On the playa again!

I reserved my camping plots for Burn 2.0 2010
and now come back again on the playa.

This year, I am setting up the camp
with winds Seiling's YOKOHAMA MARCHING BAND
and naturalway Flow's Music StarMine,
two of the most wonderful performance from Japan
that has been attracting world-wide audience for these years.

What are we going to do this year?
Well, it's a secret now.
Please check it out! :-)

Thank you very much for coming to our show in Spring Fling!

Thank you very much!
We received a lot of audiences in our session in Burning Life Spring Fling.
I appreciate so much to those who cheered for us.
I was so excited.

As this was a spring festivity and as we are Japanese,
we were dressed in Japanese kimono and planted cherry trees on the stage. lol
Because, you know, the name of winds Seiling's band is SAKURA,
meaning cherry blossoms. :-)

Yeah, I was so excited I shouted "Good morning, America!"
at the beginning of the concert though it was past 10 o'clock in the evening.
It is because I often give my gig when it is in the morning in U.S.A.
and in the evening in Japan and also because the environment setting was midday. lol
So everybody laughed and I laughed myself and got relaxed to play my music.

Please find below the members of our band and the music we played:

winds Seiling (cl, eg)
Cimon Cham (tp)
strawberry2banana Azalee (b)
aoi Bing (ds)
Hiroshi Kumaki (pf, key)

1. Sakura Metropolitan
2. Someone to Watch Over Me
3. It's Only a Paper Moon
4. Platanus Avenue
5. Renka (Love Songs)
6. Sailing
7. Call for Peace
8. Rez Yourself (Theme from Second Life)

I'm very happy every one of you enjoyed our music
and very much pleased to be a part of this international event.
Thanks again to all those who enjoyed our performance. :)

Joined Avatars United

As was announced by M Linden's blog post,
Linden Lab has acquired Avatars United.
As many of my friends began joining it,
I also signed up and sent many friend requests. :)

Well, as the names goes, when avatars united,
what will happen?
I'm very much excited to imagine that.
This is gonna be a very big movement, I believe.

My page is:
http://www.avatarsunited.com/avatars/hiroshi-kumaki

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. :)