The Super 8 Epics (1977/2013)
In the late 1970’s, when I was still a kid, I really got into making Super 8 movies – and learning all about stop-motion animation and special-effects (well, in-camera ones!) My Dad borrowed various...
Dawn Walk, Hinsby Beach
It was a kind of sulphurous dawn, with bush fires on the peninsular. Remarkable.
SYN[A]: CLAVIER À LUMIÈRES (2012)
CLAVIER À LUMIÈRES was a project undertaken with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra in 2012. A performance event was held at MONA on 3-4 November 2010 – details and documentation below. Clavier à lumières –...
Shipping Container Architecture inspired by Antarctic Bases
One of my great passions, having been involved in building a base in Antarctica – at Cape Dension, Commonwealth Bay – is sustainable environmentally-friendly architecture. The great lesson I learnt in this process is...
DARK – The Fulldome Movie
Dark has a dedicated Information Page here: https://www.petermorse.com.au/2019/06/dark-the-fulldome-movie/
Dark Matter Aesthetics
Support materials for an Australia Council application ‘Dark Matter Aesthetics.’ Regrettably, it didn’t ‘get up’ – but it’s beautiful anyway. Music Lux Aeterna by Gyorgy Ligeti.
Ice-Free Antarctica: Visualization (2012)
A 3-minute visualisation of the ice-free regions of Antarctica commissioned by the Australian Antarctic Division for the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting XXXV. These regions are home to the terrestrial biodiversity of the Antarctic continent,...
Jangurna Story: Indigenous Astronomy – Fulldome
A 4 minute preview of the 20 minute ‘Jangurna Story’ – a fulldome movie exploring indigenous stories of the night sky around the Gascoyne region of Western Australia. This story – concerning ‘Jangurna’ (The...
Syn[a]: Visualizing Biometric Data from a Musical Performance
In December 2011 the Syn[a] Group, in concert with AARnet and the TSO, ran a 5 day workshop at the University of Tasmania Conservatorium of Music, where we visualised the biometric data of musical...
Astrocinematography Road Trip (2012)
I’ve been commissioned by the Gascoyne Aboriginal Heritage and Cultural Centre of Carnarvon, Western Australia, to produce a fulldome program that illustrates elements of Indigenous Australian astronomy. This will feature visualizations displayed upon a...
Banff Centre: Snowlit Morning
I awoke one morning to freshly fallen snow, all sounds softened, the orange lights hazing through the blue.
Banff Centre: 2011 Adventure Filmmakers’ Workshop
I arrived at the Banff Centre for the 2011 Adventure Fimmakers’ Workshop a couple of nights ago – after a very long flight from Hobart, Tasmania. As I was travelling with Qantas, I guess...
Experiments in Astrocinematography
R&D in astrocinematography of the the southern skies, using various motion-control camera systems we’ve developed. Environmental cinematography (landscape, skyscape, seascape, celestial) and immersive imaging in remote (and often difficult) places creates specific challenges in...
Visualizing Hansard, Visualizing Democracy
The Australian Hansard is a structured public document, available here: http://www.aph.gov.au/hansard/index.htm Hansard is a record of the parliamentary discourse of our democracy. How susceptible is it to empirical analysis? How can this be represented?
Syn[a]+ : Project Outline
Syn[a] is a group of creative people (artists/inventors/engineers/scientists) developing and experimenting with systems to visualize and sonify the biometric data of an orchestral performance over ultra-high-bandwidth networks. We have lots of experience, lots of...
MONA Mummy
Visualization of a 2000-year-old Egyptian Mummy – Peter Morse & Paul Bourke We first started working upon the idea of visualizing one of the Egyptian Mummies from the Museum of Old and New Art...
Fulldome HDR Timelapse Experiment (2010)
Shot at Cradle Mountain National Park, Tasmania, Australia. Basically a test of our self-designed-and-built motion-contolled (moco) camera tracking system, using a Canon 5D MkII, with custom intervalometer. This is genuine HDR using triple exposure...
SCARI – Kinect – Unity3D – OSX- Skeleton Tracking
A couple of experiments as I figure out how to get SCARI working. Basically, this involved getting the brilliant Kinect Unity3D OpenNI wrapper demo by Amir working on my Mac Pro. It was very...