For Day 4’s work I sorted through roughly 660 samples yielding roughly 220 chosen sounds. The sum of the four day’s recording so far is roughly 3121 samples yielding roughly 1000 chosen sounds. I’m progressing a little slower now than before because with the constant impact of the metal sounds against my eardrums, I have to take breaks for several… Read more →
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TOWER MUSIC – DAY 3 – CATALOGED!
Well, I’m a quarter of the way through cataloging the Eiffel Tower recording dates if not a quarter of the way through the total samples, but it feels good. Thursday morning I started at 7:30am for the final push…at 11am I looked at the clock and said to myself “I’ll still be here twelve hours from now…”. So finishing at… Read more →
TOWER MUSIC – DAY 2 – CATALOGED!
Another day down, 9.5 more to go. I really have gotten faster at choosing and editing the samples. Once I’m all done I may go back and re-check the earlier samples, bringing some of the expertise I’ve gained to the earlier editing, such as smoother fades to cover ground noise. As I read the time-stamps, I see that, unlike most… Read more →
TOWER MUSIC – DAY 1 – CATALOGUED!
It took a few extra weeks to actually get started but I finished cataloging the first day’s samples from May/June’s trip to the Eiffel Tower. That would be roughly 828 raw samples yielding roughly 170 chosen sounds. And that was from a short day; we had preliminary meetings with the Eiffel Tower administration on Day 1, and only started at… Read more →
BERTOLOZZI ACCOMPANIES FIREWORKS
Joseph Bertolozzi‘s music accompanies the City of Beacon’s 4th of July Fireworks at sundown this Thurs nite at Memorial Field. Come enjoy the refreshments and pre-fireworks music by The Costellos, Russ St. George & Friends, DJ Sincere, and Ed Mickz and stay for the celestial extravaganza at sundown! Read more →
SUNY Orange Symphonic Band performs Bertolozzi’s “Trances and Visions”
The SUNY Orange Symphonic Band will perform Joseph Bertolozzi’s Trances and Visions this Sunday, June 23rd, 2013 at 6:00 p.m. at Middletown, NY’s Festival Square, located on West Main Street across from City Hall. The band’s principal hornist Christine Sacchi will be soloist. Read more →
BACK IN THE USA
Returned to the USA on Monday. Cataloging all the sounds begins next week. It’s astounding how the story of Tower Music has traveled in the press from Europe to North & South America to Australia, Malaysia and even the Himalayan Times! Who knew? Here is video that was used in The Guardian newspaper and other ITN news affiliates: You can… Read more →
TOWER MUSIC IN PARIS BEGINS
Great first day on the Eiffel Tower Monday, we met with the admin, got our badges and started to vet our first day’s locations. Banging the tower fence on Monday, photo by Franc Palaia Paris had good weather, but it changed throughout the day, at times overcast & breezy, then sunny, then cold… and so on. The team worked mainly… Read more →
ARRIVAL!
We’re off to a interesting start here in Paris. Our audio engineer Paul Kozel left for Newark airport at 3:00 PM for a 7:00 PM flight Friday and was stuck in Memorial Day traffic for nearly 4 hours, missing his flight. Adjustments were made so we could allow him to arrive and participate in the team meeting. Saturday the team… Read more →
MEET THE TOWER MUSIC TEAM #2
PRODUCER PETER EMMINGER Peter Emminger has encountered just about every challenge one can imagine with regards the theatrical physics of electricity, inertia and gravity. He has designed shows and systems at hundreds of venues and for dozens of the biggest names in business, entertainment and broadcasting, including MTV, Pfizer, FedEx and Nextel. He has directed the technical efforts of over… Read more →