Sound Intervention's Projector Bikes are mobile cinemas with weatherproof 3000 lumen laser/LED projectors mounted on a pan-tilt head. The projectionists can manually map the images, improvising and interacting with people and architecture. Animations on a black background are triggered from an iPad on the handlebars of the bikes. Two projectionists work together playing with the images, the sound is wirelessly linked giving 1.5Kw between the two bikes. They can run for up to 2 hours before changing batteries. Our experienced projectionists can ride and operate moving projections at the same time. Scale ranges from intimate close-up to building scale. Below are some stills from a recent outing to Light Night Leeds.

We have taken them all over the country from Bournemouth to Brampton, Ulverston to Hull. We like creating new animations for specific events and we also collaborate with local artists to create site-specific images. For the past two years we have worked with students at Film Oxford creating animations that they projected at the Oxford christmas Lights Festival. we’ve also collaborated with emergency exit Arts and will shortly be working with Bristol based film makers for civid-postponed Wye Valley River Festival. The organisers really like the fact that the bikes have a ‘light touch’ requiring no infrastructure, power or cables. They are flexible and can respond to the location. In the event of overcrowding they can easily move safely to a new location. This goes against our experience of building a crowd, but seems to be required for the current situation.

In autumn/ winter 2021 we will be out again with performances at Lancashire Encounters in Preston, a new commission called Gateway for Light Up Lancaster, a collaboration with Freshly Greated in Great Yarmouth and three nights at Light Night Worcester.