Monthly Archives: July 2023

Hits In Hi-Fi

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Today — Sat­ur­day 29th July — we’ll take a nos­tal­gic jour­ney back to the 1960s and beyond, when music was on vinyl and home stereo 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.

A selec­tion of these albums forms the core of our music today. Often the tracks con­sist of instru­men­tal arrange­ments of pop­u­lar songs, but there are also plen­ty of orig­i­nal tunes too.

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Where Have You Been: QT Gallery

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The lat­est episode of our orig­i­nal series, “Where Have You Been?” which sug­gests things to do and places to vis­it around the Sec­ond Life Grid, this time vis­its the QT Gallery on the Sev­ery region.

It’s the home gallery of long-time Sec­ond Life res­i­dent and artist quadrapop, whose vir­tu­al art­work includes every­thing from two dimen­sion­al wall pan­els, to more tra­di­tion­al 3‑D sculp­tures, to incred­i­ble three dimen­sion­al works full of col­or and motion.

Learn more by tun­ing in at 12 noon or 4pm SLT/Pacific on these Sat­ur­days and Wednes­days: July 22, 26 and 29, and August 2 and 5.

To lis­ten to Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio, tune to http://main.vcradio.org or “Play Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio” on your smart speak­er.

S03E09 — The QT Gallery
Own­er — Gallery Owner/Artist, quadrapop

SLURLS/URLS:
Sev­ery — Gen­er­al

Ground Lev­el Gallery
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Severy/174/237/2891

The Space Programme: Apollo 11

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Today we present some­thing a lit­tle dif­fer­ent… Space Music and a space doc­u­men­tary.

On this day, July 22, 1969, 54 years ago, the Apol­lo 11 space­craft’s Com­mand Mod­ule sep­a­rat­ed from the Lunar Excur­sion Mod­ule and began its return to Earth after the first human being had stepped out of the LEM and set foot upon the Moon ear­ly the pre­vi­ous day. Today, in pro­gram­ming we’ve broad­cast annu­al­ly from the start of the sta­tion (and beyond), we cel­e­brate the mis­sion’s achieve­ment in music, and in a spe­cial music- and actu­al­i­ty-based doc­u­men­tary.

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The Magic of The Musical: Saturday, July 15th Live!

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THE MAGIC OF THE MUSICAL — Sat­ur­day, July 15 @2pm slt. This Month: The Unsink­able Music Man: Mered­ith Will­son

THIS SHOW IS NOW AVAILABLE ON MIXCLOUD — click here

July’s episode will be LIVE from the Gar­dens at beau­ti­ful Angel Manor, and on-the-air, at 2pm SLT — join the audi­ence in-world!

Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio’s orig­i­nal series “The Mag­ic of The Musi­cal” con­tin­ues this Sat­ur­day, July 15th, at 2pm SLT/Pacific Time, live from its home in Angel Manor — and this episode comes from the beau­ti­ful Gar­dens on the estate — click to go there!

Also on the air today: tune in at 12 noon or 4pm for the lat­est, spe­cial SL20B edi­tion of “Where Have You Been?” where we sug­gest loca­tions and strate­gies to get the best out of your vis­its to the Sec­ond Life 20th Birth­day regions. Plus “Engines of Our Inge­nu­ity” from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Hous­ton, every four hours from 4am. Fea­tured Music will, of course, be “On Broad­way!”.

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Sunday 9 July: Elrik Merlin at SL20B — and more!

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Sun­day 9th July, 3pm SLT: Join Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio’s co-founder Elrik Mer­lin for an hour of retro-futur­is­tic Clas­sic Elec­tron­i­ca LIVE from the Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio exhib­it at the Sec­ond Life 20th Birth­day cel­e­bra­tions! Artists include The Tor­na­dos, Kraftwerk, Kei­th Mans­field, Per­rey & Kings­ley, Syn­er­gy and more.  Be there in per­son — or tune in to Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio for the live broad­cast!

Here’s your trans­porta­tion… and talk­ing of trans­porta­tion, while you’re there, why not hop on a sky­cy­cle and see the exhi­bi­tion from a dif­fer­ent angle!

In addi­tion, tune in at 12 noon and 4pm for Episode 22 of our orig­i­nal series, “Tarot @ Teatime”. In this episode Hon­ey and Wil­low take a jour­ney through more of the Major Arcana and dis­cuss the his­to­ry and sig­nif­i­cance of cards XII The Hanged Man, XIII Death, XIV Tem­per­ance, XV The Dev­il, and XVI The Tow­er — details here.

Weds 5th July: Join us for a live Tarot Talk at 1pm SLT

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On Wednes­day July 5th at 1pm SLT, join Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio at our SL20B head­quar­ters on SLB Breath­tak­ing, or tune in to http://main.vcradio.org for a spe­cial live “Tarot Talk” in which Hon­ey Heart, Tarot expert and co-host of VCRa­dio’s orig­i­nal series, “Tarot @ Teatime”, dis­cuss­es her recent research into Tarot read­ing, in con­ver­sa­tion with Elrik Mer­lin. Hav­ing been a Tarot read­er for 40 years, Hon­ey has recent­ly com­plet­ed some orig­i­nal, detailed research into the Tarot, look­ing at what exact­ly goes on dur­ing a Tarot read­ing. Today’s pre­sen­ta­tion sheds new light on the poten­tial pos­si­bil­i­ties for using the Tarot in transper­son­al coun­sel­ing and in oth­er fields.

In addi­tion, don’t miss the spe­cial SL20B edi­tion of “Where Have You Been?” at 12 noon and 4pm SLT, where we look at some of the exhibits at the show and present some strate­gies for get­ting the best out of your vis­it. And “Engines of Our Inge­nu­ity” from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Hous­ton, every fourhours from 4am SLT/Pacific.

Through­out the day we are fea­tur­ing music writ­ten for, inspired by, or con­tem­po­ra­ne­ous with, the works of William Shake­speare, includ­ing both peri­od and mod­ern instru­men­ta­tion.

Caledonia Skytower at SL20B — Sunday 2nd July, 3pm

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This show is now avail­able on Mix­cloud!

Sun­day 2nd July, 3pm SLT: Join our star pre­sen­ter Cale­do­nia Sky­tow­er for an hour of selec­tions from motion pic­ture and tele­vi­sion sound­tracks that look to the future — includ­ing the works of Alexan­der Courage, Jer­ry Gold­smith, Michael Giachi­no, John Williams and more! LIVE from the Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio exhib­it at the Sec­ond Life 20th Birth­day cel­e­bra­tions! Be there in per­son — or tune in to Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio for the live broad­cast!

Host Cale­do­nia Sky­tow­er explores our fas­ci­na­tion with space through pop­u­lar enter­tain­ment, focus­ing pri­mar­i­ly on the music of Star Trek and Star Wars. These fer­tile fran­chis­es, each with their own rocky begin­nings, have had a major impact on the enter­tain­ment indus­try and pop­u­lar cul­ture as they con­tin­ue to hon­or their begin­nings and explore new paths. Strap on your light saber and pre­pare to beam-up for an hour of glo­ri­ous music of The Stars!

Here’s your trans­porta­tion… and talk­ing of trans­porta­tion, while you’re there, why not hop on a sky­cy­cle and see the exhi­bi­tion from a dif­fer­ent angle?