Art of Second Life

Music by Vampira Kanno

Video by NITWACKET - Pyewacket Bellman and Niten Altamura

Three residents of the Virtual World, Second Life - located in Japan, Germany and USA.

Music created with Apple's GarageBand. Machinima captured in Second Life, edited with iMovie08.

Performed Feb. 2008 in SL.

Spurned and abandoned by her lover she attempts suicide by drowning. Her cries of anguish echo through the water and are heard by the compassionate mermaids who, even as her dying breath leaves her, use their powerful magic light ball to save her. And so with their help she is resurrected into her new life...the life of a joyful SL mermaid....and from that day onwards she would very rarely log off.

Performed by the Light Dancers of Aurora in Second Life February 2008.
Sound Technician - Torch Weinstein.

'Throes of Rapture' was an interactive immersive installation in the world of Second Life.

As part of the five person collaborative building group 'Fallopian Fighters' I was the sound designer for this Creator-in-Residence commission at AngelGate.

The build was a huge success with many hundreds of visitors and also many hundreds of repeat visits by avatars enjoying what turned out to be one of the most restful places in Second Life I have experienced so far.

Physically, if you can use that term for a completely digital experience, Throes took the shape of a massive tube walkway, extending up into the sky, through which avatars travelled, experiencing sounds and shapes as they passed through it.
The final scene was an huge space with gently swaying, moving, trees, grass and butterflies with sounds embedded in them which triggered as an avatar passed by or through.

Fallopian Fighters is:
Strawberry Holiday prim design
WendyofNeverland Fussbudget project manager
Moongold Munro sound design
Carbon Chaffe scripting
Dozzydolly Biziou textures

The Dumb Man was written by Sherwood Anderson.

Read by Alex Wilson from Telltale Weeky and the Spoken Alexandria Project.

alexwilson.com/telltale/

Music: Artist – Falling You
Album – Touch
Title – Reading the Leaves (by moonlight)
Label – Magnatune Records

magnatune.com/artists/albums/fallingyou-touch/

Other credits listed at the end of the movie.

Further reading:

machinima08.nexo.com/experimentalmachinima

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Screenings for this Film (Film Release Jan 2008)

Miami Animation Festival, USA
PlanetArt - Dadamachinima 2009 - Netherlands
Goethe & Digital Art Convention 2009 - South Africa
Academy of Arts and Sciences (AMAS) 2008 - US -Nominated for 2 awards - “Best Independent” and “Best Visual Design”
Cambridge Film Festival 2008 - UK
DragonCon Festival 2008 - US - Nominated for Best Achievement in machinima
Festival De Creativita - Creative Arts Festival 2008 - Italy
Bitfilm 2008 - Germany - Nominated for Best Machinima
PlanetArt - Netherlands 2008