Music made by live sonification of air pollution gathered as particulate matter from an Enviro Bike ridden through Berlin on a cold cloudy day

https://sonicbikes.net/enviro-bike/

lock down dancing

Music made by live sonification of air pollution gathered as particulate matter from an Enviro Bike ridden through Berlin on a cloudy day

https://sonicbikes.net/enviro-bike/

tone bouncing

Daily lives & local journeys across Houston’s Mexican ward.

2nd Ward | 2° Barrio, a sonic bike opera, directed and composed by Kaffe Matthews, with music made by 9 girls, 2 seniors, writers and musicians, through workshops with Nameless Sound. For the Houston Alliance Transported and Renewed Festival 2014. With Vampire Squid Labs and BRI realizing the tech making the first american sonic bikes.

If you got on a sonic bike and rode along Ripley Route, a version of this would play through it's speakers:
Take a left out of Ripley House, down Lovejoy Schroeder, south down Milby, crossing canal St, east along Wilmer, up to Garrow, double back along Sherman to the Milby junction, Houston. Ride on Panther bike, a slow comfortable cruise, and you should be able to hear a version of this but with neighborhood sounds playing too. This track is a studio version of a sonic bike experience, without the shifting movie made from the passing landscape.

MORE: sonicbikes.net/2nd-ward-a-bicycl…era-en-bicicleta/

2nd Ward | 2° Barrio: Ripley Route

Temperature rises, tone rises, location plays sample, hydrophone amplifies the underwater world. 
Sonic Kayak early stage testing from Penryn harbour, Kernow July 2016
http://fo.am/blog/2016/08/10/sonic-kayaks-building/

Sonic Kayak paddling, Penryn Harbour test 3

Temperature rises, tone rises, location plays sample, hydrophone amplifies the underwater world.
Sonic Kayak early stage test paddling from Penryn harbour, Kernow July 2016. 
fo.am/blog/2016/08/10/sonic-kayaks-building/

Sonic Kayak paddling, Penryn Harbour test 4

On golden hares is a project to release the acoustic organ from the confines of the church and spread its sounds from the inside out onto the streets for all.  It has also been a compositional discovery for Matthews who has been playing and recording the Walloner church organ in Magdeburg over a month in this extraordinary city.  Magdeburg has a history of destruction experiencing two periods of violent assault that all but destroyed it, resulting in a wide range of architecture from early Gothic to socialist to present day standing side by side providing homes and spaces to widely diverse and visible communities. Tourists and the river Elbe river add to the mix and Matthews has mapped her outcomes to the different streets,  highlighting and responding to the shifting contexts. The resulting composition is minimal then lush, open to give you space to hear then demanding to colour your ride, frequencies harmonising then conflicting as they float and bounce from the sonic bike as you go. Look up.  You just might hear something.

Read more: https://sonicbikes.net/on-golden-hares/

On golden hares

On golden hares, an extract

Closefrog TrashedLoop

Closefrog Burning3

Closefrog Burning2

Closefrog Burning1

gentle granulation and filter, mimicking air darkening due to increased particles, ie. pollution, present.
(Air pollution sounds explored for Sonic Kayak Sonification project with FoAM-Kernow  fo.am/blog/2020/05/05/sonic-…s-for-citizen-science/ )

insect sing gentle gran - air

How the sensor data played the sounds (continuous)

info:
https://www.kaffematthews.net/wp-admin/post.php?post=11469&action=edit

Sensor data read as states - MoSoLab 2

https://www.kaffematthews.net/blog/item/sonification-9-finding-the-ranges-ah-timetime

Sensor data read as states -MoSoLab 1

The Bicrophonic Research Institute (BRI) is an organisation that makes music with people and places to play from bikes ridden by you the cyclist.

Over ten years of international projects we have developed the sonic bike to do this. A bike with two mounted speakers on the front and GPS receiver and Raspberry Pi computer on the back. With our bespoke mapping software, different sounds are linked to different places meaning that the interactive music played by the bike changes dependent on where the cyclist goes and how fast they pedal.

Not an app and free of the internet, the sonic bike creates an outdoor listening experience for everyone – reaching new audiences on the street or hillside, far beyond the confines of concert halls and galleries.
Established by Kaffe Matthews and Dave Griffiths in 2014, the BRI works collectively from a London lab, undertaking multiple projects annually, each one realising new site-specific music made through residential collaborations with producers and communities. Politics, time, cycling possibilities, architecture and finances all bare on each project, making them utterly contemporary. Alongside, we run local workshops in sonic bike making and open source development, all information of which is shared online. These projects are resulting in the growth of independent sonic cycling hubs worldwide – currently in London, Finland, Houston, Brussels, Berlin and Magdeburg.

http://sonicbikes.net/

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