Musical Sketches of places in Caledon

The *incredibly* talented Envoy Costagravas might be too shy by his own admission to mention his work, but I'm not!

You know how some places have a sort of... vibe, a song to their soul? Envoy translates these into sound and music, and... wow, just wow!


Envoy's site:
http://www.microtonal.org/caledon_sketches.html


Envoy's descriptions of five sketches, blatantly borrowed for those too lazy to link (but you'd be better off just following the link I assure you):


1. The Cavorite Mines, Caledon Moors One of the first places I visited, and one of the first places I got stuck in a tiny room and couldn't get out. The mine was dark, weird, and smelled bad. Strange things had happened here in the past. And I think strange things still happen inside there...

2. Amphitheatre, Caledon Primverness After flying along the coast and taking a walk through the open, rugged hills, I came upon this place with a beautiful grand piano (now not there), right at the edge of the ocean.

3. The Forrest, Caledon Tanglewood It was late at night the first time I visited. Moderately spooky, I was quietly walking when I saw my first SL tinies. They were walking and having (I thought) an animated discussion, as played by the woodwinds.

4. Ordinal Enterprises, Caledon I was walking down a lane, and saw puffs of smoke (and imagined gunfire); I had stumbled onto the work of Ordinal Malaprop, one of the very first people I met in Caledon. It was also my first real introduction to the steampunk aesthetic, and I haven't looked back, so I have a debt to Ordinal to settle. Fire at will...

5. Port of Caledon A flying jaunt on a sunny morning landed me in the Port, right at the docksides. I had already been charmed, but this was one of the last nails in the coffin, and a happy jig kicked up in my head.

Envoy's music, in two formats:
http://www.microtonal.org/music/Caledon_Sketches.mp3
http://www.microtonal.org/music/Caledon_Sketches.ogg

Amazing. Simply amazing!

Oh. My. Goodness! How wonderful! Desmond, thank you for posting this, and of course thank you, Envoy, for sharing your amazing gift. I'm afraid this forum isn't as popular as the main forum: Resident Rants and Jokes (otherwise known as Resident Answers). I do hope people look in on the others though as they're missing a rare treat if they don't read this post.

It's difficult to decide which of the pieces I like best: The Forrest, I think, but Ordinal Enterprises made me smile, and Port of Caledon lifted the heart.

I wish the media, who hype up the sex and money side of SL could focus more on the amazing (there's that word again) creativity of resis like Envoy.

For anyone who didn't follow Desmond's link, I'm going to post the entire entry by Envoy, because Desmond was too modest to quote in full