This collection of short films features the dynamic images of Neil Horne. Music accompanies the graphics from Beethoven, Bach and Becerra to music created from the sounds of nature. Themes covered include inspirations from nature and urban scenes. Clips are made mostly using Flash.
Snakes is constructed out of images made during 2011 in coastal areas of the west Pacific. The dominant influence is the tea-tree forest (leptospermum). Mingling among the tea-trees are Mesopotamian-Celtic snakes, spiraling in the vegetation. Their perspective is taken. Forms of the ocean feature also. The music accompanying snakes is the complete 4th string quartet of Becerra played by the Phila String Quartet (Cc-by-sa from Free Music!). This is the whole piece as he intended it to be heard....
This clip explores visual effects achieved with layers, colour change and movement. It is inspired by the shapes and forms of the marine environment of the Pacific Ocean near eastern Australia. The music is the Pastorale of Ludwig van Beethoven. Marine features the Silver Gull footprints in the sand of Manly Beach as well as the shells and fish living on the rocks and pipes of the beach. The surging, oscillating, watery feel is complemented by the calmly repetitive music which although intende...
Inspired by the space between the land and the ocean on the east coast of Australia, this clip by Neil Horne (2011) is accompanied by the music of Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt (CC BY-SA licence ). Intertidal zone complements the 2009 clip Ocean . For a sharper version of Intertidal Zone see the flash clip on dotAtelier.net (full screen) .
Exhibition at the opening of the Urban Cycle Gallery in Berlin Mitte from April 16 to 24 2010
A flash animation of the leaves of the forests of Australia in all their diversity, set to the rhythmical nature music of lyrebirds, frogs and black cockatoos - an amazing concert! The rhythms of the common eastern froglet (crinia signifera), which are recorded at North Head in Sydney in large numbers after rain, begin the concert and are enhanced by the repetitive call of the superb lyre bird. Interspersed is the call of the black cockatoo. A high-quality shockwave film of this animation can ...
Experimental music with oceanic images which are inspired by the shapes and atmospheres of the Pacific. The animated film is the realisation of an animation style using drawing with variable colour areas. Maintaining the clarity of distinct colours, multiple layers interact as colours change. The images are inspired by the South Pacific Ocean near Manly. The nature-music is composed from the birds, frogs, thunder and rain of Gleniffer, New South Wales, Australia. Elements of the bell birds, wh...
An animation of flowers set to the music of JS Bach, the Partita no 3 in E major, Preludio, transcribed for and played on guitar (originally composed for lute) by Gordon Rowland. Using the graphics of Neil Horne, the animation was produced using Adobe Flash (also Photoshop and After Effects) as a celebration of the beauty and variety of flowers.
Since ancient times, humans have looked into the night sky and learned speculative thought through the stars. The relationship between stars and flowers was explored in their cosmologies and by their artists. From the point of view of modern science, the cosmos and its non-lving mineral matter has an integral relationship to flowers, plants and all living things. Without very specific mineral constellations on a planet, no life is possible.This animation was made with Flash.
Animation of insects and their spaces with music composed from the sounds of the paper wasps of Eastern Australia. Elements of the wasps communicating have been repeated, combined, intensified and softened into a wasp concert. The visuals include insects and the worlds they inhabit from their point of view.