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Segundo Barrio – a bicycle opera is a sonic bike work composed and directed by Matthews, commissioned and produced by Nameless Sound for the Houston Alliance Transported & Renewed Festival 2014, and performed throughout the 2nd Ward, Houston, Texas during September 2014. It’s music was made in collaboration with 9 girls, 2 seniors, 3 writers, musicians, programmers and engineers seeing also a technical collaboration with the BRI and Vampire Squid Labs .
Segundo Barrio – a bicycle opera is the first BRI opera to see the sonic bikes made locally along with creating 2 sonic bikes for kids. This was also done so that the bikes could remain in Houston to be used to make new pieces locally.
Improvised music and writing workshops were run by the fabulous Nameless Sound at Ripley House, with those for seniors being conducted by writer and artist Stalina Villarreal and additional musical input from Abel and Denis Cisneros.
