Tower Music (Joseph Bertolozzi)

Tower Music (also known as Musique de la Tour), is a musical project and 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.

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

The 2016 album Tower Music (on the innova label #933), reached #11 on the iTunes Classical charts and #16 on the Billboard Classical Crossover Music chart.[3]

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.[4] Bertolozzi used Bridge Music as a proof of concept to present to SETE, the authority that controls the Eiffel Tower.[5] By 2010, plans were underway to attempt field recording and a live performance on the Eiffel Tower.[6][7]

After a formal meeting with SETE in November 2010, the project was approved in March 2011.[8] In January 2013, Bertolozzi met with Eiffel Tower officials and reviewed what areas would be appropriate to record audio samples.[9] Field recording of samples took place May 27[10] through June 7, 2013.[11] Bertolozzi next reviewed, cataloged and edited each sample.[12][13] The process of writing the final composition began in February 2014 and went until October 2014.[14] 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.[15][16] The album was released on April 29, 2016, on the innova label.[17]

References
  1. "Eiffel Tower used as musical instrument by Joseph Bertolozzi". The Guardian. 8 June 2013. Missing or empty |url= (help)https://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. Missing or empty |url= (help)https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/world/2013/06/12/2413253
  3. "Classical Crossover Albums : May 14, 2016 | Billboard Chart Archive". Billboard. Retrieved 2017-07-13.
  4. "HV composer uses sounds from Mid-Hudson Bridge". News 12. News 12 New York. 15 August 2015. Missing or empty |url= (help) http://www.news12.com/news/hudson-valley-composer-uses-sounds-from-mid-hudson-bridge-1.10754094
  5. http://www.josephbertolozzi.com/revving-the-engines
  6. 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.
  7. "That Instrument Known as the Eiffel Tower -- 'Tower Music,' From Eiffel Tower, by Joseph Bertolozzi". The New York Times. 4 June 2013. Missing or empty |url= (help)https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/05/arts/music/tower-music-from-eiffel-tower-by-joseph-bertolozzi.html
  8. Wakin, Daniel J. (5 April 2011). "Composer's Eiffel Tower Plan Is Approved". The New York Times. Missing or empty |url= (help)http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/05/composers-eiffel-tower-plan-is-approved
  9. http://www.josephbertolozzi.com/closing-in-on-tower-music-day-2-pt-1
  10. Cotton, Johnny (7 June 2013). "Eiffel Tower becomes musical tool for New York composer". Reuters.
  11. "BACK IN THE USA". Joseph Bertolozzi. Retrieved 2015-10-31.
  12. http://www.josephbertolozzi.com/the-sounds-of-the-eiffel-tower-have-been-cataloged/
  13. http://www.josephbertolozzi.com/building-the-eiffel-tower-virtual-instrument
  14. http://www.josephbertolozzi.com/tower-music-complete
  15. http://www.josephbertolozzi.com/tower-music-album-draws-nearer
  16. http://www.josephbertolozzi.com/first-mixes-of-tower-music
  17. http://www.innova.mu/albums/joseph-bertolozzi/tower-music-musique-de-la-tour
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