Greenies has been long loved by many and still is a quite popular place which doesn't loose it's magic overtime. Some simply love goofing around with friends as kids in a giant kitchen or simply being mischiveous as Greenies themselves. For sometime now, Grenies kitchen table became a popular place to hold live music events at least once a week. Most musicians adore performing here and become regulars.  We have been delighted to host many well known live musicians of SL here on the giant table. Just last night, I came here to listen to the great tunes of Xavier Nichting Writer's violin. The crowd exceeded 70 during the show and it was amazing!

The Greenies celebrate their "Landing Day" in Second Life from 2 years ago with a gigantic party on August 15th 2009, 11am - 4:30pm SLT. All terrestrial and extraterrestrial creatures are cordially invited to join us on the kitchen table. Incredible live performances, orbital tunes and beautiful particle shows will take your breath!

Event Schedule

11:00 - 12:00 ~~ Live DJane "Myla Vuckovic" (minimal techno, dance)

12:00 - 12:30 ~~ Live Band "Engrama" (indie)

Only a few days are left for us to enjoy the magnificent and visionary build that is the Rezzable's Black Swan, as many of you know already, August 17th is the last day of its life.

Black Swan in the past year has been the sim to host a series of spectacular fashion shows that left many of us who attended speechless, admiring the wonderful creations of Secont Life's top designers like Callie Cline, June Dion, Zaara Kohime, the Lu Sisters, Ivey Deschanel, Candy Cerveau and AvaGardner Kungler just to name a handful.

Only two events are left to celebrate this amazing place, the most important one will be the Swan Song fashion show presented by Avenue, which will take place right on August 17th, with an afterparty that promises to be as jaw dropping as the show itself. It will be the last chance to see the amazing creations inspired by earth, water, fire and air waliking down the runway combining all these elements, created just for this occasion.

Eva Moon has already gone for blended reality.  She has been performing in Second Life for over a year.  And she has been performing frequently for Thinkerer Studios projects ever since she arrived.  One of her earliest gigs was on Saturdays Wild, at the Forum.  At right is a picture of her performance at the Archon Theater on Cookie.  

Eva has earned enough (according to her press release) to finance a new CD, “Moon Falling Down."  So she and her real life band, the Lunatics, will blend worlds in a simultaneous physical and virtual world release concert for their new CD.  Eva Moon (EvaMoon Ember in SL) is known for her hot music and hilariously sexy, no-holds barred lyrics.  In this release concert, her band will be in both worlds.

Crap Mariner is looking for suggestions on what the Linden Labs can do to foster the music business in SL.   This blog (and some following) will organize a few related things that I know about.  But not just about what the Lindens can do.  Also about what other people are already doing.   And how the Lindens can become irrelevant, without really trying.

Suggestions on SLCC Music Track project 

Promotional messages. 

These are vital to music and other entertainment businesses.  Many performers still rely on SL groups to send IMs and notices to fans.  I have discussed some of the problems of using SL groups for this purpose in previous articles.

M Linden called live music in Second Life a "killer ap."   I was on that theme in an article a while back:
Music is real business in virtual reality

That article included a prospective scenario about Joe the Geek and his biworld beer party.  He invited a bunch of his friends to sit around his 96 inch TV screen and sing along with EvaMoon Ember. I even suggested an inworld monetizing scenario: 

"…an entrepreneur might decide that there is a potential demand for a new service, Party Special, set up specifically for entertaining guests at a party.  With specific guests getting recognition and comment.   Chatting with performers on break.  Requesting specific songs.  All the things that add value to a performance at a night club.   And things that might make the host want to pay extra for a private party."

That entrepreneur, Party Marty, would be offering (and charging for) an inworld catering service.  Turn-key operation.  You tell Marty what you need:

Ladies and gentlemen of the Second Life Grid, we here at Club Haze are proud to present our first ever monthly DJ Battle at Tunnel of Light brought to you by Rezzable, the fine makers of our glowtastic sim. Simply put what this means for everyone is that 3 DJs a month can participate in a performance contest where each one performs a couple of hours from 12 to 2 on wednesday and on the fourth week, during one of our regular shows that are still amazing, we will announce the winner of the three DJs. Voting will be done by IMing your vote to the host during the last wednesday of each month during the event. The winner of this monthly contest receives five thousand lindens as a cash prize.

The Club Red Door opened up this past Friday.  With a special mandate: 
 “Where the blues never end.”  
 

Run by Madmax Huet, the place is open 24/7.   Sometimes with live performers (including Madmax) singing the blues.  Maybe sometimes with a DJ riding the blues.    Sometimes with web radio streaming the blues. 

The Red Door offers Subscribe-O-Matic.   Subscribe-O-Matic is getting increasingly popular with performers and venues as a substitute for SL groups when the primary function is to send out notices about events.  Subscribe-O-Matic lets the owner send out notices in SL, but people can subscribe without spending a group slot.  (Most people who are active in SL, need all their group slots and cannot afford to spend them on notice groups.)    Subscribe-O-Matic is free (at this writing) if the number of subscribers is small.

Friday, April 19th 2009 - It's 11:50am SLT and sweat collects itself in my helmet. 3 weeks organization and now it finally starts. The big spring festival. I am excited but also very nervous. Hopefully the guests like the decoration and find their way to the stage area. The SL event calender shows our festival, flyers and posters are out since 2 weeks, I got already the stream urls of the live musicians and send notices out now. Ufff. Did I forget something? Hmm. I don't think so. 12:06pm SLT: The first guests arrive and the stage area fills slowly. Zorch is ready and the show can begin! The clock shows 12:24pm SLT and i get a message from the 3rd live performer of today's daily. Artel Brando: "I can't be ther e... they changed my other gig to 1-2pm SLT and i'm not able to do 2 hours live set without break". Nuuuuh! But his situation is understandable. Luckily i have my fantastic hostess Sarlah which helps me out and offers to DJ one hour to cover the gap. *hugs* 12:45pm SLT: The festival revives and I count 36 people now. Zorch is a great musician and right after him performs Maximillion Kleene, a big fan of our green community.

We already have traditions in Second Life.  Like the idea that the only way to present a musical performance is to have one musician stream for an hour.  That probably works for something like the Music Awareness Marathon, where you drop in whenever you have free time and stay around if you like what you hear.   And, yes, the oldtimers are right: "That's the way we've always done it."

Well, always, if you mean Second Life.  If we take the WayBack Machine, we can go back to the Golden  Age of Television.  Or back to the Golden Age of Radio.  Or even back to the Age of Vaudeville.  I'm not sure whether that was Golden.  That may have been before they invented Golden Ages. 

Anyway, music monoculture was not the way they did it back in those days.  Oh, sure.   They may have put the New York Philharmonic on the air for Saturday afternoon to play Beethoven's Ninth.  And the audience loved it.  Both of them.