The composer performed inside the bridge during a scheduled lift
On 9 October 2019 US cornetist Ben LaMar Gay performed a duet with the DuSable Bridge. The 100 year old bascule bridge is where Michigan Avenue crosses the Chicago River in downtown Chicago. Here you can see Gay in the gear room improvising with flutes and melodica as the bridge is being raised to allow tall ships to pass through.
The performance was part of the Tender House project exhibition at the McCormick Bridgehouse museum, in collaboration with International Anthem and Public Media Institute.
Bridge Lift was produced by Mejay Gula and directed and edited by Austin Le Moine and Troy Chebuhar. Location sound is credited to Ed Bornstein and Najee Searcy.
Next month Gay’s European dates take in Brussels Atelier 210 (3 April), The Hague for Rewired (4), Alice Denmark (5), Huesca CC Manuel Benito Moliner (6), Aalborg Studenterhuset Aalborg (8) and London The Jazz Cafe (11).
