Category: design notes
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Progress of Carousel
Snakes is near to a finished music album. I’m happy to call it an album, not a game, which is where I hoped to be by studiously avoiding making a music album. Following the rules of theme parks stopped me from obscenities like ‘sides’, ‘tracks’ and linear listening. But now I can point out moments…
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Game
Throughout the late 1990’s I annoyed the hell out of people at ‘future music’ conferences by insisting on game sound as the obvious next step for music. As we were still in the VRML era I didn’t have a strong body of evidence – (God, the amount of money I wasted on tech that went…
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Standing but Not Operating
A well used term for amusement parks that have shut down through misadventure or changing circumstances. As with dead people there’s a lot more of them than the living. They’re common targets for urban exploration or ‘urbex’ and enjoy a certain forlorn charm. But let’s put it this way: would you rather visit the remnants…
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HaunTiki is not Vaporwave
One way to understand HaunTiki is in comparison to the ‘vaporwave’ style of the early c21st – described as a ‘microgenre of electronic music’ by Wikipedia. Vaporwave focused on cultural changes over the turn of the century including the rise of (rather unsafe) digital storage and delivery. The wireframe images exaggerated a loss of ‘realism’,…
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Building a new site
I’m building this site live. Changes are happening in public, things will appear and disappear. It’s the way the cool kids do it or so I am told. Here is a ceramic Halloween Cat candle with Caramel Apple scent.He just stays here, keeping an eye on things.