I’m currently working on a percussion quintet version of #TowerMusic. This is so the music may be played live in a theater sometime in the future. If I ever get so lucky as to have these live Tower Music performances, I’ll post the dates here. I’ve done 5 movements already, and hope to have it done before the fall. Attached are… Read more →
Category: Tower Music Updates
TOWER MUSIC’S 1ST ANNIVERSARY
One year ago today my defining album Tower Music was released. Hailed as “IRRESISTIBLE” – The San Francisco Chronicle “4 STARS” – BBC Classical Music Magazine “BEAUTIFULLY CONTINUES THE TRADITION OF SOME OF THE GREATEST 20th CENTURY EXPERIMENTALISTS” – The Buffalo News “THIS NEEDLESS TO SAY IS MUSIC YOU SHOULD HEAR” – Classical Modern Music “FEARLESSLY DYNAMIC” – Second Inversion “PICK OF THE MONTH” – CD Hotlist “SPECTACULAR” –… Read more →
For Your Grammy Voting Consideration
The 2017 Grammy Awards ballots have gone out. Presented for your Grammy voting consideration: Tower Music / Musique de la Tour in the following categories: – #2 Album of the Year – #73 Best engineered album, Classical – #74 Producer of the year, Classical – #79 Best Classical instrumental solo – #82 Best Contemporary Classical Composition IRRESISTIBLE – The San Francisco… Read more →
BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE REVIEW OF TOWER MUSIC
Bridge Music Guided Tour with Bertolozzi
Joseph Bertolozzi will lead a tour of his “Bridge Music” sound-art installation, Sunday October 9 at 2:30pm on the Franklin D. Roosevelt “Mid Hudson” Bridge. The public will get a chance to play along to the music; drumsticks will be provided. Free of charge and open to the public, this personally guided experience by the composer is hosted by the New York State Bridge Authority and Oxford University… Read more →
BRIDGE MUSIC AT THE BEACON INDEPENDENT FILM FEST
The new BRIDGE MUSIC film by Andrew Porter opens the 2016 Beacon Independent Film Festival, 7pm Fri 9/16. Here’s a link to the trailer. Come walk the red carpet with me! Read more →
TOWER MUSIC AT THE DEAN RUSK SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
Am giving a public presentation Sept 7, 2016 at 7pm at the Dean Rusk School of International Studies at Davidson College in North Carolina. Will focus on Tower Music and the challenges of an individual working with foreign governmental agencies. In the Knobloch Campus Center Alvarez- Smith 900 Room Read more →
PARIS ON HUDSON: Celebrating Joseph Bertolozzi’s TOWER MUSIC
PARIS ON HUDSON: Celebrating Tower Music A Parisian-cafe street festival celebrating Beacon composer Joseph Bertolozzi’s adventures in creating the internationally acclaimed album “Tower Music” is slated for Saturday, September 10 from 6-10pm at Bank Square CoffeeHouse. During the course of the night’s entertainment Bertolozzi will conduct two multimedia presentations that take the audience through his adventures in recording the Eiffel Tower. These sessions yielded “Tower Music” which reached… Read more →
TOWER MUSIC / BRIDGE MUSIC / OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Environmental Sound Artists: In Their Own Words, a new book by Frederick Bianchi and V. J. Manzo published by Oxford University Press is now available. I have my own chapter in this book, largely about Bridge Music and touching on Tower Music, which wasn’t completed at the time of the book’s writing. The book recounts the philosophy, technology, aesthetics, and methodology of sound art from… Read more →
LIVE AT THE FALCON – BRIDGE + TOWER MUSIC
#BRIDGEMUSIC + #TOWERMUSIC: A mutlimedia event with Joseph Bertolozzi! BASTILLE DAY, July 14, 2016 at 7pm THE FALCON 1348 Route 9W Marlboro, New York 12542 (845) 236-7970 info@liveatthefalcon.com https://www.facebook.com/events/255283524827842/?active_tab=highlights Read more →