Tangerine Reef

Tangerine Reef is an audio-visual album by Animal Collective in collaboration with Coral Morphologic to commemorate the 2018 International Year of the Reef. Like the seminal 1982 film Koyaanisqatsi scored by Philip Glass, Tangerine Reef will serve as a visual tone poem. But instead of time-lapses of cities, landscapes, and people, the film component of Tangerine Reef will consist of time-lapse and slow pans across surreal aquascapes of naturally fluorescent coral and cameos by alien-like reef creatures. Tangerine Reef is the sight and sound of a literal underwater collective of animals.

Animal Collective walks the walk when it comes to ocean conservation, having previously done projects supporting marine protection areas and shark conservation. Geologist(Brian Weitz) has a masters degree in environmental policy from Columbia University with a focus on the marine environment. As an undergraduate, he spent a semester working at the infamous Biosphere 2 Center in Arizona, assisting on some of the first CO2 acidification studies on coral growth inside its captive 'ocean'. Following his masters degree, he had a marine policy fellowship with the US Senate Subcommittee on Oceans, Fisheries, and Coast Guard. Deakin (Josh Dibb) is also a passionate scuba diver who has dived throughout the globe. He and Weitz have taken at least one scuba trip together every year since 2005 and have directly witnessed the destruction of the world's coral reefs by bleaching events, fishing trawlers, and dynamite fishing.