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Just deleted several spammer accounts and all their content. Very annoying and so pointless.
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Spammers are crafty!
First wave of spammers on sites like ours posted their junk links and product info in blog posts. The next wave stuck the spam in their profile pages.
When a group of unknowns joined the site between Jan 10 and Jan 16 (5 accounts) I was watching for this activity but nothing showed up. TravellingSong alerted me to a spam COMMENT on one of her (great) photos. Lo and behold looking at the activitiy log the spam accounts had all been running about and posting comments on various people's photos and videos.
I believe I have deleted all the spam accounts, deleted their content and banned them (or that email address) from re-joining the site.
Spammers 0
Music Island music lovers 1
With vigilence I believe we will be able to keep this site open and easy to join while beating the spammers.
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Tomorrow, Monday 27 December, beginning at 7:00 AM Central Standard Time, web-radio station stillstream dot com (http://stillstream.com) will begin a 12-hour (yes, twelve hours) marathon broadcast of the 2010 Full Moon Lunacy Concerts.
Each of the performances was recorded and released on a monthly basis on the JustNotNormal netlabel (http://justnotnormal.wordpress.com/full-moon-concerts/). Mark Stolk will be hosting this event...if you missed any of the live performances, now's your chance to catch them.
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"Ere the Fall of Darkness (Home Free)" from the Full Moon Lunacy Concert Series, Performance #10, has been featured on the webradio show, The Sounds of Ambience. It's great to see this, as the music is not just restricted to the experience of being in Second Life. Of course, if you were there that night, you already know!
The November performance will be released over at the Just Not Normal netlabel website on 7 December...and you have one more chance to catch one of these performances: 21 December...a special Solstice Celebration and the closing performance of the Series!
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"The last full moon of summer and we are two thirds of the way into a year of full moon concert series. Another single track that comes close to the hour mark. Dennis Moser certainly treats us with the splendor of his musical talent. Besides the usual guitar and bass guitar improvs on this occasion Dennis introduces the wonderful sounds of the sitar (or dulcimer).
It will certainly be a happy and sad day simultaneously when the goal set is reached and a full year will be catalogued and preserved forever as a fine fine document of fine musicianship. But that day is not near yet; until then let us take the time to enjoy these gems." ~~ Mark Stolk, of the JustNotNormal Netlabel, on the latest release from Dennis Moser, aka "AldoManutio Abruzzo", aka "usr/sbin" entitled "Chandras’ekhara: Having the moon as his crest".
It's the eighth release in the series of the twelve monthly concerts celebrating the Full Moons of 2010. Only three more left to hear, so you'd best hurry in and enjoy the next one on Thursday, 23 September, starting promptly at 18:00 SLT (US Pacific).
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Please note that the events on Sept 29 and Oct 16 begin at 11 am and end at 12 pm SLT. There seems to be a glitch in the Spruz database that is causing the end time to appear incorrectly when 12 pm is selected. I have submitted a Support ticket (two days ago) but this is still not resolved. Online support could not help this morning.
I apologize for the (hopefully temporary) confusing information on this event.
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http://justnotnormal.wordpress.com/2010/07/07/fmc06-usrsbin-all-on-a-night-in-june/
"Reaching the halfway point of this full moon concert series one may wonder; can it go deeper, can it go better. The answer is given by the artist himself in this sixth edition. A near full hour of a single track improv that rocks the boat. Droney ambient culled with the fingerprint guitar sounds and solos of the master himself. Let not these words keep you from downloading this album on the spot. You will not regret it." ~~ Mark Stolk, describing the latest release of the series.
A year with Luna: 12 monthly meditations on the Full moon
Volume Six: "All on a night in June"
Music performed by Dennis Moser (aka AldoManutio Abruzzo or ‘usr/sbin’)
Live in Second Life on June 26th 2010
for the Full Moon Lunacy Concert series, 2010
Download it now for free ...
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Yesterday I was trapped in a traffic jam for more than an hour turning a 30 to 60 minute journey to a nearby town into a 2.5 hour odyssey. I knew I would be attending a family event and had planned to be there in good time to set up my laptop and be available for soundcheck and last minute notices for Miriam Forsythe's concert. I knew I would have access to a fast connection there.
Instead at about 2:45 I took the first exit off the highway and began searching for a coffee shop with internet. Frantically I spotted one a few minutes before 3 but it took about 12 minutes to set up an account and get online. I feared that Miriam would have given up and no one would have arrived at the concert.
Instead I sighed a sigh of relief as I logged on to a full house and the concert just starting.
Miriam had managed to set the stream herself in the land. Audience members had sent out IM's on their groups to alert people that the concert was starting as I wasn't there to do last minute reminders. What a team!
While I don't plan on any such disasters in future (who does?) I won't be as worried in future as I now know that the Music Island family has become so very self-sufficient in ensuring that concerts go on, artists are welcomed, and ... music happens :-)
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Craig Lyons made me stop and think a couple of weeks ago.
When we started Music Island, it was because SL lacked venues for the performance of music as art. Music was largely performed as background for dancing, parties and events in SL at clubs, gallery openings, business activities and so on. This was particularly discouraging to the few classical performers who were venturing into Second Life as really classical music needs attention and listening, and--although people try to waltz to symphonies in SL--it is not composed for dancing (with the exception of ballet scores).
Little-by-little we have expanded the range of music that we include on the Music Island stage. The one criteria has been that it is "non-dance-ball" music. Music that takes the centre stage and is thoughtfully listened to by the audience.
When Craig Lyons gave me a link to listen to his music I told him that it was great work but really more suited to the clubs in SL. I told him a bit about the genesis of our series, our mission and our wonderful audience family. His response was, "Wow that is so great!" and told me that he had a whole body of original works that he'd love to perform for us but mostly in SL people wanted covers.
Seems to me that Music Island is the perfect stage for the singer/songwriters in SL with original material to bring their voice and message to us. Craig has a long buttociation with the environmental movement in RL and SL and plays a number of benefits for environmental causes. His message is not only musical but his own thoughts about healing the earth and living a thoughtful and balanced life of caring for each other and the environment.
So I hope you will join me in the first of a series I am calling "Attitudes" which will feature Singer/Songwriters with original voices. If you are a hardcore classical fan, these concerts might not be for you. But if you want to support all sorts of serious musicians in SL create new material, then join us this Saturday at 12 noon and please give me your thoughts then, and in here about this new initiative.
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Music Island Concerts was established in 2007 as an artist collective for the presentation of live "art" music within Second Life. Founded by Kate Miranda as a project of the Cedar Island Open-learning community, the series has collaborated in the presentation of projects and series with some of Second Life's most well-known musicians, artists and educators.
Projects have ranged from a full symphony concert featuring Sinfonia Leeds (a UK community orchestra) to not-possible-in-real-life experimental multi-media art to the 2009 Persieds festival of music, art, literature and lectures inspired by a unifying theme of meteors and falling stars.
This website is a place to learn about upcoming Music Island concerts and events and a place for site members to share photos, comments and videos from Second Life musical events.
Irrelevant material will be removed. Spammers will be ejected and reported.
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Anek Fuchs @ the Oval
Saturday, May 05, 2012
Cypress Rosewood, May Day Concert
Tuesday, May 01, 2012
Let's Talk Classical Music
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Benito Flores, piano
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Viking Norse Dance
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Fingersatz Barbosa, classical guitar
Saturday, April 21, 2012
Prowess Rayna, piano @ the OVAL in Thira
Saturday, April 21, 2012
Viking Norse Dance
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Tall Ships Concert -- Christopher Walmer @ THIRA
Saturday, April 14, 2012
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