Sensory Bike (bicycle instrument)

4 new sensory bikes developed & built during Kaffe’s bicrophonic professorship TU Berlin. Launched September.

An interactive vocal piece performed from several instrumental sonic bikes, made by Kaffe and Sukander Kartadinata where the redesigned sonic bikes, aka sensory bikes, played as instruments when [...]

A sneak preview of Evelyn Saylors piece in development last night. You can come ride the real thing tomorrow at SoundCycleGarden, pieces for bikes and plants in the Tiergarten, Berlin. 13-16.00h [...]

Speed sensor on dynamo changing pitch, and break sensor stepping through sound of Ubahn train transformed through Pd on RPi2 made by Marcus Zepp. Yes, the new Berlin sonic bikes are inspiring the [...]

The 4th bike, a Dutch Gazelle, is under the soldering iron of Sukander in Neukoln, we are in the studio connecting new boxes and speakers, and others are outside fine tuning compositions. It’s [...]

Kaffe’s three month professorship at TU celebrated – the NEW sensory bike revealed and available for you to ride: SoundCycleGarden pieces for bikes and plants Saturday 16th July 13.00-16.00h in [...]

Bicrophonic Discoveries Berlin – Kaffe Matthews in conversation at ausland Territory for experimental music, performance and art | Lychener Straße 60, 10437 Berlin A good evening at ausland where [...]

Everyone is working on their compositions. Evelyn and Chiara are making GPS located pieces for the Tiergarten, and Marcus and Philipp are working with the instrumental bike(above), sprocket [...]

It’s all very well installing sensors on a bike in the lab, but there’s no point doing it if they can’t withstand bumpy roads, rain, mud, cobbles and a multitude of speeds and [...]

9am and I am at the Berliner Lastenrad Netzwerk, Alt-Treptow with founder Christophe Vaillant. The BLN is a social project that designs and builds cargo bikes by recycling [...]