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Jodi Rose is the creative director and composer of Singing Bridges, an urban sonic sculpture playing the cables of bridges as musical instruments on a global scale. Rose explores poetic/acoustic resonances of bridges through radiant vibrations and multidisciplinary cultural interventions. The Global Bridge Symphony is an evolving composition where every bridge is connected by sound, like an Acoustic Indra's Net. Amplifying vibrations in the cables and transmission of data from their structures, connects audiences and bridges in a shared listening experience.

Her compositions and artistic research connect the liminal spaces of cultural acoustics, media arts & technology with architecture, urbanism and speculative futurism through an evolving approach that combines machine AI collaboration, experimental auto-ethnography and sonic psychogeography.

Rose holds a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Hons) in Sculpture, Performance & Installation from Sydney College of the Arts (1997) and International Master of Fine Arts (Artistic Research) in Art, Culture & Technology from Trondheim Art Academy, Faculty of Architecture & Design, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (2022).

Rose's work has received artistic research funding from APRA AMCOS Art Music Fund; Research and Development supported by Australia Council for the Arts New Media Arts; ABC Radio National; ANAT Australian Network for Art & Technology; Arts Victoria Music for the Future.

Rose was Radiophonic Artist in Residence with ABC Radio National, funded by the Australia Council New Media Arts in 2004, and Bridge Guard - at the Bridge Guard Art and Science Residential Centre, Esztergom HU/Sturovo SK in 2005. Listen to the Bridge Guard Radio Diary

Tees Transporter To Infinity: Commissioned by The Auxiliary for Middlesbrough Art Weekender, UK 2018. Commissioned artist Jodi Rose creates a sonic journey along the majestic River Tees at sunset. Through wireless headphones, the audience are invited to experience the sounds of the river and its bridges, along with personal stories and reflections from the local community.

The Tees Transporter Bridge Sonic Crossing is composed by Jodi Rose on radio aporee platform for mapping & location-based sound/art works in public space, created by udo noll. Visitors are invited to experience the audio vibrations inside the Tees Transporter Bridge on a unique sonic crossing!

Signal on the Silver Bridge

Composition based on recording the vibrations in the structure of bridges from around the world. A sonic sculpture creating a collective space for reflection as you pass through the bell tower into the Church of our Lady. Contemplating the bridge from the everyday to eternity.

Commissioned by Bjørnar Habbestad for Only Connect NyMusikk Festival, "Come What May'' 2021 Edition in Trondheim.

Listen to the generative music stream "Silver Bridge" made in collaboration with Mubert AI, available as an NFT on Rarible.

Musique du Pont Volant pays homage to the bridge as cathedral and urban musical instrument. At times the concrete dominates with traffic and metallic clangs singing in a dark cacophony, while the sounds of construction dissolve into a transcendent abstract soundscape swirling through the composition in homage to the flying singing bridge of imagination. Commissioned by City Sonics, Mons, Belgium 2009.

Artist Commissions & Exhibitions include: Audiosphere, Museo Reina Sofia 2020 (Madrid), Listen In, LaTrobe Regional Gallery 2021; In-Formalism Now, Casula Powerhouse 2019 (Sydney), Middlesbrough Art Weekender 2018; Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art 2011; Sonorama-Besancon Festival; International Symposium of Electronic Arts (ISEA) National Museum of Singapore 2008; Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Pixelache, Helsinki 2005; Eleanor Schonell Bridge, City of Brisbane 2005; ICEHOTEL, Sweden 2012; Bangor Sound City Singing Menai Bridge "In and Out" INTER/Actions, Wales; Break 2.3 New Species 2005 (Ljubljana); Transit Lounge 2007 (Berlin); Electrofringe 2006 (Newcastle) & Liquid Architecture (Melbourne); Sound in Space Audiotheque, Museum of Contemporary Art 1995 (Sydney).

Publications

Site of Sound: Vol 2 Of Architecture and the Ear, Ed: Brandon LaBelle Errant Bodies Press, Berlin; Essays in Sound II - Technophonia, Sydney Contemporary Sound Arts;

Taming the Wind: Aeolian Sound Practices in Australia, R. Bandt, WFAE, Melbourne; Sound Sculpture, Intersections in Sound and Sculpture in Australian artworks, Ros Bandt.

Featured in: White Fungus, Alarm Magazine, Music & Art Beyond Comparison, Velvet Magazine Issue 30 'every bridge sings a song', Sound Generation, Chronoplastics, Brooklyn NY.

Jodi Rose — current to November 2023