Category: swamp-bikeopera
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Swamp bike opera impressions…
Photo thanks to zzkt As the coder for “The swamp that was…” bike opera, my view of things was from “inside” the bikes – listening to the GPS data and playing samples. So it was super (and somewhat surreal) to finally become a rider and take one of the bikes (called Nancy) for a spin…
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Borrowed Scenery
I spent last week working on various activities associated with the Electrified festival in Ghent, which included a mix of plant care, games dev, low level android audio hacking, beagleboard-bike fixing. Here are some photos of the Borrowed Scenery installation/physical narrative, home of the mysterious patabotanists and temporary research laboratory for FoAM – excellent for…
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‘The swamp that was’ – a bicycle opera from the ground of Ganda (part 5)
The Bicycle Opera is now live, get your bikes from the Snoepwinkel, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 21: A bicycle opera in Ghent! British sound artist Kaffe Matthews records urban sounds such as music, singing and street sounds. As she combines these with elements from the past, she creates an unseen urban opera. A mobile composition, written for cyclists.…
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More music from bikes (part 4)
The last few days has seen intense work on Kaffe Matthews’ Ghent Bicycle Opera which goes live in a few days, lots of new stuff on the git repo for Beagle Board/GPS powered sample playback. (image from Timelab/Kaffe’s site) The main problem with the version we tested in June was that all the samples needed…
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Localised sound, from a distance (part 3)
Work has been continuing on “The swamp that was… a bike opera” with Kaffe Matthews and TimeLab Ghent. We now have a running system that’s playing sounds on the bikes, although we’re experiencing some harsh restrictions due to the combination of lowish BeagleBoard memory and slow SD card reading times. I’m considering a kind of…
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Location based sound, part two
Our first public test for the The swamp that was, a bicycle opera takes place next weekend, so I’ve been working on the on-bike software and getting more experience with the BeagleBoard while Kaffe builds up the sound pieces. In order to test the software, I’ve made a local map I can play with: Each…
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The Swamp that was, a bicycle opera
Day one on a new project – with Kaffe Matthews, and a collaboration between FoAM & Timelab, “The Swamp that was” is an opera where bicycles become a way to hear stories of the past in the city of Ghent. I’m picking up the software side of things from Wolfgang Hauptfleisch, which involves using BeagleBoards…