Panopticon, by Graham Dunning

Panopticon

by Graham Dunning

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Cone 2020 was a good year for derivative works of Half Life, with the Self Aware AI streams and this thing I stumbled across days ago which I hadn't realised existed until this year (as of the time of posting the review). The best thing is that the recordings keep the lower audio quality as a consequence of the game engine lowering the bitrates of samples.

Anticipating Nowhere Records Love this! Replacing all sound with rave tracks/samples in one of my favourite games ever.

You think it couldn't/shouldn't work but it is an experimental masterpiece Favorite track: Yellow Henge (Radio Occult).

asponge A fantastic idea. Wonderful vibes as it falls into rhythms between footsteps and environmental sounds, interrupted by bursts of life and violence. Favorite track: Type 97 Modified.

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1.	Polybius 06:45	buy track
2.	Motian Capture 04:40 video	buy track
3.	Shotspotter 06:29	buy track
4.	Type 97 Modified 07:14	buy track
5.	Mean Field 01:42	buy track
6.	Cursus Imaging 02:58	buy track
7.	Hoover Damned 01:09	buy track
8.	Yellow Henge (Radio Occult) 06:08 video	buy track
9.	RasterSelector > BlockID 04:31	buy track
10.	Arc Portal 10:35	buy track
11.	The Adversary (Sad Satan) 07:21	buy track

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'Half-Life', all in-game sounds replaced with samples from 90s rave tracks and sample CDs.

“The research consists of four main phases: The first phase involves extraction of the silhouette of an individual. Calculating the gait period or gait cycle of the individual follows this. Finding the sum of silhouettes is the next step. Finally, similarity score computation and matching process is performed for recognition. Any two images when compared using root mean square value are said to be similar if the value falls under the given threshold.” 1

“Spend a little bit of time with neural networks, and you realize that anyone holding something in their hand is likely to be identified as someone ‘holding a cellphone,’ or ‘holding a Wii controller.’” 2

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released May 16, 2020

Concept & execution by Graham Dunning (grahamdunning.com)

Mastered by Angel Hair Audio (www.angelhairaudio.com)

Album art by Alex Bertram-Powell (www.alexbpart.com)

'Half-Life' by Sierra Studios

1 ‘Human Gait Recognition And Classification Using Similarity Index’, Nahid A Makhdoomi et al 2013 IOP Conf. Ser.: Mater. Sci. Eng. 53 012069 - iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/53/1/012069
2 ‘Invisible Images (Your Pictures Are Looking at You)’, Trevor Paglen, The New Inquiry, December 2016 - thenewinquiry.com/invisible-images-your-pictures-are-looking-at-you

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