Semiotech has a sound art piece in the Low-Fi Toll Free project started by Refarm Spectacle, which is Jennifer Khoshbin and Paul Lewis. Every month is a different series of artists’ sound pieces based on a theme that you can hear by calling 1-888-REFARM-1.

So call 1-888-REFARM-1 and press 3 to hear our piece!! The theme was Villany…check it ouuut!

thanks to everyone that came out to Power Bike Parade’s last ride on Oct 24!! Below are some pics from that day. thanks to Erin, Radhika, and Ed from Art in Odd Places for their continued support. and thanks to Brooklyn Bike and Board for the bike donations!

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here’s some video from Power Bike Parade’s ride at DUMBO Art Under the Bridge Festival this past Sept 25-27, 2009.

Come check us out tomorrow, Saturday Oct 24 at 6:30pm, starting at the Con Edison plant on 14th street and Ave C in Manhattan and going all along 14th street until 7:30pm. This is the last weekend for Art In Odd Places, the festival we’re part of, so come check both out tomorrow! THIS IS OUR LAST RIDE!!!

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**POWER BIKE PARADE
**SAT OCT 24 (our last ride!)
**6:30 - 7:30pm
**as part of Art In Odd Places Festival
[http://www.artinoddplaces.org].

Power Bike Parade won’t be riding tonite, Sat Oct 17th due to garbage weather. So our next and last ride is SAT OCT 24, at 6:30pm along 14th street in Manhattan, starting at the Con Edison power plant on the east side & continuing back and forth for about an hour. Come join us on the ride if you have a bike, or if not, just come and see us/the rest of the festival!

**We really need people to document, so if anyone could come out Sat Oct 24th and take some pictures or shoot some video, that would be SUPER helpful!!** contact us at: semiotech.info@gmail.com

Power Bike Parade is 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.

Big thanks to Brooklyn Bike & Board for material & logistical support!

check out some of the pics from DUMBO Art Under the Bridge Festival at the Power Bike Parade project page.

thanks to everyone that came out for DUMBO to see us perform Power Bike Parade. we rode around on version 1.0 of the bikes, for version 2.0, LED’s will be in full effect. we chanted, we sang into a megaphone, we had a really good time!

lookin forward to presenting them again at MMiX Festival Friday, Oct 9 starting at 6:30 as part of Chronotronic Wonder Transducer. (check out And Um Yeah that Sun, Oct 11 starting at 6:30pm).

also, Power Bike Parade’s at Art in Odd Places Festival, Oct 10, 17, 24 starting at 6:30pm and happening along 14th street, starting at the Con Edison power plant on the east side.

COME JOIN USSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!(((((!(!!((!(!

thanks to everyone that came out to the show at the Tank on Sept 11. We have video and new sound clips of the performance to put up online, and we’ll be posting those soon. See And Um Yeah perform again Oct 11th at MMiX Festival as part of Chronotronic Wonder Transducer!

But before that, come check out Power Bike Parade at DUMBO Art Under the Bridge Festival happening at 6:30pm on Sept 25, 26, and 27! And again at Art in Odd Places Festival Oct 10, 17 & 24 along 14th street at 6:30pm!

Big thanks to everyone that came out for Mike’s show at The Stone!! Hopefully he’ll perform it again soon. But before then, our band And Um Yeah is having a show Sept 11 at The Tank. Info below::

And Um Yeah (Amy Khoshbin, Michael Clemow, & Oliver Rivera-Drew of Susu)
Friday, Sept 11, 2009
8:30-11pm (we play at 10!)
$10

The Tank (http://thetanknyc.org)
354 West 45th St b/w 8th & 9th aves.
New York, NY

We’re playing at the first, and perhaps only, annual ITP–related band extravaganza (ITP is the grad program we just graduated from). Twelve performers; three nights @ The Tank. http://www.noisefloormusic.org/itpalooza.html

We’re playing at Sept 11 @ 10pm:
And Um Yeah :: Noisy Electro–Psychedelic :: And Um Yeah conjures a noisy electro–psychedelic swell and turns it into a song. Using handmade instruments, custom software, and creatively modified electronics, they will attempt to lure you in a world of fun and fear that you can only see by closing your eyes and pressing on your eyeballs. And um… yeah. http://www.myspace.com/andumyeahmusic

Other awesome performers that nite include Nullsleep (chiptunes :: http://www.nullsleep.com/), Lori Napoleon (electro :: http://subk.net/), & Steven Litt (electro-acoustic :: http://www.crudlabs.org/).

Michael Clemow is performing granular synthesis tonite in his first solo show: Cloud Seeding.
at The Stone ::   Tuesday Sept 1, 2009   ::   New York, NY

He will be presenting a series of loosely-structured improvisations
using granular synthesis techniques, hacked game controllers, and
other sweet nonsense. The show starts at 8pm (promptly) at The Stone,
on the corner of Ave. C and 2nd St.

This past weekend, Brian from Brooklyn Bike and Board donated two amazing bikes for us to use for Power Bike Parade. One is a Mundo Cargo Bike that can carry 440-lbs worth of stuff amazingly. If you live in Brooklyn and need your bike or board fixed, make sure to go to Brooklyn Bike and Board- these guys rulzzzz!

We just launched the Power Bike Parade website, check it out!

Performance Schedule:
DUMBO Art Under the Bridge Festival: Sept. 25, 26, 27 6:30 - 7:30pm in DUMBO.
Art in Odd Places Festival: Oct 3, 10, 17, and 24 6:30 - 7:30pm along 14th Street in Manhattan.