TRAVEL DIARY
A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.
Wednesday, December 03, 2003
2:45 PM
Posted by jodi rose
I've been receiving emails from italy recently - a journalist and some dj's, wondering why there is a sudden surge of interest from the mediterranean, I googled my project. This is what I came up with... unabashed self-promotion!
http://www.neural.it/
http://www.neural.it/nnews/singingbridges.htm
Neural - hacktivism, e-music, new media art
26.11.03 Singing bridges, acciaio oscillante.
Il 'soundscape' quotidiano difficilmente potrebbe prescindere dalle strutture architetturali e dalle vibrazioni della materia, capaci di produrre toni e suoni rivelatori. Singing bridges è il progetto di Jodi Rose che ha concentrato la sua indagine sui mastodontici ponti in acciaio sparsi in giro per il mondo, strutturalmente fondati sulla gestione della risonanza e delle frequenze della materia, hanno fornito composizioni altamente suggestive amplificando le loro oscillazioni. Questo coro di cavi d'acciaio strimpellati dai venti e registrati da microfoni a contatto, visto nel suo insieme richiama pure un network globale di collegamenti fra lembi di terra separati che unisce e una continuità di comunicazione simile alle linee di telecomunicazioni. E dopo aver ascoltato i brani in streaming, immaginare un concerto di ponti contemporaneo in più continenti, come cerca di fare l'autrice, infonde una visione di impercettibile vibrazione che, pur naturalmente plausibile, scuote le certezze di stabilità di queste grandi strutture, dandogli voce e suono, nel loro naturale e, a volte impercettibile, oscillare.
This is the same page, via google auto-translation - hilarious and gorgeous!
Singing bridges, oscillating steel.
The ' soundscape' daily one difficultly could prescind from the architetturali structures and the vibrations of the matter, able to produce to tones and sounds detectors. Singing bridges is the plan of Jodi Roses that its surveying has concentrated on the mastodontici bridges in steel scattered in turn for the world, structurally founds to you on the management of the resonance and of the frequencies of the matter, they have supplied highly evocative compositions amplifying their oscillations. This strimpellati steel cable chorus from the twenty and records to you from microphones to contact, approval in its entirety also recalls a network total of connections between earth borders separates you that it joins and one continuity of communication similar to the lines of telecommunicationses. And after to have listened to the brani in streaming, to imagine a contemporary concert of bridges in more continents, as it tries to make the author, it instills a vision of imperceptible vibration who, also naturally reasonable, shakes the certainties of stability of these great structures, dandogli voice and sound, in natural and, to their times imperceptible, to oscillate.
http://www.cultur-e.it/archivio_c.asp?L=1&page=7
Singing bridges
di Elena Dalla Massara
27/06/2003 Come fosse un monaco tibetano, una compositrice australiana suona i cavi di sospensione dei ponti di tutto il mondo
I ponti possono cantare? È la convinzione della scultrice del suono Rose Jodi. Un'australiana che gira di città in città per far vibrare i collegamenti alla terra ferma più famosi o particolari del mondo. Il Behmstrasse Brücke a Berlino, il My Thuan a Mekong Delta (Vietnam), il Matinkaari Bridge a Helsinki, sono alcune delle architetture che Rose ha scelto come strumenti per la sua musica.
La sua nascita, da giovani genitori hippie, fu ripresa in diretta per un documentario trasmesso dalla tv nazionale australiana ABC: il destino della bambina, farsi conoscere dal grande pubblico, sembra già segnato. Un'infanzia trascorsa on the road e una passione per i telefoni, hanno poi fatto il resto, determinando la vocazione per viaggi e cavi metallici.
Nel 1995 la prima performance, a Sidney, sua città Natale. I cavi del ponte ancora in costruzione di Glebe Island vengono "pizzicati" dalle sue abili dita e il suono emesso viene registrato dalla ABC Radio e diffuso all'interno del programma "The Art of the Bridge".
Da allora Rose Jodi si è esibita in Europa, America, Asia, Nordafrica, trasmettendo i suoi "concerti" dalle pagine del sito Singing Bridges, in diretta live o in differita, oltre che da altoparlanti posizionati sui ponti per accompagnare autisti e passanti durante l'attraversamento della passerella. Nelle ultime performance la scultrice del suono, così ama definirsi, ha creato una connessione radio tra più ponti, suonati ognuno da un musicista diverso, per dare vita a una International Bridge Symphony.
Sul sito la storia del progetto, le voci dei ponti e un diario di viaggio in cui Rose annota sensazioni, pensieri ed emozioni.
Singing bridges
of Elena From the Massara
27/06/2003 As it was a monaco tibetano, one compositrice Australian sound the cables of suspension of the bridges of all the world.
The bridges can sing? It is the conviction of the scultrice of the sound Jodi Roses. An Australian who turns of city in city in order to make to vibrate the more famous or particular connections to the firm earth of the world. The Behmstrasse Brücke to Berlin, the My Thuan to Mekong Delta (Vietnam), the Matinkaari Bridge to Helsinki, is some of the architectures that Roses it has chosen like instruments for its music.
Its birth, from young parents hippie, was directed resumption in for a documentary transmitted from tv the national ABC Australian: the destiny of the child, is introduced from the great public, seems marked already. A passed infancy on the road and a passion for the telephones, have then made the rest, determining the metallic vocation for travels and cables.
In 1995 the first performance, to Sidney, its city Born them. The cables of the bridge still under construction of Glebe Island come "pizzicati" from its skillful fingers and the issued sound comes recorded from the ABC diffused Radio and to the inside of the program "The Art of the Bridge".
From then Jodi Roses one has exhibited in Europe, America, Asia, Nordafrica, transmitting its "concerts" from the pages of the situated Singing Bridges, in directed live or differed, beyond that from loudspeakers posizionati on the bridges in order accompanying drivers and passing during the attraversamento of the footbridge. In the last performances the scultrice of the sound, therefore loves to define itself, has created one logon radio between more bridges, played everyone from a various musician, for giving life one International Bridge Symphony.
On situated the history of the plan, the voices of the bridges and a per diem one of travel in which Roses it annotates feelings, thoughts and emotions.
http://www.konstperspektiv.nu/tips/rhizome.asp
Konstprojekten som presenteras utgör en brokig mångfald, från enklare dokumentation av genomförda projekt till avancerade multimediatillämpningar (som kräver att man har den senaste programvaran installerad på sin dator). Ibland lyfter sig projekten till poetiska höjder, som Jodi Roses "Singing Bridges". Rose reser runt i världen och "spelar" på broar. De inspelade "konserterna" kan avnjutas via Internet. När hon spelat sig igenom samtliga broar på listan är hennes vision att kunna hålla en konsert i realtid med alla broar som instrument i en global symfoniorkester. Och visst - Öresundsbron skall vara med...
Här är länken till Rhizome.org!
Anders Olofsson
[2002-07-17]
http://www.thec-minusproject.com/links.html
The C-Minus Project's core member is singer-songwriter Sam Schinazzi. Living in Sydney Australia, he has been playing shows under the name of The C-Minus Project
since 1999.
Let's get one thing straight. It is not a project as such; it is his fulltime musical act. Writing emotive songs that often document time, place and life. Detailed moments that can pass quickly, remembered in song. A shyness one cannot shake. A combination of regret with the winnable challenge of hope. Critics and supporters have had the following to say about The C-Minus Project.
"Songs that have a low-key human feeling about them... Pretty melodies from the less-is-more school of songwriting. Songs about boys and girls, friends and family, work and play, the darkness that lurks in the suburbs. It's like stealing a kiss from that special boy or girl you've had your eye on for some time... Beautiful snippets of music that exhibits what so much music at the moment lacks; an uninhibited honesty and openess that stirs up every emotion imaginable..."
Singing Bridges
Amazing project by Jodi Rose (Oz) who records bridges! (log on for more intelligent explanation)
http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/arts/archive/artery_2003_August2003.htm
13/08/2003 Singing Bridges
Your average bridge is better known for it's practical applications than for its musical properties. However, there are those bridges that not only look spectacular, but also sound rather good as well. Jodie Rose has travelled the world recording the sounds of suspension bridges and her recordings are part of an exhibition called Singing Bridges as well as the website where you can listen to the compositions. Fenella Kernebone caught up with her for Artery.
http://www.brantacan.co.uk/bridgeupdates.htm
Bridges in Art - mentions singing bridges project.
Comprehensive outline of bridges in painting, film, great links and other technical info.
http://www.kalvo.com/linkit.html
link to singing bridges from Finish site
Kalvo is a duo performing musically challenging and psycho-physically straining soundscapes.
The raw material used by Kalvo covers the whole bandwidth received by human ear and body and is composed of traditional and prepared acoustic and electric stringed instruments and percussion. While main focus is on samples and repetitive loops, the performaces also include live playing.
The music of Kalvo is based on sound ideas, resonance of the performing space, sensitivity to climatic changes and also physical and psychical reactions of audience and performers.
Soundscapes are sculptured during the performance by means of spontaneus and structured improvisation.
Mr Mikko Heikkilä plays sampler, bass guitar, real-time electronics and occasionally other electric and acoustic string instruments.
Mr Lasse Kaikkonen plays percussion, prepared piano, cheap and /or broken keyboards, nännikumi and operates MD-loops.
Both do prepare samples and loops for sampler, live sampler and MD.
Mr Mesq is responsible for visual arts and stuff.
http://www.stageleft.com.au/features/mudfes03.html
Singing Bridges, for example, is a mind-blowing concept devised and executed by Jodi Rose. Created by amplifying and recording the vibrations of stay-cabled suspension bridges from around the world, this symphony of sound is further enhanced by visual material and text. Could this be the next wave in innovative music?