Mechanical Music-Hall

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Today, Sat­ur­day Novem­ber 20, we present a var­ied pro­gramme of music from, on, and some­times by, machines.

And we mean musi­cal machines in the broad­est sense, from glass har­mon­i­cas, Vic­to­ri­an musi­cal box­es and the mighty Sym­pho­nion, to steam organs, pianolas and bar­rel pianos on the one hand, but touch­ing the capa­bil­i­ties of ear­ly com­put­ers and syn­the­sis­ers on the oth­er.

And don’t miss anoth­er chance to hear the lat­est episode of “Where Have You Been?” in which Cale­do­nia and Elrik dis­cuss two fas­ci­nat­ing art gal­leries in Sec­ond Life.

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The Fourth Tower of Inverness continues… Week 9

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TODAY on Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio — Fri­day, Novem­ber 19th.
The Fourth Tow­er of Inver­ness  con­tin­ues with Week 9 of this excit­ing mys­tery adven­ture.

Airs just after the hour at Noon and 4pm SLT/Pacific Time / 8pm and mid­night in the UK.

Arriv­ing at the Inver­ness estate, Jack Flan­ders encoun­ters strange hap­pen­ings at the old Vic­to­ri­an man­sion. Jack is told that there are only three tow­ers in Inver­ness, even though he is cer­tain he has seen a fourth. An old juke­box, which he can­not locate, plays a haunt­ing 50’s tune just before an acci­dent hap­pens. Jack pur­sues the hid­den juke­box, search­ing through slid­ing pan­els, hol­low walls, and under­ground pas­sage­ways until final­ly he dis­cov­ers the entrance to the Fourth Tow­er that only he can see. In all these years, eight peo­ple have ven­tured into the Tow­er, nev­er to be seen again. Jack is the ninth…

Upon enter­ing the tow­er, Jack dis­cov­ers steps that spi­ral end­less­ly upward. On each lev­el there is a door, and as our hero opens each door he steps into dif­fer­ent dimen­sions: strange worlds of myth and mys­ti­cal fan­ta­sy.
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British Composers

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17th Novem­ber: Today’s pro­gramme fea­tures music from British com­posers old and new, pri­mar­i­ly focus­ing on clas­si­cal styles. The playlist includes Edward Ger­man, Richard Har­vey, Ger­ald Finzi, Sir Arthur Bliss, Jon Lord, Christo­pher Gun­ning, Vaugh­an Williams, Haver­gal Bri­an and many more.

Then tune in at 12 noon or 4pm Pacif­ic Time / 8pm or mid­night in the UK, for anoth­er chance to hear the lat­est episode of “Where Have You Been?”. Episode 20 fea­tures two very dif­fer­ent art gal­leries in Sec­ond Life, yet pur­su­ing sim­i­lar goals of access to both artists and res­i­dents: The Love&Love Fac­to­ry Art Gallery and The Elven Falls Art Col­lec­tive.

And don’t miss the lat­est episode of “Engines of Our Inge­nu­ity” from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Hous­ton, every four hours from 4am Pacif­ic.

Image, “bal­loon — british coun­try­side” by Mikee Show­biz is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0  

Music of the Baroque

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Today, Sat­ur­day Novem­ber 13th, 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 / 8pm or mid­night UK time, there’s anoth­er chance to hear the lat­est episode of “Where Have You Been?”, our twice-month­ly show on places to vis­it and things to do around the Sec­ond Life Grid. Episode 20 fea­tures two very dif­fer­ent art gal­leries in Sec­ond Life, yet pur­su­ing sim­i­lar goals of access to both artists and res­i­dents: The Love&Love Fac­to­ry Art Gallery and The Elven Falls Art Col­lec­tive. More details here.

Every four hours from 4am Pacific/noon in the UK, 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 MOST Ep01 Now On Mixcloud

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If you missed Episode 01, you can now access it on Mix­Cloud!

Plan­ning a heist? How about a mur­der? Attend­ing a love-in? Or is your bik­er gang plan­ning an out­ing? Have we got the show for you!

Join Susan­nah on Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio, the first Sat­ur­day every month, at 12:30pm and 4:30pm Pacif­ic Time – 8:30pm and 12:30am in the UK – for the month­ly series, The MOST – Music from the Orig­i­nal Sound Track.

Ded­i­cat­ed to crime, spy, sus­pense, exploita­tion, and psy­che­del­ic movie and tele­vi­sion sound­tracks from the 50s, the 60s and beyond, The MOST is the best accom­pa­ni­ment for all your police-blot­ter high-jinks. Susan­nah spins sounds by some of the best com­posers in the crime-jazz busi­ness. Music so good – it’s crim­i­nal!

The Fourth Tower of Inverness continues… Week 8

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TODAY on Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio — Fri­day, Novem­ber 12th.
The Fourth Tow­er of Inver­ness  con­tin­ues with Week 8 of this excit­ing mys­tery adven­ture.

Airs just after the hour at Noon and 4pm SLT/Pacific Time / 8pm and mid­night in the UK.

Arriv­ing at the Inver­ness estate, Jack Flan­ders encoun­ters strange hap­pen­ings at the old Vic­to­ri­an man­sion. Jack is told that there are only three tow­ers in Inver­ness, even though he is cer­tain he has seen a fourth. An old juke­box, which he can­not locate, plays a haunt­ing 50’s tune just before an acci­dent hap­pens. Jack pur­sues the hid­den juke­box, search­ing through slid­ing pan­els, hol­low walls, and under­ground pas­sage­ways until final­ly he dis­cov­ers the entrance to the Fourth Tow­er that only he can see. In all these years, eight peo­ple have ven­tured into the Tow­er, nev­er to be seen again. Jack is the ninth…

Upon enter­ing the tow­er, Jack dis­cov­ers steps that spi­ral end­less­ly upward. On each lev­el there is a door, and as our hero opens each door he steps into dif­fer­ent dimen­sions: strange worlds of myth and mys­ti­cal fan­ta­sy.
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Tarot @ Teatime Episode 19: Significators & Reversed Cards

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We’re pleased to release the lat­est episode of our pop­u­lar orig­i­nal series on the Tarot: “Tarot @ Teatime”, on the air Thurs­days and Sun­days at noon and 4pm Pacif­ic Time/SLT, 8pm and mid­night in the UK.

In Episode 19, Wil­low Moon­fire and Hon­ey Heart dis­cuss var­i­ous meth­ods for select­ing a sig­ni­fi­ca­tor card for a Tarot read­ing and also talk about read­ing reverse cards in a spread — or why one might choose to not read them.
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The Early Music Show

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Tune in to Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio today, Wednes­day Novem­ber 10th, for a pro­gramme of Ear­ly Music – 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.

Then don’t miss the NEW episode of our series on places to go and things to see on the Sec­ond Life grid, Where Have You Been? Catch it at 12 noon or 4pm Pacif­ic Time — 8pm or mid­night UK time.Con­tin­ue read­ing→