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 →
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THE NEXT BRIDGE MUSIC DOCUMENTARY
Bridge Music apears in a senior thesis film about experimental music from the State University of NY at New Paltz. Here’s the film crew in my home in front of The Bronze Collection on March 26, 2015: Kevin O’Connor, Shia, Joseph Bertolozzi, Dante Corrocher, Lauren. If there is a public screening I’ll post the details. Keep track of Tower Music on… Read more →
HARVESTING THE EIFFEL TOWER – ONE YEAR LATER
It’s hard to believe an entire year has gone by since my crew and I set foot on the Eiffel Tower on May 27, 2013 to harvest its sounds for a musical opus. Today’s honors go to them (l.-r.): Franc Palaia, Kyle Griffin, Paul Kozel, Joe Popp, Joseph Bertolozzi, Robert Bellach, Jeff Gertin and Joseph Redwood-Martinez. The team hailed from… Read more →
TWO MOVEMENTS OF TOWER MUSIC COMPLETED
I have finished two movements of Tower Music. One is an aggressive, overture-type piece, not unlike Meltdown from Bridge Music, but at the moment I’m not sure of its placement in the final sequence of numbers. The second is part of a projected mini-suite entitled “The Harp That Pierced the Sky,” limited to the Eiffel Tower‘s harp-like samples. This is… Read more →
BERTOLOZZI NOW A VIC FIRTH ARTIST
Joseph Bertolozzi is now a Vic Firth Artist. He continues cataloging his samples for the upcoming #TowerMusic on the Eiffel Tower Music / Musique de la Tour. Read more →
TOWER MUSIC – DAY 10 – CATALOGED!
Stats to date: Day 10 = c.1440 raw samples yielding c.384 chosen samples.The sum for 10 days so far c. 9767 raw samples, c. 2757 chosen ones. ONE MORE RECORDING DAY TO GO…. Our process breaks the recording sessions into scenes/takes/hits. Day 10’s work covered almost 47 scenes, the most we ever did in one day. However the amount of… Read more →
TOWER MUSIC DAY 6 – CATALOGED!
The stats to date: Day 6 provided roughly 800 raw samples yielding roughly 206 chosen samples. The sum of the 6 days’ recording so far is roughly 5321 total listened-to samples yielding roughly 1578 total chosen samples. I’m now past the halfway mark in terms of days but if memory serves, not halfway thru the number of samples. Still, this… Read more →
TOWER MUSIC DAY 5 – CATALOGED!
Another day closer to the actual beginning of composing. The stats: roughly 1400 samples yielding roughly 372 chosen samples. The sum of the 5 days’ recording so far is roughly 4521 total listened-to samples yielding roughly 1372 total chosen samples. This nice photo from Day 5 (by Joe Popp) shows me smiling, looking much less bedraggled than I do now,… Read more →
TOWER MUSIC – DAY 4 – CATALOGED!
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 →