Category: Events in Second Life

𝗦𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆, JAN 12𝘁𝗵 – 12𝗽𝗺 𝗦𝗟𝗧
Line Up:
12pm SLT (21:00 CEST) – Livio Korobase
Afterparty with BookaB Vibes!
Dresscode: 𝙜𝙚𝙩 𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚!

Where: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Durdane/211/210/78

I’ll be playing my music at this opening on Sunday, for anyone who wants to come and listen.

I like Selen’s pictures on the walls, inspired by the works of James Turrell.

I prepared some new music and sounds inspired by Selen’s colorful sights, and I hope everything works well.

My basic track is ready, I’m satisfied. To play it in a concert, I will use the technique exposed in a previous post and here.

Why do I want to specify this? Often in these cases we receive unclear requests regarding “live” performances.
Anyone who has made any music knows that we only have two hands, and if you don’t just play one instrument and maybe sing over it’s impossible to produce an interesting performance.

Personally, I’m not interested in playing piano bar, I prefer complex and layered compositions, which would require an entire band to perform “live”. And even if that were possible, but it’s not, everyone would have to be in the same room and use the mixer output for feed the stream, because of the high lag affecting audio streams (mean: you play a note, and this note can be listened in Second Life after a delay of 30 seconds or more, and there is no solution).

Sometimes you also hear about double or triple streams, but that’s nonsense: in Second Life the stream applied to a parcel can be one and only one.

So I looked for the most useful workflow for me, and I’m happy I found it, as explained in the aforementioned post: i prepare my basic track and i play over, with my two hands.

After the performance, as usual, I will publish the recording on my Bandcamp, at https://liviokorobase.bandcamp.com/.

All my music can be defined as “live”, and this is both an advantage and a flaw from my point of view. I don’t have a studio version of any of the music in my Bandcamp, it’s all live recordings of me playing them (Revox was once used, now a digital recorder but is the same approach).

This also means that if I want to repeat the same thing, I wouldn’t know how to do it: often these are moments captured on the fly, and who remembers how I did them?

But that’s fine with me, that’s what I want, for me this is “live”, influenced by my moods, ambient around me, my inside. I like to tell a story, if I can, and sounds for me are the colors with which I paint a scenario.

I believe that the real distinction should be that between “I play my own music, produced and played by me using the needed tools needed to try to create the feeling that i want to communicate” and “I play/sing music produced by others“…

It is clear that the first case is the interesting one for me, but it is only my opinion. You can freely continue to call “live” something that for me is intrinsically dead, there’s no problem.

I much prefer listening to a live recording of original music than something fake, perhaps using a MIDI base prepared by others, in a piano bar style. Some are very good at this, no doubt. But it’s not a “live”, it’s a performance sung or played over a backing track, a pre-recorded medium generally produced by others.

The difference between streaming music and live music is in the artist, not the medium. Who can create the “collective effervescence” is the winner, dead or alive 🙂

I’ll leave the discussion open, there are certainly different opinions.

For now, see you on Sunday at http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Durdane/211/210/78