The band Chicago asked in a song a long time ago, "Does anybody know what time it is," and the United States and Europe are showing quite handily that they do not. The manifest stupidity in the management of Daylight Savings Time in the most highly-developed nations of the world gives little reason to believe the leaders in any of these nations could manage a dogfight, much less the business of the free world.
The United States advanced into Daylight Savings Time on March 10 and this is a change from previous years. Given the ridiculous caprice of this blindly stupid system, this will probably differ from U.S. changes in future years as well. Europe advances into Daylight Savings Time on March 31, thereby giving three weeks of international timing chaos for anyone trying to synchronise anything across the Atlantic Ocean. Of course, none of this is the fault of the politicians. As we have come so painfully to understand, nothing is EVER the fault of politicians.
The reason for this unfortunate editorial is that Second Life musical performances are based on United States Pacific Time which, for the next three weeks, comes one hour sooner in Europe than it did prior to the Daylight Savings Time change. This makes a great deal of confusion in scheduling concerts and we saw this last night when people arrived to hear Reis and Aldo just as the show was ending, in other words, an hour late because of the time change.
A man who definitely knows the time is Maestro Michi Renoir, the Austrian synthesizer wizard, as for the last three weeks he has been playing sets with different themes, first rock, next Stockhausen, and last night kind of dance set, all of which have been extremely inventive, powerful, and exciting.
Michi Renoir improvises his entire set; he starts with a theme and then goes all over town with it. Using only a piano keyboard and a synthesizer, he produces a rich array of musical colors with huge depth, vivid imagery, and brilliant imagination. The dynamics of his play are continually exciting and the power of it is continually compelling. He gives you enough to know what may be coming next but you don't know for sure and that is always fascinating.
You can meet Michi Renoir in Second Life and on Facebook.
Note: if you like my report of a performance, please share it with your friends on Google+, Facebook, Twitter or wherever as complaining about a report you don't like only serves to amplify the effect of any perceived negativity. In fact, my reports are accurate and I work very hard to achieve that.
As always on Cat Boucher's Dream Night, Reis and Aldo play the second show and they are not only a musical duo as they are also married and living in Italy. Aldo Brizzi is Italian and Reis Alter is Brazilian and I'm sure you can imagine from that the passion they bring to their music and the beautiful integration in the ethereal sound of Reis' voice and Aldo's brilliant compositions.
The music of Reis and Aldo is matched by their visual performance and here you see Reis in her dance over the stage. Their music is not only beautiful to hear but it is also fascinating to watch.
Reis and Aldo have that wonderful professional gift of being able to perform a piece they have performed before and yet they bring vitality and excitement to it every single time. While they never play the same set twice, there are pieces they bring back from time to time and always they have a sparkling difference.
In one song last night, Cat heard it as walking through the deep jungle with Aldo giving us the jungle drums, the screams and cries of the animals, and the excitement and risk of this fantastic place while at the same time Reis' voice called to us not to run away in fear but to come to her, perhaps to rescue her, perhaps to join her, or perhaps both.
Their music is always changing and I heard in another song I saw an enchanted crystal forest with Aldo's playing making the crystals vibrate in magical, wonderful tones, and Reis' voice coming to us as if on a wind blowing through the crystals.
Always imaginative, beautiful, and wonderfully powerful, Reis and Aldo take Dream Night into a realm of magic and other worlds.
You can learn more about Aldo Brizzi the Composer on his Web site and you can meet Reis Alter and Aldo Brizzi on Facebook where you can also follow their band in their travels in Second Life and the world.
And Cat and I danced
Dancing with the most wonderful dream a man could ever ask. Immer ich liebe dich, mein Liebling!
The United States advanced into Daylight Savings Time on March 10 and this is a change from previous years. Given the ridiculous caprice of this blindly stupid system, this will probably differ from U.S. changes in future years as well. Europe advances into Daylight Savings Time on March 31, thereby giving three weeks of international timing chaos for anyone trying to synchronise anything across the Atlantic Ocean. Of course, none of this is the fault of the politicians. As we have come so painfully to understand, nothing is EVER the fault of politicians.
The reason for this unfortunate editorial is that Second Life musical performances are based on United States Pacific Time which, for the next three weeks, comes one hour sooner in Europe than it did prior to the Daylight Savings Time change. This makes a great deal of confusion in scheduling concerts and we saw this last night when people arrived to hear Reis and Aldo just as the show was ending, in other words, an hour late because of the time change.
A man who definitely knows the time is Maestro Michi Renoir, the Austrian synthesizer wizard, as for the last three weeks he has been playing sets with different themes, first rock, next Stockhausen, and last night kind of dance set, all of which have been extremely inventive, powerful, and exciting.
Michi Renoir improvises his entire set; he starts with a theme and then goes all over town with it. Using only a piano keyboard and a synthesizer, he produces a rich array of musical colors with huge depth, vivid imagery, and brilliant imagination. The dynamics of his play are continually exciting and the power of it is continually compelling. He gives you enough to know what may be coming next but you don't know for sure and that is always fascinating.
You can meet Michi Renoir in Second Life and on Facebook.
Note: if you like my report of a performance, please share it with your friends on Google+, Facebook, Twitter or wherever as complaining about a report you don't like only serves to amplify the effect of any perceived negativity. In fact, my reports are accurate and I work very hard to achieve that.
As always on Cat Boucher's Dream Night, Reis and Aldo play the second show and they are not only a musical duo as they are also married and living in Italy. Aldo Brizzi is Italian and Reis Alter is Brazilian and I'm sure you can imagine from that the passion they bring to their music and the beautiful integration in the ethereal sound of Reis' voice and Aldo's brilliant compositions.
The music of Reis and Aldo is matched by their visual performance and here you see Reis in her dance over the stage. Their music is not only beautiful to hear but it is also fascinating to watch.
Reis and Aldo have that wonderful professional gift of being able to perform a piece they have performed before and yet they bring vitality and excitement to it every single time. While they never play the same set twice, there are pieces they bring back from time to time and always they have a sparkling difference.
In one song last night, Cat heard it as walking through the deep jungle with Aldo giving us the jungle drums, the screams and cries of the animals, and the excitement and risk of this fantastic place while at the same time Reis' voice called to us not to run away in fear but to come to her, perhaps to rescue her, perhaps to join her, or perhaps both.
Their music is always changing and I heard in another song I saw an enchanted crystal forest with Aldo's playing making the crystals vibrate in magical, wonderful tones, and Reis' voice coming to us as if on a wind blowing through the crystals.
Always imaginative, beautiful, and wonderfully powerful, Reis and Aldo take Dream Night into a realm of magic and other worlds.
You can learn more about Aldo Brizzi the Composer on his Web site and you can meet Reis Alter and Aldo Brizzi on Facebook where you can also follow their band in their travels in Second Life and the world.
And Cat and I danced
Dancing with the most wonderful dream a man could ever ask. Immer ich liebe dich, mein Liebling!
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