Cycling by Kate Carr + Sheryl Cheung
Cycling is enjoying a surge in popularity in these pandemic days, and this collaboration examines some of the linkages and soundscapes this boom has entailed. It stems from an online residency hosted by Iklectik in London and Lacking Sound festival in Taipei, which brought together UK and Taiwanese artists to explore quarantine in May of 2020. With Taiwan one of the world's major producers of bikes, and Londoners forced onto waiting lists to purchase one Kate Carr and Sheryl Cheung decided to examine their respective cities of London, and Taipei through the prism of the bicycle. This piece explores the bicycle as a musical instrument, as well as an object which can somehow speak to this particular moment with the pandemic. It offers a glimpse of our real and imagined cycling soundscapes as we are plunged into, and attempt to escape the 'new normal'.
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released September 3, 2020
By Kate Carr and Sheryl Cheung
Photography/design by Kate Carr
Produced in London and Taipei in May 2020 as part of the Inland online residency connecting UK and Taiwanese artists.
Special thanks to Iklectik and Lacking Sound Festival for hosting the residency.
Sheryl is a sound artist based in Taipei, Taiwan.
For more on Sheryl Cheung please visit: soundcosmology.cargo.site
Kate Carr's site is www.gleamingsilverribbon.com
“Probably the most significant field recordist of contemporary urban Britain…” - The Quietus.
Kate Carr’s practice explores the textures and technologies of field recording using movement, objects and experimental recording techniques. She creates intimate, delicate and hybrid soundworlds which emphasise interactions and shared experiences within them.