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 →
Tag: Public Art
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 →
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 →
SEVENTH MOVEMENT OF TOWER MUSIC COMPLETE
I’ve just finished the movement that will close the Tower Music album, but it’s not the last piece I’ll be writing. This massive addition is almost 11 minutes long and runs the gamut from a blood-curdling opening, to a slow, soft tribal dance, to rhythmically vigorous and eccentric melodic patterns. This piece kept me excited throughout its composition. This piece… 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 →
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 →
BERTOLOZZI ACCOMPANIES BEACON’S FIREWORKS (AGAIN)
Joseph Bertolozzi‘s music accompanies the City of Beacon, NY’s 4th of July Fireworks again this year at sundown this Friday nite at Memorial Field. Here’s a view from last year’s show. Come enjoy the refreshments and pre-fireworks music starting at 4pm by The Costellos, Russ St. George & Friends, The Judith Tulloch Band, Tony E, Solar Sound Band, Ed Mickz,… Read more →