Tag: ghent
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New Portuguese Bicycle Operatics
Prepare your bicycle clips! Kaffe Matthews and I are starting work on a new Bicycle Opera piece for the city of Porto, I’m working on a new mapping tool and adding some new zone types to the audio system. While working on a BeagleBoard from one of the bikes used in the Ghent installation of…
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Aniziz and Zizim
The online part of the borrowed scenery project is an experiment in geotagging plants and plant related locations via a website/app called Zizim (the compass) combined with a multiplayer online game called Aniziz (the soil) where you can interact with the plants people have found. Having spent the last couple of months developing them, they…
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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…