Izabela has been performing one movement of the Four Seasons each season throughout the past year, beginning with "Winter" in December '08. Here in high summer, she brings us the third movement, with complementary repertoire for a hot weekend at Music Island. ABOUT THE ARTIST Izabela Spiewak (Izabela Jawororer in SL) started her…
Cindy Ecksol has been making and teaching music with voice, autoharp, fiddle and a variety of other instruments for as long as she can remember. She is particular interested in traditional music of many varieties, and her repertoire includes everything from Irish tunes and Israeli dance music played on autoharp to dark Appalachian fiddle tunes…
So you want to play a concert on Music Island? That's great! We need more musicians, more music, more art in Second Life. It is not possible to have too much and there's a place that fits everyone to showcase their art. But is Music Island the right venue for you…
Probably not. I have to make a disclaimer upfront that so far my experience with SL's brand of artist-manager has been abysmal. So much so that I have sometimes thought of following a strict, "we don't deal with artist managers" policy. In RL, I quite like most people in the arts management…
A great and informative piece on SLCN (now Treet)
And I hope they come and do a show at Music Island soon :-)
July 11 @ 1 pm Naftali Torok Roots of European Music, is a complementary concert to the following weeks program. Composers drew on the inspiration of the gypsy fiddle, klezmer music and other folk traditions to inspire, enliven and paint the landscapes in their classical works. Experience the original sources of this rich…
HIGHLIGHTS OF SUMMER SEASON While more activity is being added daily, here are some dates you won't want to miss! July 11 @ 1 pm Naftali Torok Roots of European Music, is a complementary concert to the following weeks program. Composers drew on the inspiration of the gypsy fiddle, klezmer music and…
Sharing a photo from Aldo's very well received concert on June 20th. His welcome to summer certainly warmed our hearts and put us in the summer mood.
Great new machinama of the Storm in a Tea Cup multimedia experience has been filmed and edited by artist, Christine Montgomery. This is what SL art is supposed to be all about. Collaborative: Original music composed by Christine Montgomery collaborating with Photographer R0bin Helsinki 3-Dimensional: Constructed environment built from Second Life…
Daily new avatars find Music Island and are often disappointed to not find musical things happening around the clock on their arrival. When I happen to be there and I explain that we present only "live music events", I often meet puzzlement from them. They do not know what I mean and do…
Midsummer's Eve is a time for magic in any reality and nothing will equal the magic of this concert in the warmth and beauty of the Music Island simulation in Second Life. If you haven't had the immersive experience of "being there" afforded by live music in virtual reality, there is nowhere better to…
On Friday June 19th at 4pm SLT 2 duos of RL classical musicians who have regularly been playing in SL as duos will be performing together in RL as a quartet. The quartet is piano, oboe doubling saw, violin, and violin doubling viola. The concert will be streamed live into SL and the quartet (Sisi…
