Here are Livia Vanaver and I at the French Embassy, taking the next steps toward bringing the Tower Music Dance Project to fruition. The plan is to convene the The Vanaver Caravan and percussive dancer extraordinaire Joel Hanna with several French dance companies & choreographers to present Tower Music in Paris as a public dance event much like last year’s… Read more →
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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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Bridge Music 10th Anniversary Celebrations
– Celebrating a Decade of Music – Free and open to the public for ten years, Bridge Music has been and remains a touchstone of internationally recognized public sound-art. DAY OF THE EVENT – Saturday Aug 3, 2019 ACTIVITIES (all events are free): 2pm – Re-Dedication and Tour of the Bridge Music Installation with Composer Joseph Bertolozzi Johnson-Iorio Park, 281 Haviland Rd, Highland, NY 12528 We begin… Read more →
TOWER MUSIC AT THE 130TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS
My rendition of the French National anthem (“La Marseillaises”) using #TowerMusic samples kicked off the official 130th Anniversary of the Eiffel Tower on May 18, 2019. Watch/hear it at 0:26. Vive la Musique! Read more →
TM5TET in California
Left Edge Percussion, under the direction of Terry Longshore, continues its tour of the west coast with a performance of the Tower Music Percussion 5tet, Sunday May 5, 7pm at Trinity Alps Performing Arts Center, 101 Arbuckle Court, Weaverville, CA. Read more →
TOWER MUSIC PERCUSSION 5TET – Last performance before tour
Here’s your last chance to hear Left Edge Percussion perform Joseph Bertolozzi‘s Tower Music Percussion Quintet live before their Spring 2019 tour. Oregon Center for the Arts at Southern Oregon University 491 S Mountain, Ashland, Oregon 97520, hosts the Southern Oregon University Percussion Ensemble under the direction of Dr. Terry Longshore, Friday Nov. 30, 2018 at 7:30pm PST. Works to be performed include:… Read more →