KISSED BY A LINDEN
Julian Watts and the embrace that inspired a techno groove
Ferran Krasopani spotted his friend smooching a Linden, and being a passionate Argentinian, composed an entire song celebrating it. I may be going out on a prim-based limb, but I'm fairly sure "I Kissed a Linden", available on his recreational MySpace page, is the first tribute to the technical support staff of an online world-- set to song.
"Back in Valentine's Day," Ferran Krasopani tells me, "a friend of mine could not resist to stand in line to making out with a real Linden in a kissing booth! He finally was blessed, all pink and hearts around, by a big Linden kiss! He sent the snapshots to me and at the very moment I saw them, the phrase 'I kissed a Linden, under the trees of Sobaeksan' (our neighborhood in SL), appeared to me with the melody and the rough idea of the texture that I would use in the song. Then I proceeded to capture a couple of environmental sounds from Second Life, processed it and mixed with a reversed guitar. The rest was just adding the robot singing loop and recording and processing the 'human' voices."
Unsurprisingly, he's planning a techno concert that will bring a dozen electronica acts onstage in Argentina, which will simulcast into SL. "There will be a big screen where actual footage of both worlds will be playing, in an Alice In Wonderland mirror way." Hopefully more make out sessions ensue in each realm.
(Thanks to Pablo Potvin for tip.)
This sounds awesome! Not just playing techno music in Second Life, but making techno music inspired by Second Life. Big ups for taking SL ambience and remixing it too, not a lot have done it (Koz Farina remixed some of the UI sounds originally created by Ryan Linden for his KozCast), and this is very unique and special.
The ditty itself has a long but momentum-building intro, a catchy synth-pop propulsion that reminds me of Depeche Mode. A drum 'n' bass remix would be MASSIVE, complete with acid stabs and crunchy Amen rolls.
This will be a great memory of this year's Valentine's festivities. Can I say Julian and Amber look so cute? :) YES I CAN!!!!! OMG.
Posted by: Torley | Thursday, March 08, 2007 at 01:35 PM
That was so not allowed back in the day - what is happening to our young?
Posted by: Haney Armstrong | Thursday, March 08, 2007 at 08:42 PM
Hey Torley! your move... You should definetly make that kickass drum 'n' bass RMX. I read you used to compose techno...Let me know when you are ready and I'll send you the original tracks!...and I bet you can sing it better than me!
Thanks for your concepts on my song!
BTW: I actually WAS listening to DM one or two days before putting together the song! ;)
Posted by: ferran krasopani | Friday, March 09, 2007 at 09:38 AM
@Haney: Now that you bring that up, I remember when I couldn't even hug a Linden!
@ferran: Thanx, I don't do so much music anymore aside from the occasional solo piano, because of my hyperacusis (degraded hearing and sensitivity to noise). Regardless, I think it's so awesome you did this song... kewl that you were listening to DM recently too. :D
Posted by: Torley | Saturday, March 10, 2007 at 11:17 AM