I’ve added some new ring tones to my Myxer account. Most of these are FREE. Please visit my profile at Myxer or use the widgets here to send them to your phone! (Not all devices are compatible)

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Some of you may recall that I participated in an episode of The Late Show with Angelico Babii on 5 May. I’ve just received the news that the episode has been posted. You can find the show at Metaverse-tv.com and at Metaversetv.Blip.tv.

Here’s the video as it stands. Angelico told me that there may be additional editing (sound effects, transitions, and such). I think it stands well as a top-notch show, though!

Update: Apparently this show widget may automatically update to new shows when they add them. If you see a different episode in the player and want to find the episode with my tunes, please visit Metaverse-tv.com and look for the show featuring Ham Rambler.

Machinima Contest

The people at Koinup.com are offering 20,000L and a MachinimaCam to the winner of a contest they are sponsoring. Complete rules and details can be found at the Koinup announcement page.

Basically they say:

The theme is totally free. You can create a video, which features your first 100 days in Second Life, or create a whole story, directing other avatars! Otherwise, you can show us footage from your favorite sims. Or just create a sequences of wonderful images and stream them, as a slideshow, Just remember to add your video a good soundtrack!

They require this to be a music video. You can use Creative Commons based tracks or, if you wish, tracks from some artists in SL that have agreed to provide music for the project (including yours truly).

Regarding the music

Here are the links to download:

• Dizzy Baio (together with: Funk Shepherd)
• Lyn Carlberg
• Melanie Fudge
• Rich Palmer
• Kim Seifert

Pay attention:
you can use these songs, but only for the contest.
you have to type credits (authors, titles and links of the tracks you have used)

If you want use other music, we highly suggest to use only contents released with Creative Commons licences. You can find good sources of CC music here:

http://ccmixter.org/ 
http://creativecommons.org/audio 
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Music_Podcasts 

Get full details and rules at Koinup.com.

Great show

I had a great show at the Drip and Grind Coffee House today. There was a great crowd of familiar people, as well as some new people. Some were experiencing live music in SL for the first time.

That crafty tambourine

Recently I’ve begun adding tambourine (and shaker) to my performances of Avatar Girl. There has been a fun undercurrent of conversation as to just how I play this instrument while also playing guitar, singing, and playing that shaker, of course. How people hypothesize this feat of musical agility is best left to one’s imagination.

With the recent release of the song Get It Together by Djai Skjerllerup I’ve been credited with vocals, the bass guitar line, and of course, tambourine. This just perpetuates the comments and fun that we have with my addition of this rhythm instrument.

The true story of the rhythm instrument

I caught this chat today while performing at the Drip and Grind — courtesy of Doubledown Tandino (Brad Reason):

[13:55] Doubledown Tandino: the tambourine was invented in 1735 by Billy Ray Tambourine. Originally, it was bugs on strings tied to a stick, but the sound wasnt perfected until the mini cymbols were added. Then, in 2008 Rich Desoto broke new ground with the tambourine taking it to new levels in songmaking. and by 2009, inventing the first USB midi controller tambourine. Coming up next on True Hollywood Story : Rich Desoto…… the heartache, the struggle… Rich Desoto leaves his pregnant tambourine, … for a triangle.

I quite enjoyed the conversation that followed. Of course, I wouldn’t have left the tambourine had her drivers not become so corrupted.

Be sure to visit Brad’s site at thesixtyone.com. You can listen to his music — and be sure to bump!

In response to recent posts about certain organizations having certain terms that they don’t want their users and participants to promote them improperly: