{"id":940,"date":"2009-02-09T09:40:24","date_gmt":"2009-02-09T05:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=940"},"modified":"2009-02-25T09:42:24","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T05:42:24","slug":"surfing-classical-music-finless-surfing-merge-in-uncharted-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=940","title":{"rendered":"Surfing: Classical music, finless surfing merge in uncharted waters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For years, the act of filming a surf movie has existed as a formulaic enterprise: record professional surfers in the world&#8217;s most coveted surfing lineups, add up-tempo soundtrack, maybe splice in some lifestyle b-roll, throw a ubiquitous and unnecessary release party, roll credits.<\/p>\n<p>With little exception, the surf film as an artistic property has stood idly by while the genre has been co-opted by those with the belief that a surf film should serve more as an inducement to go surfing than a work of art.<\/p>\n<p>The recent release of an independently produced Australian surf film, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Musica Surfica,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d however, attempts to remedy that principle.<\/p>\n<p>The film follows the collaboration of legendary surfer, writer and thinker Derek Hynd with world-renowned Australian classical musician Richard Tognetti, who is the artistic director &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www3.signonsandiego.com\/stories\/2009\/feb\/09\/1s9surfcol01735-classical-music-finless-surfing-me\/?zIndex=50242\" target=\"_blank\">More info<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years, the act of filming a surf movie has existed as a formulaic enterprise: record professional surfers in the world&#8217;s most coveted surfing lineups, add up-tempo soundtrack, maybe splice in some lifestyle b-roll, throw a ubiquitous and unnecessary release party, roll credits. With little exception, the surf film as an artistic property has stood [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=940"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":942,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions\/942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}