Microscopics

6th Planet app free draw, here are the winners who each get a copy…

Martin Wood
DrWig – visit his site for some excellent and free ambisonic VST plugins for Mac and PC.
Neil Allen
Many thanks to all fellow anthropoids and humanoids who added a comment, may the random numbers be in your favour next time.
Available now on [...]

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 [...]

Dustin Brown sent us this strangely fascinating video he created of para-dichlorobenzene crystals (mothballs) growing under a microscope, looking like organic pixels and set to Microscopic. We took the opportunity to ask him how he created it.

Mat Jarvis: How long have you been observing things under the microscope?
Dustin Brown: I started observing through the microscope [...]

Here is our track Gas – Microscopic stretched by 600% into 38 minutes of ambience. After the fun last week on Gawker, stretching pop tracks into ambient monsters, we thought we’d join in.
The original before editing is just over one hour long. The world’s longest single is 43 minutes, so perhaps we should have uploaded the original.
On the [...]

A wintery post of ephemeral images.
To celebrate the new year we’re going to revisit a couple of our posts from the past year or so, and as it’s snowing today at Microscopics HQ, we’re going to post this one first.
Snowflakes are made from up to 200 snowcrystals, which form around nucleation points (specs of dirt [...]

We’re pleased to tell you that two Gas and High Skies tours have been added to Worldwide Telescope. WWT is a virtual telescope that allows you to explore the universe through the lens of Hubble, Spitzer and others, without leaving your computer.
Universal Beauty
A tour of the beautiful. Music is Gas – Microscopic. You can download the [...]

Our ’Gas – Microscopic’ film has just reached the quarter million barrier on YouTube, with 250,000 full views. There are also several different versions on YouTube as well as popping up on other video sites.

View film on YouTube…
The short film is based on the IBM classic mixed with Microscopic, from the (Bob Katz approved) remaster of the Gas 0095 [...]

A wintery post of ephemeral images.
Snowflakes are made from up to 200 snowcrystals, which form around nucleation points (specs of dirt or pollen). For crystals to form around this nucleus the temperature has to be -35°C or below. The shape a snowcrystal takes is dependant on the temperature at which it forms, and may be [...]

The ‘Gas – Microscopic’ film has just broken through the six figure barrier on YouTube, with 100,000 full views.

View film on YouTube…
The short film is based on the IBM classic mixed with Microscopic, from the (Bob Katz approved) remaster of the Gas 0095 album.
Gas – Microscopic downloads…
High Quality DivX version (190mb)
Quicktime/ iPod version (60mb)
Microscopic – remastered full [...]