You know how long it takes to tune your guitar? You look for that elusive confluence of absolute pitch relative to the other strings, right? Well the Eiffel Tower was not designed for the purity of its musical tones. So is one dead-in-the-water if writing music for those sounds? In this short demonstration Joseph Bertolozzi explains how a given surface… Read more →
Tag: Bridge Music
ALBUM RELEASE PARTY FOR TOWER MUSIC / MUSIQUE DE LA TOUR
Joseph Bertolozzi will be on hand Friday, April 29, 2016 to celebrate the release of Tower Music / Musique de la Tour at the Poughkeepsie Barnes & Noble. He’ll be talking about his experiences, playing selections from the album and taking questions. Check out the event page here on Facebook. There will be prizes, giveaways, and special pricing for the Tower Music album.… Read more →
1st Official Tower Music / Musique de la Tour Video
What would you do with some microphones & a bag of drumsticks? Here’s what I did… Read more →
BRIDGE MUSIC LISTENING STATIONS DOWN FOR THE SEASON
The #BridgeMusic Listening Stations on the Mid Hudson Bridge ended their 6th season on the Mid Hudson Bridge. They will return for their 7th year April 1, 2016. In the meantime you can hear one of the actual Listening Stations at the Math & Physics Exploration, 1054 Freedom Plains Rd, Poughkeepsie, NY 12603, (845) 452-4862. I thank them for adding it to their curriculum for… Read more →
Vive la France
I stand firmly in condemnation of the attacks upon the City of Paris. Let goodness forever swallow violence. Read more →
SOUNDHUNTERS TAKE THE NETHERLANDS!
#SOUNDHUNTERS airs at the Amsterdam Dance Event festival Thurs (tomorrow) & Fri! #BridgeMusic & #TowerMusic figure prominently in the documentary alongside the work of #JeanMichelJarre and others. BerylKoltz directs and Marc Parodi & Alice Chiaverini star. NPO (Netherlands Public Broadcasting) is also airing the documentary Friday night. Here is a nice review of the film from its original airing in September, 2015 http://television.telerama.fr/tele/programmes-tv/soundhunters,96527328.php Read more →
Award-winning SOUNDHUNTERS premieres Sept 19, ARTE Channel
This Saturday September 19 at 11:10pm on the ARTE Channel (France & Germany), Beryl Koltz’s new film SOUNDHUNTERS premieres. The film presents composers such as Jean-Michel Jarre and Joseph Bertolozzi in their search for music from the environment around them. A sneak peak at Bertolozzi working on Tower Music from the Eiffel Tower, as well as his Bridge Music from New York… Read more →
BRIDGE MUSIC LECTURE @ MT. ST MARY COLLEGE, NEWBURGH, NY
On Friday, Aug 14 from 1pm-2:30pm, I’ll give a lecture-demonstration on Bridge Music as part of the Speaker Series at the Desmond Campus of Mt. St. Mary College in Newburgh, NY. As part of the 400th anniversary celebrations in 2009 of Henry Hudson’s voyage up the Hudson River, Bridge Music was created by recording the sounds of the Mid-Hudson Bridge’s surfaces (guard… Read more →
BRIDGE/TOWER MUSIC DOCUMENTARY VIEWING TONITE
The first viewing of NOISEMAKERS, a documentary about composers working in experimental forms will be tonite, Thursday May 14 at 7pm on the State University of NY at New Paltz campus in Lecture Center 102. The showing is free and open to the public. Directed by Kevin O’Connor it features a segment on both Bridge Music and Tower Music. I personally cannot attend… Read more →
FIRST MIXES OF TOWER MUSIC
I am going to the studio today where the sound engineer, Paul Kozel, is doing the preliminary mixes of “Musique de la Tour.” You may remember Paul as the lead audio engineer on the Eiffel Tower with me. Here we are back at the Paris apartment in 2013 discussing the day’s recording sessions. Read more →