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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: NOISE BIKE
CONTACT:Matthew
DESCRIPTION:MOVED TO AUG 20TH\nMAJOR DISCLAIMER: This event is in no way 
 affiliated with the N.O.I.S.E. Ride. That ride is about riding bikes and 
 doing sick stunts (I think). Totally cool\, but I don't really know 
 anything about it and this isn't that. This is a parade-pace ride led by a
  Modular Synthesizer Bicycle.\n\nNoise is a genre of music (or not music) 
 that has a lot of historical precursors but to my mind is basically punk 
 taken to a certain logical extreme. In essence: no rules\, not pretty\, 
 usually loud. It seemed to have a moment in the sun in the early/mid 00s 
 with the success of acts like Boredoms\, Lightning Bolt\, Black Dice\, and
  Wolf Eyes. Most musicians revile it\, but most people aren't musicians 
 and I'm not either.\n\nI've fiddled about with making noise in fits and 
 starts for about 20 years at this point. When I first arrived in Portland 
 in 2012\, I basically owned my clothing\, a computer\, and a stack of 
 cassette tapes for making and recoding weird ambient space-themed computer
  music. Reactions ranged from disinterested to discouraging.\n\nAround 
 2015 or so\, I had a vision for NOISE BIKE\, essentially a modular 
 synthesizer mounted to and "played" by the motion of a bicycle. Modular 
 synthesizers can take a lot of forms\, and mine is actively evolving\, but
  basically it is a noise maker in a box without any type of keyboard. It 
 can be played by riding the bike and twiddling knobs.\n\nIt has been a 
 slow\, boring journey\, but as I write this\, NOISE BIKE is alive and 2022
  is ~*~*~NOISE BIKE SUMMER~*~*~\n\nI'm planning to take it to basically 
 any loud or electronic music themed ride all summer and...we'll see how 
 that goes. This is the ride I will actually lead\, and depending on time 
 and turn out\, I might be able to answer questions about it and *MAYBE* 
 even open it up and show you the hand-crafted guts. If you have a similar 
 contraption\, feel free to bring it along. Ride will meet at 5pm\, but we 
 won't roll out till 6\, so maybe we can have a crap-ass noise bash in the 
 park before we roll. I have a big battery that I'm *pretty confident* 
 could power several synths/speakers at once for hours. If not\, we'll 
 cancel everything. I once saw a noise bro make about 30 seconds of trash\,
  then spill beer all over his effects pedals and cancel the show. It was 
 probably about as good as if it had gone according to plan. When success 
 sounds like shit\, there's no such thing as failure!\n\nSpeaker bikes are 
 welcome\, but please\, only play artists who self-identify as 
 noise.\n\nI'm scheduling this way out. Ride will rescheduled if it rains. 
 Thanks!\nMOVED TO AUG 20TH\nEnds at it is a 
 mystery\nhttps://shift2bikes.org/calendar/event-14986
LOCATION:Colonel Summer's Park\nColonel Summer's Park\, Portland\, 
 OR\nExact spot TBD. If I never post it\, follow your ears.
STATUS:CANCELLED
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DTSTAMP:20220517T193055Z
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