The Instrument Setup

I’ve never really owned a fish tank. Yet, I find analogies to them all the time. The buffers they set up seem so ripe for metaphor. Here I use a fishtank analogy for a new piece of music equipment: I just got this foot pedal MIDI controller. As soon as I...

Suzanne Vega in Second Life

New World Notes: SUZANNE VEGA AND THE SECOND LIFE OF LIVE MUSIC Wow. Suzanne Vega performed in Second Life last night! She apparently did her original a cappella version of Tom’s Diner. It was also the first broadcast of a major radio provider into a virtual...