Birthrights & free movement questioned on Brussels’ streets.

Made by Kaffe Matthews and the Bicrophonic Research Institute(BRI) with tech development by Tom Keene, Finding Song Home was commissioned by opera house La Monnaie de la Munt and Q-O2 2015.

Where and how you ride the sonic bike, determines the music played to you.

These tracks were recorded and made at different places with different residents in Brussels, and together make up a large sound map that could be ridden through in any direction, triggering different songs and stories, creating different narratives for every rider.

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Finding Song Home

Birthrights & free movement questioned on Brussels’ streets.

Made by Kaffe Matthews and the Bicrophonic Research Institute(BRI) with tech development by Tom Keene,  Finding Song Home was commissioned by opera house La Monnaie de la Munt and Q-O2.

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Finding Song Home: Big Zak's Hommage To Antoine

Birthrights & free movement questioned on Brussels’ streets.

Made by Kaffe Matthews and the Bicrophonic Research Institute(BRI) with tech development by Tom Keene, Finding Song Home was commissioned by opera house La Monnaie de la Munt and Q-O2.

Lunch time gatherings of women at Vaartkapoen, Molenbeek who were really interested in FSH and told Kaffe many stories of their experiences growing up in Molenbeek having moved there from Morocco. They would also sing songs for her, this one with Fatiha playing the bender. 
VOICES: Louiza Amghizar, Rasmia Zaaza, Fatiha El Mrabet, Souad Khelifa, Malika Mderreg, Fatima Kamlichi, Solange Tavares,

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Finding Song Home: Lunchbreak At Vaartkapoen

Birthrights & free movement questioned on Brussels’ streets.

Made by Kaffe Matthews and the Bicrophonic Research Institute(BRI) with tech development by Tom Keene, Finding Song Home was commissioned by opera house La Monnaie de la Munt and Q-O2.

'VIP Passport' Song
VIP passport song lyrics are online here: http://sonicbikes.net/finding-song-home-2015 co writted by Kaffe Matthews and Mandy mcIntosh.

It is also story about Prince talking to Kaffe and Kaffe having idea... the melody is a sonification of the phrase VIP PASSPORT,

Soloists: Lucy Grauman, Patrick Lubaki. Choir: Stemagnifique , directed by Lucy Grauman.

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Finding Song Home: VIP Passport Song

Birthrights & free movement questioned on Brussels’ streets.

Made by Kaffe Matthews and the Bicrophonic Research Institute(BRI) with tech development by Tom Keene, Finding Song Home was commissioned by opera house La Monnaie de la Munt and Q-O2.

'VIP Passport' Chorus
VIP passport song lyrics are online here: sonicbikes.net/finding-song-home-2015 co writted by Kaffe Matthews and Mandy mcIntosh.

It is also story about Prince talking to Kaffe and Kaffe having idea... the melody is a sonification of the phrase VIP PASSPORT,

Soloists: Lucy Grauman, Patrick Lubaki. Choir: Stemagnifique , directed by Lucy Grauman.

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Finding Song Home: VIP Passport Chorus

Birthrights & free movement questioned on Brussels’ streets.

Made by Kaffe Matthews and the Bicrophonic Research Institute(BRI) with tech development by Tom Keene, Finding Song Home was commissioned by opera house La Monnaie de la Munt and Q-O2.

'Nos Quatres Maisons'
Girls song writing from music and story making workshops with Kaffe Matthews and Ivan Vrambout at Maison des Cultures et de la Cohésion Sociale de Molenbeek- Saint-Jean.  They speak and sing in moroccan arabic polish and french at home and on the street.

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Finding Song Home: Nos Quatres Maisons

Birthrights & free movement questioned on Brussels’ streets.

Made by Kaffe Matthews and the Bicrophonic Research Institute(BRI) with tech development by Tom Keene, Finding Song Home was commissioned by opera house La Monnaie de la Munt and Q-O2.

'Prince And Racism In E.Berlin'
Kaffe met Prince at Globearoma  http://www.globearoma.be/ He's from West Cameroon, has moved to Belgium from Berlin...

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Finding Song Home: Prince And Racism In E.Berlin

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.

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