Bridge Music (first post)

So, this guy is composing a percussive piece that uses a bridge outside of Poughkeepsie, NY as an instrument.

He recorded a 2 -minute proof of concept which I thought was pretty neatly done.

This gives me a longing for contact mics.

Artistic Statements always tend to rub me the wrong way, so I tried to hurry over the majority of the article (which was rife with statements such as "I only play big instruments"). However, the article did mention several different strikers (rubber mallets, peen hammers, and an assortment of ball bearings run down a surface). Once you get past the obligatory music biz blah-blah, this is a pretty impressive example of composition with found material.

I was a little surprised that he went exclusively with contact mics, I would have thought that some of those surfaces would behave like gongs, allowing for some radically different sounds based on mic distance from the surface, like stockhausen did in Mikrophonie