MusicVR Episode 2: Maestro

What is Maestro?
Wrong question

Where is Maestro? Try again

Why is Maestro? Now you're talkin’!

Maestro exists because the Gravitars say it must. A race of alien… somethings from an alien… somewhere have a familiar ambition that has, unfortunately, become all too rare.

To have fun

To entertain

To play

The Gravitars are here to help a starving race. The human race. We have lost the will to play. We have lost the method of play. We need play to survive. To exist. Allow the Gravitars into your life and rediscover How To Let Go.

Why is Maestro?

Maestro is unique. Maestro is aimed at users of all ages. Maestro aims to appeal to users on many levels: some will compete, others will meet and greet and use the world of Maestro to forge communities. Some will transform Maestro into the world’s most magnificent chat room.

Maestro is a Mike Oldfield creation. Maestro has been hand-built, from the ground upwards with a unique philosophical vision. Unlike other large corporate computer organisations - Mike Oldfield has created the world of Maestro with NO profit targets to attain. Unlike other large corporate computer organisations - Mike Oldfield has created a world as a place for his fans and for computer users who want an alternative source of entertainment. Unlike other large corporate computer organisations - Mike Oldfield has deemed Maestro a non-violent environment.

“This is the most difficult task I have ever completed.” - Mike Oldfield

However, if might just be the most emotionally rewarding.

There is another way – because there is Maestro

Here is a small selection of the wide array of features available from the world of Maestro:

As well as classic excepts from the legendary Tubular Bells album, you can also hear new and exclusive music specially produced by Mike Oldfield for the Maestro experience.

Instant messenger communication – converse with other Maestro uses, make new friends from all over the world, and see each other in the game as Avatars.

When you are not participating in Maestro, leave the world running all night as an active screensaver or as a Windows background to your day-to-day tasks. Let the music of Maestro envelope you.

Maestro is a free-form environment taking a flight simulation approach to world navigation through all dimensions – including inter-dimensions.

Run Maestro from any independent server and forge exploratory groups from your own friends and family.

Meet and talk to Mike Oldfield, live and online, who will be taking part within the world of Maestro itself.

As Mike himself reveals, there are some extra special surprises, “Within this world, you can become the Maestro. You will then be able to enter a special area.” containing exclusive music, specially produced by Mike Oldfield and unavailable elsewhere. “You can then grant access to this area to others, if you wish.”

THE COMPUTER GAME: THE PRESENT

Typical, task-oriented computer games abound, where development hours and budget are invested in short-term, short lived special effects, where the player is herded, according to the whim of the programmer, from one stage-managed story strand to the next. Where the grand ‘experience’ is whittled down to a PC-oriented fair-ground ride over coded ‘tracks’, where graphics and sound are pushed in your face, leaving you gasping for air and where game difficulty or ‘learning curve’ is the gameplay.

Like a bad restaurant, too many games drag you to your seat, throw an over-crowded menu at you senses, stand next to you while you hurriedly finish your meal and then kick you out the door before you’ve even digested what you came in for in the first place.

THE COMPUTER GAME: THE FUTURE

“Technology has now advanced far enough for Maestro to exist,” Mike Oldfield.

Maestro is a refreshing alternative. A free form world where you can enter as a player, an observer, a user…or just a friend. Come to Maestro to learn, to listen, to discover secrets, to talk, to wander aimlessly, to meditate, to sit and watch or just to ‘be’.

Maestro does not exist to tell you what to do.

Maestro does to exist to push you around.

Maestro does not exist to impose

You decide what sort of Maestro exists at all …and in what form

…and for how long

…and for what purpose

Maestro is not a game – it is a lifestyle

If there is a challenge – it is to make Maestro a society

Would you like to live there?

Reach out – to Maestro

Source:

Maestro Web Site (www.mikeoldfield.com/flash/maestro.html)