Caecilia Tripp, Music for (prepared) Bicycles / Score Two New York, performance, sound, film 15min, 2013, view at Bronx Museum, PRESENTE: THE YOUNG LORDS IN NEW YORK, USA
Caecilia Tripp
«Music for (prepared) Bicycles» (after John Cage & Marcel Duchamp) is a participatory performance project in process by Caecilia Tripp celebrating the 100th Birthday of John Cage in the streets. To create her score, and film, the artist made a sonic bicycle, like a moving instrument, spiked with electric guitar strings, capturing street sounds, and sounds of strings hitting playing cards, as it is performed trilling through places of affect within the city. This project in process alters Cage's "prepared piano" into three sonic bicycle processions, a "music of change" thriving through three global metropolis (Bombay/ New York/ Cape Town) as the bondage of a freed geography, beyond all boundaries.
Music for (prepared) Bicycles was listed for the Visible Award / Pistoletto Foundation in 2015.
Score One Bombay was co-produced by Clark House Initiative, Rattapallax Films and the French Institute, shown at RU New York and internationally in museum venues.
Score Two New York has been co-produced by the French Embassy New York, Rattapallax Films, Quancard Contemporary, CaribBeing, The Schwinn Bike Club and the Brooklyn College Artist Residency, New York. It has been part of the exhibition "Presente! The Young Lords in New York" at the Bronx Museum 2015 with the support Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation and "Viva Brooklyn" at the Brooklyn Museum 2014, New York.
