OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHER FRANC PALAIA FRANC PALAIA is an award winning artist working in several media including, painting, photography, sculpture, murals, signmaking and lamp design. A few major museum exhibitions include the Metropolitan Museum of Art , NY, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the Fundacio Gala-Salvador Dali in Spain, PS 1 and the Museum of Contemporary Art (LAMOCA) in… Read more →
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MEET THE TOWER MUSIC TEAM #6
VIDEOGRAPHER JOSEPH REDWOOD-MARTINEZ Joseph Redwood-Martinez is an artist, writer, and filmmaker from the United States. His writing has appeared in Frieze, Modern Painters, and Contemporary Art + Visual Culture Broadsheet, and he is a contributing editor to Ment. A book of his recent writing, event statements, was published in April 2011 by Publication Studio. A forthcoming book titled neo-provincialism will… Read more →
MEET THE TOWER MUSIC TEAM #5
ASSOCIATE AUDIO ENGINEER JOE POPP Joe Popp has been involved with the professional music and audio industry for over twenty-five years. He has served in many areas of the industry including: technician and engineer for several NYC recording studios, front of house and monitor engineer for the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, sound designer and composer for theater, and as… Read more →
MEET THE TOWER MUSIC TEAM #4
AUDIO ENGINEER PAUL KOZEL Paul Kozel is Director of the The Sonic Arts Center at The City College of New York and an audio engineer and producer in his own right for film and music projects. He will lead the audio recording of the Eiffel Tower. Paul’s professional credits include: the documentary A Place Out of Time – The Bordentown School… 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 →