Neal Coghlan
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Photo // Synthesis
Nature is at the heart of Photo // Synthesis. Composer Jack Chown (kiskadee) and digital artist Neal Coghlan (Studio Aszyk) began with a simple idea: what happens when you treat nature not just as inspiration, but as an active partner in making art?
Through collaboration with the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust and the National Trust for Jersey, they gathered sound and image directly from the island’s landscapes - birdsong at dawn, reeds in the wind, the textures of rare plants. These raw fragments became the foundation of the work.
The final work comprises a 10 minute film crafted from the scans and recordings from a single day in Jersey that gave way to a multitiude of captured moments.
The scans all began as Gaussian Splats, before being carefully edited to bring out a new aesthetic which falls somewhere between point clouds, gaussian splats and digital pointillism. Each animation exists as a particle simulation that visualizes impermanence: a single moment dispersing into space.
Credits
Design & Animation: Neal Coghlan
Music & Sound: Kiskadee