Avatar Orchestra Metaverse Concert at xxXtension...

Avatar Orchestra Metaverse
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It is first thing in the morning in SL (but late afternoon in Europe and Scandinavia) and we are just about to perform some found sounds...

CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE AUDIO PODCAST ARCHIVE FROM THIS CONCERT...

Hey performance art, La-Z Boy and new muzak fans,

Ok, I am blogging this behind schedule because RL is starting to gradually take over my Second Life ... I am basically in denial as I type out this blog - I am still under the delusion that I can successfully multitask both lives (not to mention all my avatar ALTs and their respective blogs)...

Sigh! The Avatar Orchestra Metaverse concert at the xxXtension space in Regensburg (Odyssey Island) began at 6:30 AM SL time which meant I had to wake up at 6 AM and I am NOT a morning person...sigh! zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.....

Well, I hope this was videotaped so I can just embed the video into this blog and not have to descrive every detail of this event...I really could with more sleep in RL..just thinking about it is making me very sleepy and woozy.

The event itself though was quite active...the venue was filled to capacity and got rave realtime reviews from the audience in attendence...

Here was the official press release from co-performer, Miulew Takahe:

"AVATAR ORCHESTRA METAVERSE /* will perform on saturday the 12th may on virtual Haidsplatz on 7am SLT / 4pm CET.

'FOUND SOUNDS' is the main theme of the performance: the daily sounds in our lifes - the aural signposts of life - so present everywhere - so seldom listened to - so often taken for granted.

Welcome to Haidplatz/Odyssey on saturday for a listening bliss and visual experience made with the HUD's of Bingo. Beware! Your listening will never be the same - listen deeply!"

Here are some more pix...I hope to have links to additional audio and video archives very soon...

It is true...for this found-sound intro warm-up piece, we are literally just standing around, hanging out and telepathically transmitting our found sounds from our inventory directly into the public platz...

I took this pic because I just luuuuuv Evo's pink bunny booties? Who is this hipster, anyway?

Here we all are finally feelng prepared enough to play Miulew Takahe's composition called Rue Blanche (2007)...

...and here we are in mid-performance of "Rue Blanche"....

Here is the in-world-premiere of WNK (Wee Nee Kresch) by Bingo Onomatopoeia of Pomodoro Bolzano fame... It should have been called "Wee nee Krasch" as his piece crashed the whole simplatz and we had to reboot one-by-one...sigh!

Heheheheh...I need at least one new gratuituous self-portrait on my blog from time to time...In the background, you can see Bingo moving balls along a his abbacus-like instrument...once his 3rd ball got rolling, we also got rolling and played our scored-out samples...

Here I am posing with a nearly-realtime pic of this concert that was rezzed like moments before this snapshot was taken..I decided to pose with this pic from the recent past...kind of like having a parallel dimension as a backdrop, eh? Am I getting nostalgic? You be the judge ;-)

Ok, this snapshot must have taken towards the end of our concert as I am dancing my ass off to the breakbeat snippets that Bingo had sampled for our gratuitious use/abuse (yes, "gratuitous" is the word for today's posting)...Seconds later, I had inherited Sugar Seville's custom "fast dance" moves before passing out onto the comfort of my RL bed....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz....

Avatar Orchestra Metaverse Rehearsal IV...

I guess you could say that this is the final "dress rehearsal" for Miulew Takahe's piece Rue Blanche which we will be playing on Saturday... Hmmm..I guess today must be "Casual Tuesday" or something...lol!

Hey performance art and nOOb muzak fans,

Phew! What a day!

RL is just totally draining my financial and psychic resources right now...

I am surprised I even have the energy to attend all these events, let alone blog about them.

Well, my 4th rehearsal with the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse was alot of fun despite the RL obstacles...

Check out these (hardly) captivating pix...

For this rehearsal pic, Ian Ah is explaining to the nOObs and latecomers how our orchestra performs...Yes, it is true - our avatars are in fact the performative sound sources. You are probably also noticing all the performance HUD, chat and navigation windows I have open... Geez, and you thought that playing in an orchestra would only be about reading a piece of paper, tapping your foot, thumping on a tympani and/or tooting a horn, waving a baton and/or caressing a string?
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Ok, here is my first rehearsal for the beta-test of Bingo Onomatopoeia's new HUD and composition called WNK ("Wee Nee Kresch"). I like the fact that there is virtually no trace of a written score (not even on a notecard), barely any conducting and totally improvised...woooo hoooo! Paaaaartrrrtty! Yeah, I mean like Bingo has this earthbound "Bingophone" or something which looks like a cross between an abbacus and a mixing board and as soon as 3 of his balls are in motion (only in SL or in some biotech lab can you brag about having more than 2 balls), he yells out "START". Bingo's HUD (those 2 columns on the left) for his own composition here is pretty text-heavy...The samples were alot of fun though..I swore that at least one of the samples was from DOOM. And...OMG! The architecture in the background is starting to look more and more like something that Frank Gehry would be doing with his spare RL time
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Oh geez, I thought Bingo yelled "START" in the last pic but it was a false alarm..sigh! Hmmm...I think it is starting to look more like a dress rehearsal...more than before, anyway... Hmmm..maybe if I "clik the fro" as one of Filthy Fluno's nametags suggest, I can get a top-secret teleport (TP) or at least some kinda notecard/landmark combo to the actual dress-rehearsal...heheheheheheh... Once it starts, I feel the vibe and it can't stop!

Ok, now you can see I have yet another window open...This time, I also need to dance to Bingo's beatbox. I just HAD to show you my screen capture of my IM window where Maxxo Klaar admits to being a fan of this blog :-)

Avatar Orchestra Metaverse Rehearsal III...

Here is a sneak-preview of the brand new HUD interface combo designed by Bingo Onomatopoeia for my upcoming compositon, "SLippery SLope" (2007). If you notice the colourbar on the left with gradations from purple-pink-blue, you can see what v2.0 of my performance HUD looks like...

Here was what the previous versions of my SLippery SLope performance HUD looked like:

...v1.0 was designed by Maximillian Nakamura. I am currently scavenging my archives to find a pic of Max making this classic HUD version... So far, no luck...sigh! For the record, I intend to use his classic HUD for additional SLippery SLope performances...

... and the transitional v1.5 HUD was designed by Bingo Onomatopoeia.

Hey performance art, new music and choreography fans!

I have just finished documenting my 3rd rehearsal with the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse today. I literally just finished rehearsing a couple of hours ago...I wish I had more time today to also rehearse Bingo's brand new piece but at least I got to see what the performance materials for my own up and coming composition looked like :-)

The HUD-test was alot of fun! I had people running around the fountain and I would yell out the name of a cafe and/or restaurant in this virtual version of Regensberg and if they saw it, they would press the corresponding button :-)

Here is the audio podcast from today's HUD-test for SLippery SLope.

Here is the description of today's HUD-test by co-member, Miulew Takahe who recorded this sound check...

"This is the very first AOM testing of Wirxli FlimFlam's piece SLippery SLope, or better call it the very first testing of the new HUD's made by Bingo Onomatopoeia for Wirxli's piece. We were running round the fountain at virtual Haidplatz and this piece sounds and looks very promising for coming AOM performances." - Miulew Takahe.

Here are 2 more pix and one extra hyperlink for an audio podcast below...

With this pic, you can get a more detailed look of some more of us wearing these parachute-like backpacks which are also part of Bingo's custom receiver-info HUD. So, when we play the coloured buttons on the left, our avatars will dance to the inflatable shape and colour of the morphing backpack...very kewl! Merce Cunningham, Stephanie Skura and Twyla Tharp, watch out! ;-)

Earlier in the day, we did a 2nd rehearsal of Miulew Takahe's "Rue Blanche" (2007). You can see his sine-tone performance HUD menus on the left. I think we have finally mastered the performance aspects of his piece now...yaaaay!

Here is Miulew Takahe's podcast audio recording of today's rehearsal of "Rue Blanche".

Please note that although the podcast says "Rue Blanche Rehearsal #4", I have posted this blog entry as my 3rd rehearsal with the Orchestra as I missed one of the rehearsals for this piece...sigh!

Avatar Orchestra Metaverse Rehearsal II...

My rehearsal as an orchestra player for the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse was just about to begin when I took this quick snapshot. This composition is Rue Blanche (2007) by Miulew Takahe. The innovative HUD interface you are seeing is by Bingo Onomatopoeia

To listen to an archived podcast audio recording from our totally live and in-world rehearsal session today, click here.

Hey performance art and new-muzak fans!

I literally just finished rehearsing once again for the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse! Wow, Miulew did a brilliant job of composing for Bingo's triple-HUD performance interface system :-) I hope Miulew and Bingo write more compositions together!

The piece reminds me of Alvin Lucier or some classic sine tone composition by a member of the Cologne school although I guess this composition really belongs more to the Regensburg school...heheheheh!

I hope I can make it to the actual orchestra performance on May 12th!