An old hippie, Granddad tries to approach his retired life with a relaxed, yet focused lifestyle with the hope of creating a community of musicians, DJs, music educators and fans that explore and share music together across the Metaverse of Virtual Worlds. His passion as a Virtual World builder is programming /scripting as he tries to make the 3D Virtual Worlds more interactive with things like lights, laser shows, dance floors, psychedelic effects and other things to make attending music performances in Virtual Worlds much more immersive. His afternoons are normally taken up with his music. Whether it is in his large and expensive (at least according to his wife) home studio recording new tracks for Spotify releases, writing new material to play at an upcoming Virtual World dance, performing at some Virtual World club or exploring music with other people as a music educator with his Music Nerd Show and Radio Interviews. The nights are usually spent just being in Virtual Worlds and listening to other Musicians and DJ perform their music.
We have a wide variety of skill levels and experience in the Music Producer Amino Group. So, we thought we would do a couple of posts on Essential Gear and Set Ups to do Music Production. This will be aimed at the beginner, but, we would love to hear from you more experienced Music Producers…
This post is to generate some conversation about the importance or lack of importance for Music Producers to do Live Performances. Often Music Producers may work alone as they build up their songs. They may work with other musicians to build up their tracks, but, all too often the music creation process is a solitary…
This is the first of my posts about Music Producer collaboration in our current world of social distancing and busy schedules. Often Music Producers may work alone as they build up their songs. They may work with other musicians to build up their tracks, but, all too often the music creation process is a solitary…
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…
