[Marcel Duchamp: Bycycle Wheel 1913]

Marcel Duchamp: Bycycle Wheel, an early "ready-made" from 1913. Foto © Johannes Bergmark.
[Veloncell Marcel]

The Veloncell Marcel is a hommage-copy of Duchamp’s famous Bicycle Wheel. The spokes of the wheel on the kitchen stool (and anything on the fork) are amplified through a contact microphone on the hub. Foto © Johannes Bergmark.

[Veloncell, closeup with bow]
 My copy of Duchamp's readymade (made 80 years later), has a tyre and a dynamo, for the electrical sound (and light!) (thus the first "electric" instrument that I have made). Photo © Johannes Bergmark
[Veloncell, painted white (Roskilde)]

Here it is exhibited as an interactive soundsculpture - it can also be played as an instrument.

[The Veloncell, with children]

The Veloncell Marcel played by a child at the Fylkingen exhibition Lydbilleder V at Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde, Denmark, '99.

Listen to the Veloncell Marcel in Real Audio.

The Veloncell played, filmed by © Johannes Bergmark 2001.

It was exhibited at the Zanabazar Museum of Fine Arts, Ulanbaatar, Mongolia, in the joint Mongolian-Swedish exhibit in connection with Art Camp, Mongolia '04 and '05, organized by Blue Sun Contemporary Art Studio & Center in collaboration with Soil Society, a Swedish-Mongolian Cultural Organization, and donated to the Blue Sun group. It is now in use by the Mongolian musician Magnai.

Updated the 24th of November 2007.

http://www.bergmark.org/veloncell.html