SLippery SLope Video!

Wirxli FLimflam - "SLippery SLope" (2007)
Video recorded and edited by Evo Szuyuan. If you cannot see this embedded video, click here.

Hey there in-world music composition fans,

Finally, Evo Szuyuan has recorded an accurate and sublime machinima version of my first composition for the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse, called "SLippery SLope" (2007).

Many many thanks to all the Avatar Orchestra performers as well as Evo Szuyuan for reflecting the composer's original intention in the form of a fantastic video/audio edit!

Also, super thanks goes out to:

A) DeThomas Dibou who designed and built these special architectonic SLopes exclusively for my composition.

B) Bingo Onomatopoeia for the customized HUD performance interface design for my composition.

C) Miulew Takahe for coordinating the Orchestra rehearsals as well as engineering the audio recording archives.

D) DannyDarko Raymaker for taking the very first video-document of SLippery SLope.

E) Maximillian Nakamura (the Founder of the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse) for helping me develop the first performance HUD for SLippery SLope.

To learn more about the history and context (including the performer credits) behind my very first music opus composed exclusively for the Second Life universe, click on these previous blog postings:

1) SLope SLipping and hanging out.

2) SLippery Slope's in-world Premiere for the Pages exhibition in London. This first performance includes the first machinima video archive by DannyDarko Raymaker (video recording) and Miulew Takahe (audio recording) as well as the full transcript of the official notecard score.

2) SLippery Slope's dress rehearsal.

3) Thursday's SLippery Slope rehearsal.

4) Bingo's HUD help in his Hometown.


Also, check out these audio podcast archives recorded and collected by Avatar Orchestra Metaverse co-founder, Miulew Takahe in reverse-chronological order...

I - Recording of the studio version of SLippery SLope recorded by Hopi Jun and Miulew Takahe for the official machinima performance for Evo Szuyuan's videography.

II- The second half of the official machinima re-take peformed in reverse-SLope order to generate bonus video material for Evo Szuyuan.

III- Documentary recording of the 1st official performance of SLippery SLope.

IV - HUD test for SLippery SLope (the composition-in-progress).

Bingo's HUD-Help in his hometown!

Here I am with the German Avatar Orchestra Metaverse members, Bingo Onomatopoeia and DeThomas Dibou. I just happened to drop in while they were setting up a mock-up of their hometown, Regensberg. Nice flaming car, eh? Apparently, Bingo placed it there in reference to a car show happening right now in the RL version of Regensberg.

Hey performance art and new music fans!

Last night, I was at Enniv Zarf's place because he invited the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse to play my brand new composition I am working on called "SLippery SLope" (2007). If we play there, it will be on May 19th or so. Even though my new composition-in-progress is site-specific, I will not show you exactly what I was checking out at Enniv's place because that just might spoil the surprise a little bit...

So anyways, I realized that the sample-performance HUD that Maximillian Nakamura helped me create a couple of weeks ago would not be enough to make for an expressive performance to an audience.

Being a performance artist at heart, I was really inspired by the rehearsal of Miulew Takahe's composition "Rue Blanche" (2007) and the interpretive visual-HUD that Bingo built for it. So, I finally got a chance to chat directly with Bingo about the possibilty of making a new visual-HUD for my composition and he is into the idea and so I literally just gave him all the audio-visuals I have at my disposal for my gesamtkunstwerk so far (including Max's very aesthetically pleasing square button mod).

Yaaay! Things are coming along so nicely and I have all these brilliant collaborators to thank for making my wackiest dreams come true!

Here are a few more snapshots for you to kill time with...

Ahhh...here is a nice close-up of me hanging out with Bingo. At this point, we had diverted the topic of our discussion to the much more important theme of hairstyles and jeans. Bingo was mentioning how Regensberg is near Austria and I remarked that we both have genius hair like Beethoven and Mozart. Bingo said though that he grew up listening to the Beatles which would explain his tight black jeans. Maybe he should have called himself Ringo Onomatopoeia...lol! R-I-N-G-O!

Uhhh..forget the mention of "The Pink Zone" in the chat-history of this pic..that is uhhh..classified composition-related information ;-) Noticing that someone might be listening (other than DeThomas), I quickly changed the subject to local restaurants in Regensberg since we were standing outside of a pizzaria... Regensberg looked to "euro" to have pizza-by-the-slice but he offered to show me where his fave pizzaria in town was and that was....

... Da Tino Pizzaria! I said how it looked like an "intimate" setting and he then asked how urban my hometown was...I said that my RL hometown was only slightly bigger than Regensberg but where I live now is considered to be the 3rd biggest city in Canada. So now he understood why his fave pizza joint was "intimate" in its atmosphere...