TUNE IN for UB Radio SALON's VR ROBODOCK SPECIAL !!

COMING UP IN JUST A FEW SHORT HOURS ...

::: ubRadio SALON on DFM Radio Television International !!! :::

LIVE WEB BROADCAST SPECIAL Big City Orchestrae at VIRTUAL ROBODOCK FESTIVAL 2008 in SecondLife

2-hours of experimental frequencies, live & direct from the 'Chakra Chimp Research Kitchens' of Northern California-land...

Join us TODAY for :::: ubRadio SALON #46 :::
featuring all the LIVE cacophony of BigCityOrchestrae with special guest additives & the ever-present element of surprise (THE SALON)...

TODAY's THEME: BCO's "roBot-roBot" | segment two

::: performed LIVE at Virtual ROBODOCK 2008 :::

WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV
from 4-6PM (US Pacific Standard Time | SLT)

for Europe: THURSDAY, 27 NOV
01.00-03.00 (Central Europe Time GMT + 1hr)

LIVE STREAM in several flavors at http://dfm.nu/

LIVE CHAT on IRC on channel #DFM
more info: http://dfm.nu/help/chat/

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VIRTUAL ROBODOCK FESTIVAL 2008 IN SECONDLIFE

- WED 19 NOVEMBER TO SAT 29 NOVEMBER 2008 -

A 10 days tribute to the Robodock Festival which celebrated its 10th aniversary last year and unfortunately didn't happen this year.

A showcase of 2 years of DFM RTV INT's relentless learning, practising, building, organising in the Virtual World SecondLife.

A worldwide multimedia marathon meltdown of 30 artists sharing their work and experiences with each other and those interested.

!!! 21.504 SQUARE METERS OF ROBODOCK STYLE IMMERSION !!!

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visit UBUIBI for more infos & archives of past ubRadio shows... http://ubuibi.org/radio.html

EVOLUTION CONTROL COMMITTEE / TradeMark G. (aka Mark Gunderson) is a musician and artist, perhaps best known as founder of the band The Evolution Control Committee in 1986. He is also a culture jammer, equipment designer, software designer, and organizer. The Evolution Control Committee is best known for its copyright-challenging stance, using found sounds to create new musical works at the risk of copyright violation. This made The ECC the target of a cease & desist order from CBS for sampling newscaster Dan Rather, but also earned The ECC credit for creating the "Mash-Up" genre of music (also called Bastard Pop).

BIG CITY ORCHESTRA is a long running, art/anti-art group based generally in California-USA, with an ever rotating cast of musician and non-musician members. Formed in 1979 as a house band for network of artist residences in the South Bay area of Los Angeles. Almost comedically prolific, BCO sailed through the cassette culture movement of the 1980's and 90's with about 130 hour-long releases on over 100 labels. The current formation of BCO is based in the SF/Oakland area of Northern California.

DFM RTV INT is a Free Interactive Radio/Chat/Multi-Media Community
Broadcasting 24/7 -- WORLDWIDE
the very first webstation from The Netherlands!
1996-2008 marks 12 years of DFM's relentless independent commercial-
free internet broadcast pioneering...

Virtual ROBODOCK 2008 (Review)

Nice review of the program from earlier today at Virtual ROBODOCK 2008 from a visitor:

http://secondlifebloggers.ning.com/profiles/blogs/review-virtual-robodock

ps: the giant blue Robot-Doll in the 2nd image at the bottom is one of two I've designed for the expo. I highly recommend getting in-world for the total immersive experience of it all. More infos here.

more pics in my Flickr album (and will be adding more until the festival closes 29 Nov.)

this blog will be meta-morphing ...

well...

it has been a long time since i've seen the inner-workings of my Blogger template and sat still enough to follow through on posting something worthwhile.

i've had a lot of time to think about it while i've been away, and a lot of that has been because i've had my head completely absorbed by performances, recording sessions and yes, the infinite daily grind of my day-job (which is also fulfilling much more than just paying my bills-- they are great and tolerate my whacky artistic needs!)

and so...

this blog will be meta-morphing.

i assure you there will be visuals of some sort and a storyline or multiple ones.

for now, it's going to become a little bit slanted toward the performer aspects of what this life of mine seems to revolve around. lately, there's been a merging of media making its way into what i do, and a lot of that has been my recent plunge into the nether-realms of secondLife. there have been quite a few temporary autonmous zones created there among a small community of artists gathered worldwide for music-making, noise-manipulating, sharing of unique and handmade digital visuals of astonishing variety, and it's just difficult to explain in words.

to anyone that might have hopped off the ollapodrida train long ago, thank you for your interest in reading here. and to anyone who decides to hop off once the postings here transform this space, i salute you for keeping with me all this time. and of course, to anyone who's along for the ride, let's all push the envelope and see how far we can go.

/me chants on her way out the door, ".... Bush is over, Bush is over, Bush is over..."