Second Life is free to download and free to play. Creating an avatar takes about five minutes. You do not need a credit card, you do not need a subscription, and nothing here is gated behind either.**
| Go to | What you'll find |
|---|---|
| 🎧 Teleport straight in | secondlife://Derwent/248/128/22 — paste into the Second Life viewer |
| 🗺 Prefer the web map? | maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Derwent/248/128/22 — opens in any browser |
| 🌐 The website | openstageisland.github.io · vanity domain openstageis.land |
| 📄 Official venue page | secondlife.com/destination/open-stage-island |
| 🆕 Never used Second Life? | Join free — it costs nothing to make an avatar |
Three steps, no cost, no commitment:
- Create a free account and download the viewer.
- Make an avatar — anything you like. There is no "right" one.
- Teleport to
secondlife://Derwent/248/128/22and walk onto the stage.
You do not need a track record, a follower count, a promoter or a booking fee. If you make electronic music and want to hear how a live room reacts, the stage is yours:
- Join Second Life (free) and log in.
- Teleport to
secondlife://Derwent/248/128/22. - Set up, hit play, and take the feedback — from DJs and producers who play here too.
No fee. No booking form. No waiting for a slot. You turn up, you play, and when you are done the room empties and someone else walks on. That is the whole deal.
🎓 New to DJing? The island runs a DJ school — the fastest way to get good enough to play a room. Ask in the Discord and someone will walk you through it.
| Feature | What it means |
|---|---|
| 🎤 24/7 open-air stage | Free for every electronic music artist, with a live audience for instant feedback |
| 🎓 DJ school | Learn from experienced DJs — the fastest way to get good enough to play the stage |
| 🎁 Freebies | Free items and interactive experiences to collect |
| 🌀 Interactive experiences | More to explore than a stage and a dance floor |
| 🤝 Social hub | A magical-realism island that has grown into a real community since 2021 |
| 🌈 Everyone welcome | LGBTQI+ friendly, furry friendly, newcomer friendly |
| Detail | Value |
|---|---|
| Region | Derwent (Second Life main grid) |
| Coordinates | 248 / 128 / 22 |
| SLURL | secondlife://Derwent/248/128/22 |
| Maturity rating | Moderate |
| Categories | Music → Electronic & Dance · Live DJ Spots |
| Distinction | Featured as an Editors' Pick in the Destination Guide |
| Cost to play | Free |
| Cost to perform | Free |
| Open | 24 hours a day, every day, since 2021 |
Come for one set, stay for the sunrise. Follow the lasers, find the bass, pull up a chair, and say hello to someone you have not met yet.
There is nothing to buy, nothing to unlock and no list you have to be on. The stage is the point. Turn up, stay as long as you like, leave when the sun comes up.
🌈 Newcomers, LGBTQI+ residents and furries are explicitly welcome. So is anyone who has ever been nervous about walking into a room on their own. Especially those.
The stage is not only a room. It is where a lot of the video work starts.
| 🎬 frenzypenguin.media | The studio that films, cuts and captions the music — artist videos, livestreams, art visuals |
| 📺 YouTube @FrenzyPenguinMedia | Recorded sets and livestreams |
| 🎧 Artists & channels | The full roster — Kenneth Game, Professor Benji, House Music, Live Music, Podcast, Radio |
| 🧬 transhumanists | The research desk — breakthroughs in seven fields, scored and mapped |
openstageisland.github.io is the island's public data hub and the documentation for anyone who wants to find, join or run the venue:
| Page | What it does |
|---|---|
| Home | Venue intro, features, location, teleport links |
| Live data | Live counters, the official destination page embedded, and a live clock |
| Live view | Single-screen live panel |
Jekyll serves these as extensionless paths — the trailing-slash form returns 404.
The counters and status cards refresh from the project's heartbeat, so the numbers you see are the numbers the tooling is currently reporting.
| Repo | What it holds |
|---|---|
openstageisland.github.io |
The live site, live-data pages and venue documentation |
.github |
This profile — org landing page, community health files |
Host configuration and infrastructure are kept private. The public surface is the stage, the site and this profile.
The older
neohiro/openstageisland.github.iocopy is archived — everything now lives under theopenstageislandorganization.
| Site | What it is |
|---|---|
| openstageisland.github.io | 🏝️ Open Stage Island — free 24/7 open-air electronic music stage in Second Life. Any artist can take the stage. Second Life venue · Visitor guide → · GitHub org → |
| frenzypenguin.media | 🎛️ FrenzyPenguin Media — the studio: artist videos, livestreams, captation, art visuals. Main domain · frenzypenguin.media → |
| transhumanists.github.io | 🧬 Transhumanists (H+) — breakthroughs in seven fields, scraped, scored and mapped. Research portal · transhumanists.github.io → · GitHub org → |
| github.com/neohiro | 👽 neohiro — the developer account: open-source hardening and privacy tooling. Hardening hub · github.com/neohiro → |
- 🎤 Play the stage. Turn up and play. Free, no booking, no slot to wait for.
- 🎓 Come to DJ school. New to decks? Ask in the Discord.
- 🐾 Bring your friends. Furry, LGBTQI+, newcomer — all welcome, on purpose.
- 🛠️ Build with us. The site and tooling are open source — issues are open.
The stage stays free because someone pays for the land. If you play here, or you just like knowing it will still be open next year:
- 💜 Sponsor on GitHub — covers hosting and streaming
- 🐧 Patreon — behind-the-scenes and devlogs
