COOKIE - John, Paul, George, and Ringo would be fascinated to see their hometown orchestra, the Liverpool Philharmonic, perform live in a virtual hall in Second Life (SL). On Friday September 14th, principal conductor Vasily Petrenko conducted Ravel's Sheherazade and Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances via a video feed into a virtual concert hall on an island called Liverpool Phil 2.
This historic event was the first-ever broadcast of a symphony to a virtual world. It was carried live by the Second Life Cable Network (SLCN).
Unlike most SL venues, the concert did not include avatars playing virtual instruments, but was a provided as a stream of real-life musicians to a virtual concert hall. The performance, broadcast to 100 avatars inside the new virtual concert hall, included world premieres by Merseyside-born composers Kenneth Hesketh and John McCabe. For those SL residents not lucky enough to get tickets to the concert hall, Thinkerer Melville at Cookie provided a live stream.
The performance was followed by a visit to the virtual Grand Foyer Bar in SL, where Petrenko, Hesketh and soloist Kate Royal answered questions about the performance.
Unfortunately, we will never get to see the real Beatles perform in a virtual concert hall. But perhaps one day we might get to hear Sir Paul McCartney perform one of his symphonic compositions with the Liverpool Philharmonic and streamed into Second Life.
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