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The Physics of Osmos Contest

Over on the Physics of Osmos blog they have an Osmos competition. Create a one-minute video illustrating the physics concept that you discover in the game. The top entry will win a $500 gift card to Amazon.com. The top three runners up will also receive prizes.

Steve Jobs the master of orbital dynamics

To submit your entry, follow [...]

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Mat Jarvis / High Skies Interview with GFBRobot

There’s a new interview over on GFBRobot (Giant Fire Breathing Robot!) where I talk about Osmos, favourite synthesizers and physics.

Visit GFBRobot to read the interview…

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Silk for iPad, copies to be won.

Add a comment below to win a copy.
Silk.
With the swish of a finger anyone can create beautiful, flowing art entwined with an ethereal soundscape, a world where riches of color spring from your fingertips.

The official app of www.weavesilk.com with millions of users.
Create gorgeous wallpapers with the swish of a finger.
Original music and sound [...]

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Near Silence: Artists for Japan, Red Cross

Near Silence, a free album for anyone who donates to the Red Cross Japan appeal.
A supercooled album fractured with exclusives, classics and the new.
Richard Barbieri has exclusively re-recorded his classic Japan track ‘The Experience of Swimming’; Charles Webster has donated an exclusive mix from his brand new January Tuesday project, which was only recorded last week; and Eno [...]

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6th Planet, New iPhone Arcade Game, Copies to Win

6th Planet, brand new iPhone / iPod game from new indie developer Monkube. It’s a fusion of arcade game and comic book and features an electronic soundtrack from Leones, Robots in Space, Forest Fargloam and myself (with Gas-Microscopic). I also made some of the in-game sounds on my ARP Odyssey and old phaser pedal. Includes [...]

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Free Gas & High Skies Tracks

Free Gas and High Skies tracks for all customers and subscribers to our occasional newsletter.
High Skies – The Good Earth mp3 (click to play snippet).
This is an old unreleased Gas track from around 1998. It’s a micro track at only 43 seconds long, that’s why the preview clip above is so short. A broadcast from Apollo [...]

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Osmos: Apple’s Game of the Year for iPad!

Woah x10. Apple has just announced the four winners of the prestigious apps of the year 2010, and have selected Osmos as the iPad game of the year 2010. Congratulations to Hemisphere Games!

Steve Jobs does all his re-entry calculations using Osmos for iPad.
Osmos includes music from Gas and High Skies (free MP3 downloads)

Also, coincidently Osmos (iOS) [...]

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Ice Skies

Earlier this week temperatures approached DX7 territory; so I took a few frostbite pics of the snow and ice outside of Microscopics HQ. Warning for those still living in 2001, some images may take a few seconds to load.
One large Wordpress problem is that any image it scales down become very blurred, as below (grr), so [...]

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Moog Modular Free with Every Order*

For a limited time, all orders of CDs, Flac and t-shirts come with a free Moog Modular card model (*doesn’t include MP3s).

Front and Back.
Exactly the same quality as our Minimoog model, they are printed at 600dpi on 350gsm matt-laminated card, die cut and hand scored. 1:8 scale.

Gas 0095 on CD and Flac come with Moog [...]

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PaulStretch: An Interview with Paul Nasca

Paul Nasca is the creator of  superstar timestretch tool, PaulStretch, which stretches audio up to a billion times its original length.
The Internet was abuzz last week with a PaulStretch version of pop puppet Justin Bieber’s song, ‘U Smile’. Musician Nick Pittsinger cheekily stretched the original 3:21 song into a 35 minute ambient monster, which has now had 1.8 million plays [...]

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