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SOUNDBIKES – bike your beat!

(Start) date: 19th February, 2007
Lecturer: Kaspar König

Course cost: € 100
Registration is required for this workshop.
Please register early to ensure a place.
Places are limited to 12.

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STEIM presents a workshop and a lecture by soundbike artist Kaspar König.

A workshop in which do-it-yourself manipulation of ordinairy bicycles leads to high-end sound-generators and performing instruments.
Bring a bike and transform it together with the knowledge and enthousiasm of inventor-artist Kaspar König.

Creating acoustic extensions for the bicycle sounds like a contradiction-in-terms to the design of a bicycle. In this workshop everybody is invited to discover the many sounds hidden in the bicycle itself and the bicycling. To make a regular bicycle-sound we can easily neglect the maintainance of a bicycle. By not only turning the bicycle upside down but by actively adding sound-sensors, we`ll discover the possibilities of soundbiking. Add-ons can be everything from a playing-card and laundry wedges, to fully powered amplification for strings, microphones and all other things that fit the conditions of the soundbicycle and its creative maker.

How can a bicycle brake become a brake beat?
By turning the wheel regularly, a bicycle likely becomes a time-pulse or measure. By finding the right spots to control the sound input, more musical patterns can be discovered while the wheel is turning. Now it`s up to our imagination to invent all kinds of little things we could try to mount on the existing mechanisms as well as discover new mechanisms.

Can every bicycle become a musical instrument?
Basically yes, if some parts are still rotating, sounds can be created. Although a full functional bicycle can ride on the streets and the street is the best trigger for the soundbike!

Is there a composition in the street?
That is a good question. For many reasons I believe several streets sound better then others with and without the use of a soundbike, depending on the charactaristics of the bike and the street. Drive your soundbike outside and experience the biggest score of the world: the street! Let your ear decide!

Location: STEIM, Achtergracht 19, Amsterdam
Dates: Monday February 19 through Thursday February 22
Time: 10:00 – 17:00h

Also:

AUDIOSPORT Lecture

A lecture on the works of Kaspar König: Recycling firehose, Transmitting Object Behaviours, Architectural Acoustic research (xiloseum), Mr. Bend and
How sound meets sport in the festival called Audiolympics, Beijing 08.

Location: STEIM, Utrechtsedwarsstraat 134, Amsterdam
Date: Tuesday February 20
Time: 20:30h
Entrance: free

And:

At the Y-helling (NDSM) on Saturday February 24

A concert with Kaspar König and guests playing the soundbikes and the circuitbended hardwarehacks like the Audioshaver from China.
More information www.kasparkoenig.com

Biography

Kaspar König (1975) is a dutch artist living in Berlin and Maastricht . He studied Industrial Design at the UdK in Berlin. He is interested in the goods for daily use and their sound-universe. He invents instruments like the Soundbikes and Mr. Bend and he recycles firehoses in a delicate way. Furthermore he composes soundpieces for (dance) theatre. Recently he started working as a lecturer at the Cafa in Beijing. He also organizes the Audiolympics, an off-festival during the Olympic Games, with the contribution of artists on the threshold between music and sports. www.kasparkoenig.com

The fee for the workshop is €100, registration can be done only through the STEIM website, at http://www.steim.org/steim/workshops.php .
For questions please email knock@steim.nl or call +31 206228690.