Testing the Harp Commander III |
| Posted: 10/17/07 19:27:09 | Member: (Komuso) | Tag: Equipment |
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I've been aiming to write a review of the Harp Commander III Ron Holmes sent me some time back. I've been giving it a run through its paces as I play around with it in various performance contexts.
I use the HC III, fed by a shaker mic in a custom mount on my harp rack, into Reaper running ReValver Mark II as a vst software amp simulator. Want dirt? Same procedure, adjust to taste. I'll try and do some A/B sound clips at some stage so it is easier to hear the signal change through the chain. I would love to mount my CAD VC-50 mic on the rack instead of the shaker - for a much fatter sound due to the big diaphragm, but it's just too heavy Yours in sonic goodness, KT. |
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Ticketed events in SL - Redux |
| Posted: 05/05/08 12:04:12 | Member: (Komuso) | Tag: events |
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Read more about it on the main blog here! |
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SLang Life Interview |
| Posted: 04/28/08 11:26:14 | Member: (Komuso) | Tag: Press |
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The latest issue of SLang Life, a polish print sl® magazine, has a wide ranging interview with me. Check it out here on my main blog
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Bitstream Boogie Live at the Juke Joint |
| Posted: 04/04/08 06:49:24 | Member: (Komuso) | Tag: Machinima |
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Hathead Rickenbacker and I have been running a few ninjams recently and maestro d'guerrilla machinima-making Osprey Therian came down to the Juke Joint and made a film of our last Juke Joint Boogie. HatHead Rickenbacker is an award-winning musician who performs jazz, blues, funk, soul and electronica - often all at the same time. HatHead's performances on piano at overly expensive restaurants earned him Best Music from Toronto Magazine several years in a row. HatHead believes that music is a power to be used for peace and his mother expects him to spontaneously combust. |
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Interview with Metaverse Messenger |
| Posted: 04/02/08 00:41:58 | Member: (Komuso) | Tag: Press |
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International Bitstream Boogie |
| Posted: 03/10/08 02:30:09 | Member: (Komuso) | Tag: Gigs |
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Today was Beta test #3 of the new ninjam based blues collaboration with Hathead Rickenbacker. With me in Tokyo and Hathead on piano from snowed in Toronto we played to a jammed packed crowd in my custom built SL recreation of a 1930's era Juke Joint. Accompanied by my Artificial Intelligence based rhythm section, beato-san and basso-san. No railroad track mp3 backing tracks or lame midi in this juke joint! Smokinnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn! Stay tuned for more.... |
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SynaesthAsia |
| Posted: 01/29/08 04:57:05 | Member: (Komuso) | Tag: Gigs |
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MoShang Zhao and I ran Beta test #5 of MoKo LoCo yesterday. I had a few glitches and issues but it went very well in the end.
Check out the films/images/blogs below:
Thanks to everyone for the documenting it for us and the comments, including Jurin Juran for tp'ing the audience. Cu in the bitstream, kt |
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Do Itashimashite! |
| Posted: 02/06/08 22:38:59 | Member: (Komuso) | Tag: Press |
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In response to a very nice blog post from one of my fans yesterday that lifted my spirits when I had the blues, I thought I'd post a few links of what some of my regular fans have been writing about me:
"Do Itashimashite" means "You're Welcome" in japanese, usually in reply to someone saying "Thank you". soooo....Do Itashimashite! Let's keep that Positive Quantum Energy flowing through the bitstream! Drop me a line if you have written a review about me and I'll add it to the list. You can also leave comments on the site if you are a member. Your constructive feedback on my live events is always welcome too, so feel free to IM anytime if you have some input. Cu in the bitstream ,kt PS: Please also check out the this sites members SL Live gig photo galleries as well! |
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MoKo LoCo Beta Test #4 |
| Posted: 01/10/08 05:49:44 | Member: (Komuso) | Tag: Gigs |
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MoShang Zhao and I have been stealth beta testing our MoKo LoCo Ambient Blues Trance project, called "SynaesthAsia" over the last couple of weeks. It's a real time jam over the internet using Ninjam , delivered in a custom setting I designed along with my prototype Generative Visuals System I developed up from my bio/neuro feedback project. Today's gig attracted some guerrilla machinima makers and photographers.
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Now that's what I call real time collaboration!
cu in the bitstream, kt |
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A New Year |
| Posted: 01/03/08 08:32:11 | Member: (Komuso) | Tag: Gigs |
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2007 was a great year for "Bringing the Boogie to the Bitstream" Ending it with a killer "Blue Snow" gig for Linden Lab at their official winterfest was a great way to end a great year in the nascent meteverse. 300+ live gigs in SL spread across SL clubs, private parties, Corporate sim openings and events, and two house rent boogie grid tours, and getting down at my own venue in Artropolis "Komuso's Joint". 2008 will bring more sonic goodness to the bitstream. In addition to expanding my ever evolving setlist of gutbucket boogie blues, I have been working on two new interactive music projects which will be launched very shortly. Stay tuned! Have a good one in 2008. Cu in the bitstream, kt |
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MagSL RL/SL/Web Live Party |
| Posted: 12/07/07 05:12:00 | Member: (Komuso) | Tag: events |
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MagSL, one of the major japanese sim communities [over 50], had a very impressive 1st year anniversary party last night in Tokyo. Simultaneously streamed to the web via Stickam and with a co-party in SL as well. It was an outstanding event, very well organised, with over 200 people attending in RL. Japanese SL Live musicians who played live in RL included Solary Clary and Gold Seventeen. Famed Japanese producer/guitarist Hatake-san of Sharam-Q finished off the proceedings with his production of "Low Spec Woman" followed by a blues jam congratulating MagSL - which I was kindly invited to blow some harp on! Japanese Story here
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Ambient Trance Blues |
| Posted: 12/03/07 03:42:52 | Member: (Komuso) | Tag: Gigs |
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I did a gig last night at Eolus Lounge. I've been working on some real time distributed jam collaborations using Ninjam, and for the last 20 minutes introduced a new genre of Ambient Trance Blues with MoShang Zhao live from Taiwan on windcontroller. I played Shakuhachi [it has a natural blues scale!], harmonica and eBow slide guitar. Catch it on the song page here as track "Ambient Trance Blues Jam" [down the bottom or select on the radio]. Enjoy! UPDATE: Nice review by Japanese Writer/Blogger Yabush Yamdev [in sl] |
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Interview with VJ Shojo |
| Posted: 11/17/07 20:08:17 | Member: (Komuso) | Tag: Press |
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Check it out on VJ's new blog here
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New Songs for download |
| Posted: 10/16/07 07:12:30 | Member: (Komuso) | Tag: News |
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Hola! Check the songs page to download some live cuts from recent gigs. Rattlesnake Moan, SL Boogie, and St James Infirmary in all their sonic harmonic noisy jamminess cu in the bitstream soon, kt |
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Enter Komuso's SL House Rent Boogie Tour #2 |
| Posted: 10/12/07 03:23:26 | Member: (Komuso) | Tag: Grid Tour 2 |
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Does your house have asses that need to be kicked? You know it does! Submit your entry to the House Rent Boogie tour now! PLEASE READ: YOU MUST FILL THIS IN AND EMAIL IT TO ME AT -> komuso at sonicviz dot com [replace at and dot with @ and .] I WILL ONLY ACCEPT EMAIL SUBMISSIONS. ------------------------------------------------ Conditions of entry 1. NO Venues or business locations - profit OR nonprofit - eligible 2. Houses only - could be anything from an empty sim, beach shack, treehouse, mansion, skybox .... whatever. 3. Did I say it's a HOUSE RENT BOOGIE Tour? see point 2. 4. You must be able to change the media stream on your land parcel 5. You must be located in a sim of reasonable performance able to host up to 40 avatars 6. You must be able to provide reasonable security precautions against blingtards and greifers 7. You will need to supply an email address to communicate and finalize bookings in the event you win a slot on the tour. If you do not feel comfortable doing this - please do not enter the draw. ---------------------------------------------- ENTRY FORM
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Filthy and Komuso boogie RL&SL! |
| Posted: 09/27/07 01:12:23 | Member: (Komuso) | Tag: events |
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On Sept 14th Filthy Fluno (aka Jeffrey Lipsky) and I did a very innovative SecondLife to RealLife dual gig at his exhibition opening party in Lowell, Ma. Filthy installed a kick **** sound system in the gallery, we ended up with ~50 people in RL and 60+ at the Artropolis stage in SL, kindly built out by Esch Snoats in record time the day before! More details on Filthys blog post! |
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My Live Recording Policy |
| Posted: 03/31/07 00:14:42 | Member: (Komuso) | Tag: Gigs |
I keep getting asked if I have cd's for sale and I keep saying...soon, as I'm still writing material and playing with arrangements. I'm primarily a live musician anyway, and doing stuff off the cuff is what I do...sometimes it works and sometimes it does not. I do record every gig I play, but for various reasons I can't release these...I use them for debrief purposes primarily, but I am starting to make available selected live cuts for free download. The reality is with current technology anyone listening to a live online gig can also record it. [Interestingly that totally subverts the recording industry value chain model, including digital download stores.] Anyways..here's my official policy on taping of live shows in SecondLife or any other emerging metaverse platform. I follow the dictum set down by the Grateful Dead and their Tapers policy, slightly upgraded with a modern CC license: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grateful_Dead#Tapers In short: "The band allowed sharing of tapes of their shows, as long as no profits were made on the sale of their show tapes" The Creative Commons license I attach to any user recording [audio and/or video and/or photography] of my live gigs is the following:  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. Geo Meek has put up one here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80wIpeKGWdg which he cleared with me. I would ask that anyone who wants to do similar things to other content sharing sites apart from user peer to peer please consult with me first. There are some very very dodgy licensing issues on the major commercial content sharing sites that need to be addressed, and most people are not aware of these issues. Feel free to email me at komuso at sonicviz DOT com [replace at and dot with correct email characters pls] and we can discuss if you are interested. |
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New Machinima Music Video up |
| Posted: 08/06/07 11:08:20 | Member: (Komuso) | Tag: Machinima |
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Even Cyborgs get the Blues! Check out the first installment on the video page. |
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Da Shiz? |
| Posted: 07/18/07 18:48:42 | Member: (Komuso) | Tag: Press |
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The ever amusing SL Herald has some nice comments in their recent article on me. Looks like I'll have to boost my security to handle the griefer infux though. What with viewer crashes + sim crashes + stream crashes ++ all the other regular tech hassles of doing an SL live music performance I thought my plate was full already. Ah well...onwards, upwards, sideways!
Da Shiz: Komuso Tokugawaby peppermint fizz, seriously cool stuff that's going on desk
In a historic, groundbreaking, academically rigorous, yet fun new feature that someone might conceivably think is serious metaverse journalism - or at least virtual tabloid journalism - here is the seriously cool stuff that's going on desk suggestion for what to do between spamming the Herald comments, crashing sims, and annoying Prokofy. If you like being told of meaningful, fun, or interesting things to do once in a while, leave a comment to that effect, and we'll get a sharper reporter on it at some point. Maybe. Worst case, we'll send Jimbo out to cover the story if the office cat is too busy cleaning herself to be bothered. In the meantime, here's a humble suggestion: Check out SL electric blues player Komuso Tokugawa. He plays all over the place on the grid several nights a week, so make the effort because his show is a dance party on your computer. Get there early, his blues and boogie pushes sims to the limit and you may have to try a few times to get in. His website has a list of upcoming shows.
Tokugawa is a charismatic performer and a talented musician. His avatar is usually some sort of guitar slinging robot. He plays a grungy electric guitar and harmonica over a digital drum and bass background and jams on classic American Blues songs. Tokugawa is an Australian who lives in Tokyo, Japan, making his deep knowledge of American Blues especially interesting in a Second Life as a Global Village kind of way. Tokugawa-san rocks.
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Black Tie and Blues |
| Posted: 06/17/07 11:39:12 | Member: (Komuso) | Tag: Gigs |
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Be there or be Square! Read all about it on the event page or check out the Oyster Bay blog.
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On the use of Backing... |
| Posted: 06/13/07 21:20:30 | Member: (Komuso) | Tag: Equipment |
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A little storm in SL atm on Live musicians who use backing verus those who don't [ie: the pureist music snobs] I use a combination of sequenced backing using high end vsti, interactive responsive virtual instruments as backing, and no backing. I don't really care if people use backing [there I said it!] but what I do hate is BAD KARAOKE TYPE backing with cheesy synths and other bad timbre instruments and bad rhythmic timing...if you think mine sounds like that...well, so be it. Onwards! |
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Tips to breakout of the musical straightjacket. |
| Posted: 06/13/07 21:16:08 | Member: (Komuso) | Tag: Technique |
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It's tough when you are a self taught musician. At some point you reach a musical brickwall...you keep playing the same riffs over and over, no way to move on. Usually this is due to two things: Limited musical theory knowledge Limited technique I recently came across two great resources: Online voice training - Explore your voice How music really works ebook Highly recommended! |
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Gear Testing: Harp Commander III |
| Posted: 06/09/07 09:53:54 | Member: (admin) | Tag: Equipment |
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Ron Holmes has sent me a new Harp Commander III, so I'm giving it a run through its paces as I play around with it in various performance contexts. Some friends of mine here in Tokyo have the HCI and HCII, though I've only ever played the HCII live once at a jam...and it blew me away. I did my first SL live gig with it today and it was great! Stay tuned for more info as I put together a full review of it. If anyone in Tokyo is reading this I'll be giving it a live run this sunday night when I jam a few with Steve Gardner [delta bluesman from mississippi] and Hisa Nakase [bass] at What the Dickens in Ebisu.
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Sl Grid Tour - News and Photo's |
| Posted: 03/14/07 05:49:25 | Member: (Komuso) | Tag: events |
| Tour #1 is finished! What a ride! Startdate: 18/01/2007 with a housewarming party at my place in cisseps 600m high Enddate: 08/03/2007 at Callipygian's place in Phang Nga with a dual sim extravaganza. I added about 200 new people to my group "Komuso's Fans of The Blues" during the tour, and it now sits around 500 people - not big by myspace standards but big for an individual music group in SL. I've uploaded a couple of photo galleries of recent sl gigs, including the House Rent Boogie tour. More details on the winners for gig and poster competition coming soon. Boogie Tour Photos: http://www.sonicviz.com/gallery/bluestour1/ Blues gigs: http://www.sonicviz.com/gallery/blues/ I've also just seen redzone claiming to be the first band to tour SL http://www.redzone.tv/redzone/press/news/index.htm Also cited http://blog.wired.com/music/2007/02/band_to_tour_se.html#comment-63661484 and http://www.secondlifeherald.com/slh/2007/03/dark_siders_rej.html#comment-63662206 I hate to steal their "first" claim, but since they seem to be hyping it up I better set the record straight that I beat them to the "first tour" title by at least a few weeks, starting my grid boogie tour on the 18th Jan 2007. I also played over 20 dates on it. Any other SL musicians who wish to claim the first tour title? Go right ahead..dates, times and photos as above welcome! I must register and update this wiki entry as well with some more accurate virtual tour and gigging information: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ptc/The_Usage_of_Gaming_Engines_in_the_Promotion_of_Music |
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Free download/Memberships now open |
| Posted: 03/12/07 08:38:32 | Member: (Komuso) | Tag: News |
| Hola! Fresh from the friday night Djork session - a free download of the new version of Amazing Grace I'm working up: http://www.sonicviz.com/music/members/6/music.php or open my website from my sl profile web tab and hit the media link on the main menu. It's rough, it's raw, it's me!!! I've also opened up free membership accounts on my main music site, feel free to sign up to keep in touch as the metaverse expands beyond sl. http://www.sonicviz.com/music/signup.php?mode=signup"a_id=-1 tc, kt |
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Coming to a House Near you! |
| Posted: 03/02/07 07:08:41 | Member: (Komuso) | Tag: Press |
| A nice article from SLNN on the tour: http://slnn.com/article/komusohousetour/ |
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House Rent Boogie Tour Update #3 |
| Posted: 02/24/07 08:23:00 | Member: (Komuso) | Tag: events |
| Wow...been a busy month, 19 gigs completed so far for Feb 2007! I've also been fine tuning my sound as well as preparing some new artificially intelligent rhythm tech for some new forays into my alternative blues jamming style - the BoogieBluesNoise. The tour has been going very well, now in planning for stage 6 and the final leg...about another 6 or do gigs to book. I have a bunch more photos to upload to the gallery from the last couple of gigs and will get them up asap. Take care, cu in the bitstream soon - kt. |
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Artropolis Sim Opening Photo gallery |
| Posted: 02/16/07 08:16:58 | Member: (Komuso) | Tag: events |
| Pathfinder linden caught some great hi-rez shots of the Artropolis opening .. it was a blast! Check them out http://www.flickr.com/photos/pathfinderlinden/387560921/ |
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The Virtual House Rent Boogie Tour Update 2 |
| Posted: 02/01/07 06:20:59 | Member: (Komuso) | Tag: SL Grid Tour 1 |
| Hola! The virtual boogie tour is going fantastic! The second leg starts tomorrow, and it looks like I will be going through till the end of Feb, as I have a bunch more to book and get through. Some very cool locations to play:D Check the growing collection of pics in the gallery section. I have also started the Tour poster competition where every gig gets to enter their poster for the event. Prize still tbd, but it will be good! Check the gallery for more of these. Check the event page for upcoming gigs...cu in the bitstream;-) |
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House Rent Boogie Tour - Update1 |
| Posted: 01/18/07 00:33:47 | Member: (admin) | Tag: events |
| Ok Doki! Lots of entries..ty everyone! I'd like to do them all, rl time permitting, but will try to schedule at least 15. Some of the places seem more relaxing, so I've decided to combine it with the release of my new generative ambient relaxation cd's, which are in final production. I'm also producing some generative ambient movies to go with the music. Stay tuned for further updates as i get the dates and locations finalised. |
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SecondLife Live Music performance survey |
| Posted: 01/13/07 22:02:11 | Member: (admin) | Tag: Survey |
| I'm conducting a short survey to gather some information on audience listening experience at SL live music performances. It seems to me there are more and more dropouts since I started playing back in SL after my break and I would like to start getting some wider feedback. Please go to http://sonicviz.com/survey/index.php?sid=1 |
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Komuso Goes Walkabout - Submit your entry now! |
| Posted: 01/08/07 23:55:55 | Member: (Komuso) | Tag: events |
| Komuso on Walkabout - the 2007 "House Rent Boogie Tour" - Entry Form [Entries close 15th January 2007] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the tradition of Itinerant Bluesman everywhere Komuso is going on walkabout and is looking for the best private residential locations on the grid to rest his hat for the night to play for his bed, board, tips, and whisky/machineOil and err...whatever else crosses his path;-) DO YOU HAVE A COOL HOUSE OR PLACE WHERE YOU WANT TO PARTY? [no clubs/bars/event spaces allowed] You think you have what it takes to host the noisest low down gutbucket red hot rockin' bottleneck boogie slide n'harp cyborg from the bad side of the bitstream for some "House rent boogie" [1.5+ hours]? |
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Harpin' Bitchin' Metaverse Machinima Blues - It's up! |
| Posted: 12/24/06 21:21:53 | Member: (Komuso) | Tag: Press |
| Kronos Kirokorian sweated pixels to get this out for a xmas release so get it while it's hot - the short but sweet machinima of the first Secondlife Blues n'Roots festival. Check the video link to the right to get it from this site, or alternatively check it out on BlipTV http://komusotokugawa.blip.tv/file/121200/ |
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SL Blues n'Roots #1 - Machinima release party |
| Posted: 12/21/06 02:25:51 | Member: (Komuso) | Tag: events |
| After an extended break with computer failure, RL travel to Nepal, and a house move we finally got the Festival done on the 15th of December. A number of technical difficulties, such as stream dropouts and login difficulties, made it a little frustrating but enough people stuck with it to party on and listen to the fantastic music from four of the top artists in SL, including a live metajam between Ricardo Sprocket on Piano in Arizona and myself on slide/harp in Tokyo. However, having been to a number of live shows in sl recently including the NBC one today [where I scored a free signed CD] I have experienced stream dropouts with them as well, so I'm not sure what is happening atm. Debate about paying for live music shows in SL continues http://slnn.com/index.php/article/about/live-music.html but I think we have shown that it is possible to hold a paying event which is a win win for all concerned. Now if we could just get a stable system....;( Kronos Kirkorian and I have been working on a short music machinima piece to celebrate the event and it's close to final release. Stay tuned for the release party info! |
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Status Update on Blues n'Roots |
| Posted: 11/12/06 10:11:55 | Member: (Komuso) | Tag: Events |
| Well, it looks like my graphics card is fried in the laptop. Luckily good old M$ WinXP has a neat little service that emulates basic VGA graphics mode when the graphics card cannot be detected. It's pretty blocky and funky graphics, can't do anything which needs more than 4 bit color, but at it least allows me to do some basic work and communicate till I can drop the machine in for service. As I'm due to fly out Friday 17th Nov and all I can get from the computer support people is "up to a week" to fix it [touch wood] and I need email/web access until I fly out on the 17th, I'm going to drop it off before I leave and enjoy two weeks away from TeH internut. Hopefully my laptop will be fixed by return on the 2nd, and my new main desktop machine will arrive soon after. I just don't think laptops are built to handle super heavy duty use, and my laptop will drop back to backup/mobile use status. My Apologies again to the sponsors [circe, breeze, sean], artists [Ricardo, Nance, Charles/Eth], and audience who were looking forward to it. I'll endevour to also come up with something special to make up for this glitch in the proceedings for the eventual SL Blues & Roots #1 now for sometime early december [other artists schedules permitting] So at this stage...take care, and I'll see you in the bitstream early december for the relaunching of the BoogieBluesNoise and SL Blues n'Roots #1! |
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Apologies - Sh*t Happens! SL Blues & Roots Postponed. |
| Posted: 11/10/06 13:13:21 | Member: (Komuso) | Tag: Events |
| Well, about 2.30 am last night [Tokyo time] just as I was finalising the last few things with circe...my screen suddenly goes all matrix like and kabooom...the dreaded Windows Blue Screen of Death. After a few safe mode restarts and clearing the graphics driver out I eventually got windows back at 640 x 480 screen size and 4 bit color! I can't run sl, can't run much...but have managed to get my email and web posting back. Please bear with me while I try and get this fixed. I'm due to fly out for Nepal on the 17th Nov to 2nd Dec for some business/recording, but have no idea how long it will take to get my machine fixed. I am in the process of getting another machine, but that is still 1-2 months away. My deepest apologies to the supporters of this event. At the moment all I can offer is to reschedule at some time in the future tba. Your ticket money is safe in my SL account, unfortunately I can't get in to refund should you so wish. I will post updates on this blog as I know more. Thanks, kt Edit: I looked at running my music software without running SL and stream the gig without me being in SL, but unfortunately I cannot run my music software effectively with the screen the way it is. |
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Komuso at the crossroads |
| Posted: 11/04/06 11:54:16 | Member: (Komuso) | Tag: Press |
| A new article in Slatenight with a little background on me and my Live music performances in SecondLife. http://www.slatenight.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=98&Itemid=36 |
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SL Blues N' Roots Festival #1 sells out! |
| Posted: 11/04/06 11:41:38 | Member: (Komuso) | Tag: Events |
| The first SL Blues N'Roots festival, a milestone in Secondlife for ticketed music performances, has booked out prior to the event date of 10th November 2006. Featuring a selection of SL's top Blues N'Roots musicians performing special event sets and real time "MetaJam" collaborations. Komuso Tokugawa - Slide/Harp BoogieBluesNoise Charles Bristol Blues Project - Funky Piedmont BluesNance Brody - BluesRoots Acoustic Guitar/vocals Ricardo Sprocket- Piano Blues/Vocals see: http://www.sonicviz.com/music/komuso_blues for the event listing. |
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MetaJams makes the New York Times |
| Posted: 11/04/06 08:10:32 | Member: (Komuso) | Tag: Events |
| TRAVEL / ESCAPES | November 3, 2006 It's My (Virtual) World ... http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/03/travel/escapes/03second.html?ex=1163307600&en=929f1bc0f16d0b7d&ei=5070&emc=eta1 By MATT GROSS Spend a weekend in cyberspace dancing, shopping, chatting and levitating. "Actually, the only place I went where few people danced (besides the academic discussion of genocide in the freakishly earnest Neufreistadt) was Saturday nights Metajams party, at which eight live musicians performed in a single audio stream. The crowd stood mostly stock still as Ricardo Sprocket, Komuso Tokugawa and others played a medley of folk-slash-indie rock tunes that were easily as good as anything Ive heard in New York clubs. Better yet: no cover charge." Actually they had to stay stock still as we had 100 people logged in and performance was maxed out on the server! |
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Previous Gigs in rl/sl |
| Posted: 10/26/06 16:00:22 | Member: (Komuso) | Tag: Gigs |
| I posted a list of my sl performance history since I started playing in sl. I started recording all these some time ago as well, so will be trawling through them looking for any that really stand out. Stay tuned! http://www.sonicviz.com/blogs/index.php?catid=10 |
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