Tasuku Ghost at Pop Art Lab

Every once in a while we are privileged to experience the future. Tasuku Ghost's performance yesterday at Pop Art Lab was one of those times. This picture shows tasuku Ghost on piano; there are more pictures in the slide show below.

There's nothing usual about great music being performed in Second Life - and definitely not at Pop Art Lab - and there's nothing unusual about great visual displays, but the experience yesterday felt more like the future than most concerts this writer has attended. Japanese musicians were performing live in Japan, for a producer in Denmark, streaming to an audience that spanned the globe, in a beautiful setting with constantly changing appearance. It was magnificently done and was met with rousing cheers by an enthusiastic audience.

Tasuku Ghost is the Second Life avatar name of the Japanese musician tasuku, a former band member and solo performer who now primarily composes music for movies and theatrical productions. Saturday's performance included a piano, cello, violin, drums, and vocalist. He says that in his music, he "often reflects upon ... dreams and memories hidden within himself". He uses both computer generated sounds and sampled sounds from live performances.

If you would like to learn more about tasuku or his Second Life performances as tasuku Ghost, here are some links:

• tasuku's blog (in Japanese, but also has great pictures): tasuku.slmame.com.
• you can hear tasuku's music at www.myspace.com/shefallingsky. He also has performances on YouTube.
• you can play his music on your Second Life land by setting your audio stream to tasuku.earth-records.net:8029/stream.

If you love listening to music and you haven't visited Pop Art Lab, you owe it to yourself to check it out. In addition to concerts, it has four music zones where you can listen to streamed music 24/7. Second Life members can teleport there by clicking slurl.com/secondlife/Pop%20Art%20Lab/152/166/28.

You can see more photographs of yesterday's performance in the slide show below.

All photographs in this report are ©2010 by Erik Gordon Bainbridge. All rights reserved.

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