THE GLIDE + FRANK

The man behind many of the images in Deep Water, increasingly celebrated surf artist Jon Frank, will unveil his collaboration with Australian Chamber Orchestra maestro Richard Tognetti when The Glide hits the big screen in Melbourne and Sydney after performances in Slovenia and New York. Combining Frank’s magic with a live performance by the ACO, The Glide explores the links between music, surfing and the ocean, stemming from Tognetti and Frank swapping notes during the making of award-winning documentary Musica Surfica. “Jon and I have collaborated on this project by choosing different styles of music,” Tognetti explained. “I would send him a piece and see if he would respond to it in a filmic way. Other times he would send me a piece of film without any music to it and I’d respond. Sometimes he’d have an idea for the music and other times I wrote the music.” The end result was recently described as “the best music and vision experience of my life”.

The Glide is on at The Playhouse in Melbourne on April 4 and Sydney’s City Recital Hall on April 7 and 8. For more information visit the ACO website.

And please check out Frank’s new website, where you can buy prints of his work and view his amazing, rarely seen Nineteen Ninety Nine series.