I’ve updated the photos section with some pics from Saturday’s Paulstock performance in Dakeng, Taichung. Thanks for the pics, Savaia and happy birthday again, Paul! Had a great old time performing my set in front of a live and physically present audience after doing mostly online gigs for the last while. Looking forward to performing in RL a lot more in future and I’m especially looking forward to two performances with Viba in August.

Following the very successful premiere of Missing Pages in SL, I’m now releasing my track inspired by the film. I’m happy to report that the track was well received and I’m especially pleased that writer/director Jerome Olivier enjoyed it.

Here are some notes about the track, Upstream Downstream (Missing Pages):

I love the way music functions in the film and I had no intention to second guess the composer’s choices. Instead, my track references the film in a stand-alone kinda way – actually I don’t think my track would have fit anywhere in the movie, besides maybe as end-credit music ;^)

It’s a downtempo chill-out track (like most of the stuff I’m doing at the moment) and the title refers to the idea of time as a river that gently runs either upstream or downstream. I was hoping to reflect the kind of utopian / ideal-world vision that Professor Tanokura must have had for time-travel when he was working on it, supported here by the samples from the press conference at the start of the movie – especially the part about using time-travel for peaceful purposes only.

I also wanted to explore the idea of time-travel musically. You’ll hear a number of places in the track where the audio has been reversed, ie. time is running backwards. There’s also a section towards the end that sounds like it’s coming from an old LP record – playing here with the idea of the present as viewed from a long ways in the future.

I was chatting to Chill / Mark Forman earlier about how music actually is the closest thing we have to a time machine right now… how, on hearing music you haven’t heard for years, you’re transported back to that place or frame of mind. Seems applicable here.

Upstream Downstream (Missing Pages) is currently the first track in the MoShang Radio sidebar player and you’re welcome to download and share the .mp3 here. If you’re having trouble downloading the .mp3 directly, try downloading the .zip instead.

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Time for a blog-update, though no news is good news in this case. Had a really nice performance at Oyster Bay in SL today. Proprietor, Morris Vig, has created a really cool performance space amidst some very interesting SL sculptures. My thanks to Morris for hosting me and to Isolde Flamand for arranging the performance.

I happily sold my first album downloads via my new in-world vendor at the gig. Glad to know that the system is working! My albums remain available from numerous other online outlets (including iTunes), but it’s great to have the albums for sale within SL and in Linden Dollars – incidentally, the downloads are also slightly cheaper than elsewhere. At the moment, only the full album downloads are available in-world.

I’m working on a track inspired by Missing Pages for the SL premiere of this ground breaking photo-animated sci-fi thriller on the 19th. The innovative short has won numerous awards and writer/director Jerome Olivier will be in SL to talk about the film. I’m really looking forward to this one!

DJ Doubledown Tandino hosts Deep Sexy Cool at Playboy (yup, the one and only!) every Tuesday night as part of the Playboy Music Series. I’ll be performing at the first of these events this Tuesday between 7pm and 8pm (SL Time).

My Secondfest performance has definitely been the highlight of my SL music career so far ;^) I’ll be updating the photos section soon with pics from my peformance. My thanks and congratulations again to everyone involved with Secondfest: Intel, the Guardian and Rivers Run Red. My special thanks to Slim Warrior for ensuring that everything ran smoothly on the Chill Island. Due in large part to her efforts, the Chill Island had the best attended stage at Secondfest. And of course to Doubledown Tandino for getting me on the bill in the first place.