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SLCN and Music

SLCN is Second Life Cable Network - the TV network for Second Life, and last week I was interviewed on this show. Here is a link to the show: http://www.slcn.tv/programs/music-academy The interview was sponsored by the Music Academy on line, an excellent place to meet, see and hear composers.

Open Mike in Second Life

HD Artists in Second Life (That's me) is offering an "open mike" on Sunday, July 6, 2008 from 1 pm PST. Music: modern classical, ambient. minimalism, noise, etc. Please email me or IM me in-world (Flivelwitz Alsop), if you wish to perform. I hope it will be a successful concert!

Han Bat

Carl Stone , an American composer living all around the Pacific rim, and who works primarily with electronic music, currently has an exhibition in Japan called Han Bat. It's a multi-sound installation "that builds from slow juxtapositions of various acoustic dimensions and spatializations that were enregistered using a special 8-channel portable recording system, The Octaphone, in 2007 and 2008", according to the article at Networked_Music_Review . Sounds like it will be a blast. Carl Stone:: HAN BAT INSTALLATION :: C-Square Gallery, Chukyo University :: 101-2 Yagoto Honmachi Showa-ku :: NAGOYA JP :: June 30 at 6:30 pm.

Second Life

I have become involved in Second Life - you know, that place where lots of things happen online, or perhaps where nothing happens. It has come a long way since I first tried it years ago. Now you can have concerts, buy land, meet people, create new conent, etc. Come on in, come by my place and book a performance!

Florida

When you think of Florida and Art, it can make your head hurt, I know. But there is stuff there. 1) Salvador Dali Museum - The Museum celebrated 24 years in St. Petersburg in March 7, 2006. However, the history of the collection began in Cleveland, Ohio in 1942. Industrialist A. Reynolds Morse and Eleanor Reese began their marriage and their lifelong involvement with Dalí and his wife, Gala, as friends and collectors with the purchase of their first painting Daddy Longlegs of the Evening-Hope! in 1943. They spent the following 40 years seeking out the artist's work and assembling the largest private collection of Dali's art in the world. At the moment, there is a wonderful exhibit on Dali and Film, and you can watch many of the films Dali was involved in, including Un chien andalou and L'Âge d'Or . 2) Ringling Museum - Located on a 66-acre estate on Sarasota Bay, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art was established in 1927 as the legacy of John Ringling (1866-1...