Hot & Steamy

OK!

So all my previous plans are (again) postponed but its OK! I just started working on the sound design for a new character class set for the game : TORCHLIGHT .

Will Harris (3D video game artist) and an animator friend of his are working on the in game content currently. I’ll be helping out with the sound design and hopefully with some ambient music..

More info about the development can be found here.

Decimator:

It’s a robot. Steampunk Robot. Everything about it is hot and steamy.. and BIG!. Born in the midst of 18th century industrial revolution.  Old but strong. A bit rusty but still sturdy…  well at least that’s  how I imagine it… we’ll see.

here is the first “run cycle” try out. have a listen.

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a list is a promise to one’s self?

OK taking the risk and putting things out in the clear…. no,  I’m not promising anything. no.

1) Sound design & some music for a short by my friend Chris Baronavski.

2) Pin-art generative sound installation. (pun not intended if you know what I mean =P)

3) Mosquito Massacre a Binaural Audio Game: (inspired during just another sleepless night of my  recent life =P)

4) Tonecity: Music Project

5) Qualia! Interactive Dance Project. (Continuation)

So here are a couple of major stuff lurking in my mind, and eventually making me feel like 24 hours is not enough =)
Gonna add some details later on… (that’s a promise I can make =P)

Graduated and long lost on the event horizon.

Yes I know, it’s been too long since I have bothered to write anything on the blog. I feel like I should be more up to date with my self. =)

Q: Where have I been?
A: Somewhere almost all the graduates end up in I suppose. In a post- graduation black-hole, as we call it. =)

So, what’s been going on is, “I graduated”… =) Mad Props! right?  Hurray!!! YeAH!  OR? well…… to be honest the reality kicked in WAY too soon.  No holiday, no proper celebaration.. No getting drunk and losing it.  Not that I was expecting a total shift in my reality, but maybe a temporary one would have been cool ;) I kinda needed it after an overwhelmingly “serious” year. With no obvious difference to tell one from another, I couldn’t complete the transition properly, I guess. Not yet at least.

Anywhooo, all the boring, troublesome, distasteful “adulthood” details, such as trying to find a job etc  aside(living in a foreign country does make a huge difference unfortunately =P), I could say that all I have been doing, in full focus, was working on the Go for IT! Project  that I have started during my studies.  An Urban Game Project in Rotterdam South (NL) initiated by the organization called The Patchingzone. It’s a cool, interesting, challenging yet very very “human-cpu hungry” project. =P  Especially in the last couple of months, production process sped up quite a lot and it is great to see things actually happening. But since there are a lot of deadlines ahead of us now, the current schedule/work load/timeline leaves very little headroom for other stuff. All the while, I’ve been collecting my ideas , tagging them “to be realized” for upcoming “one day”, some day… they are piling up =) call it good news or bad news. Depends on one’s perspective I guess. To me it is good news cos I feel like as soon as we make it to our deadline, and lunch the Game we have been developing, things will slow down, the tension will be gone, a bit of a relief a bit of a cool-down…. a bit I hope..  And I will be able to focus on my personal projects as well. I hope. There is always a risk in postponing things though, I know… tricky.

Anyways, I should write about the Go for IT! Project in details at some point as well. For some reason I haven’t published anything about it although most of my life in Rotterdam has been evolving around it for about 10 months now =D. But  I guess I’m gonna leave it for another time. No, not to procrastinate, but to go to sleep =D It is quite late.. So forgive me for my long break and accept this little post as an intro of a new era (wow that’s a big word eheh) : “life outside of the school” (well yea that’s literally it; after 25 years of continuous education, crazy stuff…)

Check the website: Go for IT! =) it might help.. for now.

Qualia on the Go!

So here we are, at the verge of a nervous break down =) After so many cuts from the original concept and several simplifications that’s been issued due to overly-possible technical let-downs, we are performing FINALLY!

Qualia, me (Pınar) and my friend Arjan’s graduation project is giving birth to its first “baby”. Your are all wellcome to witness the birth if you happen to be in the Netherlands in the coming 7-10 days =P

Official call:

“Dear friends,

We would like to invite you to our new performance “Qualia!”.

The Qualia project, being our graduation project, is an interdisciplinary collaboration work in which we’ve been investigating the interaction possibilities between sound and movement.

Here are the performance dates, please pick the one that suits you and join us =)

Date: June 18th - Thursday & June 19th - Friday
Time: 20:00
Location: De Theaterschool- Amsterdam / Studio 202
Entry: Free!

(via HKU- FruitFest)
Date: June 26th - Friday
Time: from 19:00 - to 04:00
Location: Huis a/d Werf - Utrecht
Entry: 3 Euros
(for more infor please check: www.fruitfest.nl)

Cheers,
Pınar, Arjan, Ingrid”

Superposition & blogspace & opendns all because of the Hadron!

Just after my second post about my friend’s latest beauty hadron, the universe decided to cast its unique taste of humor upon us. Apparently there was an alternate reality in which there was an alternate WSA in which you could not see what I could see but you could write and read your own stuff.. parallel universes! weird stuff happening my dear!

It turns out that the key to this parallel universe is to use opendns. I better warn the hosting service and get rid of this black hole.

Anyway, enough of this nightly little brain-fart! The story behind will be published once the mystery is solved and dust is settled.

For those of you who finds it hard to believe, I wish you go down that black hole somehow and see what my friend wrote about this. But till then here is a little proof for your sleepy eyes.

“Superposition!
This post is a demonstration for quantum superposition. Can’t give the exact details, but believe me, it is true!” -BadGuy (from who knows where&when)

ps: Server maintenance & transfer.