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!
Author: Janne Särkelä
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.
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.
The installation gives aural and visual form to human cycles, intimately highlighting menstrual pain (dysmenorrhea) through sound. It sonifies the orbital interactions between Earth, Moon, and Sun, translating their gravitational effects into an immersive experience that reflects our connection to these celestial bodies.
Presented at the Cycles group exhibition during Helsinki’s AAVE audiovisual arts festival, the work features four LED strips and a four-channel audio system. The Sun and Moon are represented as rotating sound sources around the visitor, while a heart rate sensor invites direct audience participation.
The installation’s sound cycle lasts about 50 minutes—equivalent to roughly two years—chosen because the Sun and Moon return to similar positions at the cycle’s start and end. Sounds of pain randomly occur every 1–2 minutes, synchronized with pulsing and fading LED lights.
The Sun’s sound is a higher octave of its roughly 11-year activity cycle, rendered as a low, continuous tone. The Moon’s sound derives from the Saros cycle (about 18 years), producing higher, pulsating tones with pulse lengths representing thousandths of a month. The relative amplitudes of the Sun and Moon sounds correspond to their respective tidal forces.
Audience interaction occurs via a pulse sensor mounted on a pole at the room’s center, indicated by a green light. A red LED beside it pulses with the visitor’s detected heart rate when contact pressure is optimal. After detecting six sequential pulses, the installation plays a real heartbeat sound, connecting personal rhythm to the cosmic cycles.
International Teletext Art Festival website was rebuilt as a fully responsive WordPress site. In addition to serving as the festival’s main hub, it hosts a virtual gallery showcasing artworks by participating artists.
A custom WordPress theme was designed and developed from scratch to meet the festival’s unique aesthetic and functional needs.