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Where Have You Been? S04E08 The Silent Book Club in SL

August 28, 2024   Programming

We’re pleased to present the lat­est episode in our orig­i­nal series, “Where Have You Been?”, where we dis­cuss things to do and places to vis­it across the Sec­ond Life Grid. Episodes are broad­cast on Wednes­days and Sat­ur­days at 12 noon and 4pm SLT/Pacific Time. In this episode we take a look at the Silent Book Club.

The Silent Book Club is a glob­al com­mu­ni­ty of read­ers with more than 1000 chap­ters in 50 coun­tries around the world.

Mem­bers gath­er in bars, cafes, book­stores, cof­fee shops, libraries and online to read togeth­er in qui­et cama­raderie — which makes it per­fect for a for­mat like Sec­ond Life.

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The Magic of The Musical S03E04: The Best of the Big Apple

August 17, 2024   Programming

This pro­gramme is now avail­able on Mix­cloud.

Our LIVE orig­i­nal series,The Mag­ic of The Musi­cal, con­tin­ues today — Sat­ur­day, August 17^th at 2pm SLT/Pacific Time.  Host Cale­do­nia Sky­tow­er explores songs, sto­ries and lore from  the world of musi­cal theatre.

Tune in to Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio here on the web site — from where you can also down­load our mobile app — plug this URL into a net­work play­er: http://main.vcradio.org — or ask your smart speak­er to “Play Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio!”

Also today on Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio, enjoy our fea­tured music On Broad­way, and the lat­est edi­tion of “Where Have You Been?” at 12 noon and 4pm SLT/Pacific. And don’t miss The Engines of Our Inge­nu­ity from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Hous­ton, every four hours from 4am SLT/Pacific.

This Month:  The Best of the Big Apple

Who knew? There are over 200 Broad­way musi­cals that are about, or set in New York City — The Big Apple. Seems like there’s noth­ing Broad­way likes as well as that “tod­dlin’ town” where it makes its home. From “42nd Street,” to “West Side Sto­ry”, Cale­do­nia shares a selec­tion of music from the shows that cel­e­brate NYC.

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WYB S04E07: Bloom Light Show Residency at SLEA

August 10, 2024   Programming

The lat­est edi­tion (S04E07) of “Where Have You Been?” — the VCRa­dio orig­i­nal series that fea­tures places to go and things to do around the Sec­ond Life Grid — takes a look at a stun­ning mul­ti­me­dia art expe­ri­ence at the Sec­ond Life Endow­ment for the Arts.

“Semence: A Dig­i­tal Odyssey” is a light and par­ti­cle show cre­at­ed by Lalie Sor­bet and Chrix. The name “Semence” means “seed” in French, and also refers to the repro­duc­tive cell of all liv­ing forms. This sym­bol­izes the essence of the artists’ explo­ration of a dig­i­tal world filled with pix­els, col­ors, shapes, and effects. “Semence” rep­re­sents a jour­ney through the cycle of life, from incep­tion to growth and beyond, and uses the full poten­tial of Sec­ond Life, inte­grat­ing par­ti­cles, mesh­es, ani­mesh, and oth­er effects to cre­ate a mem­o­rable experience.

These light shows real­ly are unlike any­thing you’ve seen on this grid. Not only can you observe the show, but sit in the chairs pro­vid­ed and you will soon find your­self immersed in the show- lit­er­al­ly, fly­ing amidst the emerg­ing and chang­ing shapes and col­ors. The artists say, “Semence” is more than just a show. It is a metaphor for life’s jour­ney. We want you to be more than just a spec­ta­tor. Visu­al effects will seam­less­ly incor­po­rate you into the nar­ra­tive, mak­ing you an inte­gral part of this dig­i­tal adven­ture. Join us to wit­ness and par­tic­i­pate in this fusion of tech­nol­o­gy and art, where every ele­ment is a seed sown to cul­ti­vate won­der, growth, and inspiration.

S04E07 – Bloom Light Show Res­i­den­cy at Sec­ond Life Endow­ment for the Arts

SLEA Bridge 1 – Moderate
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SLEA%20Bridge1/115/184/3001

SLEA Web­site:
https://sleagrants.com/

Pho­to Con­test: https://sleagrants.com/blog/2024/07/14/capture-the-magic-slea-bloom-light-show-photo-contest/

IMPORTANT NOTE: To inter­act with the light show, sit in one of the chairs pro­vid­ed. The chairs accom­mo­date both sin­gle and cou­ple seating.

“Where Have You Been?” airs every Wednes­day and Sat­ur­day on Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio, at 12 noon and 4pm SLT/Pacific Time.

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WYB S04E06: Genealogy in SL

July 24, 2024   Programming

The lat­est edi­tion (S04E06) of “Where Have You Been?” — the VCRa­dio orig­i­nal series that fea­tures places to go and things to do around the Sec­ond Life Grid — dis­cuss­es the Sec­ond Life Vir­tu­al Geneal­o­gy Soci­ety (SLVGS). There is a thriv­ing com­mu­ni­ty in Sec­ond Life cen­tered around the study of fam­i­ly his­to­ry and ori­gins, and the trac­ing of fam­i­ly lineages.

The Sec­ond Life Vir­tu­al Genealog­i­cal Soci­ety brings togeth­er a wide vari­ety of peo­ple who are inter­est­ed in fam­i­ly his­to­ries, holds month­ly meet­ings and offers a range of sup­port for those trac­ing their ancestors.

Find then on the region Adam ondi Ahman – Gen­er­al 

Dis­cov­er more about the SLVGS in the cur­rent “Where Have You Been?” episode, broad­cast on Wednes­days and Sat­ur­days at noon and 4pm SLT/Pacific. Also on Wednes­days and Sat­ur­days, tune in for “The Engines of Our Inge­nu­ity” from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Hous­ton, every four hours from 4am SLT/Pacific.

Oth­er ways to con­nect with the SLVGS:

Web­site: https://slvirtualgenealogy.org

X: https://twitter.com/SLGenealogy

Face­book:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/SLVGS

Insta­gram:  https://www.instagram.com/slvirtualgenealogy/

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The Space Programme: Apollo 11

July 24, 2024   Programming

Space Music and a space documentary.

Wednes­day 24th July 2024: 55 years ago this week, the Apol­lo 11 space­craft’s Com­mand Mod­ule sep­a­rat­ed from the Lunar Excur­sion Mod­ule and began its return to Earth after the first human being had stepped out of the LEM and set foot upon the Moon. Today, in a spe­cial pro­gramme by our sad­ly passed dear friend Peter Car­bines, that we’ve broad­cast annu­al­ly from the start of the sta­tion (and beyond), we cel­e­brate the mis­sion’s achieve­ment in music, and in a spe­cial music- and actu­al­i­ty-based documentary.

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The Magic of The Musical S03E03: Reflections of America

July 20, 2024   Programming

Our orig­i­nal series of The Mag­ic of The Musi­cal, con­tin­ues today — Sat­ur­day, July 20^th @ 2pm SLT/Pacific Time.  Host Cale­do­nia Sky­tow­er explores songs, sto­ries and lore from  the world of musi­cal theatre.

Missed the live show? Lis­ten again here on Mixcloud.

Join our live audi­ence at Ceiluiradh Glen on Sat­ur­day at 2pm SLT — slurl: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Nowhereville/196/131/21 or tune in to Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio on the web site, plug this URL into a net­work play­er: http://main.vcradio.org — or ask your smart speak­er to “Play Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio!”

Also today on Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio, enjoy our fea­tured music On Broad­way, the lat­est edi­tion of “Where Have You Been?” with the final broad­casts of our “Live from SL21B” episodes in Sec­ond Life, at 12 noon and 4pm SLT/Pacific. And don’t miss The Engines of Our Inge­nu­ity from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Hous­ton, every four hours from 4am SLT.

This Month:  Reflec­tions of America

U.S. Pol­i­tics are del­i­cate mat­ters to dis­cuss, espe­cial­ly in a year like 2024. Look­ing back, Cale­do­nia exam­ines four award-win­ning musi­cals and how they reflect the issues and self-iden­ti­ty of Amer­i­can cul­ture con­tem­po­rary to when they debuted. What does Amer­i­ca think of itself and how does that change from the 1930s through today? Fea­tur­ing the award-win­ning pro­duc­tions Of Thee I Sing, Fiorel­lo!, 1776, and Hamil­ton.

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Where Have You Been? — Live at SL21B Part 2

July 13, 2024   Programming

On Wednes­day, July 10th, we broad­cast our sec­ond live pro­gramme from our exhib­it at the Sec­ond Life 21st Birth­day Cel­e­bra­tion. We’ll be re-broad­cast­ing it on Wednes­days and Sat­ur­days at 12 noon and 4pm SLT/Pacific Time until the event clos­es on the 21st July.

This is an SLB you don’t want to miss. The Com­mu­ni­ty Show­case has some of the best exhibits we’ve seen in a long time. Res­i­dents seem to have real­ly embraced the theme of “Ele­ments” and inter­pret­ed that in a vari­ety of ways, many straight­for­ward, and oth­ers very subtly.

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Classic Electronica

July 10, 2024   Programming

Today we are leav­ing our tra­di­tion­al gen­res for a while with a pro­gramme of music pro­duced with the aid of elec­tron­ic devices, stretch­ing right back to the ear­ly days of the genre, with tape manip­u­la­tion and “found sounds” and the use of dig­i­tal to ana­logue con­vert­ers attached direct­ly to main­frame com­put­ers, as in the land­mark album “Music From Mathematics”.

We take a lis­ten to ear­ly uses of the Moog and oth­er syn­the­sis­ers and albums that mixed musique con­crete with synths for a light-heart­ed melod­ic sound, from the likes of Per­rey & Kingsley.

Mov­ing for­ward you’ll hear clas­sic albums like “Switched-On Bach” and oth­er record­ings by pio­neer syn­the­sist Wendy Car­los, and oth­er quite dif­fer­ent clas­sic albums from the “Berlin School” of syn­the­sis­er music.

You’ll hear Ton­to’s Expand­ing Head Band. Jean-Michel Jarre. Jean-Phillippe Rykiel. Tan­ger­ine Dream. Tom Dis­sevelt and Kid Bal­tan. Tomi­ta. The BBC Radio­phon­ic Work­shop. And many more. All in all, plen­ty to get your teeth into.

“HDR Mod­u­lar Syn­the­siz­er Macro” by Peter Gorges is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

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Where Have You Been? — Live at SL21B

June 27, 2024   Programming

On Wednes­day 26th June, we broad­cast the first of two spe­cial live edi­tions of our orig­i­nal series, “Where Have You Been?”, which fea­tures things to do and places to vis­it around the Sec­ond Life Grid.

This show will be repeat­ed on Wednes­days and Sat­ur­days at 12 noon and 4pm SLT/Pacific Time until our sec­ond and final live show from SL21B on Wednes­day 10th July.

One of our favourite things about the Com­mu­ni­ty Show­case is how clear­ly it dis­plays the wide vari­ety of com­mu­ni­ties that thrive in Sec­ond Life. On six­teen gen­er­al show­case regions you can find seem­ing­ly end­less types of com­mu­ni­ties and res­i­dent activ­i­ties from art, to edu­ca­tion, role-play, and all sorts of com­mu­ni­ties that form around shared inter­ests. With this year’s cel­e­bra­tion theme of “The Ele­ments” the com­mu­ni­ty show­case is a great place to see so much of what Sec­ond Life is real­ly all about.

So, what’s the best way to see it all?  Well, to begin with you prob­a­bly won’t be able to see it all. Though with SLB stay­ing open for a month this year, chances are you can see much more of it, and attend many more events than in past years. But there is real­ly no per­fect way to explore the Show­case except to just get out there and do it.

SL21B Com­mu­ni­ty Show­case – Full Exhib­it List second.life/sl21bexhibits

In this episode we fea­ture some exhibits in the south­ern por­tion of the show­case con­ti­nent that fea­ture blends of art and sci­ence. We’ll be doing a sec­ond live show on July 10th, at the VCRa­dio show­case exhib­it where we’ll be fea­tur­ing a whole dif­fer­ent set of show­case des­ti­na­tions, from dif­fer­ent areas of the continent.

The places dis­cussed in this episode include:

SLURLS/URLS: 

Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio – Ele­ments of Music
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SLB%20Marvelous/185/216/21

Saudade by Raven­starr Fairelander
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SLB%20Stupendous/221/203/21

Inspire Space Park – an SL classic!
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SLB%20Stupendous/219/41/30

The Inter­na­tion­al Space­flight Muse­um – Kat Lemieux
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SLB%20Stupendous/15/98/21

Hap­py Birth­day to SL from Chem­istry World
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SLB%20Incredible/59/164/21

The Peri­od­ic Ele­ments ~ SLRan­dom ArtCrew
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SLB%20Sparkle/226/14/21

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VCRadio at SL21B

June 25, 2024   Programming, Station News

We’re pleased to let you know that Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio is exhibit­ing at the Sec­ond Life 21st Birth­day cel­e­bra­tions and broad­cast­ing live! You can find our exhib­it — “The Ele­ments of Music” on  SLB 20Marvelous.

The theme this year is The Ele­ments, and the VCRa­dio exhib­it fea­tures Air, Earth, Fire and Water com­ing togeth­er to bring music, ana­logue (rep­re­sent­ed by a vinyl disc) and dig­i­tal (cycling bina­ry dig­its on the faces of the ele­men­tal sym­bols), to our ears.

The four aspects of the exhib­it high­light four dif­fer­ent areas of our pro­gram­ming, includ­ing “Tarot @ Teatime”, “The Mag­ic of The Musi­cal” and “Where Have You Been?”

Catch the fly­ing note and soar to the exhibit’s high­est point for a great view!

Tune in: the stream is play­ing on the booth or you can plug main.vcradio.org into a net­work play­er. Or vis­it the web site and get the App!

Join us live for spe­cial pro­gram­ming includ­ing a live edi­tion of “Where Have You Been?” at 1pm SLT/Pacific on Wednes­day June 26th.

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