Category Archives: Programming

Music of the Baroque

April 3, 2021   Programming

Today, Sat­ur­day April 3rd, we explore 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, join us for Episode 5 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 Zamo­nia and you can find the 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.

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The Black Mass 7: An Evening’s Entertainment by M R James

April 2, 2021   Programming

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.

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: An Evening’s Enter­tain­ment by M R James

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Tarot @ Teatime — Part 3

April 1, 2021   Programming

Thurs­day 1 April begins the third part of our series on the Tarot, Tarot @ Teatime, with Wil­low Moon­fire and Hon­ey Heart. The show airs on Thurs­days and Sun­days at 12 noon and 4pm Pacif­ic Time, and a new episode is released every two weeks.

In this episode we begin a more in-depth study of the Minor Arcana, which is com­prised of four suits: Wands, Cups, Swords, and Pen­ta­cles.  These suits cor­re­spond to the four ele­ments of Fire, Water, Air, and Earth.  Today we’ll talk about qual­i­ties and key­words asso­ci­at­ed with the ele­ments of Fire and Water, which are rep­re­sent­ed by the suits of Wands and Cups.

The pri­ma­ry resource men­tioned is the Rid­er Waite Smith Tarot deck.  It is avail­able from the pub­lish­er, US Games Sys­tems, Inc. and numer­ous book­stores and online book sellers.

 

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“Where’ve You Been?” Visits Zamonia

March 31, 2021   Programming

At 12 noon and 4pm Pacif­ic Time on Wednes­day and Sat­ur­day, tune in for Episode 5 of “Where’ve You Been?” — our twice-month­ly series on things to do and places to see on the Sec­ond Life Grid, with Cale­do­nia Sky­tow­er and Elrik Mer­lin. In this episode we vis­it Zamo­nia, includ­ing the Val­ley of the Pon­der­ing Eggs, the Hid­den Lake, some cat­a­combs absolute­ly stuffed with books! — and much more.

Zamo­nia: The Val­ley of Pon­der­ing Eggs … From there you can take the por­tal to the Hid­den Lake and Zamo­nia Catacombs.
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Santana/169/112/81

SL Group:
secondlife:///app/group/442e2396-5c45-d5bc-f011-905570d17475/about

Friends of Zamo­nia flickr group:
https://www.flickr.com/groups/-friendsofzamonia-/pool/

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From Steam-Organs To Synthesisers

March 31, 2021   Programming

Today we explore the wide and amaz­ing-sound­ing world of Mechan­i­cal Music — from 19th cen­tu­ry bar-room and par­lour Polyphons and steam-engine dri­ven fair­ground organs to today’s elec­tron­ic wonders.

Along the way we’ll encounter some mar­vel­lous record­ings: from famous com­posers’ play­ing immor­talised by the play­er piano to Huub de Lange in Hol­land, who learned how to make the punched-cards required to “pro­gramme” a street organ and wrote a series of pieces — “Life And Death In A Street Organ” — for street organ and string quartet.

In addi­tion­al to “tra­di­tion­al” mechan­i­cal instru­ments, now found large­ly in muse­ums and at steam fairs, today’s pro­gramme includes sev­er­al exam­ples of clas­sic elec­tron­i­ca — includ­ing some elec­tron­i­ca that sound like tra­di­tion­al mechan­i­cal instru­ments — and some con­ven­tion­al instru­ments that sound mechanical.…

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Additional Shows on Mixcloud

March 30, 2021   Programming

We’ve just added two shows to our page on Mix­cloud, which is our “Lis­ten Again” service.

Episode 4 of Where’ve You Been - our twice-month­ly show on places to go and things to see in Sec­ond Life — is up pri­mar­i­ly for com­plete­ness as the shows it describes are now over, but you also have an oppor­tu­ni­ty to lis­ten to Episode 02 of Tarot @ Teatime, our pop­u­lar series on the Tarot.

You can find these shows — and our oth­er “Lis­ten Again” con­tent — on our Pro­file page at Mix­cloud.

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Classics On The Keys

March 27, 2021   Programming

Today we present a wealth of key­board pieces — pri­mar­i­ly on piano, harp­si­chord and organ, but you’ll hear some oth­er tra­di­tion­al key­board instru­ments too — both solo and with oth­er musi­cal forces back­ing them.

The main spread of the pro­gramme encom­pass­es the Baroque and Clas­si­cal peri­ods, but you’ll also hear some more mod­ern pieces includ­ing treat­ments of clas­si­cal pieces, and some engag­ing lit­tle 19th cen­tu­ry pieces that are less well-known. Most of the time, there is a clas­si­cal or baroque link in there some­where, even if it’s not imme­di­ate­ly obvious.

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The Black Mass 6: The Death of Halpin Frayser by Ambrose Bierce

March 26, 2021   Programming
The Black Mass

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.

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 Death of Halpin Frayser by Ambrose Bierce

Unfor­tu­nate­ly, due to a tech­ni­cal hitch, we repeat­ed last week’s episode — anoth­er Ambrose Bierce piece, The Moon­lit Road, by mis­take. We’ll run The Death of Halpin Frayser on May 14th.

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Four ‘English’ Composers

March 24, 2021   Programming

Pur­cell, Han­del, Haydn and Mendelssohn… four com­posers who were pro­found­ly influ­enced by their life in England.

Only one of them was actu­al­ly born there (Pur­cell). How­ev­er, all four had a major impact on British clas­si­cal music, and today we’re fea­tur­ing pieces from all four of them.

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The Early Music Show

March 20, 2021   Programming

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.

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