Bill Fontana: Harmonic Bridge

This intriguing sound installation reveals the myriad of noises hidden within the Millennium Bridge. A network of vibration sensors have been placed within the bridge turning it into a vast stringed instrument which plays an ever-changing musical composition based on it's surrounding environment.

The noise created by pedestrians passing overhead, the wind, bicycles and the architectural elements which make up the bridge have been transformed into a sound installation which can be heard simultaneously in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall and also at Southwark Underground station.

We have a Flash-based interactive illustration of how the different accelerometers pick up different sounds from various places on the bridge.

Bill Fontana
Harmonic Bridge