Music is present in any SL event, and there are many categories of musicians: DJs, cover bands, singers, instrumentalists, and anyone who uses music as a form of entertainment.
Among all these types of musicians, there is one in particular that fascinates me: who compose and play their own music.
In general these are really passionate people, who over time have built their own personal studio by spending time and money in this passion and they also use SL to play their own music.
I think it’s easy to see the difference between this type of musician and all the others: what you hear is a performance built on one’s sensitivity and skill, and the result is presented in public. A very delicate relationship.
The Hexagons is a place dedicated to those who produce and play their own music, a catalogue of musicians who produce or have produced their own music in Second Life.
In the installation there are frames with the images of these musicians: a click on the frame will give you a folder containing the image and a text with all the information about the selected artist.
The Hexagons also has a stage on the roof where occasionally events can be organised.
Why all those stairs? Well any composer does scales all day, major, minor, pentatonic, blues. mixolydian, eolian, so on and so forth.
Do I like Escher? Yes, I like his work but in this case the stairs are practicable and you can also walk them upside down.
The current artists are certainly not all those present in SL, for now they are only those I know personally. So if you are a musician who produces your own music and plays it in SL, send me a photo of you and a notecard with your information, I will be happy to add a new frame to the directory.
The Hexagons is located at http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Museum%20Island/89/103/1478