Making of The Reef




The Reef Residency features surfing legends Derek Hynd and Tom Carroll, surf cinematographer, Jon Frank, film director, Mick Sowry. creating a major new music/film production in collaboration with Richard Tognetti, Artistic Director and Lead Violinist of the Australian Chamber Orchestra.

Following the collaboration in 2009 to create the program The Glide and the documentary Musica Surfica. Hynd, Frank, Sowry and Tognetti team up again using the Gnaraloo breaks as the raw material for a major new music/film production.

For two weeks in May Gnaraloo will be their home. They will be joined by composer Iain Grandage and Indigenous artists, Mark Atkins and Steve Pigram as well as Australian Chamber Orchestra performers Erkki Veltheim (Viola), Satu Vänskä (Violin) and Julian Thompson (Cello).

Throughout the Residency, Gnaraloo will be the base for the creation of the new work destined to be performed in major concert halls around the world. It will be a thriving scene as composers, performers, filmmakers and surfers explore and are inspired by the amazing coastline – on and off the water.

Former pro surfer turned journalist Derek Hynd is one of surfing's most enigmatic characters. Hynd's crusade against friction allows him to attain unnatural velocities. Hynd and Caroll will be joined by Dane Beevor, Ryan Burch and Ari Browne all discarding fins for pure surfing.

“I truly believe surfing is the perfect intersection of mind and physical culture and art.” Richard Tognetti

A Residency concert is to be presented at Gnaraloo Shearing Shed with excerpts of the new work alongside performances by the various artists. The full work will be presented as part of The Reef Tour which travels from Darwin to Perth and on to the Sydney Opera House in July.



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