Rockit a success
Veteran Aussie SL resident Wolfie Rankin held his first instalment of ‘Rockit’ this evening on Eragon island. A cross between and RocKwiz, close to thirty people turned up to watch. The two teams of four were selected from the audience after an initial round of questions. Then, a number of rounds followed including audio [...]
The Neil Young Archives
Zak Claxton’s Neil Young Archives is a compact but effective tour of the artist’s work. You can listen to some of Young’s work whilst browsing the visual discography or replicas of Young’s favorite instruments.
Zak Claxton’s take on it all:
“Neil Young is a personal favorite musician and songwriter of mine, as well as someone who has [...]
Australia Council announces first in-world artists forum
The Australia Council certainly can’t be accused of not howing interest in Second Life as a means of artistic expression. Last week we reported on the ‘matchmaker’ service for artists and musicians working in Second Life. Now, in conjunction with the ABC they’ve announced an artist forum for the 12th July:
“The in-world event, to be [...]
Second Fest
Second Fest is on this weekend and it’s very Australia-friendly with Day 2 kicking off around 9pm AEST (4am SL time). The rumours about an avatar appearance of the Pet Shop Boys are probably nothing more than that, but hey those guys were avatars fifteen years before SL so it’s an obvious fit.
The Intel [...]
International Technology Expo 2007
Over the next three days SL will be host to the International Technology Expo – 2007. It opens on Friday April 20, at noon PDT (April 21st at 5.00am Australian EST).
The organisers have billed it as “showcasing the most innovative in technology products and services created by its residents for business and personal needs.” [...]
JJ’s Coffee Bar – Music Streaming Evolution
Remember Happy Days, the iconic American program of last millennium?
It started off with a shot of a jukebox playing a record of the program’s signature tune. Throughout the past 100 years or so the idea of people listening to, talking about and enjoying music has been a mainstay of modern culture.
One of the issues confronting [...]
Making real music in real time
I was pointed to a fascinating blog post – a Tokyo-based artist, Lance Shields is the real-life alter ego of both Andres Watanabe and Juria Yoshikawa. He’s developed Sound Station 1.0 – there’s a streaming video on his site.
If you watch the video, the Sound Station has obvious uses for musicians or other performance [...]
