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After a rough start due to some new client issues, we finally got rolling at the Alphaville Herald launch party in metaplace. Metaplace needs a few more things to assist live musicians, but it’s still in beta so it will evolve. The metaplace crew were rolling out updates to fix client bugs a couple of times during the gig, and it eventually settled down. Mucho Fun had by all!

Thanks to Hathead and Noma for the Interwebz jam , Pixleen and the alphacrew, and the Metaplace team.

After the metaplace gig I hopped over to videoranch , Mike Nesmith’s live music virtual world, for the launch of the memorial day musicrise festival. It used Activeworlds as the platform, and their live video streaming is very nicely integrated into the environment.

Sounded great to me. I love the scaling of the RL video to avatar size, another subtle cue that adds some more immersion to mixed reality gigs like this.

Live Bitstream Boogie Blues in Metaplace

Anytime…anywhere…anyplace!

Catch the hottest live blues trio in the Metaverse for a real time musical collaboration across the internet from three countries in full 2.5D isometric glory!

Komuso Tokugawa on vocals, harmonica and guitar live from Tokyo
Hathead Rickenbacker on piano live from Toronto
Noma Falta live from Atlanta on Bass/Vocals

05/22/09 17:00 pst/pdt at Alphaville Metaplace

The First Tokyo barcamp was on last weekend.

I’d never been to a barcamp, so it was interesting to see the self organising presentation system at work.

After lunch I decided to do a little presentation on “The Future of Music”. Check the video out for my take on where I see some of this going, as a result of my prototyping of the Future of Music in Virtual Worlds such as SecondLife and Metaplace.

Music from YIS IT Department on Vimeo.

Here are links talked about in the video:
Bitstream Boogie: youtube.com/watch?v=XVHoNhiowVA
Music Immersion: youtube.com/watch?v=L8lBu22s8mQ
Videoranch (Nesmith): videoranch.com
Indabamusic: indabamusic.com/
Awdio: awdio.com/
Grooveshark: listen.grooveshark.com/
Temple U Japan SL Music study: sonicviz.com/wordpress/2009/04/11/second-life-and-the-future-of-the-music-industry/
Noteflight: noteflight.com/