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 →
Tag: American Composer
MEET THE TOWER MUSIC TEAM #1
This series of mini-profiles brings you into a little closer contact with the group that is making Tower Music happen. Hey, let’s start with me! COMPOSER JOSEPH BERTOLOZZI Composer Joseph Bertolozzi is forging a unique identity as a 21st century musician with works ranging from solo gongs to full symphony orchestra to architectural installations. With increasingly numerous performances across the… Read more →
TOWER MUSIC BECOMING REALITY
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 →
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 →
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 NEW MUSIC DIRECTOR AT ST. JOSEPH’S, MIDDLETOWN, NY
Joseph Bertolozzi has accepted the position of Director of Music at St. Joseph’s RC Church in Middletown, NY. He leaves Christ Episcopal Church in Suffern, NY, and continues as Organist at Vassar Temple in Poughkeepsie, NY where he has presided for 16+ years. He will direct the choir and play the organ for 3 weekly Masses in addition to the… Read more →