"...one of Australia's most brilliant and under-rated composer/musicians...wildly innovative in the use of instruments but never lets his experimentation get in the way of the musicality of a work."
The Courier Mail, Brisbane

The Bicycle Seat Clarinet
The Gear Cable Cello
The Handlebar Harmonic flute
The Water Bottle Foonki
The Bicycle Pump Panpipe

These are just some of the Fantastic and Weird instruments invented by the gifted Professor Squealy Deetbum, the world's most famous researcher in Cycology - the Complex Art of Playing the Bicycle.

Leaving no part of the bicycle unexplored, Professor Squealy Deetbum is on a mission to create a symphony performed almost exclusively on bicycle instruments. Invented live on stage in front of your astounded eyes the instruments are all fabricated entirely from one upside down bicycle mounted on a rack. Professor Deetbum's 50-minute 'lecture' demonstrates the amazing panoply of sounds that can be made from a bicycle. Sounds are recorded live during the lecture with percussion, wind, and string sounds contributed by the bicycle.

Linsey Pollak
For over 20 years Linsey has made an international reputation as a performer, musician-in-residence, musical director, instrument maker/inventor and composer.

When he returned to Australia in the early 80s he founded the Multicultural Music Centre of West Australia and later created many multi-cultural music ensembles including the National Cross Cultural Ensemble Slivanje. Linsey has performed all around Australia and internationally and has recorded 21 albums.

He is also known for his solo music theatre shows such as The Art of Food, Knocking on Kevin's Door and Playpen which have toured to Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, North America, Brazil and many European Festivals. He has also worked as a musical instrument maker for 30 years and has designed a number of new wind instruments and specialises in crafting woodwind instruments of Eastern Europe.

Linsey has a reputation for making and playing instruments made from rubber gloves, carrots, watering cans, chairs, brooms, bins, and other found objects. First developed in his solo show Bang it with a Fork and further in the acclaimed children's show Out of the Frying Pan, this line of musical inventiveness has ultimately led him to also encompass modern digital technology and develop his solo shows.

Linsey's ongoing obsession is to make music more accessible to the wider community through musical instrument making, performing and playing workshops.

Contact:
Fenn Gordon
Performing Lines
5/245 Chalmers Street
Redfern NSW 2016
Tel +61 2 9319 0066
Fax +61 2 9318 2186
fenn@performinglines.org.au
www.performinglines.org.au