Zoophony VR Launch

Zoophony VR was art project I worked on for a few months at The Indian Sonic Research Organisation. The final vr experienced was launched on 19th Dec at Max Mueller Bhavan.
Check out the VR experience online at https://zoophony.theisro.org/

This is what it looks like..

An early experiment used the sound files to generate fcurve data that would deform the mesh.
This is what that looked like

However this did not translate to VR and had to be abandoned due to technical limitations, of the webxr and oculus quest platforms, where we wanted to publish Zoophony.

This was part of Soundchains, which is a virtual sound exchange program between Indian and German artists. The first edition of Soundchains features my collaboration with Berlin-based composer, Sergey Khismatov. We focused on spatial audio and virtual reality. I used one of Sergey's compositions to explore surround sound and virtual reality, and experiment with new compositional and story telling narratives.
To see more of Sergey's work visit https://www.khismatov.com/

SOUNDCHAINS IS SUPPORTED BY
​Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan
https://www.goethe.de/ins/in/en/sta/ban.html
ArtScienceBLR
https://artscienceblr.org/
Story Lab - Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology
http://srishtimanipalinstitute.in/centers-and-labs/story-labhttp://srishtimanipalinstitute.in/centers-and-labs/story-lab

I also had the pleasure of working with a great team on this. It included musicians, artists and students.

Yashas Shetty
TheISRO

3D and VR RESEARCH ASSISTANTS @ (ART)ScienceBLR
Arkoprabho Bhatacharjee, Chinmay Bhagat, Karthik Krishna, Nilanjana Bose, Udita Palit

IMMERSIVE MEDIA for WEB - RESEARCH and DEVELOPMENT
TheISRO Immersive Media Unit / Dhruva Gowda Storz

WEBSITE DESIGN and DEVELOPMENT
Upendra TheISRO Design Unit

Photospheres from NGEF

NGEF (New Government Electrical Factory) of Karnataka in India was an ISO 9001 certified company with German collaborators and known for technology.[1] It is taken as an example of an Indian company that declined.[1]
-source wikipedia
Here are some pics from a visit to the New Government Electric Factory's sale.. (liquidation of assets)
bascially a huge graveyard of office furniture.. desks.. tables.. closets..

Heres one of the many abandoned factory floors on the massive property.

Update April 4 2017 : 
Went back to look for desks.. found this one factoryfloor that we had skipped the last time.. here they had been sorting all kinds of metal treasures.. everything from drill bits to typewriters!

Bangalore: A Graphic Novel

A graphic novel I designed just went live (book design project.. none of the art is mine) -

click below:

https://www.amazon.in/dp/B06XCL2NN9

Available on Kindle for now, coming to Comixology in 3 months.

Bangalore means different things to different people. 

Now 18 artists and writers have come together to present their kaleidoscopic versions of the city through 9 stories. 

This is a city where the sum is greater than the parts, this is a vision which melds past, present and future. 

The contributors range from those born and brought up in the city as well as passing travellers; from those who lost their hearts there as well as those who found the city's secret heart. 

Bangalore: A Graphic Novel is part of Every City is a Story, a unique city-centric storytelling initiative.

Contributors include Harsho Mohan Chattoraj, Devaki Neogi, Appupen, Zac O'Yeah, CG Salamander, Prashant Miranda, Rupesh Arvindakshan, Jai Undurti, Ramya Ramakrishnan, Solo, Ojo, Karn, George Supreeth, Sumit Moitra, Neeraj Menon, Aditya Bidikar, Gunjan Joshi, Sonali Upadhyaya and Zsolt Herman Garcia with cover art by Abhishek Malsuni.

360 degree video of a park

360 degree video of a park created using a photosphere and footage shot with a mobile phone.. 
tutorial here

Quechua Backpack

Buddhoo plays with Zorro and Skit

Quad-Biking over the weekend

A friend of ours (vdiv) is leaving Bangalore in less than a month, so we decided to give her a proper send off.. The original plan was to go Quad Biking in the morning and then Paint Balling in the afternoon and then a movie in the evening.. due to the fact that we are all in our late 20s.. and not as energetic as we used to be :P we decided to just go quad biking and then relax through the rest of the day and then catch a movie.

Here are some clips from the quad biking we did at the DirtMania track here in Bangalore.

The first rider is Arvind Prabhakar, the second one is one of the DirtMania guys showing us how its done.

The blue bike is a 600cc monster that only two of us took for a spin. the rest of us were satisfied with the 300cc ones - like the one you see one of the DirtMania crew riding in the video above(guy in red tee).

(this smaller yellow bike is a 300cc bike with manual transmission - 4gears + reverse)

This clip has KT Thomas going nuts with the 600cc

Most of us struggled to get a hang of riding the quads.. mainly coz we're so hardwired for regular bikes.. but after a couple of laps you start to have fun. me and a couple of others did 2 laps on the regular ones and then did 2 laps o the one with the automatic transmission..

(this smaller blue bike is a 300cc bike just like the yellow ones but with automatic transmission)

Had fun there, coz we didn't have to bother about the clutch and gears and stuff(getting used to the accellerator "lever" and handling of the quad was enough of a chore) in the end we all had a good time.. in fact Divya, the young lady in whose honor we were doing all this had a blast, she blazed through the track faster than any of the boys :O

will post more pics as I get them..


For more info on DirtMania click here for their site.

:::UPDATE:::

Got these pics from my friend Naru.. fortunately he got a few of me on the Quads :)

Here they are

This is Naru racing uphill


Divya speeding away


Vinayak and KT racing


KT going crazy with the 600cc quad


Arvind on the same bike


and here's me


figuring out the pedals and stuff..


off to a crawl


after struggling on the first two laps with this quad..


decided to do the remaining two laps on the one with the automatic transmission


That DirtMania guy behind me probably thinks i'm a clown :P

Bike Painting Done

IDEA GPRS settings for android in Bangalore