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!

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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!!!

Power Bike Parade from Semiotech on Vimeo.

Power Bike Parade from Semiotech on Vimeo.

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!

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.

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!!! GET YR BIKE FIXD THERE!!!

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!