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I have added a "Multi Media" section to the site.

I works with Internet Explorer, Opera, but there are some dificulties with Netscape for some file types...

I can only upload here for now, if you want to add something please contact me...

Sample:

http://www.bali-expat-pictures.com/deta ... age_id=179

The handicapped brother of Dewi singing...

I have this really great idea to have someone with a computer and an internet connection stream a live gamelan performance into the virtual world of Second Life. If you don't know what Second Life is I'll tell you...

Initially I noticed the hollywood actress June Brown's pet project is the Thamkrabok monastary in Thailand. I think her and Clear Path International's involvement in my project might also get their names in Rolling Stones magazine and in other big news outlets. I think there is a great opportunity for Southeast Asian music and the music of the landmine victims bands populating Southeast Asia to find an audience within the virtual world of Second Life.

One of the members of my group KentHavershamp Enterprises, which maintains an office within Second Life, was just interviewed in Rolling Stones magazine about their involvement in Second Life. Our music is being streamed from a virtual cd player in the office.

What I want to communicate to June Brown, CPI and to anyone else involved in Southeast Asian music is there are many ways for Thamkrabok Monastary, the landmine victims bands and gamelan performers to benefit from their involvement in Second Life.

There are several Tibetan temples within Second Life. And, there is a western monk giving Dharma lectures on the Support for Healing Island. There's no reason a Thai monk or Balinese one can't do the same.

Further, Thamkrabok could also produce an internet radio program and air it within Second Life. I understand they have the facilities to do that. I'm sure that the Support for Healing Island and many others would agree to have Thamkrabok's music, any of the landmine victims bands or gamelan groups be streamed into their parcels of virtual land.

The really exciting potential is that June Brown, Thamkrabok and their music along with the landmine victims bands or gamelan groups would become very interesting pieces of news for BIG news sources that are all getting turned on to the fascinating things happening in Second Life.

I'm very active in promoting Southeast Asian music in general. I've got over 2,000 friends on myspace. And I would like to be involved in something more specific. It's a labor of love. Southeast Asia is my all-consuming passion.

I understand the demographic of people who would enjoy traditional Southeast Asian music. Marketers call them Cultural Creatives. They would also be very attracted to the fact Thamkrabok monastary is involved in drug rehabilitation which is the actress June Brown's interest in the monastary.

The publicity could also find them and CPI some wealthy donors I suspect and more good PR for June Brown, CPI or gamelan groups. There was a western composer who visited Thamkrabok a few years ago and at that time they acquired some professional recording equipment and computers. I contacted the composer and he said that my idea about Thamkrabok giving "live" performances in Second Life is an idea he has "been looking for for over three years."

He contacted the abbott about the idea and I contacted June Brown's agent about being involved. She is the actress in the TV show EastEnders and plays Dot Branning.

To make a long story even longer, June Brown's agent never delivered the message. The abbott at Thamkrabok never acted on these ideas but I hope you can see the potential for PR and profitability posed by them.


There is a great opportunity to reach a huge audience through "live" performances in the online community "Second Life" which has many concert stages and people actively supporting music perforamances. Several hundred people have been known to attend concerts in Second Life and one musician I talked to made $60 in tips alone for a small gathering.

I apologize for the length of this post. What I'm trying to communicate is easier to just see than to explain but I'll try to make it understandable in this format before you have a chance to see and hear it for yourselves.
I recently discovered this online society because it has received a lot of attention from many news sources lately such as CBS news, the Boston Phoenix, Yahoo Business Wire, CNET News.com, The Observer, Business Week, Trend Watching, MTV to name only a few.

They are saying that very soon, everyone will know about the virtual world "Second Life" and perhaps it will be the next "mysapce".
According to their website; Second Life is a 3-D virtual world entirely built and owned by its residents. Since opening to the public in 2003, it has grown explosively and today is inhabited by 356,233 people from around the globe.

From the moment you enter the World you'll discover a vast digital continent, teeming with people, entertainment, experiences and opportunity. Once you've explored a bit, perhaps you'll find a perfect parcel of land to build your house or business.

You'll also be surrounded by the Creations of your fellow residents. Because residents retain the rights to their digital creations, they can buy, sell and trade with other residents.

The Marketplace currently supports millions of US dollars in monthly transactions. This commerce is handled with the in-world currency, the Linden dollar, which can be converted to US dollars at several thriving online currency exchanges.

Residents of Second Life are represented in the environment by an avatar, which may be customized in a variety of ways. The basic avatar looks like a human in shape and, through a series of controls, allows for a large amount of modification as to size, build, color and hair style. Residents can also create or buy clothing, and attach 3D objects to their avatars to further customize them. The result can either be faithful to the original humanoid avatar, or can result in a completely non-humanoid representation of the character.

There are virtual musical instruments already availabler from music instrument stores in the virtual world of Second Life. And there are ways to animate your character to look as if it is playing gamelan instruments or dancing any style of dance. There are several groups of live music enthusiasts as well which I think we can increase the membership of.
Where can I go check out a concert?

Log into Second Life, click the "Find" button, and under "Events" select the category "Live Music." Click the Search button and you'll immediately see a list of upcoming Live Music events and venues. Click on one you find interesting, and you can teleport right to it. Be sure you have have the "play streaming music" option turned on in our Audio Preferences (press control-P). When you are on a parcel of land that has streaming music, a small Music Control window will automatically pop up on your screen. Click the play button, and you're listening to music...live! Top

I'm a musician. How do I perform in Second Life?

Playing a show in Second Life is done by sending a live music stream from your own computer to a Shoutcast (http://www.shoutcast.com) or Icecast (http://www.icecast.org) server, and mapping the server's stream URL to a parcel of land in Second Life. People who visit the parcel in Second Life will immediately hear the live music stream. Musicians are also typically logged into Second Life at the same time as they are performing, so they can chat with the audience between songs and even take requests! There are also many Residents in Second Life who run clubs and venues specifically to host and feature live musicians, so you don't necessarily have to own your own parcel of land to get started. When you are in Second Life, try joining and talking with people in the "Live Music Enthusiasts" Group to find venue opportunities. Top

How do I host a Live Music event?

Land owners in Second Life can stream music to their parcels to be enjoyed by anyone who visits their land. If you own a parcel of land, you can set a "Music URL" specific for your land. This "Music URL" can be MPEG-audio (.mp2, .mp3) and Ogg Vorbis (.ogg) from streaming servers or a basic web server. Anyone visiting your land in Second Life will automatically hear the music you wish to share with them.
I truly believe that live concerts in virtual worlds such as Second Life will greatly increase the exposure ofWorld Music because being on them is just plain easy and fun. I plan on contacting everyone involved in world music. That's a lot of work and I could use some help. I hope at the very least that you join me in Second Life and meet my avatar who is wearing a traditional Southeast Asian dance costume and see for yourself the immense potential to solidify a devoted audience to world music.


Land owners in Second Life can stream music to their parcels to be enjoyed by anyone who visits their land. If you own a parcel of land, you can set a "Music URL" specific for your land. This "Music URL" can be MPEG-audio (.mp2, .mp3) and Ogg Vorbis (.ogg) from streaming servers or a basic web server. Anyone visiting your land in Second Life will automatically hear the music you wish to share with them.

I truly believe that live concerts in virtual worlds such as Second Life will greatly increase the exposure of World Music because being on them is just plain easy and fun. I hope at the very least that you join me in Second Life and meet my avatar who is wearing a traditional Southeast Asian dance costume and see for yourself the immense potential to solidify a devoted audience to world music.

I had someone working on contacting Rolling Stones magazine and Wired magazine about this project. I personally contacted Second Life Business magazine and Adventure
magazine about covering this event. It looks like those would actually happen.

The stream manager over at Wicked Karma Live Radio, Circe Boom, has agreed to let us use their relay server for free.

If you can stream a live gamelan performance into SL please contact her at Babylon@comcast.ent and make the Subject line to read "For Second Life." During the performance we need to announce frequenlty that Wicked Karma Live Radio is streaming the performance and less frequently that Circe Boom is the stream manager. Her name is pronounced Sir-see or Seer-see.

Wicked Karma live uses Icecast. Here are the specific technical steps they require;
>Additional setup instructions for SAM Broadcaster by Komuso Tokugawa
>http://www.spacialaudio.com/products/sambroadcaster/
>These instructions are for the musicians using line in input rather
than microphone
input, and explain how to configure SAM broadcaster for this situation.
These are
WinXP specific.
>I use a PreSonus Firebox [ http://www.presonus.com/firebox.html ] to
mix guitar,
vocals, and harmonica to a software effects rack running VST effects,
the output of
which is then connected to my laptop linein/micin port for input to SAM
broadcaster
or Winamp.
>1. Open SAM broadcaster and select Deck A
>2. Set up the Encoder with the parameters listed above. Ensure no
spaces exist
before server name and password is input correctly. Select Icecast2 as
the server
type.
>3. Select Voice FX and open the Config menu by hitting the config
button
>4. In VoiceFX Destination (recording mode) select Encoders (record to
pipeline,
skip output).
>5. In the Recording settings dialog you should now see set, the Record
Driver and
Record Soundcard device to your correct linein devices.
>6. Hit the Mixer button and make sure microphone is selected for
recording control
>7. Close the VoiceFX config dialog by hitting OK
>8. Hit the Mic button with the green light [now off] to turn the mic
on, and also
hit the lock talk to enable you to talk/play hands free. You can now
play your
instruments connected to your linein port and you should be able to
adjust levels
with the control fader. You can also use the Mixer Recording Control
fader for the
microphone to control your input volume level to avoid clipping anf
adjust recording
volume levels.
>9. Select the Encoder you just set up, make sure the round red record
button is
depressed, and then hit the start button to connect to the server and
start your
stream.
>
Circe Boom is also offering a private island to host the event. Bali Hai has also offered their stage


Best regards,
Greg Turner

P.S. You can hear my gamelan and Thai influenced compositions at http://www.myspace.com/gongchime. If you make it onto Second Life just do a search under people for Gongchime Tretiak which is my name in the virtual world of Second Life.

Greg,

Very interesting website. Thank you for pointing it out.

PS. Please, remove the period at the end of the URL of "my space," as written in Greg's PS, or you wont get there.

The forum says I can't edit my posts or delete them. Anyway, glad you like the site. Luckily the url in my signature works just fine.

Greg

If you cannot get enough from Legong and other dances and can stand the poor quality, then look here.
At least the sound is perfect.

Bert your vid page doesn't seem to work with my Firefox browser either - pity

Or am I doing something wrong?

My Video page?

I think, he needs a Quicktime-Player, if he considers your link as your video page.

I seem to have confused the issue what I meant, or thought I meant was that the link to pictures at the top doesn't work for my browser - don't know if it was a video or just pictures - being a simple sort of person the word Multimedia means "video" to me...

Neither with Firefox nor with Opera or Internet Explorer. Just no connection.

Ah, now I see....

Contacted provider, must be late paying or something

You don't look like this.

Ah,

I usually skip the newsletters from my "Indonesian" provider... to boring....

But

"Saat ini, kami harus melakukan migrasi server ke server yang terbaru dengan menggunakan Quad Core Processor dan RAM 4G, karena kebutuhan yang sudah mendesak.

Untuk itu, akan ada gangguan dalam beberapa waktu"

Oh Yes, gangguan, gangguan

So, it works again....

Not for this boy (and his browser - Firefox). The buttons are just grayed-out.

Oh well, back to the drawing board.

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Bali Pictures"