Rivers That Talk and Bridges that Sing is an audio installation by Joanna Hay.  It is 30 minutes of looped music, voice and ambient sound, housed in an upright canoe in Frankfort, on the banks of the Kentucky River.  This piece is inspired by childhood memory, the threat of flooding and the desire to care for the river. 

Oral history interview clips from the community are interwoven with music and poetry housed in a canoe, placed in Riverview Park along the river.

Rivers That Talk and Bridges That Sing
30 minutes of looped sound housed in an upright canoe.

Tones of the Singing Bridge recorded and mixed by Jordon Ellis.

Interviews archived at the Kentucky History Center:
Jeri Katherine Howell
Nathan Depenbrock
Allison Depenbrock
Gerry Seavo James
Vinson Parsons
Judith Clark
Alice Blanton
Mattie Davis
Van Warren

The River
Written and performed by Judah Thornewill (guitar) and Joanna Hay (violin) with tones from the Singing Bridge.

Turbulence
Written by Jeff Ellis
Performed by Stirfry Musette

Liquid Measure
Written and read by Trina Peiffer

Recording, Mixing and Mastering by Jordon Ellis
Bench built by Rhett Fulkerson

Special thanks to Frank Arts, City of Frankfort, Josephine Sculpture Park, Frankfort/Franklin County Tourist Commission and Canoe Kentucky (for the gift of the canoe.)

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