Musician Uses Bike Parts as Musical Instruments

After completing the primary musical education from CalArts, Baber earned a graduation degree from the Berklee College of Music. Then he founded his own music studio nom de tune. At the early level he was known as a creative audio boutique to music composers and sound designer. But after presenting hundreds of chomps and chews sounds, fifteen layers of a trademark tone and a high bar of stoner sounds took him to the apex of experimental music. By this time, he signed an agreement with Doritos.

His first resounding musical composition was a bicycle music for the film Goodbye in 2006. With the help and encouragement of Silverstein and Partners, in the same year, he created Tchikovsky’s Nutcracker by using the bike parts.

Johnnyrandom’s latest single performance Bespoken of 3 minutes and a half, is composed as a symphony. It took almost 7 months to arrange. To make an unusual musical accompaniment, Jonnyrandom uses disc brake rotors as the gong. He puts a guitar on a knobby mountain bike tire and while plays it, it sounds like an electric bass guitar! Derailleur cables, have been used to create the sound of harmonic overtones. However, all these instruments are not likely to create so good sound at all. It happened only because of the great musician, Johnnyrandom. He says, “For each note, I would tune all of the spokes in a wheel to the same exact pitch to avoid unwanted overtones via sympathetic vibration.” That makes it “Tuned in unison, they sound gorgeous.” His Bravura performance on a bicycle is covered by the MTV Music Video recently.