Siren of Suspension Bridge Songs

Article in ALARM MAGAZINE Online: When the Golden Gate was built, the San Francisco Chronicle called it a thirty-five-million-dollar steel harp. Its chief engineer, Joseph B. Strauss, probably didn’t mind. In fact, he seemed to think so too, writing, “As harps for the winds of heaven / my weblike cables are spun.” Australia’s Glebe Island Bridge elicited a similar response in budding sound artist Jodi Rose. “When I was at art school in ’95, I would drive by the Glebe Island Bridge (Anzac Bridge) every day and it just looked like a giant harp to me.”

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In Norse mythology, Bifrost is the Rainbow bridge between MidGard, home of mankind; the earth, and Asgard, abode of the Gods, which shimmers in all the colours of the rainbow. The Gods ride daily over Bifrost bridge, the path traversed by those going to and from the other world. When the great rainbow bridge collapses, the world will end.