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I really want to sit down in front of a concert grand piano and play the melodies in my head. The only public piano I’ve found near Moos tower is in the hospital — its action is hopeless, and it’s stunningly out of tune. The practice rooms at the U are extremely well equipped… but essentially unavailable to non-music majors (and cost money to get time in, anyhow). There are a few slightly decrepit pianos in Coffman Union… but I just feel like a jackass playing in that type of airport terminal setting — just feels all sorts of wrong.
Joseph Bertolozzi Plays the Franklin D. Roosevelt Mid-Hudson Bridge - I don’t mean he’s playing at the bridge, I mean he’s playing the bridge. In a project not unlike Bill Fontana’s sound sculpture “Oscillating Steel Grids along the Brooklyn Bridge,” Mr. Bertolozzi is in the process of sampling sound using contact microphones from the bridge itself. Certainly, this concept would be cool on its own: if you listen to the movement Bridge Funk, a small piece played on the bridge used to gain approval for the project, you’ll find that the music sounds very, very cool—much more musically intricate than you would imagine a bridge sounding. However, this project will not simply culminate in a digital collection of sounds assembled into music. The composer is writing out an entire 40-60 minute score to be performed live and piped into a nearby park in 2009.