“THE HARP THAT PIERCED THE SKY / LA HARPE QUI A PERCÉ LE CIEL” (3:17) ENRICH your Olympic experience this year with the ACTUAL SOUNDS of the Eiffel Tower. Contrasting highly to the preceding track, this movement leads the listener into a surprising sound world: a hybrid harp/lute/steel pan sonority drawn from a massive structure eliciting a quiet and intimate… Read more →
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TOWER MUSIC & THE PARIS OLYMPICS – 2 of 11
“A THOUSAND FEET OF SOUND / À TROIS CENTS MÈTRES DE SON” (5:17) ENHANCE your Olympic experience this year with the ACTUAL SOUNDS of the Eiffel Tower. This piece is the Eiffel Tower’s calling card, demonstrating its entire aural array. It mirrors the impact of seeing the Eiffel Tower in person for the first time: gargantuan and aggressive in its… Read more →
Tower Music & the Paris Olympics-1 of 11
Augment your Olympic experience this year by listening to the Eiffel Tower..not a song about it, but the ACTUAL SOUNDS of the Eiffel Tower. On YouTube, Spotify, or anywhere actually, you pick! To whet your whistle, here’s the official Tower Music music video #towermusic, #Bertolozzi, #Olympics Read more →
BRIDGE MUSIC OPENS 15TH SEASON
BRIDGE MUSIC OPENS 15TH SEASON Listening Stations Located Along Mid-Hudson Bridge Sidewalk, Open April through October/Park Radios operate 365/24/7 on 95.3FMwww.bridgemusic.info Highland, N.Y. – Joseph Bertolozzi’s Bridge Music, a unique sound-art installation featuring the Mid-Hudson Bridge itself as the instrument, is marking 15 years since its original debut. The public is invited to access the music via the listening stations,… Read more →
le projet dansant Musique de la Tour
Hi friends, You may remember in 2022 I worked with the Vanaver Caravan to bring the Bridge Music Dance Project to life in a live performance and then on the silver screen. Well now I’m in development with the Vanaver Caravan once again to present the Tower Music Dance Project (or “le projet dansant Musique de la Tour“) in Paris… Read more →
Celebrate my 65th birthday on Classical WMHT
Celebrate my 65th birthday on Classical WMHT as they air my “Suite Poughkeepsie” this Sunday Feb 4 at 11:40am ET. Listen at 89.1 FM in New York’s Capital Region and 88.7 FM in Poughkeepsie, NY. It can also be heard live on the internet on https://www.wmht.org/player/ This tribute to my hometown was premiered by the Hudson Valley Philharmonic in 1999… Read more →
20 years on…
20 years apart: composer Joseph Bertolozzi with Chief Engineer (retired) Bill Moreau of the New York State Bridge Authority. Without his approval & oversight there would’ve been no Bridge Music and subsequently no Tower Music, its sister project in Paris. It all began here #bridgemusic #towermusic Read more →
BUSY WEEK IN MIDDLETOWN & POUGHKEEPSIE
Big weekend coming up! ON SATURDAY 11/18 at 2pm come to my multimedia presentation on Bridge Music and Tower Music at the Thrall Library, 11 Depot Street, Middletown, NY 10940. Admission is free. Journey onto the Eiffel Tower and New York’s Mid Hudson Bridge as I explain the process of recording and creating my two Top-Twenty Billboard charting albums from these monuments. Q&A to follow. At the end the audience… Read more →
Harmonious World podcast on Tower Music
My latest interview about #TowerMusic from Harmonious World coming from merry old England! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-discussion-of-tower-music-with/id1514804118?i=1000631776925 Read more →
Today on NPR’s Tones & Drones podcast with Jason Miller
Today at 1pm ET/noon CT, I’ll be on NPR’s Tones & Drones podcast with Jason Miller from the the studios of 91.3 FM KVLU Public Radio (www.kvlu.org) hear it on Spotify, Apple, Google, iHeart, NPROne and others. https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tonesanddrones/episodes/Tones–Drones-w-Joseph-Bertolozzi-e2a5tes Read more →