I leave for Paris with my Tower Music Team to record the surfaces of the Eiffel Tower at the end of this month. We have access from May 27 thru June 7. Then I come home to catalog and compose the music. The live event is planned for an indeterminate date in 2014. STAY TUNED! Read more →
Author: Joseph Bertolozzi
BRIDGE MUSIC OPENS 5TH SEASON
Joseph Bertolozzi’s Bridge Music, a permanent sound art installation on New York’s Franklin Delano Roosevelt “Mid Hudson” Bridge begins its fifth season April 1. The music of the bridge’s sounds are what one hears at the Listening Stations located on the Bridge’s Towers via the north-side pedestrian sidewalk and on the park radios, playing on 95.3FM within the parks that… Read more →
PLAYING GONGS ON PETE SEEGER’S NEW ALBUM
Joseph Bertolozzi plays his solo percussion rig “The Bronze Collection“ on Pete Seeger’s new spoken-word album The Storm King, produced by Jeff Haynes. Release date is 4/9/13. (read more below) “Pete Seeger: The Storm King” contains personal stories, narratives, and poems by the folk legend with musical interpretations from many guest musicians such as percussionist Jeff Haynes, New Age pioneer… Read more →
“TRANCES & VISIONS” AT ST. JOSEPH’S CHURCH, with CHRISTINE SACCHI, HORN
Christine Sacchi will play Joseph Bertolozzi’s Trances & Visions with Bertolozzi accompanying at the organ Saturday March 9 and Sunday March 10 during Mass at St. Joseph’s Church, 149 Cottage St., Middeltown, NY. Mass times are 5:30pm on Saturday and 9am & 11:30am on Sunday morning. Christine premiered Trances & Visions with wind ensemble accompaniment under the direction and realization… Read more →
CLOSING IN ON TOWER MUSIC – Day 2, pt.2
THE DAY OF THE MEETING, PART 2 As a demonstration of our proposed recording method, my Technical Director Peter Emminger brought along one of the specialized microphones and a mini recording machine. I brought along some of the wooden mallets I created for Bridge Music as well as drawings for some new styles I hope to have fabricated specially for… Read more →
CLOSING IN ON TOWER MUSIC – Day 2, pt.1
THE DAY OF THE MEETING, PART 1 I spent last night going over all the French engineering and architectural terms for the various elements of the Eiffel Tower so I could more knowledgably reference a given surface should the need arise. As happened with my similar, earlier efforts on Bridge Music, I found the onsite workers often replace standard technical… Read more →
CLOSING IN ON TOWER MUSIC – Day 1
Pretty much like my last visit to pitch the Eiffel Tower administration in November 2010, on January 6, 2013 I played the last Mass of the day at St. Joseph’s in Middletown, NY and hopped on a plane for Paree (though last time it was a bar mitzvah at Vassar Temple….like I said, pretty much, not exactly!). I got off… Read more →
BACK TO PARIS
On January 8th, 2013 Joseph Bertolozzi returns to the Eiffel Tower to meet with Chief Engineer Mr. Stéphane Roussin to agree upon a list of surfaces to sample for his next opus Tower Music. Later in 2013 Bertolozzi returns to actually harvest the sounds. Then begins the process of cataloging and organizing those sounds to compose the music in preparation… Read more →
BERTOLOZZI DELIVERS ACUI KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Joseph Bertolozzi delivers the Keynote Address on Saturday, November 10, 2012 at the Association of College Unions International Region 2 Conference at the State University of NY at New Paltz. He will detail the community associations necessary to create Bridge Music, a public art project requiring the cooperation of both Dutchess and Ulster counties and the New York State Bridge… Read more →
ICE HOUSE ADDS “BRIDGE MUSIC BURGER”
Poughkeepsie’s newest restaurant, The Ice House, has added a new sandwich to their menu, the Bridge Music Burger. It is a delicious bacon cheeseburger with a garlic asiago sauce celebrating my Bridge Music sound art installation. Situated on the waterfront in Waryas Park between the the city’s majestic bridges, this historic brick building features old world charm, is within walking… Read more →