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: Environmental Art
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 →
BRIDGE MUSIC DANCE PROJECT
The Bridge Music Dance Project premieres at the Walkway Over the Hudson State Historic Park on Saturday June 25, 7:30pm, in the center of the bridge. The event features “Bridge Music,” Joseph Bertolozzi‘s Top Twenty Billboard charting album consisting only of sounds sampled from the Mid Hudson Bridge choreographed by the The Vanaver Caravan and eight dance troupes. Rain date… Read more →
“His objectives are as ideal as those of his fellow sound artists,…”
A nice mention on p.90 of #BridgeMusic and yours truly from Thomas Harrison’s book “Of Bridges: A Poetic and Philosophical Account,” found here: https://books.google.com/books?id=iKMbEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA90&dq=%22joseph+bertolozzi%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjtw8XTtZL1AhXQT98KHcDFCw04ChDoAXoECAkQAw Read more →
The Sampler – A Prophecy Fulfilled
The following remark is from the inventor of the sampler, a technology that digitizes recorded sound. It’s in reference to my #TowerMusic: “I also would like to thank you for making music with it in the way I intended. It is an honor to meet you. Best, Harry“ Harry Mendell and I connected in Spring 2021 after I read an… Read more →
A nice feature from my alma mater….
https://stories.vassar.edu/2021/joseph-bertolozzi-81.html …and if anyone wants in on the 2024 Paris Olympics, lemme know! Read more →
90th Anniversary of Mid Hudson Bridge – MODELS
Mid-Hudson Bridge models mark 90th anniversary of Hudson River crossing From Mid Hudson News, July 31, 2020 POUGHKEEPSIE – The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Mid-Hudson Bridge will mark its 90th anniversary on August 25 and the Historic Bridges of the Hudson Valley (HBHV) introduced one of many bridge “models” Thursday afternoon in Waryas Park. A model of the span celebrating Joseph Bertolozzi’s Bridge Music was… Read more →