one river six tunnels

After quite a struggle, we launch.  COVID cases increasing and the city’s focus on Nürnberg’s consideration to be European City of Culture 2025 along with the mayor testing COV positive so [...]

I am still baffled at the thought that an Arts Festival in a city today, that states it is promoting wide community participation, only presents digital publicity about said event until three [...]

I don’t think either of us expected there to be so much preparation to do on the bikes themselves. Alex has been backstage for many days cleaning almost a year’s worth of storage decay off their [...]

Now, with half of the piece on the bike and triggering nicely along the river, I’m amazed – as always – how I forget this moment. The moment of taking the sounds from the confined control and [...]

The fundamental concept behind the making of this piece that has to run along the river, has been the variety of bridges and tunnels that cross it. Built between the 15th century and now, they [...]

There’s something deeply exciting about being in medieval Nürnberg with a box you built in Berlin that has just arrived from Lisbon, all contents safe. Now to remove the EnviroBike air pollution [...]

I’m heading south from Berlin on the train bound to Nürnberg. Good news is that a sonic bike mkII fits in the bike rack and the four #Envirobikes from Lisbon plus ten strong Yellow Team [...]

There’s a good selection of rich recordings from Nürnberg. Alex has also sent his and with our different gear and approaches the same sites sound other. Some of the voice improvisations are also [...]

I am leaving Nürnberg with a very different sense of the city I first visited in June. The tunnel recordings with everyone and bridge recordings with Alex are brilliant. Using the Tunnel’s [...]

Today Alex and I meet with Silja Beck, Ina Ritter and Alessia Pennavaria who also live in Nürnberg and study at the Academy of Fine Arts here with Alex. Earlier this week, we met and discussed [...]