THURSDAY DECEMBER 17 @ 12 PM The Last Storm

Multimedia Experience "Storm in a Teacup" with Christine Montgomery and R0bin Helsinki bids adieu to the Music Island audience with one last opportunity to experience the work with the composer and photographer as guides.

First launched in June, several hundred avatars cycled through the journey and many more have viewed the video online. By popular demand the composer and photographer will be hosting one last opportunity to experience the work in its entirety before it is retired.

Christine Montgomery, Sun. Sept. 27 @ 12 pm SLT

PROGRAM (revised Sept.26):
Caulfield Introduction with tape
Ashbridge Dreamspheres I
Caulfield Freddie goes to town
Caulfield Everybody Gotta be Somewhere (premiere)
Caulfield Spring Rondo
Massenet Meditation
Caulfield Hallasan Blues for solo Bassoon
Caulfield Boar Ring (solo) (premiere )
Bartok Wedding Song
Bartok Pillow Dance
Caulfield The show that never starts


Biography

Christine is a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, working on Linux clustering and storage technologies. She has has been playing violin since the age of 7 but gave up in her teens (to a lasting regret) and didn't restart until her early 20s. She currently plays violin with the Sinfonia of Leeds and the CoMA (COntemporary Music for Amateurs) Yorkshire Ensemble.

As a composer, Christine is largely self-taught, but has taken tuition and advice from Ben Oliver and John Habron (both now at Southampton) and anyone else who will listen. Her compositional style is eclectic and takes in a number of diverse influences from the baroque masters to Schittke, Swedish folk music and silly noises you can make by hitting a cheap fiddle with a paint brush. She is, as Douglas Adams would have it, "a great fan of science" and frequently uses scientific and mathematical themes in her music, though is not above tweaking mathematical systems for musical effect.

Although highly technically literate (see job description above) she prefers to compose sat in a comfortable arm-chair using a pencil and manuscript paper. Oh, and a calculator ... and possibly a martini. She lives in Leeds with a large number of cats, some strange instruments, and possibly too many computers and/or microphones.

"Storm in a Teacup" video available online

Great new machinama of the Storm in a Tea Cup multimedia experience has been filmed and edited by artist, Christine Montgomery. This is what SL art is supposed to be all about.

1. Collaborative: Original music composed by Christine Montgomery collaborating with Photographer R0bin Helsinki
2. 3-Dimensional: Constructed environment built from Second Life prims (primitive shapes)
3. Fluid: Avatars moved through the space. Two experiences were not the same.
   
4. Immersive: Comments about feeling sea-sick, or startled by sounds and motion were indicators that participants were fully involved.
   
5. Interactive: Avatars board a vehicle, move through space, and interact with the environment
6. Social: Best shared in a group of people, the various impressions of the art, inner thoughts were shared by all groups that participated in the experience.
7. Not possible in real life: Aspects of this work were totally impossible to duplicate in real life.