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If you look at the score map above, you’ll see the black zone, ‘gracepace’ (key to the side) which is where the new sonic bikes will be available for audience to come take out and ride through [...]

We are leaving Middlesbrough with a new depth to our discoveries as we spent the morning talking to older residents at the Grove Hill Community Hub. It’s simple and obvious. Listening to [...]

After riding we also spent a good few hours upstairs in the handsome reference library poring over old town maps spread on ancient wooden tables in the quiet, the librarian sharing details of [...]

Since our sonic kayak experiments in September last year, we have been thinking about also using the bikes to record air quality data as they ride. That this data could then not only be shared on [...]

We want to explore beyond the town centre and with the wind finally dropped, we pedal slowly out through Gresham, the Boho tech space and then inland (west) along the river. There’s a long [...]

The wind is still phenomenal but we’re finally out along the river Tees. With its presence in British industrial history, you’d expect it to be larger. Mile upon mile of steaming [...]

Sunday morning and we’re in the studio of CVFM radio with Ellie Lowther who I did a remote on air with from Berlin last Sunday. We’re discussing speaker positions and passers by [...]

Sonic bikes are coming to Middlesbrough and we need your help! We, the Bicrophonic Research Institute(BRI) together with the Auxilliary hosted an open gathering at Pineapple Black, Hillstreet [...]

Liam laughs yelling through the wind that  ” Yes this blast is UNUSUAL Kaffe!”  We are almost horizontal, struggling to explore Middlesbrough’s neighbourhoods on foot. We start [...]

Getting off the not Express Transpennine train in freezing wind  (having lurched as a sick bus with tragic engine noise all the way from Manchester) we realise we were expecting a large city – [...]