Category: Tower Music Updates

“TOWER MUSIC / MUSIQUE DE LA TOUR” (10:52) COMPLETE your Olympic experience this year with the ACTUAL SOUNDS of the Eiffel Tower. Opening with dramatic sweep and launching into a series of concussive surges that draws one ever further in, a journey is begun. Vigorous and muscular themes emerge trading blows with the underpinning rhythms. The listener is then delivered… Read more →

“EVENING HARMONIES / HARMONIES DU SOIR” (4:46) HEIGHTEN your Olympic experience this year with the ACTUAL SOUNDS of the Eiffel Tower. This work, spread over a dark canvas, is a deeply introspective exploration of the Eiffel Tower’s sounds by themselves, unshackled by any rhythmic or melodic imperative. Where most of the rest of Tower Music springs from existing percussive traditions… Read more →

“GLASS FLOOR RHYTHMS / RYTHMES SUR LE PLANCHER DE VERRE” (2:48) BOOST your Olympic experience this year with the ACTUAL SOUNDS of the Eiffel Tower. Some intrepidly approach the glass floors installed in 2014, others hesitate…each have their own rhythm. On YouTube, Spotify, or anywhere actually, you pick! Share it if you like it! #towermusic, #Bertolozzi, #Olympics Read more →

Honored to be on ASCAP’s Olympics Edition Playlist on Spotify along with Louis Armstrong, Beyonce, Sinatra, A Tribe Called Quest, Piaf, Kanye, Jay Z, Queen, and others.  Tower Music is 8th on the list. Give it a listen, give it a like! https://spoti.fi/4fuuoxp #towermusic, #Bertolozzi, #olympics2024  Read more →

“PRELUDE” (1:00) REFINE your Olympic experience this year with the ACTUAL SOUNDS of the Eiffel Tower. A gentle re-casting of a melody derived from the next movement. On YouTube, Spotify, or anywhere actually, you pick! Share it if you like it! #towermusic, #Bertolozzi, #Olympics Read more →

“CONTINUUM” (3:22) PERFECT your Olympic experience this year with the ACTUAL SOUNDS of the Eiffel Tower. At the 1889 World Exposition for which the Eiffel Tower was built, a contingent from Java introduced the gamelan to Europe, forever influencing Western music. This piece combines stylized gamelan motifs with contemporary post-minimalist gestures, melding the ancient music of Indonesia with the modern age…a… Read more →

“THE HARP THAT PIERCED THE SKY / LA HARPE QUI A PERCÉ LE CIEL” (3:17) ENRICH your Olympic experience this year with the ACTUAL SOUNDS of the Eiffel Tower. Contrasting highly to the preceding track, this movement leads the listener into a surprising sound world: a hybrid harp/lute/steel pan sonority drawn from a massive structure eliciting a quiet and intimate… Read more →

“A THOUSAND FEET OF SOUND / À TROIS CENTS MÈTRES DE SON” (5:17) ENHANCE your Olympic experience this year with the ACTUAL SOUNDS of the Eiffel Tower. This piece is the Eiffel Tower’s calling card, demonstrating its entire aural array. It mirrors the impact of seeing the Eiffel Tower in person for the first time: gargantuan and aggressive in its… Read more →