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Tees Transporter Sonic Crossing & Infinity Sonic Cruise commissioned by The Auxiliary for Middlesbrough Art Weekender, 2018 www.middlesbroughartweekender.com

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.

MIDDLESBROUGH ART WEEKENDER CELEBRATES INTERNATIONAL AND LOCAL ARTISTS IN THE TEES VALLEY

The Middlesbrough Art Weekender is a contemporary arts festival, celebrating and promoting international and local artists in the heart of the Tees Valley. With ‘Connectivity’ as this years theme, the festival promotes Middlesbrough Town Centre as a cultural and artistic hotspot.

Supported by the River Tees Rediscovered Landscape Partnership, thanks to money raised by National Lottery players and awarded through the Heritage Lottery Fund.

Middlesbrough Art Weekender & Singing Tees Bridges generously supported by: Arts Council England, Tees Valley Combined Authority, MIMA [Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art], River Tees Rediscovered, Middlesbrough Council, Creative Darlington, Heritage Lottery Fund & Middlesbrough Holiday Inn.

SINGING BRIDGES singingbridges.net

Singing Bridges highlights the unheard sounds and secret language of the urban environment. The sounds of the bridge opens a space for reflection, poetic reverie and contemplation, taking us beyond the physical architecture and functional aspects of the structure, into another realm entirely. Tuning in to the voice of the bridge we can hear the creaks and sighs of the structure, the tension in the architecture, connecting to bridges around the world through the poetic acoustics echoing along the cables, in a location specific listening experience.

Singing Bridges thanks the following for support to realise this event: Concept, *recordings, editing and composition by Jodi Rose. Thanks to Liam Slevin & Anna Byrne [The Auxiliary], Paul Stewart [Co-Curator], John Ivison [Transporter Bridge Manager], Ray [*climbing and recording the cables on top of the gondola and bridge span]; Trevor [Bridge operator] and Frank [Volunteer, Bridge Visitor Centre], Helen Welford [MIMA], Rachel Dodd [RiverShack], Lucy Chapman [River Tees Rediscovered / Groundwork NE].

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. aporee.org/maps/projects/teestransporter

Socially engaged networks, embodied interactions, collaborative esoteric poetics: a series of nomadic conversations about society, creativity, technology and the future with host Jodi Rose.