If you cannot see this embedded video, click on the direct YouTube link here. Here are some of the Odyssey Island scenesters hanging out on the party bus known as the gr00ver m00ver over East of Odyssey at the Ultramarine Column - Unsong Song #17.
Ultramarine Column by Adam Ramona. gr00ver m00ver by Fau Ferdinand and Zodial Semple.
Foghorn & Arabic Flair by Nnoiz Papp.
On the bus:
Fau Ferdinand, Adam Ramona, Nnoiz Papp, Wirxli Flimflam, Miulew Takahe,Evo Szuyuan, Bingo Onomatopoeia
This pic was actually taken moments after the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse's rehearsal du jour but it seems that visually speaking, this pic seemed the most appropriate to begin this blog posting with...Hey there Audiospace addicts, SLippery sorcerors and double decker dronemongers...
On the afternoon of September 11th (see the blog posting below), the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse rehearsed yet again for saturday's performance at Open Space in Victoria (British Columbia, Canada) as part of the Audiospace festival.
This rehearsal was also a chance to finally meet 3 of my new friends in person: Bibbe Oh, Faust Saenz and Cleo Hultcrantz. It was great to meet them all finally. I did actually take a pic of Bibbe Oh in addition to the other two but for some reason, I cannot locate the pic to blog her on this posting..sigh! However, Evo Szuyuan took a great pic of her. I guess I will have to ask for a photo-shoot with her soon enough.
Well anyways, we spent some time rehearsing 3 of AOM's classics from the immortal repetoire before going on a Magical Mystery Bus Tour across East (of) Odyssey Island with Fau Ferdinand at the helm. During most of that journey, I was (almost literally) "asleep at the wheel" but eventually, we ended up at Ian's screening lounge to give everyone a sneak peek at Evo Szuyuan's new and improved machinima of my composition SLippery SLope that has recently been tweaked by AOM's prime-mover, Miulew Takahe...
Well, with out further faffing around, here are some pix to help illustrate the more notable events of this very memorable day...
Ok ok, I am not blogging my photos in a linear chronologial order as this whole bus tour began at the end of the rehearsal but hey...at least with two consecutive bus pix in a row, there is the illusion of historical continuity due to the visual proximity of the bus images one after the other...uh....right? ;-) To see additional photos of this bus tour, check out Evo's pic and/or Nnoiz Papp's photo page.
So, here is the first pic from the actual rehearsal. We are sitting down in das kleine field recordings festival's space on Odyssey Island. We have decided to play Miulew's seminal piece Rue Blanche while sitting down on our pixellated yet poofy cushions...it was a good thing that this sine-tone soundscape was ambient enough to relax our tushies and drink endless refills of coffee...aaaahhhhh!
Here is what the revised version of Miulew's compositon Fragula now looks like from the orchestra performer's perspective. Apparently, this version 9.0 of the interface is actually NEWER than the version 12.0 that we were previously using(????) Such downgrading usually belongs solely within the (il)logical domain of Linden Labs ;-). Regardless, the new sounds and player-HUD has evolved from the original version in a very exciting way....check it out on saturday to see what I mean. In general, Bingo Onomatopoeia is the mastermind behind the construction of this musical performance HUDs and we are ever grateful for his willingness to design such wonderful interfaces...
Ok, I am glad this pic was taken at the very end of this rehearsal session because it works well visually since it fulfills the "end credits" motif that every blog posting should conform to ;-)Here are a bunch of us (including my new friend, Blued Food) checking out the SLippery SLope video. If you zoom closer to the pic, you will notice that Gog Mannonen signed online at this time...Gog soon joined us and could not stop giggling during the screening and had difficulty containing all the "lol"s bubbling inside...maybe Gog was in performance mode? One will never know for sure but that is the default mannerism on Odyssey Island :-)
