SingingBridges
how do bridges sing?
As harps for the winds of heaven
my weblike cables are spun'
bridges are a matter of faith
I'm building a bridge, would you like to make art with it?
I want to hear the bridge played
like Jimi Hendrix!
maybe we can tune the cables
as part of the tensioning process?
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sing! silent bridges
singapore bridges are oh so quiet!
testing the sound of a bridge
keizersbrug, ghent
To Brooklyn Bridge

Through the bound cable strands, the arching path 
Upward, veering with light, the flight of strings,  Taut miles of shuttling moonlight syncopate
The whispered rush, telepathy of wires.

Up the index of night, granite and steel 
Transparent meshes, fleckless the gleaming staves 
Sibylline voices flicker, waveringly stream
As though a god were issue of the strings…

Hart Crane 1930
Bridges Recorded

Anzac Bridge, Sydney (Glebe Island Bridge) My Thuan Bridge, Mekong Delta Vietnam Hoi Ann Bridge, Vietnam Metal Bridge, Hanoi, Vietnam Erasmus Bridge, Rotterdam Matinkaari Bridge, Helsinki Glienicke Brücke, Berlin Novy Most, Bratislava Millennium Bridge, London Tower Bridge, London Brooklyn Bridge, NY, New York Williamsburg Bridge, NY, New York Jacques Cartier Bridge, Montreal Green Bridge, Troy, upstate New York Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco  Batman Bridge, Tamar River, Tasmania  Indooroopilly Bridge, Brisbane Macintyre Bridge, Victoria Treetops Walk, Walpole WA  Bach Felippe de Roda Bridge, Barcelona Porvoo, Finland  Heureka Silta, Tikkurila, Finland  Pont des Arts, Paris Bridge next to Eiffel Tower, Paris  South Portland St Suspension Bridge – Glasgow  Maria Valeria Bridge, Sturovo Mega Bridge, Bangkok  Eleanor Schonell Bridge, Brisbane (Green Bridge) Bizovik Bridge, Ljubljana  Passarelle Simone de Beauvoir, Paris  Canal St Martin, Paris  Parc de la Vilette, Paris Art Bridge, Singapore Anderson Bridge, Singapore Jiak Kim Bridge, Singapore HSBC Treetops Walk, Singapore Keppel Bay Bridge, Singapore Safti Link Bridge, Singapore Ulu Pandan Bridge, Singapore Sentosa Island Bridge, Singapore Bridge next to where boat was moored, Vienna Bridge next to boat – under construction, Vienna Bridge across Danube canal going over road, Vienna Bridge going over Danube Canal with Phil, Vienna  Schwedenbrücke, Vienna  Bridge next to where we stopped boat with Phil playing, Frankfurt  Voest Bridge, Linz  Niebelungenbrucke, Linz  Stone Bridge, Maastricht Hoge Brug, Maastricht Blue Bridge, Besançon Pont de la Republique, Besançon Pont Battant, Besançon Pont de Chardronnet, Besançon Squiggly Bridge, Glasgow Bells Bridge, Glasgow
http://aporee.org/maps/projects/singingbridges
radio aporee ::: maps is a project about the exploration and reoccupation of our living spaces. Collecting audible material (recordings, sounds, spoken words) by upload and phone call, 
it connects them to the surface of google maps. 
Idea, concept, realisation: udo noll 2006 –2008 http://aporee.org/maps/
Project space for Global Bridge Symphony on radio aporee maps
Joseph B. Strauss, Chief Engineer Golden Gate Bridge (1937)
The bridge that reeled beyond him seemed an arbiter. It must know the city’s soul since it was so close to the city’s breath. In its throbbing cables there must be a message. Waldo Frank 1917
The transmission of message, of code, of signal, is volatile. 
All points can be connected to all other points.
Either I am submerged in signal exchange 
or I observe the global set of exchanges. 
Noise, disorder, and chaos on one side; 
complexity, arrangement, and distribution on the other. 
Michel Serres
The most beautiful bridge in the world. 
So pure, so resolute, so regular that here, finally, steel architecture seems to laugh. Le Corbusier
Steve O'Brien, Head of Design, Green Bridge Brisbane
“The bridge is a location. 
...it allows a space into which earth and sky, divinities and mortals are admitted. The space allowed by the bridge contains many places variously near or far from the bridge.... 
Poetry, Language, Thought: Building, Dwelling, Thinking Martin Heidegger
 Listening to the vibrations of bridge cables, the sound of each bridge is heard as an instrument for an expanded urban musical experience, a Global Bridge Symphony.  
'The city is our temple, electronic networks our religion and the sound of the bridge cables is the voice of the divine.' Jodi Rose
http://www.archive.org/download/Urban_Bridge/FUTURE_BRIDGE.mp3
listen:
urban sonic sculpture on a global scale
The voice of every bridge echoes with a secret language of the vibrations within the structure, songs of the inaudible and inexpressible, desires and dreams, the voices of those who have crossed or jumped into the river below.
Every bridge is connected to all other bridges through the vibrations in their structure. Stretching the boundaries of art and technology across geographical and architectural borders into a new acoustic form. All bridges resonate with a secret music, transmitting and receiving messages, codes and signals, heard through the sounds of bridges in multiple locations. Voice and vibration.  Concrete and abstract. A sensual aurality. Immersed in the world by your ear. 
Going beyond country borders, without seeking to collect and represent the sounds of each bridge into a structured hierarchy, or impose order from above in a singular artist composer viewpoint, but gathering, amplifying, connecting and disseminating the voice of bridges in a freely evolving form. 
I've heard the bridges singing...
you can too!
Pelle Gustavsson, Chief Engineer,
Mega Bridge Bangkok
john cage: everything in the world has its own spirit, which is released by setting it into vibration...
breath + vibration = voice
aeolian harp: instrument played by the wind
It's better to try and cross that bridge, 
and fail... than not to try at all
...the bridge had turned into air, and into dreams
Ben Okri
Astonishing the Gods
BridgeCam
Replot Bridge, Finland
Add a live sound stream
to every bridge webcam!
bridges aren't built to be listened to...
why not?
bridges designed to sing!
who are these bridge loving people?


artist collaborations

Jodi Rose is a Berlin-based artist, writer, performer and creator of Singing Bridges, an urban sonic sculpture using the cables of bridges as musical instruments on a global scale. Originally from Australia, Rose has traversed the globe from Helsinki to the Mekong Delta, New York to Lisbon  in her endless quest for bridge music. Made with field-recordings, on-site interventions and improvisations, her fascination with bridge music has led to numerous collaborations with artists around the world. Her works have been exhibited, broadcast and published in Australia, Scandinavia, UK, Asia, Europe and America. Rose explores the philosophical and musical aspects of cable vibrations through global transmissions and installations; developing a musical interface for model bridge instruments; hosting on-site sonic interventions, and linking bridges all over the world through new meta-nation Bridgeland and the Global Bridge Symphony. 
 jodi rose
VIBRATIONS : VARIATIONS CD
BONUS LIVE PERFORMANCES
http://bridgeradio.wordpress.com
Singing Bridges includes collaborations with musicians, composers, visual artists, VJ’s, designers, software developers, engineers, architects, and theatre directors including: Mari Keski-Korsu, Lasse Kaikkonen, Matthias Fritsch, Michael Bates, Ben Fink, Ion Pearce, Trevor Brown, Luka Dekleva, Jonathan Nichol, Pelle Gustavasson, Stephen O’Brien, Rashid Annan, Nazli Tabatabai, Jon Drummond, Derek Thompson, Peter Wellings, Sophea Lerner, Mika Meskanen, Luka Dekleva, Luka Princic, Yroyto, Rebus, Hars, Sonicbrat, Brian Gothong Tan, Ambient Intelligence Lab NUS Singapore, Aljosa Abrahamsberg, WPMG, Feedback Society, Lifeloop, Erik Minkkinen, Frederik de Wilde, Elwis Presley Lieben Toten!

Variations Remixes by: Kent Macpherson, Karl Muller, Roger Mills, GintasK, Dariusz Roberte, Robbie Rowlands, Steve Law, Audio_Z, Ed Osborn, Matt Rosner, Jonas Olesen, Francisco Lopez, Jacques Soddell, Jacob Kirkegaard.  VibroFiles mix Erik Minkkinen feat. bridge samples.

Join in and make some bridges sing, or tune your ears to listen next time you walk across…..
how many engineers does it take to make a live stream for a  bridge to sing?
this is my highest number so far 
singtel, NUS, Keppel Group... 
and still the bridge stayed silent
http://www.archive.org/download/ABC_Bridge_Clips/abc_bridge_built_to_listen_vbr.mp3
http://www.archive.org/download/ABC_Bridge_Clips/abc_bridge_codes_wavelengths_vbr.mp3
http://www.archive.org/download/ABC_Bridge_Clips/abc_bridge_danger_into_air_vbr.mp3
http://www.archive.org/download/ABC_Bridge_Clips/abc_bridge_under_rainbow.mp3
Bridges are essentially quixotic projects
one makes a leap of faith, both building a bridge - and crossing one.
Faith that the bridge will hold you
That the structure won't fall down
http://www.archive.org/download/ABC_Bridge_Clips/abc_bridge_under_rainbow.mp3
WISHLISt: FUTURE BRIDGES
Pont de 25 abril, PORTUGAL
BOSPHORUS, ISTANBUL
HONSHU SHIKOKU, JAPAN
VIADUC DU MILLAU, FRANCE
LION'S GATE, VANCOUVER
AND MANY MORE.....

http://www.archive.org/download/SingingBridges/greencomp2_vbr.mp3
PERMANENT INSTALLATION
LIVE BRIDGE SOUND ONSITE
http://www.archive.org/download/ABC_Bridge_Clips/abc_bridge_codes_wavelengths_vbr.mp3
Codes, wavelengths, variations
GLOBAL BRIDGE SYMPHONY
Imaginary Sketches for a 'Global Bridge Symphony  (Visual Scores for Musical Interpretation)

Ever Falling Down (Tacoma Narrows Bridge, Washington State USA) Instrumentation for Wind, Strings, Voice, Percussion and Electronics.
The Tacoma Narrows bridge across Puget Sound (known as 'Galloping Gertie') is the most spectacular bridge failure in engineering history. The bridge collapsed 4 months after opening in 1940, as the wind velocity hit the resonant frequency of the structure. The visual score 'Ever Falling Down' is based on the technical plan drawing of the Tacoma Narrows bridge, imagining a musical interpretation of the dyanmics and tension in this moment.

Rumours of Angels (Millennium Bridge, London) Instrumentation for Wind, Strings, Percussion, Voices and Electronics
The Millennium Bridge was originally prone to Synchronous Lateral Excitation, as the footsteps of those walking across created a wild swaying motion, until extra damping was applied to the cables. For this reason armies will always break step when crossing bridges, however the general public are not so well trained. This movement is imagined as part of the visual score, in addition to the voices of the angelic force that mythically descended on battelfields to help soldiers vanquish their enemies... The voice of the bridge takes angelic form, giving messages from another world.

http://www.archive.org/download/Stereo_Remix_8_Track_Bridge_Installation/INTRO_8TRACK_REPUBLIQUE_LONG_vbr.mp3
http://www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/bccwr/assets/bcc/pop-ups/eleanor-schonell-bridge/singing_bridge.htm

Bridgeland is singing. Bridgeland is dancing. Bridgeland is freedom. Bridgeland is yes. 
Bridgeland is infinite. Bridgeland is every bridge around the world. Bridgeland is home.
Every bridge, everywhere is part of Bridgeland. 

Every bridge is connected to all other bridges through the vibrations in their structure. Stretching across geographical and architectural borders into a new acoustic form, all bridges resonate with a secret music, transmitting and receiving messages, codes and signals. Voice and vibration. Concrete and abstract. A sensual aurality. Immersed in the world by your ear.
Amplifying the cables and bridge structure, the Bridge becomes an instrument played by the artists, in an audio/ visual on-site intervention taking us on a mysterious journey through a suddenly unfamiliar urban landscape. The live sounds of the bridge are woven into a "dark, industrial, organic, chaotic, strange and beautiful" composition, including a performance exploring the mythology, stories and poetics of bridges. 

Bridgeland transcends the outlines of geography, where crossing the bridge transports you into another reality. 
Bridgeland is a place where anything may be possible. All we need is imagination.

Concept Development: Jodi Rose
Musicians: Guy Veale & Dave Tunstall 
Production/Technical realisation: Jodi Rose, Lowsalt

Commissioned by Lowsalt in association with Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art 2010

What is Bridgeland?
http://www.bridgeland.be
http://www.publicartscotland.com/blogs/20-Welcome-to-Bridgeland
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