((PKG))  SINGING GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE   
((TRT:  02:29)) 
((Banner:  The Bridge that Sings))  
((Reporter/Camera:  Matt Dibble)) 
((Adapted by:  Philip Alexiou)) 
((Map:  San Francisco, California))    
((Main characters:  2 male))  
((Sub characters:  1 female))  
((NATS))   
((Courtesy:  Mark Kreuger/Twitter))  
Oh dude.  
It's like Close Encounters of the Third Kind. 
((Courtesy:  @roamingrecord))  
((NATS)) 
((Anna Klafter, San Francisco Resident))  
((Courtesy:  Zoom))  
I watched the video and I was like, what a crazy sound.  And 
then after it ended, I like heard the sound in the 
background.    
((NATS)) 
((Courtesy:  Anna Klafter))  
It’s quite loud actually.  Since then, I’ve been hearing it 
almost every afternoon or evening.  
((NATS)) 
((Paolo Cosulich-Schwartz, Public Affairs Manager, 
Golden Gate Bridge District))  
((Courtesy:  Zoom))   
The Golden Gate Bridge has started to sing.  The new 
musical tones that are coming from the Golden Gate Bridge 
are known as an evitable phenomenon  
((NATS)) 
((Courtesy:  Golden Gate Bridge District)) 
that stem from our wind retrofit project.  It happens during 
very high winds.    
((Courtesy:  Zoom))  
((Paolo Cosulich-Schwartz, Public Affairs Manager, 
Golden Gate Bridge District))  
We’ve been replacing handrail on the west sidewalk with 
new railing that has thin vertical slats that are designed to 
run more air to flow through them.  One effect of that is that 
the bridge now at very high winds and with specific angles 
sings or hums.   
((NATS)) 
((Courtesy:  Bowen Dwelle/Instagram)) 
((Courtesy: Mark Kreuger/Twitter)) 
((Courtesy:  Golden Gate Bridge District)) 
We knew going into the replacement that the bridge would 
sing during high wind events but what we didn’t know was 
just how loud that might be.  
((Paolo Cosulich-Schwartz, Public Affairs Manager, 
Golden Gate Bridge District))  
((Courtesy:  Zoom)) 
Some people love it and find it soothing and 
meditative.  Others have found it somewhat unpleasant.   
((NATS)) 
((Courtesy:  Mr. Bill))  
((Mr. Bill, DJ & Electronic Musician))   
((Courtesy:  Zoom))   
I moved to America like five or six years ago to pursue my 
music career, which is basically DJ’-ing or and writing 
electronic music and playing it at clubs and stuff like that.  
((Mr. Bill, DJ & Electronic Musician))   
((Courtesy:  Zoom))  
So, I rode my bike like right into the middle of the bridge and 
then I just took a field recorder with me and recorded it and 
then turned it into music.     
((NATS)) 
((Mr. Bill, DJ & Electronic Musician))   
I was just working on a few tracks at the time   
((Courtesy:  Zoom)) 
and that one just happened to be slightly closer to being into 
the key of the bridge.  
I’m not sure, I might use the sample like here and there and 
a few other tracks maybe.  The thing that I found the most 
interesting about it was that they were doing all this 
construction and didn’t realize until the very end that it was 
going to make this huge resonance and now it’s just like this 
hum that just emanates through the immediate vicinity of the 
city around us. 
((NATS))