As I am still technically in rehab, I am not really allowed to indulge in the real "bubbly". To celebrate Belated New Years Day, I have decided to spend some time inside a bubble instead...In this case, it is the sonically enhanced bubble vehicle belonging to my Orchestral colleague, Goodwind Seiling.Hey there Post-Party Poopers, Belated Bubbles and Rehab Addicts!
HAPPY BELATED NEW YEAR!
Yaaay! It is Feb 1st and I am exactly one month behind schedule! I guess this would officially make it a Belated New Year worth celebrating, eh?
Sadly, the last time I posted on my blog was technically last year...Is anyone counting? SIGH!
The end of 2007 was a major burn-out for me because of all the
SL Coke I was doing...it kinda got to my head and I am sure the entire
Second Front group also went a little snowblind since our most recent debaucherous fiasco in Miami was a dayglo green blizzard out of nowhere!
Anyway, I have been spending the first part of this year in Rehab which is probably a good thing since I have an upcoming full time job in
RL. This
job will be 9-5 PM from Monday-Friday so I probably will not be active in
SL nor on my blog until the weekends....
However, I have not totally faded from the scene. I consider 2008 to be the year of being "Born Again" although in
my case, that does not really mean all that much...heheheheh....
I still have some life left in me in the form of:
1) A top-secret performance with
Blued Food at an undisclosed location (I cannot show you the rehearsal documentation until later).
2) Feb 10th - Upcoming
Second Front and
Avatar Orchestra Metaverse performances curated by
Olga Wunderlich will be taking place on the
ZKM Island that is part of the
Director's Lounge in Berlin.
3) Feb 16th - A talk with
Second Front following a bunch of
Senegalese artists and theorists as part of
Upgrade Paris. This event will be organized by
Toto Donat.
4) May 10th - My new composition called
"XANADRuuL: Stockhausen's Pleasuredome 4 Sirius Business" (2008) will be premiered at the
Open Space's Voice festival. This 3rd musical opus of mine will be performed by the
Avatar Orchestra Metaverse accompanied by additional choir members and will be curated by
Humming Pera (
Tina Pearson).
5) A whole slew of top-secret collaborations in
SL and the
World of Warcraft which I am not at liberty to disclose yet.
Well, enough about the future...here are some more photos from the blast from the slightly earlier past...well, earlier today anyway... All these photos were taken from my
Orchestral colleague
Goodwind Seiling's (
Sachiko Hayashi's) installation at the
HUMlab in Sweden... Basically, you enter a floating bubble vehicle and ram into the various spokes inside the
geodesic dome...the experience is kinda like musical
bumper cars except one might guess that
Eno was the engineering guide rather than some demented fair-ride operator.
Ok..here they are...
Here is a zoomed-out pic showing the entire geodesic dome... If you look closer, you can see me inside the dome (and inside a bubble as well)...It seems that the "dome" is a common architectural theme for Orchestra members these days since I will also be using a custom geodesic dome for my upcoming Stockhausen tribute piece for mixed Orchestra and Choir called "XANADRuuL: Stockhausen's Pleasuredome 4 Sirius Business".
Here is proof that I actually attended Goodwind Seiling's show at the HUMlab. Although this was the first image I documented, I am posting it as if it was a closing image as I am treating it like end-credits....hee hee!
It did not take me long to get dressed for the occasion: Dr. Seuss hat, Senegalese flag-abstraction jacket and French flag-abstraction pants....I was good to go and was looking forward to meeting up with some other Second Front-ers, the curators and Gawlab from Dakar (Senegal) who were giving an artist talk before us.
