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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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)

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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.

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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”

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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.

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Hadron is a graphical patching environment that lives inside SuperCollider. It is designed by Istanbul based Sound Artist/Programmer Batuhan Bozkurt.  Mainly used for building interfaces made with SuperCollider code chunks (plugins). Hadron introduces a new approach to handle the connections between them and allows you to use it as a compostional tool.

Hadron Screencast from batuhan on Vimeo.

But before you get your hearts pound to the rhythm, lets make one thing clear: Hadron is in its initial release cycle, and needs some support.

To know more about Hadron and how you can give support (no worries we are not asking for a dime =D ) Check Batuhan’s personal blog: EarSlap!

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From her words:

“I specialise myself in wearable electronics, the intersection of design, fashion, science, and technology. I’m busy with concepting for the future, future fashion design props, building electronical circuits, interaction design, instalations, science, coding and programming. I’m always trying to create great ambiance by doing research in order to build strong concepts that represent my ideas.”

I think her current speciality, wearable electronics, will be incredibly inspiring for those of you who are interested in the crossovers between art & technology! Take a look & do not forget to visit her website and blog.

Anouk Wipprecht - Futuristic Fashion

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