The goal of this project was to see if there are any latent connections between man and machine by using sound to reveal the unknown. Looking at a bike as the simplest form of analog machine, I captured a set of data points that would be used as data sources for music.

After doing a set of rides, I began playing in Max/MSP to see what I could do with each of the data elements:

Here is a sample of one of my sound experiments:

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After completing this iteration, I really felt that I needed to readdress what data elements I was collecting and why. I felt there were some interesting things that I found, but I felt I didn’t have a complete data set that would be interesting enough to investigate.