electro-music.com on Second Life

Inventor

Hi folks, There has been some talk over the years of music in the virtual world of Second Life and it's relation to electro-music.com. I would like to create a performance venue for artists who wish to perform within Second Life. But first I'd like to open a discussion about it.

I have a port on the electro-music station and it's set up with a maximum of 32 listeners, which is a lot actually, specifically for the purpose of beaming into Second Life. To date I think I have not used more than six of those ports at any one time, however it is quite possible that a popular performer will attract a nice crowd so it's good that we have the capacity.

I do not at this time own a stage venue, however I do know people who can help with that, and also I can rent or buy land for that purpose if necessary. I'd just like to estimate the level of interest in such a thing. So if you're interested, now is the time to speak up!

Les

JovianPyx · Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2011 6:02 pm Post subject:

Sounds like a sort of "open mic".

Not being a second lifer, I can't really relate, but it sounds like fun.

Inventor · Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2011 6:10 pm Post subject:

Well yes we can have an open mic night if that's a popular idea. Thanks for letting me put your music in the playlist, JovianPyx.

I guess for now I will look into renting some land and building a club and I'll schedule myself for a few performances per week to get things rolling. If you would like to broadcast or add your songs to the playlist, please let me know.

Also if you have some ideas for a stage or club atmosphere, I'd be interested in hearing those. I'm thinking of a giant piano keyboard with moving keys and an electronic theme like circuitry for walls and stuff, maybe something that lights up to show signal flow, not sure. we'll see how it goes... any ideas?

Les

Inventor · Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2011 7:33 pm Post subject:

Hmmm, we already have some ideas. I mentioned the moving keyboard staircase notion to MusicMan11712 in chat and he came up with some good ideas. Like making each key represent a set of notes that gets randomly read from so there is not a one-to-one relation between key and note. Then we talked about scanning for avatar position and controlling music that way.

I recall that wmonk and I worked on a transport mechanism from SL to ChucK running client side which would be perfect for this. So now I am thinking of creating an interactive environment for jamming in Second Life with jams from em ports mixed in to the whole.

There are a lot of possibilities here...

Les

Inventor · Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2011 10:01 pm Post subject:

Uh, well um, I got a little carried away and i rented 1000 prims in a skybox with a holodeck on it for scenery. If you are already a second life resident, fire up your browser and follow this SLURL:

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Cyril%20Beach/20/193/2002

A SLURL is a Second Life URL, or in other words a web link that teleports you to a place in Second Life. This is a full 1/4 sim skybox with plenty of prims for setting up our electro-music interactive exporatory environment. I can't wait to fill it with all kinds of fun stuff! More to follow...

Les

Inventor · Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2011 10:28 pm Post subject:

The skybox i'm renting comes with a holodeck as i mentioned, and here is one of the background images... wow, nice!

Les

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Inventor · Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 9:33 am Post subject:

This morning I created a simple test object to fill the sim with fun interactive things: a musical capacitor. The photo below shows what it looks like. It's physical in the sense of game physics engine behavior so avatars can push it or grab it and roll it around.

When it rolls around, a different logic mask is generated from the settled rotation along it's axis. The plates are made slightly oval and 90 degrees rotated, creating four "sweet spots" where the object settles. each stopping position corresponds to a different four-note sequence of three possible notes. I used samples of Princess's voice saying "happy", "joy", and "day" for the notes.

So basically the thing sits there and says joy joy happy day over and over until you get sick of listening to it and either roll it around or shut it off by touching it, lol. But it's cute and I'll make other such interactive objects to keep the sim fun.

I have also created a playlist with Strobe songs, my songs (not the angry ones), and an anonymous friend's songs, plus JovianPyx gave me permission to add his songs which I will do later.

The electro-music SL club is shaping up!

Les

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BobTheDog · Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 4:20 pm Post subject:

Ok Les, looks interesting.

So how do i see this stuff? Is second life a free thing? I know i could google on the information super dirtrack to find out but asking you seems better.

Inventor · Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 4:45 pm Post subject:

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Inventor · Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 5:12 pm Post subject:

Here is a photo of another club object that I created about half a year ago or longer. This is a pair of what I named "Siren Stones". You press the outer four leaves and they change size a touch smaller for a moment then play an audio sample of electro-music (with permission of course). One has my synth sounds and the other has Strobe sounds. People tend to have fun playing them for a little while before they get bored.

I plan to have many such attractions scattered about for people to enjoy in the electro-music club.

Les

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blue hell · Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 5:20 pm Post subject:

Oh, thats a cool idea Les, sort of an installation kind of a thing, or many mini ones, like a museum :-)

Acoustic Interloper · Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2011 7:03 am Post subject:

Inventor · Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2011 8:44 am Post subject:

ty Jan and Dale. Yes, you can build some really awesome stuff in Second Life and the building tools are quite intuitive. you can texture with beautiful photoshop images and combine that with the build objects, called prims. To see a video of some of the best looking places in Second Life, just go to www.secondlife.com, and watch the video that appears on that page.

Les

Inventor · Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2011 2:44 am Post subject:

Here is a view of the Em stage with Kevin and Dave's modular synts displayed. If you want your gear on the stage, post a photo to this thread or IM it to me.

Les

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Inventor · Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2011 11:23 am Post subject:

Here's a fun little object that I just created, it's a Piano Smiley! It's only prims right now and I plan to animate it and put music samples from ChucK into it, played with of course a Boolean Sequencer, what else?.

The keys will play the ChucK Moog-like model, the bell will ring chimes and the eyes, I don't know what sound should eyes make. All of the parts will move in time with the music. This one may take a while to animate but it will be worth it.

Do you have an idea for an animatronics gizmo that I could create?

Les

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MusicMan11712 · Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2011 11:38 am Post subject:

Cool stuff, Les. I can imagine a whole cast of musical characters.
Steve

Inventor · Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 2:02 am Post subject:

Good idea Steve, maybe that will be a theme, fun characters!

Les