Sanara Creations is the professional dimension of sound designer, producer and artist Sarana / Janne Särkelä.
Tools: Logic, Cubase , Pro Tools, Photoshop, Illustrator, GIMP, Final Cut, Premiere, Max/MSP/Jitter, Plogue Bidule, Flash/AS, CSS, HTML, PHP, Javascript, jQuery, OSX/Win/Linux, Arduino, Processing, Captivate, Storyline.
Janne resides in Helsinki, Finland at the moment, and works at Digital Lessons Finland as the Senior Technical Developer.
I’ve had the privilege of working with Ensæmble on multiple projects. In 2015, I collaborated with them to create a data-driven dance piece, and more recently, I developed this showcase website to their exact specifications. The site features five triptychs, each with images that change at randomly selected intervals. Take a look!
Mixed and edited dialogue for a promotional video showcasing Perdition’s Mouth, a fantasy-themed board game. The audio work focused on enhancing clarity.
Perdition’s Mouth is a cooperative dark fantasy adventure game. The creators urgently needed a soundtrack for their trailer ahead of a Kickstarter campaign. Best of luck with the campaign!
AS Long As Possible (ASLAP) is a 1000 year long animated GIF loop. It’s an art project by Juha van Ingen in collaboration with Janne Särkelä. It is the longest GIF in the world. After 1000 years it’ll start again from the beginning.
The starting point in making AS Long As Possible was to make a one extremely long animated GIF loop. ASLAP is made of black frames with a white number indicating the frames position in the loop. There are 48 140 288 frames which change in c.a. 10 minute intervals making the total duration of the loop 1000 years.
The GIF animation specification itself doesn’t limit its length.
The name of ASLAP is hommage to John Cage composition “ORGAN2/ASLSP” (1987) which is played with Halberstad organs for the next 625 years. The abbreviation of Cages composition included and instruction to the performer of the piece: As SLow aS Possible.
The piece titled D-A-T/D-A was presented in the group exhibition “NOT IMPRESSIVE NOT BELIEVABLE”.
Created by the interdisciplinary artist collective KNPSST—comprising Mira Kautto, Alisa Närvänen, Elina Peltonen, Marko Suovula, Janne Särkelä, and Pekka Tynkkynen, with expertise spanning art, clothing design, technology, music, architecture, and contemporary dance—the project began during their 2015 residency at Kone Foundation’s Saari Residence.
D-A-T/D-A is a kinetic data installation rooted in wearable sensor technology, capturing physical gestures and movements and translating them into synchronized sound and light.