Category Archives: Station News
Live Tarot Readings — Monday January 17
TODAY! The hosts of Virtual Community Radio’s popular original series “Tarot At Teatime”, Willow Moonfire and Honey Heart, offer you a personal Tarot reading, live and free of charge.
Join them on Monday, January 17, 6 to 7pm Second Life Time, in the plaza outside the Virtual Community Radio Theatre on the Chestnut Hills region in Second Life.
Readings are offered first come, first served, and are completely free of charge. They are carried out privately in SL Voice and are strictly confidential.
All readings are for entertainment purposes only. http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Chestnut%20Hills/135/105/3802
Merry Christmas from VCRadio
We would like to wish all our listeners, sponsors, supporters, friends and colleagues a very Merry Christmas and a safe, healthy and happy New Year.
Tune in today, Christmas Day, for a selection of seasonal music across a variety of genres.
Welcome to Haunted Hollow…
We are very pleased to have collaborated in a small way with our friends and sponsors Seanchai Library and Elite Equestrian in a special seasonal region you can visit only during the month of October, up to and including Hallowe’en.
HAUNTED HOLLOW: an All Hallows Experience
Presented by Elite Equestrian, Seanchai Library, Tarot @ Teatime, and Virtual Community Radio
October 7 — 31 on Chestnut Hills in Second Life.
“Once Upon a Time there was an Enchanted Hollow under the glow of the Hunter’s Moon. It was there that tales gathered: tales of struggle and virtue, of light and looming darkness. They settled in as cooling breezes whirled the falling leaves, nestling between the autumnal heights and that place where the brook waters blend with the salty sea. Some thrive, some expire, and some twist themselves just a little.”
Haunted Hollow features stories, music, live trick or treat, hunts, pony rides, and a region of fun to explore.
Virtual Community Radio at SL18B
VCRadio is going to a party — the biggest party on the Second Life grid. We’ll be at the Second Life 18th Birthday celebration — SL18B — opening June 17 and running through July 1st.
We’ve set up headquarters on SLB Astonish, and our plans include a special edition of the monthly new age music show The Grove, special live presentations of our signature features Tarot @ Teatime and Where Have You Been? plus a fun trivia treasure hunt right at VCRadio SLB Headquarters!
Genre Day: Music of the Baroque
Today, Saturday February 6th, 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.
Virtual Community Radio Is On The Air — Saturday Feb 6
The tests are complete, the stream is on the air, and it’s time to officially launch the station!
We’d like to extend a warm invitation to Second Life residents to join Virtual Community Radio at our Grand Opening Ball in our fabulous art deco theatre on the Chestnut Hills region, on Saturday February 6th at 2pm Pacific Time (22:00 GMT), as we officially launch the station. Come in formal dress and enjoy a programme of 90 minutes of waltzes, foxtrots and some rather more lively dances in a broadly Light Classical vein, presented in living stereophonic sound by DJ Caledonia Skytower.
Elrik Merlin Steps Forward to Found Virtual Community Radio
Richard Elen (better known in Second Life by his DJ name, “Elrik Merlin”, or “Rik” for short) has a toolbox which runneth over with audio skills, music, broadcasting, and all the important behind-the-scenes details that go along with those activities. From working as a touring and studio sound engineer in the 1970s; through dozens of producing and engineering gigs; magazine editing and marketing communications; to current work as a specialist transferring vintage tapes and discs to digital format for major production music libraries, “wealth” does not begin to cover the experience he brings to his various virtual world endeavors.
Second Life residents may best know him standing beside Saffia Widdershins in the award-winning web TV show Designing Worlds, where for well over a decade he’s been co-host and has worked crucially behind the scenes on the technical production of each episode. Until recently, he played a similar role with Gabrielle Riel and the suite of streams formerly known as Radio Riel, working as part of the team of on-air presenters, alongside providing behind-the-scenes technical support. With the founding of Virtual Community Radio he steps in front, taking the leading role informed by his decades of professional experience.
Building a Virtual Home
We are currently in the process of building a headquarters location in Second Life as a base for our operations in-world. The “VCR Theatre” is being brought together by Honey Heart and will be completed soon.
It takes the form of an Art Deco theatre, with a stage, seating that can be overlaid for dancing, and a broadcast studio. In addition it will house administrative functions like the devices that will handle sponsorship payments and renewals to make that operation as smooth as possible.
We are also intending to hold live readings and other performances as well as dances and other activities in the auditorium. Here are a few pictures — though bear in mind that the build is not yet finished.
Get the App!
We are working with Patrick at Kaleidoscopic Creation to develop our own mobile apps, but in the meantime…
VCR is hosted by Live365, and they make iOS and Android mobile apps available so you can listen to member stations on the go.
Unfortunately these apps don’t automatically tune to VCR — you can use them to listen to any Live365 station — so you need to search for “Virtual Community Radio” to locate us and start listening. Click the heart icon to label it as a Favourite and off you go!
Due to music licensing agreements, these apps are available in the UK, US and Canada only at this time.
Remember that we are still doing test transmissions, so the stream may go off the air from time to time and you’ll hear a curious variety of music across the day.
On the air soon!
We’re getting things ready for the turn of the year, when we go on the air.
Stay tuned!
