power bike parade
Power Bike Parade is a Semiotech project & a bike-powered electronic orchestra that demonstrates the use of an alternative power source by converting the kinetic energy of pedaling a bike into electricity used to create a festival of electro-acoustic music and glittering LED lights. The two-rider parade takes this everyday act of riding a bicycle, and expands it into a visual and sonic spectacle, re-appropriating the act as a performance and a venue for expression.
The bikes are outfitted with contact microphones, speakers, and custom bike instruments to amplify the sounds the bike makes during a ride, while LED lights are mounted on the bikes and connected to kinetic power generators, which power the lights as you pedal, amplifying and transforming the bike ride itself into a performance.
Material and logistical support provided by Brooklyn Bike & Board.
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Power Bike Parade from Semiotech on Vimeo.
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