Puncture Kit: A bike that's a drum kit.

June 24, 2010 12:25 AM

"Puncture Kit was brought to life after sitting in London's Green Park with my new bicycle not long after arriving from Australia in June 2008... no car, no drums, and a need to create beats. With my bike turned upside down, a sketchbook and no desire to be tubing a drum kit around underground, I started dreaming of ways to use my bike as my transport and drum kit ."

MySpace music page is here.

posted by SyntacticSugar (9 comments total)

I don't want to be a derailleur, but I was hoping he would integrate the bicycle into it more as an instrument than just as a frame for regular percussion pieces. Maybe the gears and spokes making clickety (and other) noises or the sound of wheels rubbing against something to generate noises from friction. He has this machine right there with two spinnable wheels and a chain and pedals and various movable gears, lots of spokes and teeth at his disposal, and he does nothing with it. Or did I miss something?
posted by pracowity at 1:44 AM on June 24, 2010

ok. this guy is cool.

if the bike-as-portable-trap-set wasn't enough, that youtube video shows that he's just as creative a player. that was some really melodic stuff he pulled together.

not time i cross the pond i gotta remember to go find this guy...

thanks for this synthetic sugar!
posted by artof.mulata at 1:50 AM on June 24, 2010

Is this more what you had in mind pracowity? Integrating percussive elements of the bike would definitely be a cool move.
posted by SyntacticSugar at 2:03 AM on June 24, 2010 [1 favorite]

or perhaps this?
posted by artof.mulata at 2:06 AM on June 24, 2010

On the more pure, and avant garde, side of playing a bicycle. A project of MeFi's own Minus215Cee.
posted by idiopath at 2:08 AM on June 24, 2010

ah, wow, idiopath. thanks for that... lovely!
posted by artof.mulata at 2:15 AM on June 24, 2010

I don't want to be a derailleur, but I was hoping he would integrate the bicycle into it more as an instrument than just as a frame for regular percussion pieces.

You mean like this?
posted by three blind mice at 3:12 AM on June 24, 2010

I think i've seen this guy playing his drums in London Fields or Brick Lane one day. Thought it was somewhat amusing at the time.
posted by mary8nne at 3:34 AM on June 24, 2010

I think I saw this guy busking in Brighton a few weeks ago.
posted by EndsOfInvention at 4:21 AM on June 24, 2010