Meet Fellow Musician and Metaplace Founder Raph Koster

If you are a musician looking for your first virtual world experience, think about starting in Metaplace. Metaplace is the brain child of Raph Koster - a blend of passionate visionary, thoughtful scholar, pragmatic developer and best of all, a soulful artist, writer and musician.

UPDATE: Raph is playing a special Metaplace concert tomorrow, Friday Nov 29th 2PM PST.


I met Raph in person in 2007 to talk about Metaplace (then Areae). It was an informal business discussion and I watched over his shoulder as he flew through the basic tenants of Metaplace, talking at speeds normally reserved for livestock auctions. We talked more over lunch (slower this time, there was chewing involved) about the future of virtual worlds, the collision of the social web and gaming, music, guitars and poetry. I won't bore you with our excursions of thought and speculation, but if I boiled down the conversation one thing predominated - the power of virtual worlds is unlocked when people can create, connect, and have fun pervasively.

Imagine what that means for a musician.

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Rocking the Metaverse (embedded version). Enjoy the show in Metaplace on the Koinup Blog

Today on 21th of july at 3PM SLT (or Pacific time) The stars of the Rocking the Metaverse (Doubledown Tandino, Slim Warrior and Grace Mcdunnough) will delight you.

You can enjoy the show (held in Metaplace world), by logging here on the Koinup Blog. Have a great time!!!!!!! (click on "Enter This World")

Rocking the Metaverse - Reportage from Metaplace

Dear guys, yesterday was a fantastic hit at Metaplace. DD Tandino, Dizzy Banjo, Slim Warrior, Grace Mcdunnough make a great show and there were literally hundreds of people dancing in the Rocking the Metaverse world created by the Metaplace staff.

Let me personally say thank you to Cuppycake, community manager at Metaplace (Cuppy is also a multiworld user and koinup member since some weeks).


Next Rocking the Metaverse stop is at Twinity (on 16th of june). Join the Rocking the Metaverse group to stay informed!

Following are some images taken during the show by Poid Mahovlich, DD Tandino, J0anna and other participants

Rocking the Metaverse - Bringing Live music to Metaplace!

You're all invited to the Metaplace Rocking The Metaverse Tour Stop on this tuesday (2nd of june) at 1:00pm Pacific Time (SLT).

Rocking the Metaverse tour next stop is Metaplace. The team of Metaplace just created a venue completely dedicated to the show. You can reach the Rocking the Metaverse Metaplace world, here.

Save this date: 2nd of june at 1:00PM SLT
Waiting for you in the Metaplace venue there will be the most exciting performers of the metaverse:
Doubledown Tandino
Slim Warrior
Dizzy Banjo
Grace Mcdunnough

To join the event (and correctly signup in Metaplace) read carefully this thread and join the Rocking the Metaverse group to stay tuned on the event and all details about the "RTM" tour.