This series of mini-profiles brings you into a little closer contact with the group that is making Tower Music happen. Hey, let’s start with me! COMPOSER JOSEPH BERTOLOZZI Composer Joseph Bertolozzi is forging a unique identity as a 21st century musician with works ranging from solo gongs to full symphony orchestra to architectural installations. With increasingly numerous performances across the… Read more →
Tag: Public Art
TOWER MUSIC BECOMING REALITY
I leave for Paris with my Tower Music Team to record the surfaces of the Eiffel Tower at the end of this month. We have access from May 27 thru June 7. Then I come home to catalog and compose the music. The live event is planned for an indeterminate date in 2014. STAY TUNED! Read more →
BRIDGE MUSIC OPENS 5TH SEASON
Joseph Bertolozzi’s Bridge Music, a permanent sound art installation on New York’s Franklin Delano Roosevelt “Mid Hudson” Bridge begins its fifth season April 1. The music of the bridge’s sounds are what one hears at the Listening Stations located on the Bridge’s Towers via the north-side pedestrian sidewalk and on the park radios, playing on 95.3FM within the parks that… Read more →
CLOSING IN ON TOWER MUSIC – Day 2, pt.2
THE DAY OF THE MEETING, PART 2 As a demonstration of our proposed recording method, my Technical Director Peter Emminger brought along one of the specialized microphones and a mini recording machine. I brought along some of the wooden mallets I created for Bridge Music as well as drawings for some new styles I hope to have fabricated specially for… Read more →
CLOSING IN ON TOWER MUSIC – Day 2, pt.1
THE DAY OF THE MEETING, PART 1 I spent last night going over all the French engineering and architectural terms for the various elements of the Eiffel Tower so I could more knowledgably reference a given surface should the need arise. As happened with my similar, earlier efforts on Bridge Music, I found the onsite workers often replace standard technical… Read more →
CLOSING IN ON TOWER MUSIC – Day 1
Pretty much like my last visit to pitch the Eiffel Tower administration in November 2010, on January 6, 2013 I played the last Mass of the day at St. Joseph’s in Middletown, NY and hopped on a plane for Paree (though last time it was a bar mitzvah at Vassar Temple….like I said, pretty much, not exactly!). I got off… Read more →
BEACONS OF MUSIC follow up
“Beacons of Music,” my latest public art installation with photography by Rob Penner, sponsored by BMW of the Hudson Valley was a roaring success. Rob’s photos celebrate the current musical culture of Beacon, NY, and instead of a “wine & cheese” opening reception, the musicians whose pix were on the wall gave astounding performances in a public concert. With two… Read more →
PLAYGROUND MUSIC
On Dec 6, 2011 at 7pm the culmination of Joseph Bertolozzi‘s work with St. Peter’s School in Hyde Park, NY and the Dutchess County Art’s Council‘s Arts-In Education program will be presented to the public. The 6th grade class will play the ringtones and sound effects they created from sampling their school’s playground, much in the fashion that Bertolozzi did… Read more →
Music-Technology-Science Workshop at St. Peter’s School Hyde Park, NY – 02
My residency at St. Peter’s School in Hyde Park, NY, in conjunction with the Dutchess County Arts Council continued with the students working on the computer with the sounds harvested from their playground. After having gathered the sounds from the playground, I went into K-Town Studios with Ron Kuhnke, our engineer, and cataloged them according to their tones. We had… Read more →
Music-Technology-Science Workshop at St. Peter’s School Hyde Park, NY – 01
Remember Bridge Music? How about Playground Music? With an Arts-in-Education grant from the Dutchess County Arts Council, I began a workshop with the 6th grade at St. Peter’s School in Hyde Park, NY. The end product? Simple ringtones and/or sound effects drawn from the sounds of their playground equipment and a greater understanding of the music that surrounds us in… Read more →