During this winter 2022 broadcast, we listen to the 2009 release Bridge Music, an album composed with sounds recorded by playing an iconic landmark in our region: the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Mid-Hudson Bridge, which crosses the river at Poughkeepsie. Poughkeepsie-based musician, composer, and sound artist Joseph Bertolozzi created the album by sampling the sounds of the bridge’s surfaces with various mallets and using those sounds to compose new works, making the Mid-Hudson Bridge the largest percussion instrument in the world. josephbertolozzi.com

Echolocation explores aspects of environmental art, especially the use of bioacoustics in sound art and musical composition. The show dwells at the junction between art, science, and natural sound, and features work by artists working in the fields of soundscape studies, deep listening, and acoustic ecology. Featured composers include R. Murray Schaffer, Doug Quin, Lisa Walker, Hildegard Westerkamp, Pauline Oliveros, and others. Each quarterly program includes news and updates from fields related to scientific and artistic studies of environmental sound. Submissions of locally recorded and produced pieces are encouraged. https://www.facebook.com/EcholocationWGXC