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Art

Sonification of a Tree – Requiem for the Tree of the Glass Palace

Tree of the Glass Palace

In downtown Helsinki, there’s a place called Lasipalatsin aukio (Glass Palace Square), slated for renovation along with the surrounding area. At the center of the square stands a tree that is set to be cut down. In response, a group of artists created works dedicated to the tree — I was invited to contribute as well.

For my piece, I photographed the tree and used the images as input for a generative sound process. The photo is scanned from left to right, with the light areas providing data for a set of oscillators, waveforms, and filters. The resulting sound composition is taken from one full scan pass.

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Web

Website and Gallery for a Clothing-Focused Art Project

Ensaemble

ensaemble website

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!

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Sound

Sound Editing and Mixing for a Promotional Video

Perdition's Mouth

Mixed and edited dialogue for a promotional video showcasing Perdition’s Mouth, a fantasy-themed board game. The audio work focused on enhancing clarity.

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Film

Music and Sound Effects for Board Game Trailer

Perditions Mouth - Abyssal Rift

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!

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Art

ASLAP: 1000 year long GIF animation – the longest GIF in the world?

AS Long As Possible - The longest GIF in the world

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.