Log
Under the hood of arkadata.com
How the homepage performs the work it describes: the reactive system that moves colour, particles and light, and the static architecture built to run it.
Origins
What happened to ARKADATA: the Yasuo streaming years, the music habit underneath them, and the gap year that turned into audio.
Airblade
Two things I made as a Yasuo one-trick: a build Riot patched out, and a tech that didn't exist until I found it.
Fifteen Monarks
A first-year brief asked for an inharmonic pad on Monark, a synth that can't make one. So I built additive by hand: fifteen instances, one partial each.
The Dragon Incident
A one-day Wwise school brief, a dragon joke taken too far, and the cursed reactive village it turned into.
Reflection
I went quiet after ISART and built instead. One project kept needing tools that didn't exist, so five grew out of one. The silent build, 2023 to 2027.
reARK
Building the reARK skin from Affinity Designer: the export-scaling system, symbols, and the 150% aliasing problem. The template, documented.
Megata Kyojin Kuchiku
Reverse engineering Sawano Hiroyuki's lead synth from Shingeki No Kyojin using u-He Zebra.
Kanascene
Reproducing a Japanese orchestra piece by Sawano Hiroyuki with Cinematic Studio Strings.