Month: August 2020

This is a quick post to both pose some questions and reflect on a passion of mine.  How can we use immersive 3D environments to better collaborate on making music together as musicians, DJs and music producers.  I have been working with a project team exploring how we might do this, but, despite a lot…

I worked a couple of years ago on a open source project called Sonic Pi.  This software was the brainchild of Dr Sam Aaron from Cambridge University and a number of us worked on developing it into a code based music creation and performance tool.  It was originally intended to be used in education to…

I belong to a Team called the Music Oasis.  We primarily play our own original music and host shows for other musicians in virtual worlds.  I thought would share with you the experience of putting on an EDM music show in Virtual Worlds.  We worked with the Wookey Technologies Sansar Team and Shangri-La in putting…

This post will explore Streaming Live Music across the internet with a special focus on streaming live performances into Virtual Worlds with a live audience.  It will look at this from a performer’s and fan’s perspective.  Musicians, prior to the current global pandemic, were starting to use the internet to broadcast their performances to fans…

This blog will explore internet streaming live music with a special focus on streaming live performances into virtual worlds (VWs).  It will look at this from the performer’s and the fan’s perspective.  Performing and listening to live music in a traditional sense at a club has become more difficult if not impossible.  Before the pandemic,…

I originally thought that this blog post would be a survey of playing live music and DJ sets in Virtual Worlds.  So, I started building a chart that had features of various virtual world platforms and then compared the features that each software had for playing and listening to live music.  As I started to…