Ever known someone who solved problems with grace and clarity? Meet Joe Popp, #TowerMusic audio engineer extraordinaire. He reminds me of my father Vincent. In this video we consider the challenges of recording the Eiffel Tower’s leg with a mic boom that doesn’t quite reach its destination and how to balance it once we get it hyper-extended into place. Read more →
Tag: Sound Art
YOU KNOW HOW HARD IT IS TO TUNE YOUR GUITAR?
You know how long it takes to tune your guitar? You look for that elusive confluence of absolute pitch relative to the other strings, right? Well the Eiffel Tower was not designed for the purity of its musical tones. So is one dead-in-the-water if writing music for those sounds? In this short demonstration Joseph Bertolozzi explains how a given surface… Read more →
1ST TOWER MUSIC SINGLE RELEASED
The first single from Tower Music / Musique de la Tour, A Thousand Feet of Sound, was released this week on iTunes. It came out right after three surprise live tweets from “the Eiffel Tower’ itself on The Voice, with links to the official Tower Music Video and the album’s webpage on the label. The #EiffelTower bragged about its own voice being the most… Read more →
1st Official Tower Music / Musique de la Tour Video
What would you do with some microphones & a bag of drumsticks? Here’s what I did… Read more →
AT LONG LAST…1ST LISTENS TO THE MUSIC OF THE EIFFEL TOWER
AT LAST…HEAR WHAT HAS TRULY NEVER BEEN HEARD BEFORE: THE MUSIC OF THE EIFFEL TOWER by JOSEPH BERTOLOZZI. Go to tinyurl.com/z8hselr. All percussion – all the Eiffel Tower – no FX. Now you know…there’s more to come… Read more →