In limbo brings KRTU into the metaverse....

Any broadcast medium plasticizes physical distance & has the capacity to collapse or at least blur borders. The earliest radio ideologues shouted for ubiquitous public access, a voicebox for everyone and anyone that wanted to participate in the public forum. However effectively modern radio serves the 'public good,' the experiment we very extemporaneously embarked upon as documented here is in keeping with that effort.

The idea is to bring the spectator and exhibitionist into a more dialogical relationship....

On the Feb. 26th show, electronic artists A.M. Architect dropped by to showcase some of their recent work, and engage in a dialogue about electronica. Aside from this being the first episode of In Limbo featuring live guests that weren't actually playing live music, this was my first attempt at blended reality radio. The live audio stream of the show was played at the KRTU-SecondLife complex on Metaversatility island(developed earlier in the year by myself and Jessie Keller). A pretty healthy turnout of virtual guests were in attendance (some celebrities as well, wink wink). What resulted from this impromptu experiment was an engaging dialogue between the world-wide virtual audience and ourselves.

We coasted along the rift between the virtual and real world, and brought our corporeal and virtual guests along for the ride.

Organizing blended reality shows at actual music venues, as we have in the past, has proven worthwhile, but difficult and cumbersome. Issues of bandwidth, infrastructure, and inebriation are among those that have proven to make it fairly difficult to experiment with the very new medium of exhibition and performance. The broadcast booth, on the other hand, is a hermetically sealed and well-controlled environment, much more conducive to experimentation, and with tons of bandwidth I might add. Future shows will allow us to toy with added implementations to help make more diffuse the border between the virtual and the real.

....and I plan on dragging future live guests kicking and screaming into the metaverse, for better or worse ;)

Thanks alot to Sarah, Adri, Peter & Aaron for being unbelievably industrious ;)
Generally, all the efforts of Metaversatility made this and other blended reality events possible