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another spam wave

Wed, 2 Nov 2011 10:33:13 GMT

Just deleted several spammer accounts and all their content.Â Very annoying and so pointless.

TravellingSong blows whistles on spammers

Sun, 23 Jan 2011 14:26:00 GMT

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.

Once more, with feeling...

Sun, 26 Dec 2010 17:36:21 GMT

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.

October's Full Moon Lunacy Concert featured on "The Sounds of Ambience"

Mon, 29 Nov 2010 19:16:09 GMT

"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!

Ten Down, Two to go...

Wed, 17 Nov 2010 05:04:23 GMT

The tenth concert of the series is available for free download.

http://justnotnormal.wordpress.com/2010/11/07/fmc10-usrsbin-home-before-dark/

... there are only two more concerts left ... the next one is this Sunday, 21 November, beginnning at 6:00 PM/18:00 SLT ...

Lunacy #9/12 is now available for free download

Fri, 8 Oct 2010 04:51:31 GMT

Full Moon Lunacy concert #9 has been released as a free download over at the following URL:

http://justnotnormal.wordpress.com/2010/10/07/fmc09-usrsbin-a-luminous-harvest/

Please feel free to head over and download...turn down the lights and enjoy!

Full Moon Lunacy Continues...#9/12 fast approaching!

Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:47:43 GMT

"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).

Error in event end times Sept 29 & Oct 16

Fri, 17 Sep 2010 17:55:01 GMT

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.

"All on a night in June" Volume #6/12 of the Full Moon Lunacy Concert series has been released

Wed, 7 Jul 2010 08:52:19 GMT

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 Ã¢â‚¬Ëœusr/sbinÃ¢â‚¬â„¢)
Live in Second Life on June 26th 2010
for the Full Moon Lunacy Concert series, 2010

Download it now for free ...

Number Five is Alive

Tue, 8 Jun 2010 08:38:11 GMT

The fifth performance of the 12 performance Full Moon Lunacy Concert series is now available for free download. Please feel free to share the link and enjoy the music. More information here:

http://justnotnormal.wordpress.com/2010/06/07/fmc05-usrsbin-full-flower/

Thanks again to all of you,

Aldo/Dennis

Applause and a bow to the Music Island audience

Mon, 24 May 2010 18:21:28 GMT

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 :-)

Attitudes: a new series on Music Island

Wed, 12 May 2010 21:41:48 GMT

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 association 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.

#4/12 of the Full Moon Lunacy Concert series has been released!

Fri, 7 May 2010 19:22:23 GMT

The dry details:
http://justnotnormal.wordpress.com/2010/05/07/fmc04-usrsbin-the-pink-moon/

A year with Luna: 12 monthly meditations on the Full Moon
Volume four: The Pink Moon ~ "Quickening Flow"

Music performed by Dennis Moser (aka AldoManutio Abruzzo or Ã¢â‚¬Ëœusr/sbinÃ¢â‚¬â„¢)
Live in Second Life on April 28th 2010
for the Full Moon Lunacy Concert series, 2010

Next Live show: May 27th

Mirror:

01 Ã¢â‚¬â€œ Rising from the earth
02 Ã¢â‚¬â€œ Quickening flow
03 Ã¢â‚¬â€œ Up through trees
04 Ã¢â‚¬â€œ Across the high valley

FMC004 usr/sbin zipfile including artwork
Runtime: 1Ã¢â‚¬â„¢08.01

It's available now as a free download, so go grab it!

Recent announcements from Ning

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 18:38:10 GMT

A few of you have been writing to me or grabbing me inworld with concerns about the recent news from NING about discontinuing free accounts. I sure was disappointed to hear about this and to hear about it via inworld rumours sparked by a UK Guardian article before any announcement was made publically here in NING or news sent out to site creators (which still hasn't happened).

The official word is that more details will be available next month as to plans that will be available. If it is affordable as they promise, I'll keep the site here, no worries. The longer range concern is whether getting rid of all free accounts will be a good business model for NING. Most successful Social Media (maybe all?) are a healthy mixture of free and paid services (like Flickr). If I were Ning I'd be limiting file upload on free accounts and other such things to encourage people to buy the premium service. Just as people find it a nuisance to have a Flickr account that only allows 200 photos and 3 albums, the serious NING users would be moved to buy into a premium account if they faced restrictions on photo and file sharing here. Oh well, no one asked me.

If NING prices itself out of range or closes completely, I will set up another site and let you all know. There is still a Music Island blog http://music-island.blogspot.com so that would be one place to find news should ning suddenly disappear.

Full Moon Lunacy Concert Series Album Releases!

Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:24:24 GMT

This is by way of a reminder that the "Full Moon Lunacy" Concert series is being recorded and released as free downloads ... for the newcomers and for those who may not have bookmarked the URL at last night's performance #3, go here:

http://justnotnormal.wordpress.com/full-moon-concerts/

Again, my deepest thanks to all of you who came to the show and I hope you enjoyed the visuals provided by Sunn Thunders!

See you next full moon!

~~Aldo

Enniv Zarf and New Moon, New Music

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:33:05 GMT

There's a reason that Enniv Zarf is so popular in SL (and RL): His recent appearance at #2/12 of the "New Moon, New Music" series was a great example of this personable and dynamic composer/performer. It helped that we were joined by Tip Corbett and Flvelwitz Alsop, both outstanding composers and performers in their own rights. The questions, the answers, AND the music were entertaining, enlightening, and abundant.

Enniv provided lots of insight into his process of improvisation and ha the audience engaged from the very first notes. It was one of the shortest hours in my memory and we are all looking forward to having him back later in the year as the series continues.

Our guest for April will be Tip Corbett and it is sure to be just as much fun and enjoyable! Be sure and check the calendar for this event!

Snow Moon ... #2 of 12 ... has been released and available for free download

Sun, 7 Mar 2010 10:21:45 GMT

The second of the twelve performances of the 2010 Full Moon Lunacy Concert series is now available for free download over at this URL: http://justnotnormal.wordpress.com/2010/03/07/jnn081-usrsbin-snow-moon/

I hope that you will enjoy it as much as I enjoyed creating it that evening. And please do join us for the next one, to take place on the evening of 28 March 2010 ... be a part of it!

Benito Flores/Alessandro Marangoni in today's Toronto Star

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 19:56:45 GMT

Fingersatz concert cancelled

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:49:17 GMT

The concert planned for this Saturday at noon with Fingersatz Barbosa has been cancelled by the artist. He has a minor injury to his hand that has made practicing painful. He will reschedule the concert at a later date.

Congratulations to the New Moon Series and Flivelwitz Alsop

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 17:45:18 GMT

AldoManutio Abruzzo's new 12 part series last night presented composer/visual artist Flivelwitz Alsop at Music Island. It was an example of how Aldo's extended network of musical contacts will be bringing new sights and sounds, ideas and discussion to the Music Island audience.

Flivelwitz has long been a member of our audience, often appearing in amazing avatars that are wearable virtual art objects themselves. While his visual art was known to us, we had not heard his voice as a composer.

Last night he presented works that he had composed for real world ensembles as well as some exciting works using inworld sound objects that avatar musicians played by striking prims scripted to play a tone on touch. The effect was visually and musically stunning.

Well done Flivelwitz and Aldo.