The Avatar Orchestra Metaverse is a global collaboration of composers, artists and musicians that approaches the virtual reality platform Second Life as an instrument itself. The Orchestra conceives, designs and builds its own virtual instruments, making it possible for each individual performer in the Orchestra to trigger sounds independent from one another and to play together in real time. These instruments feature sound, visuals, and animations. A performance of a jumping, hovering, floating, dancing, and twirling Avatar Orchestra Metaverse is a truly spectacular event. Avatar Orchestra performs regularly in Second Life and in mixed reality events at new media, music and visual arts centres in North America, Europe and Asia. http://avatarorchestra.blogspot.com/ Members appearing in Mysterium Magnum: Bingo Onomatopoeia, aka Andreas Müller (Regensburg, Germany) BlaiseDeLaFrance Voom, aka Biagio Francia (Agropoli, Italy) Carolhyn Wijaya, aka Carolyn Oakley (Boulder, Colorado, USA) DanCoyote Antonelli, aka DC Spensely (San Francisco, California, US Flivelwitz Alsop, aka Tim Risher, (Durham, North Carolina, USA) Free Noyes, aka Pauline Oliveros (Kingston, NY, USA) Gumnosophistai Nurmi, aka Leif Inge (Oslo, Norway) Humming Pera, aka Tina M. Pearson (Victoria, BC, Canada) Maxxo Klaar, aka Max D. Well (Regensburg, Germany) North Zipper, aka Norman Lowrey (New Jersey, USA) Paco Mariani, aka Chris Wittkowsky (Regensburg, Germany) Zonzo Spyker, aka Viv Corringham (Minneapolis, MN, USA / London, UK)
Special Appearance by Ezra Lowrey - Inua Yua Video by Norman Lowrey on location in Morris Plains, New Jersey and in Second Life Additional Video by Lisa Bernard Kelly - Performance of Onieroscape at Ione's 14th Annual Dream Festival, Kingston, New York Linda Law - Home, Cairo, New York Ezra Lowrey - Gallery in Light, Holographic Art of Rudie Berkhout, Catskill, New York Caleb Lowrey - Tripod Rock, Pyramid Mountain, New Jersey Andreas Müller - Second Life Singing Mask Ceremony Audio Tracks from RiverDream Through Us (1995) Spirit Talk: Conversations with the Singing Masks (1998) RiverSoundMind (2001) with text by Pauline Oliveros Morning Walk with Buddha BigEars (2001) with Text by Robert Carnevale DreamWeaving (2001) Onieroscape (2009)