Category Archives: Programming
The Black Mass 21: A Haunted House by Virginia Woolf
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. Many thanks to John Whiting, co-producer of many of these recordings, and Erik Bauersfeld himself, for permission to broadcast these classic recordings.
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 may be a few minutes after the hour.
Tarot @ Teatime 10 — The Major Arcana
Thursday 8 July sees the first broadcast of Episode 10 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 Ten
This covers 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.
Where’ve You Been 11: Arcadian Rapture Remastered
Wednesday, July 7th 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 11, Where Have You Been? highlights a recently-remodelled destination that mixes shopping with entertainment in a colourful, creatively built environment that includes art, movies, an elegant atrium, and no less than three club/entertainment venues stacked one on top of the other.
Music of the Baroque
Today, Wednesday July 7th, 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, tune in to hear the NEW edition 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 Arcadian Rapture Remastered — an extraordinary cyber-deco shopping mall (see separate entry)! 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.
Music for Shakespeare
Today we are presenting a programme of music written to accompany, or inspired by, the plays of William Shakespeare. In addition we hope to give you a feeling for the world of the Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre, with the help of recreations of the atmosphere of plays and playgoing at the time.
The programme includes music from the Elizabethan period to the present, with a wealth of classical material as well as Early Music (some of it performed by the players and musicians of the reconstructed Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in Bankside, London) and some modern examples such as the Third Ear Band’s music for Polanski’s film of Macbeth.
The Black Mass: The Man Of The Crowd by Edgar Allan Poe
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. Many thanks to John Whiting, co-producer of many of these recordings, and Erik Bauersfeld himself, for permission to broadcast these classic recordings.
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 may be a few minutes after the hour.
Tarot @ Teatime — Live from SL18B!
Today, June 30th at 5pm Pacific Time, Honey Heart & Willow Moonfire, the hosts of our popular series “Tarot @ Teatime”, will be presenting a special live show from our exhibit at the Second Life 18th Birthday Celebration. The topic will be the symbolism of selected animals in Tarot and how they impact a reading.
It will be broadcast on our stream at http://main.vcradio.org — or feel free to join us on the middle floor, Level 2, of our exhibit on SLB Astonish.
Hits In Hi-Fi
Today we’ll take a nostalgic journey back to the 1950s and 1960s and beyond, when music was on vinyl (and on the radio) 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.
Where’ve You Been — Live from SL18B
Sunday, June 27 sees a second special edition of “Where’ve You Been?”, broadcast live from SL18B, the Community Celebration of 18 years of the virtual world of Second Life.
At 3pm Pacific / 11pm in the UK, join us for a live, extended edition of our Second Life travel show, “Where’ve You Been?”, where Caledonia Skytower and Elrik Merlin travel around the SL Grid, finding interesting things to do and places to see. This time, from our Discovery Tent on the ground floor, Level 1, of our exhibit on SLB Astonish, we’ll discuss some of the sights and sites around the SL18B. Join us on SL18B Astonish — or simply tune in to https://main.vcradio.org .
In addition, you can enjoy the broadcast of the latest edition of “Tarot @ Teatime” — our popular show demystifying the Tarot — at noon or 4pm Pacific / 8pm or midnight in the UK.
Classical Landscapes
Saturday 26 June: 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.
There will not be a broadcast of “Where Have You Been?” today: instead we’ll be doing a live broadcast from the Second Life 18th Birthday showgrounds tomorrow, Sunday 27th, at 3pm Pacific / 11pm UK time, where we’ll take another look at some of the exhibits.
However, you can hear “Engines of Our Ingenuity” at the usual time, every 4 hours from 4am Pacific.
“Classical music” by rogerdominh is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
