AudioBunny Blog

We are now being featured on SL Exchange, a marketplace for people looking to buy items to enhance their Second Life experience. We decided to trial an advert to see how much interest there would be in having Audiobunny music and sound streamed directly into people’s virtual environments. We’ll let you know what happens!

The full text of the ad is below:

“Audiobunny is a business specialising in creating music and sound for your virtual environment.

In other words, we create ’soundscapes’ to match and enhance your Second Life land, builds, houses or any aspect of your virtual environment.

Prices start at L$ 9000 for one our ready made soundscapes, or just L$15,000 for a customed designed soundscape. Each music & sound piece lasts 10 to 20 mins, depending on what’s suitable.

Visit our website; [url]http://www.audiobunny.co.uk[/url] for examples of our work

Our sound can be streamed directly into your land through our servers, or can be downloaded directly to you for hosting on your own website or server, if you wish.

We have soundscapes ready made for a number of environments, or we can custom design sound just for you!

You can be assured of a collaborative, creative approach and a unique, professional end result.

Let Audiobunny help create a truly immersive Second Life experience!

Visit the website or contact us to discuss your requirements”

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I’ve finally been able to start work on a new film which will kind of be a remix of a short by my very talented friend Matt Brownsword.

It was shot on a old VHS camera and looks amazing - seahorses suspended in water looking like beings hovering in space. It was filmed in Brighton’s SeaLife Center and shows seahorses meandering about in a large round glass bowl.

I found the images beautiful, surreal and slightly unnerving - they seem to me like strange beings from space, or the unconscious. Like some sort of Jungian vision.

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I’m manning the decks between bands at the Freebutt in Brighton this Friday. Performers include stand-up poetrician Gary Goodman and bands Moosbrugger and Blurt. Should be good.

I’ll be playing top tunes veering all over the place from The Hives to Glenn Campbell, from Avalanches though Mary J Blige to the Spencer Davis Group.

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Oh yes. I’ve been developing my Virtual Land business recently. For an explanation of what that means, go see the new Bunniverse website

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Relevant short film from the Idler home page:

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Too caught up with xmas and having no money and potentially no job since the last post. It’s been a battle to get back to some sort of a creative lifestyle, but fuck that paid work thing, I just need to get on with it produce as good and as much music work as possible, and that’s that.

Anyway, working on a number of things at the moment. I’ve started putting together a piece called ‘Music for an Imaginary TV Series’. Because I haven’t been commissioned to write for the next series of Lost yet, I thought I would take matters in hand and start writing music for an imaginary TV series. Not sure yet if it will be music and sound design only, or music with spoken word, or to made-up found footage film. It would be good to have the material hint at some sort of ambiguous plot. Going to discuss it with Maze artists tomorrow night.

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Atlantic Basin Project Web Launch

Click here to view the online exhibition.

Rock Can Roll and the Independent Artists Cooperative are proud to
announce the launch of the Atlantic Basin Project an e-publication of
the contemporary arts. Reception and presentations of selected work
from the project to take place at Resource Centre for the Arts Gallery
on Thursday December 6th at 8 PM in St John’s. All are welcome.

The Atlantic Basin Project is an e-publication featuring the work of
contemporary artists living in coastal communities throughout the
Atlantic Basin. The theme for our First Edition is Mapping the Edge -
Shifting Practice, Transforming Community. Contained in the first
edition is an amazing array of work from artists working in Canada,
The United States, Costa Rica, Jamaica, England, Italy, Thailand and
Newfoundland. We are proud to feature original video and audio
creations, extraordinary photography and artwork, documentation from
cross-country and international collaborations, examinations of the
impact of tourism on culture and essays on the effect of climate
change on our environment.

Coastal communities provide artists with very special perspectives to
cast their eyes upon the world. We live on the edges of continents,
related and interconnected, living close to the elements, always
subject to quick changes, echoes of old trade routes a daily reminder.
We experience first hand the shifts in climate and the early signs of
environmental change. Artists working in these communities are truly
living on the edge and via the technologies that now link us offer
unique and often startling visions.

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I’m part of an unusual exhibition that features work from people living by the sea, on the edge of land, put together by an artists group called the Atlantic Basin Project, all the way over in NewFoundland. The exhibition features work from around the world, and exists in the form of a website.

View the Atlantic Basin Project online

The level and quality of the other contributors is really impressive and very interesting.

They are also quite into embracing new technology as the launch is also being held within Second Life. I’m going to try to make it for a Q & A, but it doesn’t start until 12.30 am.

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I went to Brighton College y/day to see the William Kentridge exhibition. Is was OK but didn’t blow me away except for the 3D weird lense drawings which I thought were very good.

However what really interested me were two films playing near the cafeteria by some bloke called Peter Tscherkassky. He is part of a group of Austrian avant garde filmmakers/artists and his films were full-on cut-ups of found footage reinterpreted and re-photographed to create a different meaning.

He says:

“There are three factors that influence my work permanently: working with found footage, working directly on the film stock (together with the possibility of physical manipulation of the film) and, in general, the capacity of the film medium to evoke a dreamlike atmosphere”.

Basically the films are very immediate, accessible, beautiful looking black & white flickering film cut-ups sometimes using the actual stock as raw material, very fast moving and quite extreme. The sound also mirrored this method, repeating jumpy phrases and very rough as well, very emotional and gutteral. Peter Tscherkassky is doing a masterclass as part of the CineCity film programme on Sun, so I’m going to that.

Since last night I’ve been watching The Filth and the Fury, the Sex Pistols film by Julien Temple, over and over. Johnny Rotten and Steve Jones; what fucking stars they are. And what amazing music that seemed to come from nowhere, on TV shows with the likes of god awful bands like Kansas, at number 1 above the Eagles’ Hotel California, coming up with God Save the Queen for the jubilee. An incredible tale. I was in tears on the bus with the story of the demise of Sid Vicious, but the whole thing, the attitude and the music gave me so much energy and together with the Peter Tscherkassky films got me thinking about pushing my music and film more, being more emotionally direct, being more extreme and experimental, use more of the energy I’ve always got from noise and music.

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