Squatouch is represented at Cycling 74 and Computer Music Blog
Friday, July 9th, 2010Squatouch is a computer-based musical interface and offers a multitouch user interface via the forms of direct interaction which is designed and programmed by me.
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Awards from Flash Web-Design Contest
Thursday, June 10th, 2010
“Flash Ödülleri” web design awards, by http://www.flasharsivi.com – a member of Adobe Flash User Group in Turkey- emerged from the idea to have a contest among the members of the web site, in 2008.
The contest aims to increase the use of Flash software and encourage designers to create action script (programming language) based web sites.
Alp Tuğan’s two web design works were nominated for the first 30 designs of 2010. and got the second and
the sixth place in the “Flash Ödülleri” contest that is also sponsored by Adobe Company this year.
second place : http://www.brandmood.org
sixth place : http://www.muratgermen.com
For further information http://www.flashodulleri.com/
Call For Artists – Transition Houses
Thursday, May 27th, 2010Transition Houses
is about being in between time. It is the void in between happenings, the ether that fills the space, the apparent blank.
The apparent blank is not without substance. It is the punctuation between sentences, the emphasis between ideas, it is the silence that makes possible for notes to be discerned – the one thing in common of all music. The one thing in common of all art.
Transition Houses is about the process, the essential environment of creation.
We would like to celebrate this ephemeral and vital air that is the process. We would like to make it a negative, to make the apparent blank a blinding light and the colorful spots insignificant dead heaps of lifeless matter.
To point out the process and make the result pointless (or simply a rest between two transitions, a necessary collision before a vital expansion).
Houses of transition are not real. We made them up.
Houses of transition have no real territory. It is tomorrow’s dream of yesterday. It is a state of mind.
Transition Houses are the turns we do before taking a new direction. The pauses we do before making new movements. These are the assessments of past visions and the formation of future ones. And something anew just as well. It is the connection between the results, but something completely different from it altogether.
There are no statements made in Transition Houses. There are observations.
Transition Houses is the moment of metamorphosis. The moment when shapes are blurred and lines mingled and tangled together into something unfamiliar but vivid, alive.
Transition Houses are the transition word that we use in language to indicate a desired shift in thought, or a summarization, the end of an idea and/or the start of another one. In the rooms of Transition Houses all the howevers, likewises, finallies, for instances, indeeds, meanwhiles, consequentlies, of courses and moreovers are welcome.
There is no democracy in Transition Houses. We really do things together.
Come join us!
In order to participate and have more information about “Transition Houses” event please visit our web site Transition Houses.
Two of my web designs are selected for the final at “Flash Odulleri”
Friday, May 14th, 2010I attended with two of my web design works to the competition http://www.flashodulleri.com/.
TOday I’ve got e-mail from them.
Both of my designs are selected for the final.
First one is Murat Germen’s web site who is an artist and academic http://www.muratgermen.com
Second one is Brand Mood’s web site. It’s a styling studio http://www.brandmood.org
Sound Design For Documentary
Sunday, May 9th, 2010Following scene was cutted from original film. It is a short part of the film not whole of it
Get the Flash Player to see the wordTube Media Player.
Sound Design for “All About Beauty” which is a documentary by Simona Zemaityte.
Original Track Harntrocjka by me.
Cello : Gülşah Erol
3Viol : Alp Çoksoyluer (3Viol is a custom made string instrument which has three strings by Alp Çoksoyluer. It’s something like very very primitve form of Violin.)
Sound Engineer : Alp Çoksoyluer
Squatouch: Object Oriented Sounds snapshots
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010Some shots from my multiouch screen. Further information from: Squatouch
Sound Design for The Knot Theory
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
boDig presents 2 performances at Centre des Arts / Enghien-les-Bains on the 28th of November at 8pm within the frame of boDig09 series of events with the support of “Turkish Season in France”. I performed as sound designer at The Knot Theory performance. For this project, I used Max/Msp, a remote microphone and ready-made sounds in order to synthesise real-time sound reproduction and mixing. I placed remote mic under the table which performers were interacting through the performance. Then, I mixed these captured sounds with ready-made and reproduced sounds at he same time. Thanks to Bodig and Selçuk Artut for giving me oppotunity to be in this project at France. It was totally different experience for me and the first time I produce sounds by myself.
The Knot Theory (2009)
Concept and Choreography: Beliz Demircioğlu Cihandide (with Güneş Çağlar)
Performers: Güneş Çağlar & Beliz Demircioğlu Cihandide
Sound & Interaction Design: Selçuk Artut & Alp Tuğan
Interactive Visual Control: Ahmet Güzererler
Lighting Design: Ulaş Yatkın
Surgery on Video: Ercan Cihandide, M.D. & his team
Artistic Collaboration: Aylin Kalem
Mircan OUTIM Cover Book
Friday, September 11th, 2009
OUTIM cover Book project belongs to one of my customers whose name is Mircan.
OUTIM is her last album’s name. With her new album, she preapred a book for the listeners. OUTIM book is about 70 pages and Mircan want to represent OUTIM book online from her web site. Generally, OUTIM has some short stories, lyrics and stories.
I coded a little action script project for this purpose. Interaction of the web page is not so complicated 
. I’m sure everyone can handle it easliy. May be I release source code of the page later. You can visit OUTIM online book from here and look into her writings. If you would like to listen Mircan’s pieces, you can check it from here.
Flex + AMFPHP + PHP + Flash
Monday, September 7th, 2009For a week, I have been working on Murat Germen‘s new web page. The web site will have two section. The first section will be actual web site that shows information and portfolio of Murat Germen. In the second section there will be a content management system for the web page. I am conding Admin section of the web page with Flex and amfphp class to receive and send data to database. Along with AMFPHP capabilities, Flash can communicate with server side. So, the user do not need ftp application or XML events in order to update content of the web page. I hope, I can release lots of tutorial about;
- AmfPhp
- Flex
- php
and communication techniques between these protocols.
Flow/Debi Exhibition at Sakıp Sabancı Museum
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
Sergi Arayüzünü hazırlarken saç baş yolarken benimle beraber delirip yardım eden Yiğit’e teşekkürü bir borç bilirim 10.08.2009 – 20.08.2009
Debi sergisi; Sabancı Üniversitesi, Sanat ve Sosyal Bilimler Fakültesi, Görsel İletişim Tasarımı Programı kapsamında üç yıl süresince üretilmiş işleri kavrama fırsatı sunan bir an. Sergi, öğrencilerin 2007 ve 2009 yılları arasındaki yaratıcı eylemlerinin sonuçlarını kapsıyor.
VA/VCD programı mezunlarının istihdam yüzdesi hayli yüksek. Ulusal ve uluslararası sektörde ilk sene içerisinde diğer okullarla karşılaştırıldığında kaydadeğer yüzdeleri bulan istihdam oranının yanı sıra; önemli oranda bir öğrenci kesimi de Türkiye, Avrupa Birliği ve Amerika Birleşik Devletleri’ndeki prestijli üniversitelere, sıklıkla burs alarak kabul ediliyorlar.
Öğrenci sergisinin bu yılki teması olan Debi, öğrencilerin eğitimleri esnasında geliştirdikleri fikirler ve işlerin ileriye dönük potansiyeline dikkat çekiyor. Sergilenen işlerin bazılarının sanat eserleri ve akademik tebliğler olarak önemli uluslararası ortamlarda sergilendiklerini, sunulduklarını görüyoruz.
Bu sergi; yaratıcı sektörün geleceği hakkında yeni neslin ürettiği yeni fikirlerle ve Sabancı Üniversitesi, VA/VCD programındaki usta profesyonellerin yetiştirdiği yeteneklerle tanışma fırsatı sunuyor.