Film maker Andrew Porter‘s new documentary Bridge Music looks at Joseph Bertolozzi’s trailblazing musical work on New York’s Mid Hudson Bridge. Here’s a few images from our interviews for the film. and here’s a link to the trailer. It is starting to make the rounds of film festivals and its first public screening will be 7pm, Friday June 17th, 2016 at the Arts Society of Kingston… Read more →
Tag: Gongs
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 →
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 →
FEATURE DOCUMENTARY FILM TO INCLUDE TOWER/BRIDGE MUSIC
A European film crew shooting a feature documentary on composers is in the USA covering my work at the Mid Hudson Bridge (Bridge Music) and the Eiffel Tower (Tower Music). Entitled Sound Hunters, the film includes Peter Gabriel, Jean-Michel Jarre, Brian Eno and others. The film has the “haut patronage” of UNESCO. Beryl Koltz is the director and the film is being… 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 →
THE SOUNDS OF THE EIFFEL TOWER HAVE BEEN CATALOGED!
Taking four months, from July 24 to November 21, ten thousand raw samples were sorted through yielding about twenty-eight hundred chosen ones (the estimated actual count is c.9967/c.2832). The eleventh and final recording day was extremely light. I worked through roughly 200 raw samples to select about 75 of them. Contrast this with Day 7 or Day 10’s totals. Here’s the breakdown… 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 →