn't there something cheaper?

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The Third Annual Cambridge Festival of Looping

2005-06-14T08:17:46Z

Time to loop again :

http://www.cambridge-loopfest.org.uk/

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rare l()()p.p()()l appearance Tomorrow night in SF (thursday 2)

2005-06-02T02:21:34Z

I'll be performing at the LUGGAGE STORE
at 1007 Market Street tomorrow night at 8 p.m.
(thursday).

I'm really excited about my performance as I just came off of a
very exciting and successful tour of Japanese cities this last week.

I'll be doing pieces for brass candy dishes, clitoral vibrators and glasses,
toy instrument players, extended vocal techniques and one audience participation piece which should be really creative and fun.

Hope to see you there. Come say you are from tribe and I'll personally give you a one dollar rebate on the very reasonable entrance fee......lol....I'm serious.

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Sony's 300/30 loop release...FREE!

2005-04-24T02:37:44Z

Just a quick heads-up to all you loop junkies out there: The Acid Planet Website just went through a major overhaul, and they are celebrating by releasing 10 loops a day for the next 30 days, so grab them while you can.

Here's the link:
http://www.acidplanet.com/freeloops/

Perhaps someone could set something up where we could archive these as they become unavailable.

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Get exposed

2005-04-24T02:33:11Z

aj Cohen
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April 23, 2005 - 08:53 AM

Hi AJ here.

I have a friend at Blue Pie productions who turned me on to a great site called artisinow.com. It is a business to business social networking site for bands, musicians and members of the arts and entertaiment industry. As a member you can upload your music, events and more, Check it out and let me know what you think. My e-mail address is acmcmedia@aol.com.

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PURPLE HAND tribe for my new electronica project

2005-04-23T16:01:58Z

I just started a PURPLE HAND tribe to celebrate my new
moniker for my abstract electronica project and CD release.

I will retain L()()p.p()()L for my live looping gigs but
wanted a new name for my abstract electronica work because it is
so different.

This year I"ll also unveil ULTRA VIOLETTE, my goth/darkwave/industrial/electronica/pop solo project, but first things's first.

Come join me and come to the fabulous black light/cd release party on feb 27th.............details to follow.

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NEW TRIBES FOR DJ'S,ARTISTS AND ENTERTAINERS

2005-04-13T06:32:19Z

MCKUTKILLA.tribe.net
DJKUTKILLA.tribe.net

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For the Best Damb Mentor a guy could have...

2005-02-23T19:15:06Z

this is for you Rick.....(thought of this last night)

I'm a looper!
I don't care what I have done.....
I'm thinking about what I am going to do!

Love ya Rick, sorry I've been so outta touch!
-This bird

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RPLE HAND CD released by L()()p.p()()L

2005-01-04T00:36:34Z

I wanted everyone to know that the Abstract Electronica CD that I've been composing for in the last two years has been completed and is officially out.

Featuring 21 tracks, PURPLE HAND has more groove on it that previous CDs that I've put out and I am proud to have designed or heavily tweaked virtually ever sound on the CD myself.
I also agonized over what to finally include and culled from 305 minutes of completed tracks that I've written for it specifically in the last two years of my life.

I've also decided to split my music into two different projects:
PURPLE HAND will be my Abstract Electronica project from now on
and
L()()p.p()()L will continue to be my Live Looping project.

I'll be selling the CDs myself for $15 apiece including shipping and handling to the US and Canada but for the members of this tribe I'll sell it for $10/CD for the next month just to thank you for your support and interest.

You can just send a personal check with a return snail mail addy to:

PURPLE HAND
412 Darwin Street
Santa Cruz, California
95062-2629

if you are interested.

I don't moderate this tribe, Choz does so I wanted to thank him for his support and also let him know to send me his address so I can send him a gratis copy.

thanks everyone for your support of my artistry. I make all of my living from being a creative artist and , as you well, know, it is exceedingly difficult to do that in this day and age and economy so any financial support is greatly appreciated and keeps the wolfs of the economic realities of life at bay.

I also want to thank the support of my sponsors:
Gibson (for the fabulous EDP Echoplex), Cycling '74 without whose PLUGGO plugins I could have never made this CD, Ableton's LIVE, Antares (for the incredible voice to synth software KANTOS), Bias for their Peak sound editor on Mac OSX, Ms. Piggy (for scratching any sound in my computer with a turntable), Augustus Loop, Bob Collier for his custom Kalimbas and Dror Sinai of Rhythm Fusion, the best percussion store on the planet for all of his generosity.

I only endorse things I truly believe in so I can give an enthusiastic 'two thumbs up' to all of these wonderful and truly innovative companies.

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A SF gig I"m very excited about: L()()p.p()()L

2004-12-11T06:58:05Z

We'll be performing a really fun and creative collaborative show a week from this Sunday in San Francisco. Please come check it out. These musicians are excellent dark ambient/found sound/avante garde musicians and I"m really excited to be
improvising with them.

An evening of meditative sound sculpture and experiential sound research.

SIMM Series/Outsound Research
Musicians Union Hall
116 9th St @ Mission
San Francisco CA

L()()p.p()()L Nihil Communications Dark Muse
SOLOS DUOS TRIOS

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 19th

Schedule:
7:15 - 7:30 Nihil Communication + Loop.pool
7:30 - 8:05 Loop.pool
8:05 - 8:40 Nihil Communication & isak immanuel (butoh)
8:40 - 8:55 Nihil Communication + Dark Muse
8:55 - 9 (5 min. Break)
9:00 - 9:35 Dark Muse
9:35 - 9:50 Dark Muse & Loop.pool
9:50 - ? Trio

$5-$10 @ the door

myspace.com/nihil
myspace.com/darkmuse
Looppool.info

Please visit the links above for samples

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I'll be performing on NPR in Nashville this week

2004-11-18T19:50:58Z

I'll be performing on NPR in Nashville on Tuesday morning
at 11 a.m. with Nashville session legend, Tom Roady doing
a live looping show.

Then on Friday at noon, I"ll be doing a performance/clinic
on life looping techniques for the Nashville PASIC convention with
upwards of 10,000 drummer/percussionists from all over the world slated to attend the four day convention.

Then on Sunday, Tom will drive us to Memphis where he will be performing with Aretha Franklin, literally one of my main influences musically when I first started playing music.

I'll be back in Santa Cruz on November 15th.

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DARK AMBIENT FESTIVAL this weekend SANTA CRUZ

2004-10-22T09:58:01Z

I'll be playing a set of found sound/dark ambient music
inspired by Dark Muse's set at the Y2K4 loop fest this Sunday with a headliner from Japan! Check it out if you are free that evening:

DARK AMBIENT FESTIVAL
Sunday, October 24th, '04
NeXt: D()()R gallery
www.riotheatre.com
next to the Rio Theatre at the
corner of Soquel Ave./Seabright Ave., Sant Cruz

1) ACI (pronounced 'aish')- Violin, Laptop solo artist artist from Kobe, Japan)
----leader of the popular Japanese Darkwave/Goth band PHANTASMAGORIA)
http://www.magoria.net/

2) LAMENT (found sound/dark/ambient solo project of L()()p.p()()L's Rick Walker
www.looppool.info

3) FALLING YOU featuring the music of JOHN ZORKO
http://magnatune.com/artists/falling_you
and the voices of chanteuses
AIMEE PAGE and DRU ALLEN
(lead singer of well known Ethereal/Goth band THIS ASCENCION

SHOW begins at 8 p.m.
tickets: $8/available only at the door
NOONE TURNED AWAY FOR LACK OF FUNDS

*****************************************

for more information and radio/press interviews contact:
RICKWALKER@looppool.info

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

FALLING YOU

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

LAMENT (aka Rick Walker)

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

ACI ("aish") of Phantasmagoria

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Y2K4 International Live Looping Festival next weekend

2004-10-03T08:06:22Z

Hi, I thought the folks in this tribe might want to know about this really cool festival.
We're bringing 50 live looping artists from 5 countries to perform for four days in San Francisco and
Santa Cruz (where the main festival will be this coming Saturday and Sunday).
I hope you can make it. If you come from this tribe, please come up and say hello if you make one of the
events.

yours, rick walker aka L()()p.p()()L

Y2K4 International Live Looping Festival October 7th -11th, 2004

SCHEDULE for THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7th
The LUGGAGE STORE
1007 Market St. San Francisco

admission: $6-$10/admission (opener begins at 8 p.m.)

9:00 The INAMI/WALKER/WAGNER International Looping Trio

SCHEDULE for FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8th
QUESTION MARK GALLERY Santa Cruz
in the Pearl Alley Building behind the Pacific Garden Mall

admission: FREE

8:00 Michael Klobuchar (USA)*
9:00 Bernhard Wagner (Switzerland)*
10:00 Sunao Inami (Japan)*

MAIN FESTIVAL for SATURDAY and SUNDAY, OCTOBER 9th and 10th
The RESONANT CHURCH, Santa Cruz
429 Pennsylvania (1/4 block south of Soquel Avenue across from Rite Aid/Albertson's)

admission: $10/per day no one turned away for lack of funds

SCHEDULE for SATURDAY,OCTOBER 9th
12 noon Scott Kungha Drengsen (USA) -1
12:30 Krispen Hartung (Idaho, USA)-2
1:00 Trey Donovan (USA) -1
1:30 Craig McCollough (USA) - 2
2:00 Stanosaur (USA) -1
2:30 LX Rudis (USA) - 2
3:00 Kid Beyond -1 (USA) -1*
3:30 Cochlear Electrolysis (Minnesota,USA) -2
4:00 Andre Custodio (USA)- 1
4:30 Matt Davignon (USA)- 2
5:00 ghost 7 -M (Massachussetts, USA) -1
5:30 DINNER BREAK
7:00 Rena Jones (USA)-1*
7:30 Dark Muse (USA) -2
8:00 Sunao Inami (JAPAN) (HEADLINER) -1*
8:30 Armatronix (USA) -2
9:00 Ted Killian (Oregon, USA) -1*
9:30 e o (USA) -2
10:00 James Sidlo (Texas, USA)/Rick Walker (USA) -1
10:30 Are Jay Hoffman (USA) -2
11:00 Joe Balestreri (USA)-1

SCHEDULE for SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10th
12 NOON Kitundu (Iceland) -1*
12:30 Ahl-i Nafs -2 (David Giovachini and Susan Sammel) (USA) -2
1:00 Daniel Thomas (USA)- 1
1:30 Chris Cohn (USA) -2
2:00 Peter Chester & Rob Cross (USA) -1
2:30 Amar (USA) - 2
3:00 Dr Richard Zvonar & Bob Rice (USA) -1
3:30 Warren Sirota (New York, USA)-2
world premiere: Multi Loop software
4:00 Mark Hamburg (USA) -1
4:30 Alex Stahl (USA) -2
5:00 Bernhard Wagner (Switzerland) -M -1
5:30 DINNER BREAK
7:00 Michael Klobuchar (Pennsyvlania, USA)-1*
7:30 Larry Cooperman (USA) -2
8:00 Daniel Lewis (USA) -1 *
8:30 Gary Regina (USA) -2
9:00 Brian Kenney Fresno (Mars) - 1
9:30 Bill Walker & George Perry-2
10:00 Wayne Jackson (USA) - 1
10:30 George Demarest (Massachusetts, USA) -2
11:00 Timothy Crowe (USA)-1

SCHEDULE for MONDAY, OCTOBER 11th
1:00 Annual Loopers Luncheon at the CATALYST, Santa Cruz

Asterisked PERFORMERS are Featured Perfomers
Numbers refer to stage numbers
All artists that say (USA) are from California
SUNAO INAMI is our official Headliner for the festival.

My sincerest thanks go out to the following people.

Webmaster: Bernhard Wagner,
Poster/brochure and Website artwork designer: Ted Killian
Poster/T-shirt photography: Andrew Kaiser (for 'the spiral')
T-shirt design: Rick Walker (ooops, that's me)
T-shirt printing: Jason Gellis
Stage management: Chris Cohn
Simulcast organizer: Bernhard Wagner
Streaming bandwidth provided by ETHERIC NETWORKS
and.....
All the artists who have donated all of their time and who have all
travelled to perform at their own expense.

This festival is run on virtually no budget. The fact that it has become so big and wonderful is a testiment to the live looping community all over the world. None of this would have been possible without the existence of Loopers Delight, founded and maintained by Kim Flint. He just told us that this incredibly informative and exciting website has over 900,000 page views per month now. Thanks Kim for all of your energy, time and financial contribution to this community.

See you all there, I hope!!!!

yours, Rick Walker (festival organizer)

ps Sadly, Concert headliner, Italy's Roberto Zorzi's has had to cancel his tour to the US because of the illness of his partner Paola. Our heart is with them both and we pray for her speedy recovery.

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Exschweeze mee, buttt

2004-09-10T16:33:51Z

I emm looxing fur Meester Wokker, heez gotsa poimntement onn Dingling Berry Lane. Please tou tell heem I axed fur heem.

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Check my new loops and beats.

2004-09-02T21:21:16Z

http://artists.iuma.com/IUMA/Bands/armatronix/

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Music Release for the Tribe

2004-07-30T12:30:51Z

Music Release

Hi all!

Music Release

show to the tribe your latest tracks...post them here music-release.tribe.net/ , so that all the tribe can know whats new in the Indie World

If you are an artist, or artist manager, and want to promote a song or album, please just put in the header the name of the song and genre. And inside the post is up to you!

-You can put a link to your mp3, wma etc...
-or just the link for streaming

-or only the link for the artist page

followed by a brief description!

Wish you all the best music!

Metricks

http://music-release.tribe.net/

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Nothing personal.

2004-07-28T04:51:42Z

But loopers are lame. LAME!!

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Hey Choz!!!!!

2004-07-27T04:44:44Z

Would you mind removing all the looppool
pics of the halloween party from the photos section, Choz?

That was a fun evening but that is the fucking ugliest and stupidest costume I"ve ever warn on Halloween.

I only bought it at the last minute because it was the only dayglo green costume that matched my performance.

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE will you remove them.

Many thanks! I've got some cool pics to replace 'em with if you want more photos.

Thanks, yours sincerely NOT THE MANAGEMENT!!!!

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cool 'ghost' pic from Santa Cruz Digital Arts Festival

2004-06-04T00:23:54Z

looping stickman, Matt Hermann took this really
amazing photograph of Jacqueline Jensen dancing during
the whimsical portion of our performance at the Santa Cruz Digital Arts Festival.

We just viewed all four videographers footage of that evening over at David Tritrams' home in San Jose (along with his wonderful live animation of the same event).

It is truly amazing footage and videographer Mariah Salisbury is currently working on an edit of it as we speak.

After the very dark black and white piece that we did that evening, two young guys approached me at a bar to talk about the piece. The first one said that it was so intense that he started crying in the middle of it........the other one nervously told me that he like my music but that the piece was so intense that he had to leave the building and only came back after it was over to see the rest of my set.

To make someone cry and someone else run from the performance
is pretty amazing. It says a lot about the wonderful performance by Jacqueline Jensen, Niki Selkin and Trey Donovan (the butoh dancers), David Tristram's live digital animation
and Rob Wood's stark and minimalist lighting.

It was an amazing evening and I want to officially thank everyone of the eight artists involved for all their wonderful gifts.

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example of a MIKEYPHONE

2004-06-02T23:57:01Z

we were talking about found objects and
interesting ways to create samples on the
!!!.···ElectronicMusika···.!!! tribe (great tribe, btw)

and I described the instrument that my friend Michael Haumesser
made and gave me for one birthday, the MIKEYPHONE

I uploaded an example of it to the

looppool@yahoogroups.com check it out if you are bored!

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new pics

2004-05-13T06:20:53Z

i just uploaded the pics i shot from halloween 2003, my camera was still new to me so i was experimenting, but none of these were edited in any way all raw. enjoy

btw for those who dont know i have seen up to 300 photos in a tribe

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Santa Cruz Digital Arts Festival

2004-04-21T04:40:25Z

Hi gang,

I'm really excited to be collaborating with several really fine artists in next weekend's Santa Cruz Digital Art Festival.

I'm putting together a fascinating improvisatory collaborative show with Butoh Dancers NIKI SELKEN and JACQUELINE JENSEN, the wonderful digital video animator DAVID TRISTRAM all of which will be filmed in real time by two documentary 16 mm filmakers. All the artists will be creating
simultaneously and there will be digital artwork on display.

Our set time will be Friday night, April 23 at 10 p.m. at the UNION coffeshop in downtown Santa Cruz (near the corner of Water and Cedar across from the parking garage).

ALL AGES are WELCOME, we encourage that
you bring children who will find the evening fascinating.
There is a $5-$15 donation requested with no one turned away for lack of funds. All funds will be used to buy art supplies for kids in Santa Cruz and a school in Nepal where one of our organizers has been volunteering for
the past two months.

All of this will only add to the creativity of some very special artists who I feel privileged to be on the same bill with:

MATT HERMAN (7:30 p.m.)will be live looping on the instrument called the stick (a cross between a bass guitar and regular guitar that uses tapping technique)

AMAR CHAUDHARY (8:00 p.m.) will be making all original laptop computer music (that he designed himself!) with various toy and ethnic instruments inspired
by the art hanging on the walls

and the incomparably wierd and wonderful
WAYNE JACKSON (9:00 p.m.) who will be playing circuit bent toys and his own proprietary looping software on laptop.

This amazing three day festival is being put on by DARYL WISE, SYNTHIA PAYNE, ALICE PALACIO, JESSE ROSE DEROOY, PETER CHESTER
and a host of other volunteers. We are so blessed that people this talented and professional donate so much of their time to bring a world class show to the people of Santa Cruz. I really want to take this moment to acknowledge their vision and their gift to us all. Thanks so much!

Here's the skinny for the whole festival:

SANTA CRUZ DIGITAL ART FESTIVAL Thursday through Saturday, April 22-24

There are three BIG days of digital art next Thursday-Sat, April 22, 23 and 24. There is also an ArtWalk at the three exhibition spaces where 2D and 3D art is being presented.

Please see our web site for more information.
http://www.santacruzdigitalarts.org/

The Festival features are:

Thursday, 4/22/04
Multimedia Night at the Rio Theatre 7:30
Suggested Donation $5-15.00
No one turned away.

Three Part Evening!
1) Local multimedia and animation artists present their artwork on the big screen!
2) Music by Deepfried with performance by Kathleen Crocetti.
3) fAf 15th Anniversary Screening Programme

This juried series of short digital content originates from
Singapore and contains 16 unique short "films" from artists from around the world. This will be a highlight of the festival!

Friday 4/23/04
GroOvin' at the UniOn: Best of Santa Cruz Sound Artists
Suggested Donation $5-15.00
No one turned away.

7:30 - Matt Herman - processed Chapman Stick, video by David Tristram
8:30 - Amar Chaudhary - processed sounds and an electronic tablet
9:00 - Wayne Jackson - computer music, video by David Tristram
10:00 - Rick Walker - Live Loops/Found & Invented Sounds/Extended Vocal
techniques, Butoh dancers Jacqueline Jensen and Niki Selken, video by David Tristram, documentary filmmakers

Saturday 4/24/04
GroOvin' at the UniOn: Best of Santa Cruz Sound Artists
Suggested Donation $5-15.00
No one turned away.

10 am - Sound Analogous - The Typewriter Project invites you to type a narrative which the typewriter will read and in turn compose a
soundtrack. 2:00 - Andy Graybeal
3:00 - Ray Hayes
4:00 - Brandon Cleveland
5:00 - Synthia Payne
6:00 - Luke Dahl
7:00 - Ben Rogers
8:00 - Deep Fried
9:00 - Brian English
11:00 - Fluorescent Grey

Digital Art Exhibitions:
Louden Nelson Center
The Rio Next Door Art Space (open on Rio event days)
120 Union-The artwork of S. Swaminathan

ArtWalk
Saturday, April 23 2-5pm at each gallery. Meet the artists!

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New free loops from acid planet...

2004-04-16T19:19:39Z

New free loops from acid planet:

http://download.acidplanet.com/8packs/essefexbounce8pack.exe

self extracting file...

lots of the blippy blippy...

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post your loops and works in progress in mp3s

2004-04-07T23:59:59Z

I just created a looppool@yahoogroups group so that we can
all post mp3s of loops and/or works in progress for this tribe and also, Mark Sottilaro's most excellent Cycletronica tribe
(a tribe for live loopers).

go there, sign up and post mp3s of your loops or things you want advice on or works in progress.

Don't use it for discussion though. I just established it because tribe.net doesn't have the ability to share files other than pics (to my knowledged). Let's talk here!

yours, Rick

ps I just posted a short ambient piece that I composed when my good friend Noel Gott passed away a little while back. He was a wonderful studio owner/engineer/producer who gave me a lot of breaks when I first broke into the recording world many years ago. He was as generous and loving a human being as you will find and he left us far to early at the age of 63.

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loops and music resources...

2004-04-07T20:33:09Z

I found this list via undergroundhouse.net.

I some links may be broken, but there's quite the motherload of resources there. The initial link got crashed, so here's a mirror link:

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~worc1498/stuff/musiklinks.txt

someone started going through these links and gave some reviews in the undergroundhouse.net forums... here's the thread:

http://undergroundhouse.net/bb/viewtopic.php?t=15916

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Thanks, Tribe members for your attendance

2004-03-06T00:34:04Z

I had a really fun show last night at the Luggage Store
Gallery and wanted to thank all the people who made it from
tribe.
It was fun improvising with Dina Emerson and Matt Davignon
and there was even a brief appearance by tribe's own Simran Gleason.

I can't wait to come back up to the city to perform. If anyone here's of any gigs, large parties, museums or art galleries where what I do would be appropriate, please contact me.

yours, Rick

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LEAP DAY LOOPERS Santa Cruz CD release party for new L()()p.p()L cd, 'FAUX VOIX'

2004-02-26T06:58:43Z

Hi gang, Rick Walker here,
I'm really pleased to announce this
exciting collaboration and looping concert
coming up soon in Santa Cruz (I think this
probably qualifies for the wacky Santa Cruz
thread. The chance to collaborate with
a couple of artists as amazing as Deepak
Ram and David Tristram really has me high.
Watch for some special surprises and some special guest
artist appearances!!!!

LEAP DAY LOOPERS
international live looping festival

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 29th

Next: D()()R Santa Cruz, California
Soquel & Seabright next to the Rio Theatre
8 p.m. $10/door
No One Turned Away for Lack of Funds

with:
KOOROSH DARYIAE and DARK NUMBERS (Persia/L.A.)
L()()p.p()()L
(official Santa Cruz CD release party for Rick Walker's new
recording of voice and electronics, 'FAUX VOIX'

and a very special live improvisatory trio with
DEEPAK RAM (North Indian Bansuri Flute Master)
DAVID TRISTRAM (Master Real Time Digital Video Animation)
RICK WALKER (live loops/multiple instruments,found and invented sounds).

Look for special guest appearances by incredible death metal singer Jeremy Zumaran (in a special faux industrial beat box piece replete with Butoh dancers) and processing/looping by
Bill Walker.

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MRN Compilation****

2004-02-11T10:39:34Z

We are the Molecular Reconstruction Network, a group collective dedicated to experimental/avant garde/soundscape, etc "music", and art...At the moment we are looking for people/projects that approach their sound developement in a more "experimental fashion, for an upcoming compilation CD...Each person/project will receive personall copies and some extras to distribute how they see fit...If at all interested please contact
<br>Rev. Aeron Mils @ kairos236@yahoo.com

<br>Release date is in the air... but we are aiming to have all material in by Mar. 23rd 2004 and release by early June...
<br>Write if you have any questions of any sorts...........Rev. Aeron

Also Thanks to Rick for his support and contribution to this project, much appreciated brother.....

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Stylistic Approach

2004-02-06T11:13:43Z

Being a looper, to me, is almost like being Sponk, Texas living in L.A. and hoping to find other people from Sponk.

I'm curious. For me, looping was an accident. I decided one day, as I was moving back to L.A. that instead of being guitarist/sideman, I would play solo guitar, no singing, just guitar, and see if I could get and keep an audience interested in the music. It worked.

One day as I was working up my set, I was screwing around with my Roland GP-100 in the Delay Department (you can guess what's coming next), I set the Feedback to 100 and the delay time to 4.5 seconds (the longest it'd go.) I played some chords and of course they echoed back, repeating infinitely. 'Cool', I thought. Then I played some line against the chords, and they became implanted inside what was to be my first loop. 'VERY Cool', I thought.

I actually went on to use this extremely limited version of looping in my performances, and man was it limited. Basically I had an empty space of 4.5 seconds that I had to create a 4/4, 3/4 or whatever/4 to fill that space exactly. If I was off, the loop wouldn't work. (I used a trick of putting very quiet delays that split the 'empty space' into four equal parts and used them as a metronomic device.) I actually did a recording session of my own loops this way, but using a real metronome instead. Surprisingly, they weren't bad. But it was limited and frustrating so...

...then went on a search to find devices that were dedicated to this effect. I eventually wound up with the Lexicon JamMan, which to this day I love and still work with.

I'd describe my looping as pretty conventional though. I play the guitar as usual and build layers. Sometimes create faux bass, faux percussion (by hitting or muting the strings, etc.) or just unusual textures by way of DSP.

In my act, I call myself the Eclectic Guitarist because, I merge varying styles from jazz, to classic rock, to country, to african, to whatever the whim may be. So I think the actual looping effect is secondary to what I play on my guitar. In other words, the loop supports the music, the music doesn't support the loop. If you'd like to get an idea of just how conventional my looping is, you can listen at my website, www.vincognito.com.

My question to others is, what kind of music do you perform in the loop setting? Is it tonal? Avante Garde? Trance-y? Conventional forms? Basically my music is VERY accessible to the lay listener. I'm curious what forms others are employing...

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fresh loop.pool

2003-12-25T14:47:40Z

From Rick's Listing today:

"This week I am releasing a CD of experimental voice and electronics called FAUX VOIX. It features live looping performances from this summers' European/UK tour, the Woodstockhausen Festival of Esoteric Music, the Y2K3 Live Looping Festival and the Bay Area Voice and Electronic Thingee.

It also has several pieces using text to voice editors and other computer generated 'faux' voices.

The CD is available by sending a personal check for $10 USD (p + h included) made out to Rick Walker to

Faux Voix
412 Darwin Street,
Santa Cruz, California
95062-2629

There will be examples on the website this coming week at www.looppool.info.

Thanks for putting up with this decidedly non-commercial, commercial announcement."

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Live Looping Concerts and Clinic this weekend

2003-11-20T07:28:56Z

One of the most innovative and truly unique artists of
the burgeoning Live Looping movement will be playing two concerts in the Bay Area (Northern California) this coming week.

Andre LaFosse, who is , arguably, the greatest master of the very deep Gibson Echoplex EDP + and who plays what he calls
'guitar turntablism' will be playing a live looping show
on this Friday evening in Mountain View at the STARZ Dance Studio (223 Moffet Blvd.-- 2 minutes from the Mountain View Caltrans) at 8 p.m. with another very creative looper, percussionist Jon Wagner. They will be doing solo sets and duo sets. Tix are $10/door with no one turned away for lack of funds.

Then the next day there will be a clinic with both artists at 4 p.m. and a concert at 8 p.m. in Oakland at 3150 Adeline Street (at 32nd).

tix are $10 for the clinic and $10 for the evening performance
(or $5 if you have attended the clinic) and , again, no one will be turned away for lack of funds.

I have performed and toured with both of these artists and they are truly amazing and wonderful musicians.

this will also be a rare opportunity to get to ask a lot of questions of some one who is a master of this amazing piece of electronic DSP hardware.

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thanks, choz

2003-11-01T10:16:22Z

so far it seems like I have a fan club of one......................tee hee hee..................no, just wait, ...................millions will follow, I'm sure of it.

no, seriously, thanks for starting this tribe.

If anyone else stumbles here, you can check out
some cool stuff at www.looppool.info.

I just returned from a 2 1/2 month, 8 country solo headlining tour of Europe and the UK. I headlined 15 festivals and it was really exhilirating to meet all the really incredible live looping artistst across the Atlantic.

Also just finished producing the Y2K3 Live Looping Festival with 30 artists from all over the United States performing on two stages, continuously, over three days at the Cayuga Vault in Santa Cruz, California
(which is my beloved home town).

Gareth Whittock came all the way from Wales to headline and it was an incredible three days of unbounded creativity in many different styles and genres.

the burgeoning international Live Looping Movement
is really only connected by the kinds of innovative music technology that is being invented almost daily..........it is not bound by genre or style but is expanding at an amazingly fast pace all over the planet.

go check out a live looper if you get the chance.

thanks, and welcome,

Rick Walker (aka Loop.pooL)

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