Last week’s Bike Show on Resonance fm was fascinating. Jack has discovered a number of experimental musicians who use bicycles as musical instruments, such as the bikelophone above (you can hear samples of the latter here). Jack has also pledged to deliver the London premiere of Godfried-Willem Raes’ 2nd Symphony, the ‘Symphony for Singing Bicycles‘. It is performed by a minimum of 12 cyclists equipped with dynamo-powered loudspeakers. By cycling at different velocities, (the last cyclist overtakes continuouslythe whole group), glissandi are obtained. At very [...]

The above video shows the ebb and flow of Velib bikes at each docking station over 24 hours. Source

John Fischetti, an American illustrator, visited Denmark in 1945. On BibliOdissey, via Carlton Reid