Singing Bridges (International)
Stockholm:
Singing Bridges Exhibition
26.03. / 18:00 - 21:00
27.03. / 12:00 - 16:00
Sauna office for contemporary art
Helsinki:
PixelACHE Exhibition,
1-4 April, Kiasma Seminar room
PixelACHE Audiovisual Club
3.04. / 21:00 - 03:00, Gloria, 10 eur
Landscape sampling & Don't push the button seminar
2.04. / 12:00 - 18:00
Kiasma seminar room, 6 eur
"Singing bridges" is a sonic sculpture, playing the cables of stay-cabled and suspension bridges as musical instruments. To create this work I will amplify and record the sound of bridge cables around the world. Listening in to the secret voice of bridges as the inaudible vibrations in the cables are translated into sound. An urban soundscape that reflects the physical and metaphoric structure of the telecommunications network, with its fibre-optic cables circling the globe. The iconography of the bridge cables echoes the telecommunications lines stretching across the globe and linking us together. The work plays on an acoustic extension and interpretation of the constant flow of information and data through these cables.
In the ultimate realisation of this idea, bridges at locations around the world are linked and played in real-time to create an International Bridge Symphony. As the Bridges are connected through the sound of their cables, they create an acoustic Indra's Net. The cables of the bridge also reflect the vaulting in a church, designed to lift the spirit of the congregation to heaven with the vibrations of the choir's singing. A metaphor for spiritual communication, the bridge cables arching skyward have the potential to lift the commuter to a higher plane.
The project offers a re-interpretation of the familiar architecture of concrete and steel into an experience of metaphysical connection. Allowing for the possibility of a transformative experience of the bridge, other than the everyday pragmatic, economic and visual encounters with architecture. The sound of singing bridges all around the globe may also strike the resonant frequency of the earth's materials and dissolve the world. Echoing the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, which was freed from material constraints when the resonant frequency was struck by the wind. Sounding the harmonic frequency within the unheard vibrations of the cables will release the voice and liberate the spirit of each bridge.
SINGING BRIDGES ON NEURAL.IT
11.12.03 Singing bridges, swinging steel. The daily 'soundscape' can hardly do without the architectural structures and the vibrations of the matter, which can produce revealing tones and sounds. Singing bridges is the project of Jodi Rose, who concentrated her research on the awesome steel bridges which populate this world and extracted very fascinating musical compositions from them by amplifying their oscillations. This chorus of steel cables played by the wind and recorded with contact microphones hints at a global network between the separated landmasses they connect and a continuous communication akin to telecommunication lines. After listening to the streamed pieces, imagining a concert of bridges all over the world, as the author tries to do, fills the listener with a sensation of imperceptible vibration which, even if it's perfectly plausible, undermines the impression of stability these big structures usually give and gives them voice and sound in their natural, and sometimes imperceptible, swinging.
http://www.neural.it/english/ neural.it Hacktivism, E-Music, New Media Art
PRESS RELEASE FOR ABC RADIO RESIDENCY:
The 10th annual Australia Council New Media Artist residency with The Listening Room has been selected.
The recipient for 2004 is Jodi Rose, whose project 'Songs of the Bridge' will be an aural journey travelling across Australia through the sounds and stories of cable and suspension bridges.
The Listening Room is looking forward to working with Jodi to realise this project. She is a young sound artist based in Australia, who has travelled around the world in the last few years recording cable and suspension bridges which can sound like giant harps catching the wind.
She is attracted to their poetic forms and engineering ingenuity, as well as the sometimes heroic and even tragic stories associated with those who built them, use them, and live beside them. Her project will combine sound art and social history.
Jodi's passion was inspired during the building of the Anzac Bridge in Sydney when she approached The Listening Room to record the vibrations in the giant cables in pristine conditions before it was opened to traffic.
www.singingbridges.net
Singing Bridges at PixelACHE presents a selection of bridge recordings and video footage exploring the possibility of composing these sounds into a 'global bridge symphony'. The sound work is created using contact microphones to amplify and record the vibrations in the cables of suspension bridges.
Australian sound artist Jodi Rose travels the world listening to the sound of bridge cables, hearing in them an echo of the silent longings, missed connections and forgotten dreams that slip away from our everyday lives.
Echoing the telecommunications wires circling the globe, the cables of suspension and staycabled bridges reverberate with unexpected sounds, each structure creating a unique texture, rhythm and sonic environment.
PixelACHE Club in Helsinki features a performance based on the Singing Bridges material, created in collaboration with Mari Keski-Korsu (video), Lasse Kaikkonen (live improvisation on atonal kantele) and Jussi Lehtipuu (cello) with live manipulation and processing of bridge sounds by Jodi Rose.
This project was assisted by the Conference and Workshop Fund of the Australian Network for Art and Technology, a devolved grant program of the Australia Council, the Federal Government's Arts Funding and Advisory Body.