Extracts of sonic bike music recorded live from sonic bikes as they are ridden by audience through different cities and landscapes.

Invented by Kaffe Matthews, the sonic bike is simply a bicycle with good speakers attached that play music that changes depending on where you, the cyclist rides.

Enabled through the location sensitive software system designed and developed with the Bicrophonic Research Institute(BRI). This is the world of bicrophonics.

To date Matthews has made twelve international works for sonic bikes with the BRI.

FIND OUT MORE...   sonicbikes.net/projects

sonic bike music

Ans Benzz

Vision Of Estonia

Mart Avi “Vision / ”Noble Heart” 
7 inch, PB003
2012

VISION

Have yourself a sexy christmas with our limited edition 7'' available now
http://www.juno.co.uk/products/uku-kuut-vaiko-eplik-dont-say-goodbye/596610-01/

Uku Kuut & Vaiko Eplik - Grand Hotel Bruxelles

' zu Bong' is a sonic bike work made for Bonn.  Mapped to the city’s centre streets from Oxfordstrasse in the North to Botanische Garten in the south, the river Rhine in the east to Wittelsbacherring in the west, audience/visitors were invited to come take out a bike and cruise through the streets to hear them transformed by the music playing from the bike and changing with the route   as they rode.

Made by Matthews using sonic mapper gizmo written by Dave Griffiths and the Bicrophonic Research Institute,  made for 'The swamp that was' and developed for 'Opera fiXi'.

Matthews conceived of the piece during a 10 day residency in Bonn, April 2014.  It was commissioned by Carsten Seiffarth for bonn hoeren festival 2014.

This is a live recording made from the bike heading down to the Rhine from the city park.

FIND OUT MORE  http://sonicbikes.net/zu-bong/

zu Bong - and down to the Rhine

'ya slip ta bang'  is a sonic bike work made for Dublin by Matthews who collaborated with Dublin based author Mia Gallagher and her stunning debut novel ‘Hellfire’ (Penguin Ireland 2006).  Made from the story of recovering heroin addict Lucy Dolan as she walks home through the city triggering violent memories of her difficult past,  Mia's voice reads and Matthews' music jabs and lifts alongside, immersing the rider in a transformed city as they follow the route/the score for an hour through its streets.

Recorded live from the bike.
Find out more here   http://sonicbikes.net/ya-slip-ta-bang/

Ya slip ta bang  -  the start

'Ya slip ta bang' is Matthews 12th sonic bike work. This time for Dublin, working with author Mia Gallagher and her debut novel 'Hellfire' (Penguin Ireland 2006)

The music is made for the route the cyclist takes and changes with the journey. Here recorded live from the bike, from somewhere in the middle and along to the Liffy.... 

Find out more and WATCH here  http://sonicbikes.net/ya-slip-ta-bang/

Ya slip ta bang -  somewhere in the middle

The first piece made for Sensory Bikes, composed by Matthews when she was Edgar Varèse guest professor in bicrophonics at TU Berlin, 'lean to go up, slow to go loud'  was commissioned by and performed at mikromusik 1 -3.9.16,  Villa Elisabeth, Berlin 10115.

Made whilst in residence at Villa Elisabeth, the piece follows a route mapped between two churches and the old Berlin wall, taking the rider north from the Elisabethe church, west along the north side of Bernaueur Str and into the far end of the Nordbahnhof park.  With the central melody a sonification of the route of the wall sung by four voices separately recorded within the vast reverb of Villa Elisabeth, the piece also considers the Hungarian Serbian wall, inviting reflection on contemporary systems of community control and the prevention of free movement.

This extract was recorded from one of the bikes riding the start of the piece.

FIND out more sonicbikes.net/lean-to-go-up-slow-to-go-loud/

Lean to go up, slow to go loud  -  along the Berlin wall

April 28th 2013.   The sea to Hailuoto island is frozen to whites. The sky is bright turquoise. The temperature is -10C and sound is sharp and clear.  At Marjaniemi harbour it's noisy. The lighthouse mast hums and the three massive Marja turbines loudly throb as they spin, always.  Expecting this to be the first chance to work with sonic bikes in nature, she is surprised and disappointed at the din, but here it is. Over 4 days and nights she explores and records, listening and looking for a cycle route, the score - play cycling around the wide harbour, banging along the rattling snow covered wooden boardwalk to Sumpu.  Silent paths through the trees are not viable as land is owned and ground is sand, so we must use roads.

Then the two new sonic bikes are ready, so she tags digitally processed music fragments with GPS co-ordinates, loads them onto the bikes and rides out. The piece is based around the frequency of the mast hum. Electronic bips pulse at the start by tourist office moving to drones and dongs as you pedal down the hill turn left and see the turbines. And they start to throb from the bike speakers in patterns, the real thing churning above you as you dip and dive with the bike, the drama morphing as different patterns come and go.

'The Marja trio'  is a sonic bike composition by Matthews for two sonic bikes, Marjaniemi harbour and the boardwalk to Sumppu,  made during a 10 day residency with Hai Art, Hailuoto island, Finland, May 2013 and available free every summer since.

MORE at http://sonicbikes.net/the-marja-trio-2013/

the Marja trio part one - a computer simulation

█║▌║▌║OtherWorld║▌║▌║█

It's new, it's by Mart Avi and it's here... from now till eternity.

https://martavi.bandcamp.com/album/otherworld
ϟ name your price (0 - 999)

OtherWorld

Here Future Smells Like Perfume

Kaffe Matthews is a pioneering composer and sound artist who works live with data, things and places worldwide to make new electroacoustic music for wide ranging audiences. Violin, theremin, star maps, NASA scientists, sharks, children and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra have all contributed to a growing body of work for sites such as concert halls, sonic bikes, public spaces and the human body. She received a BAFTA in 2004 for Weightless Animals, in 2006 a Distinction, Prix Ars Electronica for Sonic Bed_London  and a NESTA Dreamtime Fellowship.  She is an Honorary Professor of Music at the Shanghai Music Conservatory, and was the first Edgar Varèse Guest Professor, DAAD, at TU Audio Communications, Berlin. 

She has been releasing solo works on Annette Works since 1996. In 2014 she established The Bicrophonic Research Institute(BRI) and is currently developing interactive Sensory Bikes and compositions for them, having made 10 international bike operas to date.

http://www.kaffematthews.net
http://www.annetteworks.com
http://www.sonicbikes.net
http://www.musicforbodies.net
@kaffematthews