London

Kaffe is delighted to be presenting bicrophonics at the Sound | Making | Space, RA talks, the Geological Society, Piccadilly, London W1 on Monday 6 February 2017, 6.30 — 8.30pm. Sound waves [...]

A great afternoon with artist Ray Lee exploring the possibilities of sonic walking. ie. draw a local map of GPS zones, add sounds to those zones and take a sonic bike kit V.3 for a walk. Outcome. [...]

Last week we turned a bicycle into an instrument which is now not only inspiring all kinds of new compositional and performic ideas, but note too how it encourages all kinds of peculiar cycling. [...]

Final day and we agree to complete this stage by working the still titled ‘chimpsprocket’ soft (inc. Hall sensor) to function with the sonic kayak soft and GPS locating system. ie. [...]

Finally sunshine and we take lab bike outside for testing. Shock. Bike is silent. The infrared (IR) cadence sensor no longer works. We check. All connections still good, Pi still booted, battery [...]

It’s windy and raining and the cadence sensor is – check above- exciting. The sound that is being play-cycled are chimps calling and the developing soft is [...]

Sukander decides the first one to make will be a cadence sensor. Made from two reflective infrared(IR) sensors mounted on top of the chain ring pointing at the teeth of the sprocket, they will be [...]

We are delighted to welcome Sukander Kartadinata who has come to work with us on developing the sonic bike into more of an instrument.  Our first aim is to enable the rider to play the sound from [...]

So here we have a sonic bike kit box v.3 with the new power convertor built and installed into this IP65 box which is pretty waterproof when its lid is screwed in place. Raspberry Pi2 top left, [...]

This March 22-26th we’re looking forward to working with Sukandar Kartadinata in our London Lab to develop the sonic bike as instrument. We’ll be using pitch/roll/yaw, speed and cadence, [...]