BRIDGE MUSIC SEASON 14 BEGINS…WHAT’S NEW? BRAND NEW SPEAKERS! After 13 years of solid work the original speakers have been retired. We’ve installed these new ones, much bigger and with a greater bass response. Installation is complete for opening day, April 1! This is so darn fun! #bridgemusic, New York State Bridge Authority, Historic Bridges of the Hudson Valley, Dutchess Tourism,… Read more →
Tag: Sound Art
BRIDGE MUSIC’S “ART IN PUBLIC PLACES” AWARD ACCEPTANCE
Accepting the 2022 Dutchess County Executive’s Arts Awards for Art in Public Places for Bridge Music. Read more in the link https://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/story/entertainment/arts/2022/09/27/dutchess-2022-arts-awards/69514376007/ Read more →
Bridge Music in the Supply Chain
An nice overview of the history of the Mid Hudson Bridge from a supply chain organization with, of course, an inclusion of Bridge Music! FreightWaves Classics/ Infrastructure: Mid-Hudson Bridge opened in New York State Read more →
BRIDGE MUSIC: WINS 2022 “ART IN PUBLIC PLACES” AWARD
Arts Mid Hudson announces Bridge Music as the 2022 recipient of the 36th Annual Dutchess County Executive’s Arts Awards for Art in Public Places. Bridge Music is a free and open-to-the-public sound-art installation now in its 13th consecutive season. Using only audio samples from the Mid Hudson Bridge [railings, cables, etc.] for the content of its music with no further… Read more →
Pleasant Valley Free Library presents Joseph Bertolozzi
Pleasant Valley Free Library presents Joseph Bertolozzi. Join us on Monday, June 20th at 6pm for this immersive, multimedia presentation that takes you into process of creating two Top Twenty Billboard-charting albums by drumming on New York’s Mid Hudson Bridge and the Eiffel Tower in Paris. At the end, the audience will get to play along to the music with instruments… Read more →
“His objectives are as ideal as those of his fellow sound artists,…”
A nice mention on p.90 of #BridgeMusic and yours truly from Thomas Harrison’s book “Of Bridges: A Poetic and Philosophical Account,” found here: https://books.google.com/books?id=iKMbEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA90&dq=%22joseph+bertolozzi%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjtw8XTtZL1AhXQT98KHcDFCw04ChDoAXoECAkQAw Read more →
The Sampler – A Prophecy Fulfilled
The following remark is from the inventor of the sampler, a technology that digitizes recorded sound. It’s in reference to my #TowerMusic: “I also would like to thank you for making music with it in the way I intended. It is an honor to meet you. Best, Harry“ Harry Mendell and I connected in Spring 2021 after I read an… Read more →
A nice feature from my alma mater….
https://stories.vassar.edu/2021/joseph-bertolozzi-81.html …and if anyone wants in on the 2024 Paris Olympics, lemme know! Read more →
90th Anniversary of Mid Hudson Bridge – MODELS
Mid-Hudson Bridge models mark 90th anniversary of Hudson River crossing From Mid Hudson News, July 31, 2020 POUGHKEEPSIE – The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Mid-Hudson Bridge will mark its 90th anniversary on August 25 and the Historic Bridges of the Hudson Valley (HBHV) introduced one of many bridge “models” Thursday afternoon in Waryas Park. A model of the span celebrating Joseph Bertolozzi’s Bridge Music was… Read more →
Bridge Music in New Book on NY Bridges
#BridgeMusic appears in the new book “Bridges of the Mid-Hudson Valley.” It explores of the history of the New York State Bridge Authority. Author and Director of Historic Bridges of the Hudson Valley, Kathryn Burke illustrates her expertise with copious accounts and images from contemporary news stories and the architectural firms themselves. That’s me in the picture, Joseph Bertolozzi,risking my… Read more →