Hasta La Gadget!

It’s not often that a musician’s list of instruments will include the Specialized Stumpjumper Pro FSR bicycle, but that’s just what you’ll find on the credits of Roger Lima’s Specialized Beats.

Lima’s track is made using only the sounds made by two Specialized Stumpjumpers, with an uncredited cameo by a Topeak track pump. He hit, tapped and stroked his samples out of the bikes with both traditional drumming tools and kitchen utensils, along with a cardboard box. The snippets remain un-manipulated save for “compressor, distortion, delay and EQ.”

While we clearly don’t recommend hitting your disk brakes with a carving fork just to make them sing, in the hands of a talented musician the results are worth the risk. Even the video is hypnotic to watch, and the credits tell another story of hacking: the footage was shot on a Canon Rebel T3i, but using a Nikon 50mm ƒ1.4 lens.

If you like the tune, and maybe want to listen to it on your next bike ride, you can grab the MP3 from Lima’s home on the web, White Noise Lab.

Specialized Beats [White Noise Lab via Core77]

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