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Welcome to the world of bicrophonics. Music made for outside spaces that links to the landscape and changes as you ride a bike along a special route. Not an ordinary bike, but a sonic bike with speakers and musical ingredients on board that your ride pulls into a whole. No more sitting in concert halls!
To find a white bear is a 30 minute sonic bike adventure mapped through central Bruges made from the invisible machines and people who work to nourish those who visit its ancient streets.
To find a white bear offers rediscovery. What really lies beyond the glistening facades of this city? Can gliding listening through its neighbourhoods synthesise any freedom from the capital that oozes from its ever present histories?
Commissioned by KAAP for AMOK Festival 2019, To find a white bear was made by Matthews after an extraordinary residency in the city where she met and recorded weavers, chocolate, waffle, beer, coffee, pancake and lace makers along with a historical guide and the mysterious story of the first resident of Bruges, a white bear, to mash with digital oscillators this dynamic sountrack.
With thanks to all at KAAP, historical guide Marjolein Maertens, lacemaker Germayne, weaver Adnens, Cafuné coffee, the brewery man, Jan Anseeuw the archivist, Tea Room de Proveries cake and chocolate makers, the birds and sellers at the T’Zand, the tourists of Bruges and The People Speak London.
