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Singing Bridges explores the spirit and poetry of bridges, how form and meaning travels through sound, light and image in their design and locations as urban sonic sculptures. Echoing the telecommunications wires circling the earth, the cables of suspension and stay-cabled bridges reverberate with unexpected sounds, each structure creates its own memorable rhythmic texture and sonic environment. The sound of the cables is the voice of the bridge, singing their concrete music, stories of the life and memory of the structure.

Jodi Rose recorded the cables on the Anzac Bridge in 1995, while the bridge was still under construction during her studies at Sydney College of the Arts. Ever since then she dreamed of creating a Global Bridge Symphony, listening to the sounds of bridges singing to each other across the globe. In her ongoing process of responding to the specifics of the structure and location, Rose embraces a philosophy of Art in Context, working in collaboration with artists, researchers, engineers and architects, linking places and people.
Imagining the cables of suspension and stay-cabled bridges as telegraph wires stretching across the globe, Rose hears in the sound of the vibrations the voice of the bridge, each singing a unique song. Her dream is to connect these signals through technological and human networks, linking the sounds of bridges in specific locations to create a metaphoric and actual Global Bridge Symphony.
http://welcometobridgeland.com/
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http://archive.org/details/SingingBridges