Rick Walker is an unusual and creative Audio/Visual artist who utilizes live looping techniques along with a dizzying array of multiple instruments:  drums, percussion, bass, keyboards, flute, reed instruments, brass instruments, string instruments,  extended vocal techniques and a profusion of found and invented instruments to create exotic audio and visual landscapes. In the past two years,  Rick has also created several works utilizing low fidelity, toy video cameras to create 'animations' that he projects, interactively while he performs.

Rick has toured in 15 countries in Europe, North America and Asia as a headlining artist and also produces the largest live looping festival on earth for the past eight years in Santa Cruz, California where he lives (www.y2kloopfest.com)

Additionally, Rick has performed with master musicians from all over the planet as a drummer, percussionist, live looper and is considered one of the founders of the World Beat movement in the early 1980's. He has performed/toured or recorded with Yunghcen Lhamo (Tibet), Babatunde Olatunji (Nigeria),  Martin Simpson (UK), Bob Brozman (US), David Lyndley (US), David Hidalgo (US), Amel Tafsout (Algeria),  Abdoulaye Djakite, Hiraysu Takashi (Okinawa), Masahiro Nitta (Japan), Debhashish Battycharya (India), Renet Lacaille (Reunion), Familia Valera (Cuba) and dozens of other world musicians.

He has founded and produces the largest annual International Live Looping Festival on the planet that has drawn over 200 artists from 15 countries.   He is currently designing a new low fi interactive audio/visual program with Bill Putnam of Universal audio,  adding design ideas to the Looperlative hardware digital looping device and owns a digital audio design effects company called Out of the Box FX with Chris Roberts. He lives with his wife, singer/songwriter Christine Wedertz in Santa Cruz, California.

Recent articles featuring Rick Walker:

1. •O'Reilly Digital Music Site:
   

2. http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2009/01/08/rick-walker-live-looping.html
   

3. •The Boston Globe: http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2009/01/30/in_the_loop/
   

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For more information

1. •Extensive biography: www.looppool.info/bio.html
   

2. •for his lo-fi, toy digital video 'animations of his abstract electronica compositions:
   

3. www.youtube.com/looppool
   

4. •for live performances from his recent headlining tour of 8 countries in Europe/UK www.youtube.com/DaygloOrangePlastic
   

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6.                                                  www.loopool.info