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We’re delighted. Jean-Luc and cyclo have completed and built brilliant design for #sonicbikes kids mini-rig speaker mounting. With raspberry pi2 the new brain on the back, this really could be [...]

A complex day split between production demands and composition desire. Comes good through cycling to Patrick Lubaki’s with Samson to learn and record the bass solo for VIP PASSPORT song. So [...]

Thanks to support of director Lucy Grauman, I am back at MET-X to work VIP Passport song with the STEMAGNIFIQUE choir. 4 verses of lyrics co- written with Mandy McIntosh, the melody a [...]

La Choraline, the 13-18yr old girl choir at the La Monnaie are rehearsing and singing the chorus and backing vocals for VIP PASSPORT song. Engineers hidden away down corridors are recording it [...]

Good progress. Pitch is changing depending on direction albeit with GPS latency but its workable. Random playback, however, is not doing the right thing so we go and debug outside. Turns into one [...]

BRI has landed in Q-02, Brussels. Tom and Ludo happy with raspberry pi2 fast installs and Kaffe happy with improved sound quality on these bumpy streets. The 6 x Brussels sonic bikes are ready to [...]

A productive week in the BRI lab with an unexpected outcome. The platform for our sonic bike system has, since 2008, been the Beagleboard-XM, upgrading last year to the Beaglebone for Houston [...]

Back in London BRI lab working with different ways of altering pitch of sound from either cycling speed, direction or random. One problem is that we can’t alter the pitch more than one octave up [...]

Millenium Place outside the Transport Museum, Coventry. A curious gathering of architectural boomerangs, buses, and people with all kinds on bikes. In the museum itself, there’s a brilliant [...]

This week back in London BRI lab and the outer boundaries of score map for ‘Finding Song Home’ are defined. Note the turquoise blue freedom trail running down to the south west. This runs beside [...]