A varied program coming up on Saturday, Sunday and Monday in Second Life from experimental to traditional to world music. Whether you like staying with what you know and love or have an adventurous spirit and love expanding your listening palette, you'll find something to enjoy this week. SATURDAY JUNE 5 @ 11…
Towards the end of my recent appearance on the Metanomics, host Jennette Forager suggested that Linden Lab's CEO had remarked that music could well be the "killer app" for Second Life. Unfortunately this comment and other questions about the economics of music, the "business of music" came too near the end of the session…
"Old Friends and New Friends" May 23 @ 12 pm SLT (PDT) Music Island, Sea Turtle Island PROGRAM: * Arrangements of Pentecost Sunday hymn tunes: "Spirit, I Have Heard You Calling" and "Come, O Spirit" (EBENEZER) * Frederic Chopin - Ballade no. 3 * Erno von Dohnanyi - Postludium from Winterreigen,…
Yuki Ukita, piano Thursday April 15 7 am SLT (PDT) Music Island, Sea Turtle Island A wave of great musicians have been arriving in Second Life from Japan and Music Island audiences are fortunate enough to be hearing from two leading lights this month. First pianist Yuki Ukita (YukithePianoPlayer Hutchison in SL) and…
Zachh Cale, piano Saturday, April 10 12 pm SECOND LIFE TIME (Pacific Daylight Time) at Music Island, Sea Turtle Island Join Zachh for some standards and originals. Zachh is a Music Island favorite performer who we've not heard from since December 2009. At Zachh's first performance, Linden Lab (in their usual lack…
ATHEENE DODONPA Medieval Song Thursday, April 8 @ 1 pm SLT Accompanying herself on the nun's fiddle, lap harp, hurdy-gurdy or other rarily heard instruments as needed, Atheene's haunting soprano travels the world of the Middle Ages to bring us songs from all cultures in the languages that the works were written and performed…
Sandia Beaumont, piano and harpsichord MUSIC ISLAND, SEA TURTLE ISLAND SUNDAY APRIL 4, 3 PM SLT PROGRAM: Debussy: Arabesque No.1 Scriabin: Prelude in G flat, Op. 16 No. 3 …
Young Zeid, violin/Viola Music Island, Sea Turtle Island March 28, 2010 12: 30 pm SLT (Pacific Daylight Time) Program: Bee F. Schubert ( 1808-1878) From a set of bagatelles, published in 1856 by the German composer and violinist Franz Anton Schubert. (not to be confused with the earlier and…
"Why is Music Island all mixed up?" said one visitor to MI this morning. Instead of one stage and seating areas there are two. This state of affairs will persist only until after the Avatar Metaverse Orchestra concert on Sat. Mar. 27. Because of the unique nature of the performance, audience and…
Unlike most musicians and musical ensembles in Second Life who perform in the real world and stream their sound (and sometimes video) livetime into the virtual world, the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse (AOM) performances feature virtual instruments designed for each composition within the Second Life platform. The instruments are played using Heads Up Displays (HUD)…
Zen Qork, Improvisational Piano Saturday March 20, 8 am SLT Music Island, Sea Turtle Island http://slurl.com/secondlife/Sea%20Turtle%20Island/59/21/851 Zen Qork AKA Alessandro Lecce is a new classic and film music composer. Born in 1969 in Milan, Italy, where he studied composition, piano, choral singing, clarinet and music animation. Many of his compositions have been…
On Thursday we had a full house when Linden Labs deleted the stage side of Music Island. Previously the start time had been delayed 10 minutes when the audience half of the venue was re-started and everyone who had arrived at the top of the concert ran over the sim line and onto the…
