#SOUNDHUNTERS airs at the Amsterdam Dance Event festival Thurs (tomorrow) & Fri! #BridgeMusic & #TowerMusic figure prominently in the documentary alongside the work of #JeanMichelJarre and others. BerylKoltz directs and Marc Parodi & Alice Chiaverini star. NPO (Netherlands Public Broadcasting) is also airing the documentary Friday night. Here is a nice review of the film from its original airing in September, 2015 http://television.telerama.fr/tele/programmes-tv/soundhunters,96527328.php Read more →
Tag: Musique de la Tour
TOWER MUSIC MASTER IS DELIVERED!
Why are these men smiling? They’ve just finished mastering Joseph Bertolozzi‘s Tower Music / Musique de la Tour album. An initial version was scrapped when Bertolozzi, re-listening to the album after an 8-day stay in the hospital had second thoughts about his “final” mix and went back to the drawing board. In the hands of Paul Kozel and Scott Hull of Masterdisc,… Read more →
TOWER MUSIC ALBUM ARTWORK DONE
Getting nearer! The album art is done! Very soon the audio will be mastered and off to the label for manufacturing. The record doesn’t come out till April, but all this needs doing now. Advance copies need to go out to reviewers, the press, etc. Keep track of Tower Music on a variety social media platforms: Facebook: www.facebook.com/eiffeltowermusic Twitter: www.twitter.com/JosephBertolozz… Read more →
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 →
BRIDGE/TOWER MUSIC DOCUMENTARY VIEWING TONITE
The first viewing of NOISEMAKERS, a documentary about composers working in experimental forms will be tonite, Thursday May 14 at 7pm on the State University of NY at New Paltz campus in Lecture Center 102. The showing is free and open to the public. Directed by Kevin O’Connor it features a segment on both Bridge Music and Tower Music. I personally cannot attend… Read more →
FIRST MIXES OF TOWER MUSIC
I am going to the studio today where the sound engineer, Paul Kozel, is doing the preliminary mixes of “Musique de la Tour.” You may remember Paul as the lead audio engineer on the Eiffel Tower with me. Here we are back at the Paris apartment in 2013 discussing the day’s recording sessions. 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 →
BERTOLOZZI TO LECTURE ON TOWER MUSIC AT CLARK UNIVERSITY
Joseph Bertolozzi will lecture on #TowerMusic at Clark University‘s 2015 Dialogue Symposium, Monday, March 16 @ 7pm in the Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons. He will describe sampling and playing the Eiffel Tower, one of the world’s most famous monuments, the music he created, and the possibilities of playing the world around us. Co-sponsored by the Higgins School of Humanities… Read more →
TOWER MUSIC ALBUM CURRENTLY IN THE MIX
The #TowerMusic album is currently being mixed in preparation for commercial release. It’s been a long process and this stage will take awhile too; this project has so many unknowns and variables but the wait will be worth it…see the inspiration flowing out of my head in the pic below? Read more →
DOCUMENTARY FEATURING BRIDGE/TOWER MUSIC WINS AWARD
The SOUNDHUNTERS documentary, featuring both Bridge Music and Tower Music / Musique de la Tour, as well as the work of Jean-Michel Jarre and others, won the “FIPA d’Or” award for best trans-media documentary at this French festival. It will be released on European TV later this year. Will let you know if/when it airs in USA. https://www.facebook.com/festival.FIPA/photos/a.10152015538524902.1073741826.90262629901/10152882705644902/?type=1&fref=nf Read more →