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  • The Hexagons: update 13 06

    The Hexagons: update 13 06

    As maybe someone remembers, some time ago we opened this space in Museum Islands, which aims to be a kind of directory of producers of their own music in Second Life. It is all explained in this earlier blog post. The hexagons has also been added to the Second Life destination guide.

    We have started a series of concerts, the season opened by Tia Rungray and which will continue in July with a small festival with various musicians active in Second Life and RL.
    The artists who have already joined the initiative are the following (in no order):

    Tia Rungray
    A Limb
    Yadleen
    Echo Starship
    Bsukmet & Imniali
    Daddio Dow
    Livio Korobase
    Art Olujia
    Cypress Rosewood
    nnoiz Papp
    Martin Dimitrov Music
    Mish Musicat
    Chouchou
    Poppy Morris
    SM2
    Mao Lemieux
    Morlita Quan
    Space Invaders
    Aleatorica

    I invite all business owners in Second Life to view their biographies at Hexagons, each portrait provides a folder with the artist’s name, his image and a bio.

    I also invite interested musicians to send an image and a bio, so as to make the directory even more complete.

    The Hexagonsit’s a great opportunity for musicians to showcase their work and for businesses to support local talent. I hope many will take the chance to get involved.


    The doors are always open, and on the roof there is a space available for events and concerts, and also as a rehearsal room.

  • Tia Rungray at The Hexagons, the full performance in Second Life

    Tia Rungray at The Hexagons, the full performance in Second Life

    Tia uses this combined real video/virtual video formula that works a lot, is informative and interesting. Yesterday’s concert on the roof of the Hexagons was excellent, good music, good people, friends. Perfect.

    Like those times you feel like you’re in the right place at the right time.

    There isn’t much more to say. Listen to good music, it’s good for mind and body.
    Hope to see Tia-san on the roof of Hexagons again. Always welcome.

    The location of the event, The Hexagons, is hosted in Museum Island and is open to anyone who wants a place where and can play in a context other than the classic “club” or “opening” one, The stress of competition does not exist here, and we are not interested in having crowds but on good music. Peace, love and coffee.

    Thank you all and sayoonara.


  • Tia Rungray Concert LIVE at Second Life Music Composers Directory || 05-27-2023 1PM SLT

    Tia Rungray Concert LIVE at Second Life Music Composers Directory || 05-27-2023 1PM SLT

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    I will perform at The Hexagons, owned by the Second Life Music Composers Directory, on 27 June at 01:00 PM PDT. I am looking forward to seeing you there.

    Tia Rungray LIVE in Second Life Music Composers Directory || 05272023
    LIVE MUSIC with “Piano & Noise” in Metaverse & YOUTUBE LIVE
    └ https://tiarungray.com/live/2023-05-27-sat/

    DATE:
    May 27, 2023

    START TIME:
    01:00 PM (PDT)
    29:00 (JST)

    TELEPORT (in Second Life):
    The Hexagons in Museum Island
    https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Museum%20Island/64/127/1495

    ORGANIZER:
    Second Life Music Composers Directory

    COOPERATION:
    Museum Island
    https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Museum%20Island/118/215/22

    SOUND & ART PRODUCER:
    Takayuki Noami (Non-REM Studio)
    https://non-rem.com/

    PR:
    ART PROMOTION by Violet Boa
    https://www.facebook.com/violet.boapr.1

  • The Hexagons, second life music composers directory

    The Hexagons, second life music composers directory

    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