Tower Music (Joseph Bertolozzi)

This article is about a musical project and a companion CD. For the retail music chain, see Tower Records.

Tower Music (also known as Musique de la Tour), is a musical project and forthcoming album (2016) by composer and musician Joseph Bertolozzi. The project used microphones placed on the surfaces of the Eiffel Tower to capture the sounds of the tower.[1][2] The resulting samples were used to create a musical composition using only the sounds of the tower itself, with no added digital manipulation or alteration of the sounds.

The precursor to the Tower Music project was Bridge Music. Not thinking he could gain access to the Eiffel Tower, Bertolozzi went about creating a composition made using only the unmodified sounds of New York's Mid-Hudson Bridge, for the Hudson-Fulton-Champlain Quadricentennial celebrations in 2009.[3] Bertolozzi used Bridge Music as a proof of concept to present to SETE, the authority that controls the Eiffel Tower.[4] By 2010, plans were underway to attempt field recording and a live performance on the Eiffel Tower.[5][6]

After a formal meeting with SETE in November 2010, the project was approved in March 2011.[7] In January 2013, Bertolozzi met with Eiffel Tower officials and reviewed what areas would be appropriate to record audio samples.[8] Field recording of samples took place May 27[9] through June 7, 2013.[10] Bertolozzi next reviewed, cataloged and edited each sample.[11][12] The process of writing the final composition began in February 2014 and went until October 2014.[13] After finalizing a computerized version of the musical composition, work began on a recorded album of Tower Music. Preliminary mixing beginning in April 2015, with Paul Kozel at the Sonic Arts Center at the City College of New York.[14][15] The album was released on April 29, 2016, on the innova label.[16]

References

  1. ↑ "Eiffel Tower used as musical instrument by Joseph Bertolozzi". The Guardian. 8 June 2013. http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2013/jun/08/eiffel-tower-instrument-video
  2. ↑ "Eiffel Tower: The True Sound of Heavy Metal". USA Today. 12 June 2013. http://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/world/2013/06/12/2413253
  3. ↑ "HV composer uses sounds from Mid-Hudson Bridge". News 12. News 12 New York. 15 August 2015. http://www.news12.com/news/hudson-valley-composer-uses-sounds-from-mid-hudson-bridge-1.10754094
  4. ↑ http://www.josephbertolozzi.com/revving-the-engines
  5. ↑ Wakin, Daniel J. "New York Times ArtsBeat Blog (8 July 2010). "After Music From a Bridge, Why Not a Tower?"". Artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2012-11-24.
  6. ↑ "That Instrument Known as the Eiffel Tower -- ‘Tower Music,’ From Eiffel Tower, by Joseph Bertolozzi". The New York Times. 4 June 2013. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/05/arts/music/tower-music-from-eiffel-tower-by-joseph-bertolozzi.html
  7. ↑ Wakin, Daniel J. (5 April 2011). "Composer’s Eiffel Tower Plan Is Approved". The New York Times. http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/05/composers-eiffel-tower-plan-is-approved
  8. ↑ http://www.josephbertolozzi.com/closing-in-on-tower-music-day-2-pt-1
  9. ↑ Cotton, Johnny (7 June 2013). "Eiffel Tower becomes musical tool for New York composer". Reuters.
  10. ↑ "BACK IN THE USA". Joseph Bertolozzi. Retrieved 2015-10-31.
  11. ↑ http://www.josephbertolozzi.com/the-sounds-of-the-eiffel-tower-have-been-cataloged/
  12. ↑ http://www.josephbertolozzi.com/building-the-eiffel-tower-virtual-instrument
  13. ↑ http://www.josephbertolozzi.com/tower-music-complete
  14. ↑ http://www.josephbertolozzi.com/tower-music-album-draws-nearer
  15. ↑ http://www.josephbertolozzi.com/first-mixes-of-tower-music
  16. ↑ http://www.innova.mu/albums/joseph-bertolozzi/tower-music-musique-de-la-tour

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