BRIDGE MUSIC SEASON 14 BEGINS…WHAT’S NEW? BRAND NEW SPEAKERS! After 13 years of solid work the original speakers have been retired. We’ve installed these new ones, much bigger and with a greater bass response. Installation is complete for opening day, April 1! This is so darn fun! #bridgemusic, New York State Bridge Authority, Historic Bridges of the Hudson Valley, Dutchess Tourism,… Read more →
Tag: Bertolozzi
ARTIFICIAL HARMONICS FOR GONGS
Gongs are usually thought of as a “one trick pony”…just a big crash. They are far more nuanced than that as my long history of playing them has revealed. In this video you’ll experience the very real world of artificial harmonics from pitched and supposedly non-pitched gongs. Remember, you heard it here first! Read more →
BERTOLOZZI PREMIERES NEW WORK FOR SOLO GONG
I will perform new work for solo gong “…an eye illumined by another sun…” Feb 25, 2023 at 8pm at Ramapo College, in Mahwah, NJ. Tix here: https://rcnj.ludus.com/index.php?show_id=20515 This 12 minute work probes the unexpected musical profiles of the solo gong. After years of gigantically public statements in composing Bridge Music upon New York’s Mid Hudson Bridge and Tower Music upon… Read more →
ON THE AIRWAVES
Thanks to Mary Darcy at Classical WMHT for airing my music these past couple weeks. She played my orchestral “Suite Poughkeepsie” in its entirety at the end of October and for this Veteran’s Day “The Soldier’s Memorial Fountain” excerpted from Suite Poughkeepsie. Both were performed by Seattle Music, conducted by Joel Eric Suben. Read more →
A nice narrative for a composer…
This narrative comes from Wayne Lempka, a listener on Classical WMHT, travelling to Poughkeepsie from nearby New Paltz, NY “Well, today I had to go to a meeting in Poughkeepsie. I got in my car in the parking lot of SUNY-New Paltz, turned on WMHT and heard “coming up next will be Joseph Bertolozzi’s Suite Poughkeepsie…. Needless to say I was… Read more →
The Wolfman, Halloween…and Joseph Bertolozzi!
This Halloween I’ll be playing the organ and providing other chilling sound effects for this immersive showing of Lon Chaney Jr’s classic 1941 film “The Wolfman“, Oct 29 & 30 at The Chapel Restoration in Cold Spring, NY. Watch out for creepy puppets and wolfmen lurking about! Tix info below.#horror_movie, #horrormoviefan, #hudsonvalley, #hudsonvalleyevents, #coldspringny https://www.eventbrite.com/…/the-wolfman- oct-29th-at… Read more →
BRIDGE MUSIC’S “ART IN PUBLIC PLACES” AWARD ACCEPTANCE
Accepting the 2022 Dutchess County Executive’s Arts Awards for Art in Public Places for Bridge Music. Read more in the link https://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/story/entertainment/arts/2022/09/27/dutchess-2022-arts-awards/69514376007/ Read more →
Bridge Music in the Supply Chain
An nice overview of the history of the Mid Hudson Bridge from a supply chain organization with, of course, an inclusion of Bridge Music! FreightWaves Classics/ Infrastructure: Mid-Hudson Bridge opened in New York State Read more →
Bridge Music Dance Project MOVIE PREMIERE
One summer night 212 feet above the Hudson River, dozens of dancers convened to celebrate the connecting force of bridges to their communities. Come see the Bridge Music Dance Project with Karnatic dance juxtaposed alongside hip-hop, Soca, tap, post-modern, ballet, world, Latin fusion, and more, as each dance interprets a movement of Joseph Bertolozzi’s “Bridge Music” an opus using only… 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 →