Monthly Archives: January 2022

Classical Landscapes

January 15, 2022   Programming

Sat­ur­day, Jan­u­ary 15th: Today’s pro­gramme con­sists of music from some of the Great Mas­ters of Clas­si­cal and Roman­tic music (and a few from the Baroque), includ­ing Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and many more.

Sit back and enjoy some of the great­est music ever writ­ten, per­formed by the lead­ing orches­tras and solo per­form­ers of the world.

Today’s episode of “Where Have You Been?” (12 noon or 4pm Pacif­ic, 8pm or mid­night in the UK) looks at the For­ev­er Tourist: a Sec­ond Life Explo­ration Game, which encour­ages and rewards your explo­rations on the grid. You start off by acquir­ing a Pass­port, and hav­ing done so, you trav­el the grid to par­tic­i­pat­ing loca­tions where you can get a stamp in your pass­port, and some­times free gifts. All kinds of places are fea­tured and the list of par­tic­i­pat­ing loca­tions is up to around 400.

You can also hear “Engines of Our Inge­nu­ity” at the usu­al time, every 4 hours from 4am Pacific.

“Orches­tra” by foil­man is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

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Moon Over Morocco: Episode 2

January 13, 2022   Programming

TODAY on Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio — Fri­day, Jan­u­ary 14th, noon or 4pm Pacif­ic / 8pm and mid­night in the UK, the sec­ond install­ment of…

Moon Over Morocco

Once in a far away land there exist­ed a knowl­edge of nat­ur­al mag­ic that has been lost to mod­ern man. Jack Flan­ders treks to Moroc­co, believ­ing that in this prim­i­tive coun­try, where mag­ic remains an inte­gral part of dai­ly life, he may find this knowl­edge. Jack dis­cov­ers far more than he expect­ed when he steps through the Gate of Pea­cocks, the entrance to that lost world. Jack has stepped out of mod­ern day Moroc­co and into the realm where the knowl­edge of mag­ic is a req­ui­site sur­vival skill. Here’s a taste of this week’s episode…

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“Where Have You Been?” Begins a New Season

January 12, 2022   Programming

“Where Have You Been?” is an orig­i­nal Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio series, host­ed by Cale­do­nia Sky­tow­er and Elrik Mer­lin. In each episode, released every two weeks, we look at places to vis­it and things to see and do around the Sec­ond Life grid.

This week, from Wednes­day, Jan­u­ary 12th, we’re start­ing the sec­ond sea­son of “Where Have You Been?”, mark­ing a full year of broad­casts. In Sea­son 2, Episode 1, we look at For­ev­er Tourist: a Sec­ond Life Explo­ration Game, which encour­ages and rewards your explo­rations on the grid. You start off by acquir­ing a Pass­port, and hav­ing done so, you trav­el the grid to par­tic­i­pat­ing loca­tions where you can get a stamp in your pass­port, and some­times free gifts. All kinds of places are fea­tured and the list of par­tic­i­pat­ing loca­tions is up to around 400.

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The Early Music Show

January 8, 2022   Programming

Tune in to Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio today, Sat­ur­day Jan­u­ary 8th, for a pro­gramme of Ear­ly Music – 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.

Don’t miss Engines of Our Inge­nu­ity every 4 hours from mid­day UK time / 4am Pacific.

“Where Have You Been?” — our series on things to do and places to vis­it across the Sec­ond Life Grid, is cur­rent­ly on hia­tus and returns shortly.

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ZBS Presents: Moon Over Morocco

January 7, 2022   Programming

TODAY on Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio — Fri­day, Jan­u­ary 7th, noon or 4pm Pacif­ic / 8pm and mid­night in the UK, the first install­ment of…

Moon Over Morocco

Once in a far away land there exist­ed a knowl­edge of nat­ur­al mag­ic that has been lost to mod­ern man. Jack Flan­ders treks to Moroc­co, believ­ing that in this prim­i­tive coun­try, where mag­ic remains an inte­gral part of dai­ly life, he may find this knowl­edge. Jack dis­cov­ers far more than he expect­ed when he steps through the Gate of Pea­cocks, the entrance to that lost world. Jack has stepped out of mod­ern day Moroc­co and into the realm where the knowl­edge of mag­ic is a req­ui­site sur­vival skill. Here’s a taste…

The envi­ron­ments in Moon Over Moroc­co were record­ed by author M. Ful­ton while trav­el­ling around that coun­try. You’ll hear the Med­i­na, the Cas­bah, the music of the snake charm­ers, the lone­ly call to prayer from the minaret of the mosque, the dogs of Tang­i­er as the moon becomes full, the music of the desert tribes record­ed in the Sahara and Berber music record­ed at fes­ti­vals in the Grand Atlas and Rif Moun­tains. Music was record­ed by Paul Bowles. Ten hour-long episodes.

Fea­tur­ing Robert Less­er as Kas­bah Kel­ly, Dave Adams as Mojo Sam and Tau­re­an Blacque as the Sto­ry­teller Mustafa. And of course Robert Lorick as Jack Flan­ders / King Has­san Bizel / El Kabah

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Tarot @ Teatime Episode 23: The Druidcraft Tarot

January 6, 2022   Programming

Thurs­day, Jan­u­ary 7th, and we’re pleased to release the lat­est episode of our pop­u­lar orig­i­nal series on the Tarot: “Tarot @ Teatime”, on the air Thurs­days and Sun­days at noon and 4pm Pacif­ic Time/SLT, 8pm and mid­night in the UK.

In Episode 23, Hon­ey and Wil­low dis­cuss the Druid­craft Tarot.

Will Wor­thing­ton cre­at­ed the images for the beau­ti­ful Druid­craft Tarot. He is often inspired by the work of the pre-Raphaelite artists, par­tic­u­lar­ly their use of the nat­ur­al imagery of the British Isles cou­pled with the Arthuri­an leg­ends. He paint­ed the images of the Druid­craft Tarot deck using an ancient medi­um called Egg-Tem­pera, which is a tech­nique also used by the pre-Raphaelite painters.

Egg-Tem­pera is cre­at­ed using fine­ly ground pig­ments mixed with the con­tents of an egg yolk. The out­er skin or mem­brane of the yolk is punc­tured and the liq­uid yolk is drained into a cup, mixed with a few drops of an extend­ing agent such as white vine­gar, oil of myrrh, or even water. Then the ground pig­ment is added. The extend­ing agent keeps the egg-tem­pu­ra from dry­ing too quick­ly — oth­er­wise the egg yolk dries imme­di­ate­ly upon con­tact with air. Egg tem­pera is not a flex­i­ble paint and requires stiff boards; paint­ing on flex­i­ble media will cause cracks to form and chips of paint to fall off.

Wor­thing­ton paint­ed the Druid­craft Tarot images on care­ful­ly pre­pared wood­en boards paint­ed with lay­ers of ges­so, cre­at­ed from fine­ly ground white chalk and ani­mal glue, which were then sand­ed smooth. Egg-tem­pera dries quick­ly, and pro­duces a smooth, rich mat­te fin­ish when it is dry.

The Druid­craft Tarot, Philip and Stephanie Carr-Gomm (Authors), Will Wor­thing­ton (Illus­tra­tor), St. Martin’s Press, Revised edi­tion (March 2019), ISBN 10: 1250307422

Missed any episodes? Catch them on our Mix­Cloud feed!

 

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Jazz On The Keys

January 4, 2022   Programming

Today, Wednes­day Jan­u­ary 5th, we’re pre­sent­ing a pro­gramme of Piano Jazz. Well, pri­mar­i­ly. While many of the pieces we’re play­ing today fea­ture or include the piano, there are also some record­ings fea­tur­ing oth­er key­board instru­ments, includ­ing some inspir­ing pieces on syn­the­sis­er — hence the broad title “Jazz On The Keys”. Keep an ear out for Alan Haven’s Image, a late-night Radio Car­o­line clos­ing tune back in the day; Cam­bridge-based David Rees-Williams and his tri­o’s inter­pre­ta­tions of clas­si­cal works; two albums by Bil­ly Bar­ber, one (Shades of Grey) on piano and the oth­er (Light­house) on elec­tron­ic instru­ments; and some mar­vel­lous per­for­mances by Ian Lynn includ­ing his clas­sic album For­got­ten Summer.

Don’t miss “Engines of Our Inge­nu­ity” every four hours from 4am Pacific.

“Where Have You Been?” is cur­rent­ly on hia­tus: Sea­son 2 will begin shortly.

“Shai Mae­stro” by Nathan Bul­li­vant is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

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Four New Shows on Mixcloud

January 3, 2022   Programming

We’ve uploaded four more pro­grammes to our “Lis­ten Again” facil­i­ty on Mixcloud:

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The Anniversary Ball

January 2, 2022   Programming

Today, Sun­day Jan­u­ary 2nd, Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio is hold­ing a Vien­nese-style Grand Anniver­sary Ball to cel­e­brate a year of broad­cast­ing. It’ll be held in the Plaza in front of the Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio The­atre on Chest­nut Hills in Sec­ond Life, at 2:15pm.  And before that, at 1pm in the The­atre itself, a spe­cial clas­sic Old Time Radio per­for­mance by Sean­chai Library Live. Plus — a last chance to hear the lat­est edi­tion of Tarot @ Teatime! Here are the details…

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Anniversary Weekend Continues…

January 1, 2022   Programming

Today, Jan­u­ary 1st 2022, marks the sec­ond day of our 1st Anniver­sary celebrations.

Our FEATURED MUSIC today is  Sat­ur­day At The Movies — On the air all day apart from times not­ed below.

Sec­ond Life res­i­dents, don’t miss our ICE-SKATING JAZZ PARTY with DJ Cale­do­nia Sky­tow­er — at the Win­ter Hol­low Skat­ing Pond in Sec­ond Life, 2–4pm SLT. If you can’t be there in per­son, tune in to Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio and catch the music. On The Air and in Sec­ond Life.

And tune in for THE MOST EPISODE 3 - join your host Susan­nah for the third episode of  The MOST — Music from the Orig­i­nal Sound Track - this month with music by com­posers includ­ing Ennio Mor­ri­cone, Les Bax­ter and John Bar­ry; from movies and TV series includ­ing tracks from Hell’s Belles, Sex And The Sin­gle Girl, East Side/West Side and more. Catch the show at 12:30pm & 4:30pm Pacif­ic Time/SLT, 8:30pm and 12:30am in the UK. On The Air.

 

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