Packaging

As a final touch, I was asked to make a simple packaging for the final product - A printed CD and a CD cover.

The Outside Cover

The Inside Cover


The CD Label

Bartificial

Lounge

Bartificial is an artificial bar where customers can come to have a private time with themselves and get away from their daily activities that are often stressful. Our purpose is to provide virtual private lounges so one can imagine himself being in there and have a relaxing time after a long and hard day. It is an alternative resort for the busy workers who do not have the time to go outside and have a descent meal and drinks. Bartificial is meant to create an imaginary space where one can detach himself from the real world and enter this virtual world where anything can happen.

Unfortunately the server in my University has erased all the projects so it is no longer published on the net. But I will Provide some screen grabs to illustrate the idea.

The Flash Version:
Non Flash Version:

Signal and Noise Website

A few screen grabs from my web based project on Signal and Noise.

*Intro page.

*Music page.

*Signal Page.

*Semiotics page.

The video, as it is shown on the semiotics page:

Brief:

Produce a web based project that uses a CSS/XHTML based website and which includes embedded video that explores how informational concepts of signal and noise operate or have operated in relation to a media event/object/platform of the contemporary mediascape.

Outcome:

A band called Khuruksetra is used as the basis of this project because this band is experimenting with instruments and try to produce noises that later used for recreating the atmosphere of Bharatayudha war. There are various signals and noises in the music, which is perfect for this project. The music is used for signalling the reality and the representation of feelings, things and emotions, so the signals are in the instruments noises. Yet, there are noises that interfere the signals to get through the audience such as the semiotics of sound that accommodate range of ways to interpret the signals, the audiences’ knowledge about music and the regular kinds of music that have been circulating and creating a stereotype of what is so called music (which is something that has musical notes and arrangements). Therefore, to help understanding the meaning of the signals in the music, this project focuses on the intonations of the music from its pitch and the human body presentation codes that include physical appearances, facial expression, gestures, postures and non-verbal aspects such as tone and volume. This is because each of these represents different meanings. In addition, Khuruksetra’s music seems to redefine the idea of music and blur the boundaries between music and noise. As research materials, some readings are used as the basis of this project including, Speech Music and Sound by Theo Vanleeuwen, The Art of Music Luigi Russolo, Codes by John Fiske, Semiotics by Roland Barthes, Ocean of Sound by David Toop and Text and Textualites by Thwaites et al.