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To listen to an award-winning six minute report on the Bell Project produced by Rich Eggers and broadcast on WIUM FM 91.3, Macomb, Illinois, please click on one of these choices: Real Player,    MP3,    Quicktime Audio

A WORK WRITTEN AND PRODUCED BY PATRICK HAZELL 
UTILIZING 10 DIFFERENT BELLS IN EIGHT CHURCH BUILDINGS 
THE FIRE DEPARTMENT, AND THE OLD LINCOLN SCHOOL BUILDING
IN THE HISTORIC MISSISSIPPI RIVER TOWN, BURLINGTON, IOWA. 

                 

THE BELL PROJECT IS A COMPOSITION FEATURING THE 
RINGING OF THE OLD BELLS IN VARIOUS COMBINATIONS 
OF CHORD PATTERNS AND OVERTONES MAKING FOR AN HOUR-LONG
AMBIENT SOUND EVENT. THE SONIC WAVES ECHOED THROUGH 
THE HILLS OF THE VALLEY LONG AGO CARVED BY HAWKEYE CREEK 
AS IT FLOWED INTO THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. IN THIS VALLEY 
WAS BUILT THE OLD DOWNTOWN OF BURLINGTON WITH ITS UNIQUE 
GROUPING OF MAJESTIC 19TH CENTURY HIGH-STEEPLED CHURCHS. 
IT IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL OF THE LARGE TOWN SETTINGS 
ALONG THE IOWA MISSISSIPPI RIVER COAST.