Category Archives: Programming
New Shows on Mixcloud: Tarot @ Teatime 11 and Where’ve You Been 12
We’re pleased to announce the addition of two new programmes to our Mixcloud “Listen Again” facility. Listen to them now at https://www.mixcloud.com/virtualcommunityradio/
“Where’ve You Been” Episode 12 features The Borderless Project, an interactive digital art exhibition that explores light: reflections, structures, movement, creation and evolution. .
“Tarot @ Teatime” Episode 11 explores several classic Tarot spreads and how to read them.
Saturday At The Movies
Today, join us for a programme of music from the movies, today featuring videogames and more.
Movies are where most people today hear orchestral music, and there will be plenty of that today. But movie music is a much broader field than that, and today you’ll hear music from the movies of many different kinds, from the very start of the genre (with Camille Saint-Saens) to the latest blockbusters; from orchestral music to rock, to Fifties songs. There is a slight bias towards fantasy and SF movies, but never mind, we all need a bit of an escape these days.…
Today we’ll be featuring music from The Elder Scrolls V — Skyrim: a classic game soundtrack from Jeremy Soule.
The Black Mass 24: Oil of Dog by Ambrose Bierce
Join us on Friday at a little after 12 noon or 4pm Pacific time 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. Our thanks as always to John Whiting, producer of many of these recordings, and of course to Erik Bauersfeld himself. Today’s programme was originally broadcast on March 4, 1964.
Note that the episode will not start 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: Oil of Dog by Ambrose Bierce
Hits In Hi-Fi
Today we’ll take a nostalgic journey back to the 1950s and 1960s and beyond, when music was on vinyl (don’t touch the playing surface!) and home audio was new and excitingly futuristic… with Hits In Hi-Fi.
In the early days of stereo, a significant number of albums were released that were designed especially to show off the wonders of this new way of presenting musical entertainment. Sounds “ping-ponged” across the stereo soundstage; instruments appeared hard on one side and then hard on the other… and there were a lot of space references, bloops and bleeps starting and ending the pieces — and once the Moog Synthesiser became available, that was included in the mix too.
Entente Cordiale
It’s Saturday 24 July, and today we are pleased to present a selection of classical music from Britain and France.
In fact the emphasis is somewhat more on the French, but we’ll be hearing from a number of British composers such as Elgar, Vaughan Williams and of course Frederic Delius, who, while born in England, spent the latter part of his life across the Channel.
From the French side we will be featuring Poulenc, Fauré, Chopin (who was Polish born but became a French citizen) Debussy, Ravel and Berlioz, with performances both traditional and not so.
We also have a selection of “cross-channel” pieces in a somewhat lighter vein.
Today you can also hear the latest edition of “Where’ve You Been?” — details here — where we visit The Borderless Project’s amazing art installation, at 12 noon or 4pm Pacific / 8pm or midnight in the UK — and don’t miss “Engines of Our Ingenuity” — presented by the University of Houston: the series about the machines that make our civilization run and the people whose ingenuity created them. The programme is broadcast every 4 hours from 4am Pacific.
The Black Mass 23: The Boarded Window by Ambrose Bierce
Join us on Friday at a little after 12 noon or 4pm Pacific time 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. Our thanks as always to John Whiting, producer of many of these recordings, and of course to Erik Bauersfeld himself. This programme was originally broadcast on February 12, 1964.
Note that the episode will not start 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 Boarded Window by Ambrose Bierce
Tarot @ Teatime 11 — Classic Spreads
Thursday 22 July sees the first broadcast of Episode 11 of our popular series, “Tarot @ Teatime”, with Honey Heart and Willow Moonfire, exploring the history of the cards and how they may be read. Tune in to http://main.vcradio.org at noon or 4pm Pacific / 8pm or midnight UK time. This episode will repeat on Sunday.
Episode Eleven
In Episode 11 we discuss three classic Tarot spreads and their use, including the Three Card Spread, the classic five card French Cross, and the Nine Card Tableau.
Where’ve You Been 12: The Borderless Project
Wednesday, July 21st sees the premiere of a brand new episode in our series “Where’ve You Been?”, where we look at things to do and places to see in and around the Second Life Grid.
In Episode 12 we visit The Borderless Project, an interactive digital art exhibition that explores light: reflections, structures, movement, creation and evolution. The Project spans multiple levels in a variety of iterations that explore the theme using a wide palette of virtual tools. There are also sounds and music to augment the visual experience.
The Space Programme: Apollo 11
Today we present something a little different… Space Music.
On this day, July 21, in 1969, 52 years ago, the first human being stepped out of the Apollo 11’s Lunar Excursion Module and set foot upon the Moon. Today we celebrate that achievement in music.
Three New Shows on Mixcloud
We’re pleased to announce the addition of three new programmes to our Mixcloud “Listen Again” facility. Listen to them now at https://www.mixcloud.com/virtualcommunityradio/
“Where’ve You Been” Episode 11 features the amazing Arcadian Rapture Remastered - an incredible cyber-deco shopping mall in Second Life.
“Tarot @ Teatime” Episode 9 discusses how agency, function, and context influence the interpretation of cards in a reading. A spread of three cards is read to address two different issues to demonstrate the importance of context.
“Tarot @ Teatime” Episode 10 looks at The Major Arcana and various way of thinking about these twenty-two cards as a group. We discuss the notion of The Fool’s Journey, Jungian Archetypes, and the Major Arcana as a depiction of the interplay between order and chaos.
