What does it feel like to be on another planet?

Second teaser for the game Cosmoplan that I composed music for is out. It is a unique puzzle/action game by Zbam Game Studio where you travel into unknown deep space. Cosmoplan will be available in most app stores in April.

Centrifugal is an installation piece consisting of video mapped onto an extruded surface of four concentric circles. It’s a collaborative videoart project enhanced with sound design that explores possibilities of circular motion and implications of centrifugal force.

Premiered at Salt-Soyut (Purely Abstract) exhibition at Mixer Arts – Istanbul (February 22th, 2013 – March 24th, 2013).

You can listen to a part of the title music on the first teaser video of the game:

You can also listen to or download Analog Sheep from here:
iTunes, Amazon, Google Play, Bandcamp, SoundCloud

You can listen to and download Analog Sheep here:
iTunes, Amazon, Google Play, Bandcamp, SoundCloud

Originally the music is constructed during the game by combining 1 second loops, each of which are attached to a specific move type of the character. Later I made a special arrangement and published under Analog Sheep.

(If you can’t see the music player click here and listen to it on SoundCloud.)

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Analog Sheep is named after the novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep” by the American writer Philip K. Dick. The novel describes a post-apocalyptic world where it became very hard to distinguish androids from human beings. Analog Sheep is formed to ask the question: “Do Synthesizers Dream of Analog Sheep?”

The character design of Analog Sheep is created by Murat Kalkavan.

The soundtrack of independent video game producer Murray Lorden‘s iPad/iPhone game “Rad Skater Apocalypse” became Analog Sheep’s debut album. The 4 track soundtrack EP is full of analog modelled synths, solos and vintage feeling. Besides there is a bonus track called “I Miss My Amiga 500“, an ode to Amiga era for Amiga crazy fans.

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Project Definition: Experiencing Particle in a Box via Motion Controlled Virtual Reality

Aim: To create an interactive experience that is inspired by core ideas of modern physics.

PROJECT OUTLINE:

• I. The main concept should be both comprehensible to the audience and true to underlying physics.
• A. “Particle in a 2D box” is designated as a suitable candidate:
  • 1. It demonstrates sub atomic phenomena and the inherent logic of quantum physics such as uncertainty principle and wave-particle duality.
  • 2. It is explicitly calculable without abstraction.
  • 3. It is open to artistic enrichment.
• II. The experience is designed as either a room or an isolated wall.
  • A. Attendees see a real-time evolving graphic on the wall which is a representation of probability distribution of a particle.
  • B. They interact with the system by reaching out towards it, in which case they take a measurement from a specific location that either:
    • 1. Collapses the states to that singular location which enables them to catch and hold the particle, and probability wave propagation starts again as soon as they release it elsewhere in the box.
    • 2. Or, doesn’t hit the particle, but the knowledge that particle isn’t at that location changes the probability distribution.
• III. In order to move forward with the implementation, we laid out the groundwork with a prototype that runs in the game engine Unity 3D which is capable of:
  • A. Simulating probability distribution of a particle/system of particles in 2D box in real-time.
  • B. Customizing additional visual layers with artistic vision such as texture and light FX.
  • C. Real-time sound generation whose wave form directly derived from the probability distribution function.
• IV. The future of the project upholds distinct enhancement possibilities.
  • A. Interactivity of the user will be established tracking arm movements of the user with a Kinect sensor device.
  • B. The simulation can be enhanced to calculate a pool of different particles & atoms that can also interact with different types of measurement on the user end.

TEAM:

• Ugur Engin Deniz
  concept idea, science consultation, implementation, documentation
• Ahmet Said Kaplan
  art direction, installation, visual fx, 3D modelling
• Guney Ozsan
  music & generative audio, simulation, programming, interface design

Special thanks to Yetkin Yilmaz.