Oh this is so good. And so, so “silly season”: Tchaikovsky’s Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy—played entirely on bicycle parts, including:
Glockenspiel & Clarinet melody = spokes.
Cello & Violin pizzicatos = plucked derailleur cables.
Triangle = disc brake hit.
Percussion = shifting, coasting, finger over turning spokes, chain pulls, braking, clipping into pedals, back-spinning, air out of tires.
It’s by a bloke who goes by the handle Johnny Random and it must have taken hours and hours of work. But it’s bloody fantastic. (To hear it, hit the play button about halfway through the article.)
Put your headphones on to really enjoy it.
But wait, there’s more
And I’ve just noticed that earlier in the week Andrea Casalotti at velorution made another post about bicycle music.
Wow, aren’t you glad it’s December?
[Photo by Travis Gray]
That Andrea Casalotti link is pretty interesting…sounds like the bike sounds were fed through some serious DSP. Any more details on the production?