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 →
Tag: Paris
BRIDGE MUSIC BEGINS ITS SIXTH SEASON
Starting today, composer Joseph Bertolozzi’s Bridge Music is back on the tower landings of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Mid-Hudson Bridge and available for the public to enjoy along with the majestic views of the Hudson River. “The Bridge Authority is proud to be able to host this unique and groundbreaking musical composition for a 6th year,” Bridge Authority Executive Director Joseph… 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 →
TOWER MUSIC ALBUM DRAWS NEARER
This Friday we begin electronic file conversions of the #TowerMusic audio tracks so they can be sent from my Operating System to the studio’s OS. Slowly, the album is on its way! Read more →
THE LIGHTER SIDE OF TOWER MUSIC – JOE POPP’S FINGERS!
Tower Music audio engineer Joe Popp’s fingers were supposed to handle microphones…but what’s this? Gang signals? Alien communiques? You be the judge! THE LIGHTER SIDE OF TOWER MUSIC: JOE POPP’S FINGERS Read more →
SIXTH MOVEMENT OF TOWER MUSIC COMPLETE
Cadences is the name of my newest addition to the Tower Music canon. It starts with a slow introduction which I am choosing to release as a separate short Prelude. The main body of the work then turns into a playful rhythmic romp; playful to listen to, but complicated to perform. Such is Art. The finished product is close to where… Read more →
“Bon jour Monsieur Bertolozzi..”
Those were the words spoken to me by a smiling boy bagging my groceries on my last day in Paris, a year ago today….“bon jour Monsieur Bertolozzi.” From the lead story on p. 1 of the NY Times digital edition (and lead story on that day’s Arts section in the physical paper) to the Reuters news agency to The Himalayan Times… Read more →
HARVESTING THE EIFFEL TOWER – ONE YEAR LATER
It’s hard to believe an entire year has gone by since my crew and I set foot on the Eiffel Tower on May 27, 2013 to harvest its sounds for a musical opus. Today’s honors go to them (l.-r.): Franc Palaia, Kyle Griffin, Paul Kozel, Joe Popp, Joseph Bertolozzi, Robert Bellach, Jeff Gertin and Joseph Redwood-Martinez. The team hailed from… Read more →
TWO MOVEMENTS OF TOWER MUSIC COMPLETED
I have finished two movements of Tower Music. One is an aggressive, overture-type piece, not unlike Meltdown from Bridge Music, but at the moment I’m not sure of its placement in the final sequence of numbers. The second is part of a projected mini-suite entitled “The Harp That Pierced the Sky,” limited to the Eiffel Tower‘s harp-like samples. This is… Read more →