Singing Bridges Project

Jodi Rose’s Singing Bridges Project is a form of musical instrument building: one of finding musical instruments within existing structures or architecture. As a finder of instruments, Rose has chosen the structures of large cabled bridges as her source.

Starting in 1995 with the construction of Sydney’s Anzac Bridge, Rose’s Singing Bridges Project is an ongoing exploration uncovering the hidden music within the world’s stay-cabled and suspension bridges. Through recording the usually inaudible vibrations of bridge cables, acting like a massive Aeolian harp, Rose reveals the unique sounds produced by each bridge. ‘The cables look like harps waiting to be plucked by angels or by passing giants. How do the cables sound? Could they become strings in an instrument made of bridges stretching around the earth?’ (Rose, 2007).

In 2009 Jodi Rose and Frederik De Wilde began designing a new playable interface that would enable people to trigger sound and visual material drawn from Rose’s extensive archive of bridge sounds and images. More information about this project will appear on clatterbox down the track.

Singing Bridges Project site.