Virtual Community Radio
Audio experiences for listeners in virtual worlds, and on the wider internet.
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.
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.Continue reading
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.
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.
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.Continue reading
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 Moonlit Road by Ambrose BierceContinue reading
We are very pleased to announce the second episode of our series of programmes on the Tarot. You can hear it at 12 noon and 4pm Pacific Time* on Thursdays and Sundays and each episode is aired for two weeks.
In Tarot @ Teatime, we explore the history and meaning of the Tarot, and discuss a variety of techniques for reading the cards.Continue reading
It’s Wednesday March 17th and time for a new episode of Where’ve You Been, our fortnightly feature on places to visit and things to do around the Second Life grid. You can catch the show at 12 noon and 4pm Pacific/SLT on Wednesdays and Saturdays for the next two weeks.
In this, Episode 4, we check out the latest productions from Idle Rogue — Le Cirque de La Nuit — and Virtuoso Dance’s Fountain Theatre production of Beatrix Potter Tales.Continue reading
It’s March 17, St Patrick’s Day, and today we have a programme of primarily (but not exclusively) traditional music for you from the Emerald Isle.
It’s also the premiere of the latest edition of Where’ve You Been? — our twice-a-month feature on things to do and places to see around the Second Life Grid. Tune in at 12 noon and 4pm Pacific Time — this week, that’s 19:00 and 23:00 UTC. For details, see the article here.
You can also catch Engines of Our Ingenuity, from the University of Houston, every four hours from 4am Pacific.
“Ring of Kerry, Ireland” by minniemouseaunt is licensed under CC BY 2.0
We’re pleased to announce the addition of two new shows to our Mixcloud “Listen Again” archive, at https://www.mixcloud.com/virtualcommunityradio/
The latest shows to be added are Where’ve You Been? Episode 3, and the first episode of our new series on the Tarot, Tarot@Teatime.
If you missed these shows on the air, you can now hear them any time.
New shows in both series will begin to air later this week.Continue reading