On THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16th, The Y2K14 International Live Looping Festival will occur in San Francisco at The Turquoise Yantra Grotto with a special
show, "THE EXPERIMENTAL SIDE of the Y2K14 LIVE LOOPING FESTIVAL" featuring a wonderful collection of 'new' musicians from Slovakia, Italy, France and the United States performing.
8:00-David Kollar and Paolo Raineri
8:30-John Connell
9:00-Lucid Brain Integrative Project (Emmanuel Reveneau)
9:30-Shores of Latency (Emmanuel and Laurie)
10:00-Laurie Amat
10:30-Nelly Meunier
The show will be located at 32 Turquoise Way at 8:00.
All ages are welcome and there is a donation requested of $10 ( no one turned away for lack of funds)
San Francisco has always traditionally been the site of the festival's homage
of Experimental and Improvisational Creative music.
This year's show will feature Lucid Brain Integrative Project (aka Emmanuel Reveneau from France), Prehisto-zik (aka Nelly Meunier from France), a duo with Slovakia's David Kollar and Italy's Paolo Raineri, and Americans Laurie Amat and John Connell, both fresh from extensive European live looping tours this past summer.
The Y2K14 festival itself expanded officially to 28 cities in 11 countries world wide with brand new festivals in Thailand, Singapore, the United Arab Emerites and Spain.The main festival, begun in 2001 in Santa Cruz and the site of this year's 14th anniversary will last from Friday evening through Saturday and Sunday, day and evening in Santa Cruz with 40 artists from 11 countries representing this year.
For more information, please contact Laurie Amat Amatworks@att.net
For artist bios, photographs and URLs of performances and videos, please go to:
www.y2kloopfest.com
LUCID BRAIN INTEGRATIVE PROJECT (Emmanuel Reveneau)
Emmanuel is a French artist involved in music, video and theatre, whose work is deeply informed by self-organization theories, situationism and irony. He currently uses self-designed looping software, Noundo, to improvise wacky groovy soundscapes, and last summer produced the second series of French live-looping festivals including Loop Jubilees in Paris, Lyon and Chauvigny. He and Laurie Amat collaborate in the Loop project "Shores of Latency" which premiered at L'Ecole D'Arts Plastiques in Chatellerault.
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheLucidbrain?feature=mhee
http://www.parisloopjubilee.com
http://www.allolabase.com
PREHISTO'ZIK - Nelly Meunier
Before being a clarinetist, Nelly was an archeologist. Since ever searching links between past and present, she currently plays with the collective orkestronika, amongst others, and develop her solo project: PREHISTO’ZIK.
“In music sets of PREHISTO’ZIK, I try to create music representing an anachronistic mixture: one side the modern ethnocentric equipment of occidental culture using a looper and a clarinet, and the other side the ancestral and universal sounds of materials like clay, wood, stone. I make my own instruments, based on actual archeological and ethnologica knowledge.”
http://nellloche.wix.com/nellyzmuzik#
DAVID KOLLAR is a young generation artist, guitarist and film music composer with a unique musical vision that absorbs and reflects all manner of music while retaining an enviable individualism. Few critics ave called him "young Andy Warhol" because of his creativity in the art. Before his 30's he released 8 albums, created music for over 18 films, also worked in original music and movements projects Artrance performance with Andrea Ladanyi, Debris Company with Jozef Vlk and Spit Fire Company. His collaborators include Eivind Aarset (Nils Petter Molvaer, David Sylvian, Brian Eno, Dhafer Yousseff, etc), Gergo Borlai (Terry Bozzio, Scott Henderson, Hadrien Feraud), Bjorn Charles Dreyer (Xplodin Plastix, Boschamas), Lenka Dusilová (Lucie, Eternal Seekers, Baromantika), Pat Mastelotto (King Crimson), India Czajkowska, Tadeusz Sudnik and Gunnar Geisse, His most recent album THE SON /Hevhetia/ was in TOP records last year in several countries /USA, FR, CZ, SK especially because of his originality in guitar playing.
PAOLO RAINERI Has collaborated with any kind of musician, from rock to improvised music and played with Stefano Battaglia (…Plays the music of Philip. K. Dick), Junkfood, Berserk!, Blessed Beat. His trumpet is just the source. Using real time electronics he can draw ethereal and heavy worlds, that can describe the contrast of the human condition. Inspired by the scandinavian scene of nu-jazz, Paolo has developed that influences with his musical roots (from rock to free improvising music) and created a personal sound.
https://soundcloud.com/david-kollar/the-blessed-beat-the-zone
www.davidkollar.sk
Bay Area musician JOHN CONNELL has had a lifelong fascination with creating new sounds. After studying traditional Persian & Afghan music for over 8 years, he rediscovered his love for electronic music, collecting all sorts of small analogue and digital devices.
John has performed at the amazing Y2K International Live Looping Festival in Santa Cruz, CA since 2008, mangling iOS synths and processed samples through the versatile Line 6 DL4 Looper.
Active around town also as a DJ spinning UK Bass, Grime, & Post-punk, John is excited to perform with all the exceptional artists of Y2K14 after touring France, Italy, & Switzerland w/ friends this last May!
NELLY MEUNIER is today a musician, but she was yesterday an archeologist. When she discovered live looping grew immediately the idea of mix her two passions. So was born PREHISTO'ZIK, search of an ancestral transe...Controling her RC300 and using a motley instrumentarium, she invites you to travel beyond ages and frontiers...
LAURIE AMAT
For over 20 years vocalist Laurie Amat has been cultivating and expanding her use of the full vocal instrument ranging from traditional opera to radical extended acoustic vocal technique in settings ranging from theaters, galleries cathedrals and monasteries, to tunnels, stairwells and cisterns.
She explores the broad possibilities of voice, breath and body in acoustic live performance, recording and multimedia, focusing on the power of the pure voice as an instrument to convey a direct expression of visceral human emotions and individual story. She also continually breaks boundaries with her use of electronics, creating voice based angelic choirs and brutal industrial sound pieces.
Ms. Amat is a resident and member of Providence, Rhode Island artist-run organization AS220. She recently returned from her second European International Looping Festival Tour with performances in France, Italy and Switzerland and which was highlighted by a 5 day collaborative residency in Chauvigny, FR with Emmanuel Reveneau (Lucid Brain Integrative Project). Present collaborations include her work with Emmanuel as the duo "Shores of Latency", Drone specialist Dave Seidel as "Palimpsest", Sound and Video creator TimeGhost (Adam Morovsky), Bergen based multi-instrumentalist/looper Ole Christiansen (Sonisk Blodbad).
Her upcoming projects include The Prague Alternativa Festival and experimental resonant space and electronic recording and performance in Bergen with Sonisk Blodbad.
www.soundcloud.com/Amatworks
www.Amatworks.com
Cost: $10 sliding