You really believe all those ghosts and demons you summoned have gone home and will sleep in your closet or under your bed until the next Halloween Cycle?
Think twice.
In order to send those ghastly apparitions really back to their graves and underground lairs, you’ll need an EXORCIST.
Let your Valmoor M&M’s take care of that.
Soooo here is your teaser for the next party/event at Valmoor!“
Takayuki Noami’s self-produced electroacoustic music project, which advocates noise classical music. After releasing his first album ‘Foresta’ in 2013, he has been working mainly in the Tokyo metropolitan area and in the virtual space ‘Second Life’. Since 2015, he has produced the sound installation ‘STRUKTURO’ in Second Life.
In 2016, he participated in Senju LAB #1, a screening of his video works organized by composer Akira Senju, with video director Kenji Agata. In March 2019, the music video ‘Dancing Fly in My Head’ (directed by Kenji Agata) was released with the cooperation of Akira Senju’s office, Tokyo University of the Arts COI and YAMAHA.
In October 2020, his music video “Soft Strings” (directed by Takayuki Noami) won the Best Music Video Director Award at the International Film Festival “1st Monthly Film Festival” (Serbia).
Influenced by the ideas of Eric Satie and John Cage, Tia Rungray’s music is primarily instrumental, using ambient sounds, piano, and even noise. He creates his own worldview with a unique style that incorporates ambient, post-classical and noise music. The fusion of sophisticated piano and violent and ferocious noise depicts the inner world of human beings, and the rough and raw live performance where stillness and motion coexist is not only soothing to the audience, but also makes them feel even madness.
His first nationally distributed album ‘MindgEsso’ was released on 29 April 2018 on the independent label Cat&Bonito. It has led composer Akira Senju to say “I’ve heard the air of the future”. On 27 July 2020, he released an album with Yorihisa Taura titled ‘Juvenile’ on the independent label ‘Tannukineiri Records’. The new album “STRUKTURO” was released on 12 February 2021.
aka – Takayuki Noami
Art & Sound Producer Born in 1992 in Kyoto, Japan. In 2011, he entered the Music Department of Tokyo University of the Arts. He has studied piano under Akiko Ishikawa, Yoshiko Akaike and Takashi Fujii, and acoustic music production under Tatsuhiko Nishioka.
Since 2013, he has been self-producing the electroacoustic music project ‘Tia Rungray’. He also founded Non-REM Records (now Non-REM Studio).
His experience as a PA operator in a live music club has led him to work as a freelance sound engineer, producing sound for artists, as well as providing exclusive PA and design services as a total art producer.
In 2020, he directed the music video ‘Soft Strings’, which was awarded a prize at the International Film Festival.https://www.youtube.com/embed/aFhAC0o9G0s?feature=oembed
Music: Tia Rungray Art Work: Mimi Nakajoh Mix, Mastering & Design: Takayuki Noami (Non-REM Studio)
The song “Cremation” was first performed by Tia Rungray at a live concert to celebrate the release of “MindgEsso” in June 2018, and has since undergone a number of live arrangements. Now it’s time to release it as a single version. With a mainly post-classical approach, Tia Rungray has matured his sound by applying the techniques he tried on “Strukturo”, released in February 2021.
The person behind the avatar of Dia G (legacy name: Diamanda Gustafson) has studied music since 1978. 20 years later she would earn a Performance Diploma in piano and wildly make out with her new and faithful lover: Early Music.
A self-proclaimed magpie medievalist and instrument hoarder, Dia enjoys exploring the repertory of Western Europe between the 11th and 17th century (with forays to other musical realms as needed!), as well as performing it both in a historically informed way via the use of replicas of period instruments, as well as a more fusion-like manner via the use of a looping pedal, guitar effects, and the inclusion of more modern instruments as well as almost-instruments, creating what I lovingly call “medieval shoegaze”
(because things do not happen in a vacuum, Dia is also a part-time elder goth as well as a recovering metalhead with her own RL entry in Encyclopaedia Metallum due to her collaborations as a keyboardist)
“Unstructured Playtime”?
In this performance we’ll explore songs, drones, ostinati and improvisational soundscapes looped, effected and played on the medieval citole, turkish cura saz, hurdy gurdy, algerian mandole, tongue drum, frame drum, bells, jingles, a toy glockenspiel and perhaps some other random stuff found around my house. There is very little preparation work involved other than tuning and checking sound levels. The chair creaking is part of the overall experience.
Although I am unable to type during the performance (because that third arm just refuses to grow), I read main chat as I perform, and any questions asked may be answered through the stream.
“NodosArt”, a creative art and design label has been established by Nodome Morgenröte after a long dark phase in her personal artistic development.
She worked for a number of years as a product photographer and designed everything from print media to digital media to create a complete corporate identity.
The downside to this intensive learning stage was that she lost the freedom of her own art because of a diligent commitment to her design job.
In 2019 she has found her path back to the roots of her real emotional and free art and will go on evolving through digital paintings, photos, and will perhaps develop her expression with charcoal, ink, aquarell/watercolor and other expressive mediums as the inspiration or requests take her!
Nodomé Morgenröte started her art experience as a teenager when she wrote a small blog. Because she could never find the right pictures to embody her writing and lyrics. So she grasped a small camera and started to shoot her own images.
Since then she has been unstoppable.
Photography courses and working groups followed. She was a part of a progressive analog photography working group, a studio photography group, some PC groups where she designed simple html websites.
Nodomé styled her own magazine layout and content adding to her media and business knowledge while working as an intern with some wonderful photographers, designers and webdesigners. So she has taken many more and different steps including drawing courses and has even won some, as yet, minor art prizes.
But the best tutor is life, she says.
With the professional knowledge of a designer and the wildly crazy mind of an artist she will choose the right tool for an breathtaking, individual and original painting, exclusive to your floor!
So if you have a naked wall and want to smile every day, grab an apple in front of her store,
“This build came to me while looking at the world and how different it was from my own childhood. Kids these days, they are politicized, trafficked for sex and slave labor, forced into surgical decisions before they even know what courses they wish to take in college.
The life of kids these days is a pretty little nightmare we have made for them.” – Lex Machine
The great magic of Lex Machine’s art installations derives from the topics he tackles, and the emotional reactions they provoke.
His topics are provocative – and he leads us to question our values and habits, our focus and knowledge, and so much more.
Lex conquers our hearts in a significant way that can both open and frighten us at the same time…. even if we seem to be masters of hiding or self-deception, we cannot escape the consequences of our actions and inactions.
With his art installations, Lex always manages to hold up the mirror of time to our eyes, demonstrating and presenting the world he sees and feels in front of him.
Clever and emphatic transformation elements – on a level that touches us deeply – perhaps awaken our painful memories and yet, also inspire us with their beauty.
The installation is open now for the public,
and I extend a cheerful welcome for the beauty of Lex´s art!
“Time in the Past” is the art installation created by Van Loopen for SL19B. 3D modeling and media are the elements that make up this tribute to Second Life’s birthday, which turns 19 this year. The question Van’s installation proposes to the visitor is: “what would the past be like if the future had happened earlier? “.
What would the past be like if the future had happened earlier? There is only one way to find out today: turn back time to the past. And so it is that the hands of all the world’s clocks and astrolabes will quickly turn backward in a frantic race against time. It brings technology that is currently in the past but will appear obsolete, romantic, and fascinating today. A future imagined from a past unfamiliar with what seems obvious and every day to us today. Immerse yourself in this great vision by discovering what could happen by watching the world return to the past with the experiences achieved through centuries of technological progress.
Van Loopen
Time in the past by Van Loopen for SL19B
The theme proposed by Van is fascinating, so much so that there are no films and books that develop this theme in the most disparate ways. Being able to convey the idea of the time, which suddenly undergoes a variation by going back, but keeping some aspects of the future, was not an easy task. However, I believe Van has succeeded in doing this in two efficient ways. The first can be seen at the landing point of his installation, where the visitor can find the author’s presentation and some indications of the light settings. In addition, the visitor is welcomed by a clock whose hands turn backward, giving the sense of time going back. Also, the presence of some flashes and lightsis precious to provide the meaning of the sudden change of direction of the passage of time. The visitor’s gaze instinctively follows the path of the lights and flashes that lead to a steampunk-style representation of the Earth, its satellite, and the Galaxy surrounding it. Here we come to the second way Van represents the “contamination” between past and future. He cannot escape the visitor’s eye; in fact, while the Earth and the Moon rotate in one direction, the Galaxy surrounding it turns in the opposite direction. The Galaxy is symbolically represented by a transparent bubble surrounding the Earth. The bubble shows the constellations of the different zodiac signs: an original way to give the idea of the space surrounding our planet.
The one just described is the central part of the installation. The area surrounding the heart of the project is full of steampunk objects that we could define as “ghosts”: in fact, the shapes are evident, but the things are devoid of textures and have partial transparency. This aspect is an essential part that conveys well the sense of the passage of time back while being “contaminated” by the presence of future events.
I recommend observing the installation from above to avoid losing the steampunk-style representation of the flooring of the same structure.
“Time in the past” is an art installation made entirely by Van Loopen. Thanks to Mischievous Mole for being kind enough to include my name.
Time in the past by Van Loopen for SL19B
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“Time in the Past” è l’installazione artistica realizzata da Van Loopen per SL19B. Modellazione 3D e media sono gli elementi che compongono questo tributo al compleanno di Second Life che, quest’anno, compie 19 anni. La domanda che l’installazione di Van propone al visitatore è: “come sarebbe il passato, se il futuro fosse accaduto prima?“.
Il tema proposto da Van è affascinante, tanto è vero che non si contano film e libri che sviluppano questa tematica nei modi più disparati. Riuscire a rendere l’idea del tempo che, all’improvviso, subisce una variazione tornando indietro, ma mantendendo alcuni aspetti del futuro, non era impresa semplice. Tuttavia credo che Van sia riuscito nell’intento in due modi davvero efficaci. Il primo lo si vede al landing point della sua installazione, dove il visitatore può trovare la presentazione dell’autore e alcune indicazioni sulle impostazioni di luce. Oltre a questo il visitatore è accolto da un orologio le cui lancette girano all’incontrario, dando proprio il senso del tempo che torna indietro. Inoltre la presenza di alcuni lampi e luci è preziosa per dare il senso dell’improvviso cambio di direzione dello scorrere del tempo. Lo sguardo del visitatore istintivamente segue la direzione delle luci e dei lampi che conducono a una rappresentazione in stile steampunk della Terra, del suo satellite e della galassia che la circonda. Qui arriviamo al secondo modo con cui Van rappresenta la “contaminazione” tra passato e futuro. Non può sfuggire all’occhio del visitatore, infatti, che mentre la Terra e la Luna ruotano in una direzione, la Galassia che la circonda ruota nella direzione opposta. La Galassia è simbolicamente rappresentata da una bolla trasparente che circonda la Terra. La bolla mostra le costellazioni dei diversi segni zodiacali: un modo originale per dare l’idea dello spazio che circonda il nostro pianeta.
Quella appena descritta è la parte centrale dell’installazione. La zona che circonda il cuore del progetto è ricca di oggetti steampunk che potremmo definire “fantasma”: infatti le forme sono evidenti, ma gli oggetti sono privi di textures e hanno una parziale trasparenza. Questo aspetto è una parte essenziale che trasmette bene il senso dello scorrere indietro del tempo, pur essendo “contaminato” dalla presenza di avvenimenti del futuro.
Consiglio di osservare l’installazione anche dall’alto per non perdere la rappresentazione in stile steampunk della pavimentazione della medesima installazione.
“Time in the past” è un’installazione artistica realizzata interamente da Van Loopen. RingrazioMischievious Mole per avere avuto la gentilezza di inserire anche il mio nome.
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