ACO’s ‘The Reef’
In May 2012, Richard Tognetti took a crew of surfers, musicians and film makers to Ningaloo Reef, where the desert meets the sea to realise. They spent two unforgettable weeks surfing, making music and filming and the result is The Reef.
Conceived by Tognetti, The Reef lets you immerse yourself in Jon Frank’s images of the ocean, the world’s best fin-free surfers, the arid desert landscape and the starry sky, as an incredible array of music swirls around you. It alters your perception of a classical music concert through the prism of a transcendental surf film. You’ll never forget it.
Read notes from Richard Tognetti, Jon Frank, Iain Grandage, Mick Sowry and Derek Hynd in the program for the 2012 performances of The Reef.
TOGNETTI (real. Grandage) Heart of the Black Beast
TOGNETTI (orch. Grandage/Tognetti) Bathymetry
TOGNETTI / GRANDAGE Beyond
RAMEAU Les Boréades: Entr’acte, Suite des Vents
LIGETI Ramifications
CRUMB Black Angel: Night of the Electric Insects
BACH (arr. Tognetti) Sonata No 1, BWV1001: Fugue in G minor
GRANDAGE / ATKINS Immutable
PIGRAM (arr. Grandage) Being
A PIGRAM / S PIGRAM / WASILIEV (arr. Grandage) Mimi
KILAR Orawa
ALICE IN CHAINS (arr. Tognetti) Them Bones
CRUMB Black Angels: God- Music
DEAN Electric Preludes: Peripeteia
SHOSTAKOVICH (arr. Barshai) Chamber Symphony, Op 110a: Allegro molto
RACHMANINOV Vocalise
SEEGER (arr. Tognetti) Where Have All The Flowers Gone?
BEETHOVEN String Quartet in B flat Major, Op 130: Cavatina
Footage by Mick Sowry (Director and Producer) and Jon Frank (Director of Photography) projected onto a big screen on stage.
Artists
Richard Tognetti Director & Violin
Mick Sowry Director & Producer
Derek Hynd Director of Surfing
Mark Atkins Didgeridoo
Stephen Pigram Voice & Guitar
Satu Vänskä Violin & Voice
Julian Thompson Cello
Craig Johnston Voice
Brian Ritchie Acoustic Bass Guitar
