Dancing with the Waves

24.07.2012

After the project Musica Surfica, presented at the Maribor Festival 2009 that has been richly awarded at film festivals in the US, Brazil, France and South Africa and received the title “surf movie of the year”, it does not come as a surprise that Richard Tognetti has taken on a new project that combines two of his greatest passions – music and surfing.

The Reef is a visual poem. Its tone is defined by the confrontation of the powerful elements of nature and music. It’s a dreamlike movie that drags you into the wild waters around the majestic Ningaloo coral reef. It’s a story that talks of a day in the middle of the Australian dessert, at a windy secluded outpost next to the Indian Ocean. We find ourselves in the company of legendary wave tamers that co-created the dance-art that is surfing and of musicians that – according to Tognetti – offer “the possibility of hearing more in images and seeing further into music”.

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This project will present a film accompanied by the Australian Chamber Orchestra and guests. Some Beethoven, Shostakovich, Bach, … quotes of the legendary grunge band Alice in Chains … and also Ligeti’s Ramifications that has, with its intertwining lines illustrating the sounds of the desert’s dry period, managed to seduce the collective perception of the film makers: Jon Frank, a surf photographer without peer, Derek Hynd, the pioneer of finless surfing, thinker and doer, and the director and producer Mick Sowry.

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Admittedly, before the festival premiere of Musica Surfica we as organisers of the festival in Maribor, where the only thing wavy are the wine hills, were somewhat afraid of the audience’s reaction. Now before the introduction of our Reef in September we can confidently say that our faithful audience members will be joined by a number of suntanned Slovenian and foreign ocean lovers.


Follow the music current to THE REEF on Friday, 14th September at 19:30, at the Union Hall, Maribor.

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