Happy Holidays!

We are slowing down for Christmas and New Years, and we'll crank up again next year. That means no show tomorrow! Boohoo! See you in 2011 for new shows and ideas.

Our New Gallery

We have altered our Gallery, so that the stage is under with a staircase up. Come on by and see how it looks!

Listening to New Music

Listening to New Music: Sunday, 12 December. 11 am SLT.

December Music.

Music to get us through the holidays.

We gave another Prim Torturing Hour at the Alpine Executive Center; with AldoManutio Abruzzo, guitar and computers; Flivelwitz Alsop, inworld sound manipulation; Sunn Thunders, sculptor. It was a good Christmas show, Sunn built using snow colors and shapes, and we played bells and happy sounds.

You can listen to the whole piece here.

Prim Torturing Hour #4

Saturday we will perform at the Ice Caverns at the Alpine Executive Center. AldoManutio Abruzzo, guitar/improvisor; Flivelwitz Alsop, inworld sound creator; and Sunn Thunders, sculptor will create music and art on a grand scale. Come on by for an hour of music and fun at 11 am PST!

The Beast Awakens

The Unrelenting Social Death March is a loose affiliation of musicians and composers; the idea was initiated by Dennis Moser, who also appears as "usr/sbin" (can be found on soundcloud.com and ITunes, etc.,) or "AldoManutio Abruzzo" (when performing in Second Life).

For this year's efforts, the music was brought together by TIm RIsher, composer and musician in North Carolina, and Dennis Moser, who currently resides in Wyoming. Our first efforts are a combination of studio-processed work and live, improvisational performance.

Listening to New Music

Check out our Events page for the next show!

November 6 Program
NAISA's Artscape Wychwood Barns studio
8 PM Toronto (5 PM SLT)
601 Christie Avenue, Toronto




2-John by Viv Corringham (World Premiere)

Listening to New Music

Sunday, November 7. Our radio show of new music at the Auraltone stage. On the next show, "The Sun Will Rise, Yet We Won't Be There."

Read more about it in our Events section.

Halloween Prim Torture #2

Wonderful show at the Gallery today - our second Prim Torturing Hour with Sunn Thunders, sculptor, AldoManutio Abruzzo, guitar, and Flivelwitz Alsop, inworld sounds. The sculpture will remain up for a week or two, come on by and see the results of our music and art!

Prim Torturing Hour #2

On Saturday, Oct 30, a second Prim Torturing Hour! Check out our events page to read more.

Listening to New Musc

A new show this Sunday at the island! Check out the Events page for more information.

Listening to New Music

A new show of music on our usual radio show at the Auraltone Stage on the island. Soft Sound is to be played. Check out the Events page here on our blog for more information.

Prim Torturing Hour #1

We gave our Prim Torturing hour show - Music and sculpture: a two-way process.
Sunn Thunders, sculptor
AldoManutio Abruzzo, guitar
Flivelwitz Alsop, RL Sounds inside SL

Here are some photos.

Prim Torturing Hour

Check out our events page to read about our latest concert series. It starts this Sunday, so don't forget!

Listening to New Music - Collage

Coming up on our next radio show -Sound Collage! See the Events listening for more info.

Listening to New Music - Ambient

New Radio show on Sunday for Listening to New Music! The Fabric of Ambient. Check the Events list for more information.

ROTATING BRAINS / BEATING HEART

ROTATING BRAINS / BEATING HEART, premiered at the opening night of the Digital Resources for the Humanities and the Arts 2010 Conference (Sensual Technologies: Collaborative Practices of Interdisciplinarity)
at Brunel University in London, England, A networked collaboration between performance artist Stelarc, the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse and composer Pauline Oliveros in Second Life, with composer/sound artist Martin Parker and saxophonist Franziska Schroeder.
5th of September 2010 @ 8.30pm UK.

It was a success, Thanks to everybody who put a lot of work into this! More about the show here.

The Art Breaker POP Art Lab opens tomorrow.


Hope to see you there!

We are listed on the Destination Guide in Second Life!

Runner-up!

The Pagina Aesina machinima, with music by Claus Gahrn, won second place in a contest! More info here.

Pagina Aesina

Claus Gahrn has written the soundtrack for a machinima in Second Life:

Video: Pagina Aesina
Story: Julio Cortazar
Director: Glasz DeCuir

You can watch it here, and in the video section of this blog.

Sneak Preview of POP Lab Collaboration

The POP Lab Collaboration Exhibition starts September 3, 2010, and our music sculpture is nearly ready! A large twisting flower with pulsating pods that reaches up several storeys into the sky.

Listening to New Music

Our radio show is fast approaching - Sunday, August 22, 2010 11 am SLT! Read about it in Events!

Sunn's World: Sneak Preview...

Sunn's World: Sneak Preview...: "Here are sneak peeks of my artwork under creation at the Pop Art Lab's upcoming Art Breaker event. I'll be working with composer Flivelwitz ..."

Listening to New Music

Check out our Events page for all of our programs!

POP Art Breaker

So, Flivelwitz is in collaboration with Sunn Thunders for the Art Breaker Festival at the POP Art Lab. PAL is allowing a collaboration between sculpture and music to guide their festival this year, and so we are hard at work preparing a piece which will represent the music in the art, and represent the art in the music. It should result in a wild sculpture! More news as the opening approaches.

No show this weekend (boo!), but I will give a special show next week! I will be too busy, alas to do the show.

New Gallery!

We have updated our gallery building and design - it's now open and roomy.
Set your environment to midnight to enjoy it with the stars!

Real Second Life

Most of you have probably seen this video, but in case you haven't, here it is...

PAL

Interested in music/art collaborations in Second Life? Want to enter?
The Pop Art Lab is waiting!

Weave II

Weave II, by Sunn Thunders. Music by Flivelwitz Alsop. The pieces are woven together with sine waves - I thought "How appropriate!" The music I created is based on 3 layers -

1) Sine waves. They are tuned to the first 8 notes of the overtone series, and each tone enters according to the first 8 numbers of the fibonacci series. As the sine waves fluctuate in and out, they flow into each other, creating new sets of patterns.

2) short bursts. These short bursts are a quick complex rhythmic pattern using the sine waves as well as a set of light percussive sounds.

3) "Melody". The melody weaves back and forth between the slowness of the sine waves and the shortness of the bursts. I used a VST to create the sound (a mixture of sine and triangle waves), and then added effects.

This second weave is a tad larger than Weave I, but I hope to display it soon.

Headphone Festival

I hope everybody was able to tune into the Placard Headphone Festival on July 3-4 and catch some of it, especially the parts with Dennis Moser and Tina Pearson!

Yesterday was Independence day in America, and I only now have the chance to post this Youtube video of Virgil Fox playing "Variations on America". It's posted over at Sequenza21 as well, but hey, why not?

Placard Headphone Festival

Put on your headphones and tune into the Placard Headphone Festival, centered in Sweden. The performers are all over the world, streaming into your headphones. Click here to find the stream.

Windhorse by Alizarin Goldflake.

Heart of Tones, by Pauline Oliveros, performed by AOM

Mahakala

This is Mahakala, a wall hanging by Alizarin Goldflake. It was created as part of a group of six, and can be found here.

Some sculptures

I have been creating new photos of our sculptures at the Gallery. This one is Weavesong, by Sunn Thunders. It is still one of my favorites! There is also a video of this one here on our site, in the video section.

Auraltone Sculpture Exhibit

The Gallery of Musical Sculptures announces its "Auraltone Exhibit". In celebration of the first release on the Auraltone label, we have set up our gallery with all the works we used on the album - pieces by Alizarin Goldflake, Sunn Thunders, Fuschia Nightfire, Treacle Darlandes, Binary Quandry, Claus Gahrn and Tim Risher. Every Sculpture uses different ambient sounds, so be sure to visit and enjoy!

Aldo Manutio Abruzzo and Lunar Lunacy

Tonight is #6/12 of the Full Moon Lunacy Concert series...hard to believe it's halfway over! The show starts at 6:00 PM/18:00 SLT and I hope you can make that!

Here is the Second Life location!

Musical Sculptures on Auraltone Music

"Musical Sculptures", a new album by Tim Risher and Claus Gahrn, has been released on CDBaby by Auraltone Music. It uses music from sculptures built by the various artists inside Second Life - Sunn Thunders, Fuschia Nightfire and Alizarin Goldflake.

Please check it out here:

New Video Player

As you can see, I have embedded a YouTube video player into our blog here. I hope to show various videos, not only of things from our gallery, but videos of people who have presented concerts or works at our place. I am working out the details for the player, at the moment I can only run videos that I upload to my own channel. But I will be tweaking it over the next few days to get more in.

New Addition - Hooray! I redid the video player, and now it works correctly. I will be able to add or subtract videos at my leisure, and it can be anything I want!

The Second Life 7th Birthday Party opens on Monday, June 21, and I am proud to say that "Heath" by Fuschia Nightfire with music by Tim Risher has been chosen as an exhibit there. With more space to work with, I was able to space out the musical sounds into a wider area, creating music which comes out from all directions.

Today we gave a Chillout Sunday Concert; the guest was AldoManutio Abruzzo. He presented a concert of ambient electronics with guitar. We have rebuilt our stage for all of our concerts - come on by and check it out!