Baker Tower Bells
As Dartmouth College's bell tower operator, I field song requests from the Dartmouth community. These range from Happy Birthdays and eclectic pop songs to hymns and anthems. In Spring 2025, I worked with Dartmouth ITC to set up a system to play the bells live, remotely. This enabled experimentation in new ways to interact with and listen to the bells. In May 2025, I produced Dartmouth's first bell tower concert. I commissioned new works for the bell tower and small ensembles and composed a three-movement work, Suite for Clouds, that sonically explores the tower architecture and space.
Poster and program designed by Mac Waters
Photography by Biju Abraham
These are some of the first experiments with the remote playing capabilities. We walked around with a MIDI keyboard on the Dartmouth Green, inviting people to play the bell tower. We also held an improvisation session where we passed around the bell controls.