Bicrophonics makes music and stories for riders on bicycles, linked to the street and triggered and played by you the cyclist depending on where you go, how you ride, and the action of the spaces you ride through. Playing from bicycle mounted speakers, free of headphones and free of the internet, each ride provides new audio experience whilst transforming familiar streets into surprising movies.
Bicrophonics researches the making of mobile composition and was discovered and realised through Kaffe Matthews’ experiments with Radio Cycle(2002) and The Marvelo Project(2008), then developed with the establishment of The Bicrophonic Research Institute(BRI) in 2013 within which five different kinds of sonic bikes have been designed and built, making thirty new Sonic Bike Operas/Rides to date. MORE…
Commissioned around the world. In cities, on islands, in parks and seasides with Arts and Music festivals.
made with the people and sounds of Augsburg
Collective music making with residents and Zone Sound Creative, Taipei, Taiwan.
Vibrational music on the street for floating horizontal listening.
is a musical instrument, a portable stage, a game player, a doorway to listening & looking that creates good health







