Music of the Baroque

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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.

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Music for Shakespeare

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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.

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The Black Mass: The Man Of The Crowd by Edgar Allan Poe

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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.

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Tarot @ Teatime — Live from SL18B!

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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

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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.Con­tin­ue read­ing→

Where’ve You Been — Live from SL18B

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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.

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Classical Landscapes

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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

The Black Mass: Two Tales by Edgar Allan Poe

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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 will be a few min­utes after the hour.

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Three New Titles on Mixcloud — including Tarot @ Teatime Special Edition

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We’re pleased to announce the addi­tion of three new pro­grammes to our Mix­cloud “Lis­ten Again” facil­i­ty. Lis­ten to them now at https://www.mixcloud.com/virtualcommunityradio/

“Where’ve You Been” Episode 10 fea­tures the Limon­cel­lo Air­ship Art Gallery, while “Tarot @ Teatime” Episode 8 intro­duces the role of nar­ra­tive in read­ing: the Tarot read­er as sto­ry­teller.

In addi­tion, there is a unique Spe­cial Edi­tion of Tarot @ Teatime titled “Demys­ti­fy­ing The Tarot” in which Hon­ey Heart and Wil­low Moon­fire intro­duce the sub­ject of Tarot and present a brief his­to­ry of the cards, and how they may be read with prac­ti­cal exam­ples. It’s a fas­ci­nat­ing intro­duc­tion to the top­ic and will be found espe­cial­ly use­ful if you want a quick refresh­er course on the back­ground to the Tarot. This spe­cial episode was record­ed live at the Sec­ond Life 18th Birth­day on 23 June 2021.

Tarot @ Teatime 9 — Agency, Function & Context

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Thurs­day 24 June sees the first broad­cast of Episode 9 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.

In this episode, Wil­low and Hon­ey dis­cuss how agency, func­tion, and con­text influ­ence the inter­pre­ta­tion of cards in a read­ing.  A spread of three cards is read to address two dif­fer­ent issues to demon­strate the impor­tance of con­text.

If you’ve missed any episodes of this series, remem­ber you can catch pre­vi­ous episodes on demand at Mix­cloud.