Avatar Orchestra Metaverse Performance for Enniv Zarf's Sculpture Competition...

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If you want to see Wirxli with his/her usual clothes on, you are out of luck! ;-)

Here are the assembled members of the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse after completing today's show at Enniv Zarf's Krystal Epic compound ...We were all trying to cram ourselves in front of our tiny logo on display at Zarf's SintixErr Gallery for a photo-shoot... I think we need a larger logo...sigh!

UPDATE FROM THE FUTURE:
Plurabelle Posthorn has reviewed this show on the Virtual Artists' Alliance blog.

Hey performance art and new muzak fans,

I have just finished performing with the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse.
I am really tired in RL right now (mega headache) but hey, I was able to make it in time to perform...phew!

Once again, we performed Rue Blanche by Miulew Takahe and WNK by Bingo Onomatopoeia.

Unlike previous performances and rehearsals of these two compositions, Loop Luo streamed the event live in both audio and video formats for those outside SL to check out the concert as it happened...

I am hoping to get some archives from this event very soon so please stay tuned to this blog..in the meantime, check out these photos and the rest of this blog...

This pic was taken right at the beginning of the concert..Check out the cars in the background..they were offered as prizes or maybe it was part of Enniv's car competition or something... Expect to hear alot more on the subject of the "best cars in Second Life" very very soon :-) That curvy thingy on the right is the Bingophone, I think...

I forgot to mention that we performed as part of the Spirit Fens Art Festival also known as "Artomatic". Hmmm...the festival seems to be based in Washington, DC - I wonder if our performance was projected into a RL gallery there? I will have ask Enniv more about the details behind our performance venue as I had no idea about any of this until I read the giant billboard hyping the sponsor(s) on the wall...always good to know who your sponsors are...I wish to thank Enniv Zarf for inviting us, by the way... Speaking of sponsors, it was great to see that SL Reports was officially covering the event...it helped that they also acted as one of the many official sponsors for this festival :-)

...at this point, we were firing up Bingo's composition... Oh a quick tangent - I really like Miulew's shirt! :-) I think the whole event went quite well...phew!

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!

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...