Monthly Archives: June 2021
Music of the Baroque
Today, Saturday June 5th, we explore, once again, the music of the Baroque era. We’ll be including the work of a wide range of composers. Many will be familiar; other perhaps less so; or they may have written pieces that we know well but have no idea of who composed them — for example English composer Thomas Arne, who wrote Rule Britannia but also a range of other pieces which deserve more interest than is usually paid to them.
Then at 12 noon and 4pm Pacific / 8pm or midnight UK time, there’s another chance to hear Episode 7 of “Where’ve You Been?”, our twice-monthly show on places to visit and things to do around the Second Life Grid. In this episode we visit the exciting Sau Motors Demo Track — an amazing multi-level racetrack and a fabulous collection of bikes and cars to test out on it — details here. And every four hours from 4am Pacific, tune in for “The Engines of Our Ingenuity”, from the University of Houston, about the machines that make our civilization run and the people whose ingenuity created them.
The Black Mass: The Rats In The Walls by H P Lovecraft
Join us on Friday at a little after 12 noon or 4pm Pacific time, 8pm or midnight in the UK , for another episode in the landmark radio drama series The Black Mass, created by the late Erik Bauersfeld and his colleagues at the Pacifica radio station KPFA in Berkeley, California, over fifty years ago. In 30 chilling tales of mystery, imagination and the human mind, The Black Mass brings you some of literature’s most haunting stories, by masters of the craft — many of whom are best-known in other fields.
Note that the programme will not begin until the track playing at the top of the hour has finished, so the actual start time of the episode will be a few minutes after the hour.
Today: The Rats In The Walls by H P Lovecraft
“The Rats in the Walls” was written in August–September 1923. It was first published in Weird Tales, March 1924
The Early Music Show
Tune in to Virtual Community Radio today, Saturday March 20, for a programme of Early Music – today featuring music of the High Renaissance, with contributions from France, Spain, England and Germany. There are also some modern interpretations thrown in for good measure.
The 100 Word Stories 16th Anniversary Podcast — Now on Mixcloud!
Long ago, R. Dismantled swore an oath to write a 100 word story every day until the day he died. He’s not dead yet…
On Monday, May 31st, Virtual Community Radio joined R. Dismantled and the 100 Word Story Podcast as we celebrated 16 years of “keeping it brief”, in Seanchai Library’s Ceiluiradh Glen, with stories and interviews. Live in Second Life, and live here on Virtual Community Radio. We found out what “microfiction” and “Drabble” are, and how it’s done. We discovered R. Dismantled’s backstory. We celebrated the anniversary — and we heard some great, short, stories — all surprisingly deep and sometimes dark, too.
This special programme is now available on Mixcloud for those who missed it or would like to hear it again. Perhaps, as a result, you’ll try writing microfiction yourself! Check out the weekly challenge here.
