As a child, remember strumming music using a playing card and your bicycle tyre’s spokes? Teenagers all over the globe have tried this phenomenon, says Caecilia Tripp, a contemporary visual artiste and filmmaker from Paris. In the city for the past two months, she pedalled the first leg of her global project, Music for (prepared) bicycles, early this month.u00a0

Taking cue from American musician and artiste John Cage (see box), Tripp has modified a carrier bicycle to create music. She worked with handicraft artistes and the local cycle shops to create her musical instrument. She got Nikhil Raunak, an artist from JJ School of Arts, to ride around the city, beginning from August Kranti Maidan to Laxmi Mills.