Applied for a Theme Camp!

As I wrote in a previous article,
I applied for live performance at Burning Life '09.
But I was sort of reluctant to apply for a Theme Camp.
I did what I really wanted to do in Burning Life last year
and Second Life 6th Birthday.
As a creator, I do not want to do the same old things….
Something new…oh, that does not comes to my mind these days.

It was one of those days winds Seiling,
captain of Yokohama Marching Band proposed me
we should do something together at Burning Life.
Collaboration? Yes! That will make something new!
I accepted her offer, had a meeting with her and her staff,
then my brains began working
and I felt something wonderful would happen.

Next morning I woke up with a very strange image
and a sound of music I know very well.
Confused about the combination of the image and the music,
I told winds about this.
She seemed to think it was interesting
and told me she had imagined similar combination before.
All right. This means "Go!"
I quickly posted our application for a Theme Camp
under the title "Yokohama 'Burning' Marching Band."
What will it be like?
I will tell you when we are granted our land. :)
Please pray for us getting our Theme Camp
and look forward to our performance.

We will, we will burn you!!

[Yokohama Marching Band Official Blog]
http://yokohamamachingband.blogspot.com/

Applied for Live Performance

As a live musician, I applied for performance
at stages of Buring Life '09.
I'm not sure what my schedule will be at last
and whether it will be the Center Camp or
Tokyo Plaza or whatever,
but anyway, I have decided to play at Buring Life this year.

I hope we will have good times together there!

Media & Music URL Set

There's 16-hour time difference between California and Japan.
So, before I went to bed yesterday, I sent a notecard
to Poid Maholvich, SIM coordinator in charge of Dimension,
asking him to set Media & Music URL as I wanted it to be.
When I woke up I found IM from him and URLs had been set
as I asked. Thanks, Poid! :)

As it seems impossible to change Music URL by myself,
I ordered AutoDJ service in addition to the streaming server.
AutoDJ activates my streaming server
and plays the playlist automatically and repeatedly.
This enables me, by using the same streaming server,
to stream my live performance when I'm logged in
and to broadcast my playlist when I'm away.
Isn't it nice? :)

As for Media, the following movie is played in my place.
This is the one in which I made a improvisational session
with naturalway Flow's Music StarMine:

To tell the truth, I would like to make an original video for SL6B,
if the time permits!
But, well, I don't know, for now....

The picture above is the present building of my place.
But I might change the appearance as well as scripts.
I don't know myself how it will look in the end.

Well, when I was working, I got an IM,
telling me I was not showing SL6B Exhibitor group tag
and that it would cause me some trouble.
No! I forgot to change it
because I was building at SilkRoad SIM until late last night!
Thank you so much for reminding me!

The guy was Kolor Fall, my neighbor at Dimension.
Yes, I noticed a group of cell-like objects
was gleaming and moving, like an organic being.
He told me he had already finished his work. Wow!

On the face of his place, there is a monolithic plate
and you can draw anything by left-clicking and dragging.
He showed me how to do it by drawing my name "HIRO,"
when a group of cell-like objects began to move....
Yes!
The objects takes the forms as it appears on the plate,
which means...I found a very tall monument - 400m high! -
in the form of my name! lol

Isn't it fun?
I was very much impressed by his work
and found something in common with mine.
Then, what is my exhibition like?
Well, that's a secret now.
Please check this blog and you will know. :)

Now I Got the Notice!

Today I got a mail from Dusty Linden
telling me mine has been selected for the exhibition
at Second Life 6th Birthday.
naturalway Flow has also received the mail,
so the two of us will be able to give shows
in the parcel allotted to us....

Well, originally the notice was to come on 1st June.
but in the afternoon of that day, Dusty announced
it was rescheduled to 3rd.
But it would not seem to come
even it was 5:00 pm...and then 8:00 pm....
As the notice was said to be sent to those
who were admitted to exhibit,
I was not sure about the status
whether I was not admitted
or it was only a delay again....
I almost gave up waiting for the notice. :(

And then, about 10:00 pm, it finally came!
I was at work then (because it was 2:00 pm in Japan!)
so I was so anxious to go home
and rush to my land.
But the notice also told me
it would take a couple of days more
for them to allot which parcel to whom!

Oh, they make me wait again....
But well, it's okay now I know they've been working hard
until, rather, past 10:00 pm!
As soon as I got detailed information from them,
I'll update this blog explaining about my exhibition. :)

I'll Appear in SL6B!

Electrolab Kayo from The Black Stripes wrote in her blog
that the band will appear in SL6B on 28th June.
And now, my appearance has also fixed:
8:00 am Friday 26th June and 5:00 am Sunday 28th.
Yeah, it's 6:00 am Sunday when The Black Stripes will play,
so you can enjoy the Japanese groups for 2-consecutive hours!
We are very much excited to play Japanese electronic music
in front of the audience from all the world over. :)

Please find our schedule as follows,
the detailed SLURL yet to be announced though:

Friday	Jun.26	8:00 - 9:00 am SLT	Hiroshi Kumaki
Sunday	Jun.28	5:00 - 6:00 am SLT	Hiroshi Kumaki
		6:00 - 7:00 am SLT	The Black Stripes

We are looking forward to seeing you there! :)

Fantastic Stage Now on YouTube

2 weeks have been passed
since the collaborative show with naturalway Flow....
I'm very happy to know my friends fully enjoyed the show,
saying "It was wonderful! I would like to see it again!"
As a matter of fact, it was the two of us who enjoyed most. :)
So naturalway and I are beginning to feel
like giving this show on a regular basis, not as a singular event,
and showing it as one of the SL6B events....

As I was playing live,
I am always unable to take pictures of my own stage,
But, wow! someone took a video of that fantastic show!
With his permission, I edited the video,
entitled it as "Vision Quest" and uploaded on YouTube.

Those who enjoyed the show to the spot
and those who missed the show,
I would be happy if all of you would enjoy this movie. :)

I'll Play 20 Hours This Year!

It's been a week since the 6-day Niseko Radio Festival.
In that radio program, kenmi Lomu announced
this year's Niseko 24-Hour Radio.
Yes, I remember...it was about this time last year
Sena Pinklady was running to gather signatures
to make the 24-Hour Radio come true in SL
and kenmi, decided to launch the program,
asked me to write music for it....

24-Hour Radio 2009 will be larger in scale!
It will be broadcast from a cottage in real Niseko, Hokkaido
and motimoti Campese from Step Up!, a very popular band in SL,
to give a live performance there.
So it will be actually a TV show, not a radio,
that will be broadcast on the Internet and in Second Life. :)
Oh, I got excited to know these plans and I can hardly wait!

I might not be in real Niseko with them,
but of course I will participate in the program some way.
Yes, as kenmi host the show for 24 hours,
I will give a 20-hour live performance in SL to encourage him.
The exact time and place will be announced later
when the details of the program is fixed.

And, as the radio program includes the live images of real Niseko
through Stickam,
My 20-hour live will also be broadcast through Stickam.
Thus the program will cover and be broadcast in
both real life and Second Life.
You can enjoy it in Second Life, on the Internet
and even at the real Niseko!

Got excited?
Yeah, I'm excited myself.
So please check out this 24-hour radio program
on 27-28 June, 2009! :)