Hi friends, You may remember in 2022 I worked with the Vanaver Caravan to bring the Bridge Music Dance Project to life in a live performance and then on the silver screen. Well now I’m in development with the Vanaver Caravan once again to present the Tower Music Dance Project (or “le projet dansant Musique de la Tour“) in Paris… Read more →
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BUSY WEEK IN MIDDLETOWN & POUGHKEEPSIE
Big weekend coming up! ON SATURDAY 11/18 at 2pm come to my multimedia presentation on Bridge Music and Tower Music at the Thrall Library, 11 Depot Street, Middletown, NY 10940. Admission is free. Journey onto the Eiffel Tower and New York’s Mid Hudson Bridge as I explain the process of recording and creating my two Top-Twenty Billboard charting albums from these monuments. Q&A to follow. At the end the audience… Read more →
Harmonious World podcast on Tower Music
My latest interview about #TowerMusic from Harmonious World coming from merry old England! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-discussion-of-tower-music-with/id1514804118?i=1000631776925 Read more →
Today on NPR’s Tones & Drones podcast with Jason Miller
Today at 1pm ET/noon CT, I’ll be on NPR’s Tones & Drones podcast with Jason Miller from the the studios of 91.3 FM KVLU Public Radio (www.kvlu.org) hear it on Spotify, Apple, Google, iHeart, NPROne and others. https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tonesanddrones/episodes/Tones–Drones-w-Joseph-Bertolozzi-e2a5tes Read more →
Tower Music Dance Project takes a step forward
Here are Livia Vanaver and I at the French Embassy, taking the next steps toward bringing the Tower Music Dance Project to fruition. The plan is to convene the The Vanaver Caravan and percussive dancer extraordinaire Joel Hanna with several French dance companies & choreographers to present Tower Music in Paris as a public dance event much like last year’s… Read more →
BRIDGE MUSIC: WINS 2022 “ART IN PUBLIC PLACES” AWARD
Arts Mid Hudson announces Bridge Music as the 2022 recipient of the 36th Annual Dutchess County Executive’s Arts Awards for Art in Public Places. Bridge Music is a free and open-to-the-public sound-art installation now in its 13th consecutive season. Using only audio samples from the Mid Hudson Bridge [railings, cables, etc.] for the content of its music with no further… Read more →
The Sampler – A Prophecy Fulfilled
The following remark is from the inventor of the sampler, a technology that digitizes recorded sound. It’s in reference to my #TowerMusic: “I also would like to thank you for making music with it in the way I intended. It is an honor to meet you. Best, Harry“ Harry Mendell and I connected in Spring 2021 after I read an… Read more →
TOWER MUSIC AT THE 130TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS
My rendition of the French National anthem (“La Marseillaises”) using #TowerMusic samples kicked off the official 130th Anniversary of the Eiffel Tower on May 18, 2019. Watch/hear it at 0:26. Vive la Musique! Read more →
TM5TET in California
Left Edge Percussion, under the direction of Terry Longshore, continues its tour of the west coast with a performance of the Tower Music Percussion 5tet, Sunday May 5, 7pm at Trinity Alps Performing Arts Center, 101 Arbuckle Court, Weaverville, CA. Read more →
TOWER MUSIC PERCUSSION 5TET – Last performance before tour
Here’s your last chance to hear Left Edge Percussion perform Joseph Bertolozzi‘s Tower Music Percussion Quintet live before their Spring 2019 tour. Oregon Center for the Arts at Southern Oregon University 491 S Mountain, Ashland, Oregon 97520, hosts the Southern Oregon University Percussion Ensemble under the direction of Dr. Terry Longshore, Friday Nov. 30, 2018 at 7:30pm PST. Works to be performed include:… Read more →