Linsey Pollak

Linsey Pollak is well known all around Australia as a musician, instrument maker, composer, musical director and community music facilitator. He has worked as a musical instrument maker for over 20 years and has designed a number of new wind instruments as well as specialising in woodwind instruments from Eastern Europe (having studied Macedonian bagpipes in Macedonia). He has specialised in designing and making marimbas and other tuned percussion. His ongoing obsession combines much of this: Making music more accessible to the Community through musical instrument making and playing workshops.

music made with bicycles.....
springing up in unexpected places.

Number of Performers: 3

Three cyclists appear spontaneously in carefully selected places and perform for approx 7 minutes in each place.

The musicians include three wind players (Linsey Pollak, Ric Halstead, Brendan Hook).
All the music is made with the bicycles, especially featuring: three clarinets made from the bicycle seat stems plus bicycle pump panpipes, tuned bicycle bells and a handlebar flute.

Three cyclists in lycra cycling gear and helmets arrive ........ It could be in a park, outside a school, in a hardware store, in the foyer of a theatre or concert hall. Or it could be in a factory lunch room or a hospital, or a shopping Mall, or some unusual place with a beautiful acoustic character.

They rest the bicycles on their stands and spontaneously perform on bicyclepump panpipes and handlebar flute then in unison they pull the seats out of their bicycle frames and place mouthpieces into the seat stems and begin playing their bicycle seat clarinets as a clarinet trio.

This all happens very fast and unexpectedly, with no explanation. They play a number of pieces featuring original music especially composed for the trio.......and then cycle off.

The Cycologists Video (FLV format)