Get In the Bike Bin

Mike Min, local Genius of Iron Composer and Seattle School fame, has assembled a soundtrack of "every nook and cranny of weird and gorgeous Seattle," seventeen tracks to be best experienced traveling around town by bike.

The Bike Bin Project is a bicycle tour of Seattle from the constrained perspectives of several of Seattle's most iconoclastic and brilliant composers. Each composer has assigned an exact time and exact place for their piece to be experienced. The listener downloads, ventures to these specific places and times, and listens.

The official website gives detailed information about the composers, the works, and "the process." Scroll down to the bottom if you wanna skip all the theory and just get to the music. From there, you can read the instructions on how to get all creeped out by listening to violins and disembodied vocals on a weekend afternoon at the Downtown Old Navy. Or experience Min's own piece ("Sexecutive Cummary") at full volume while eating at Taqueria Jalisco.

Perhaps the best way to get the big picture is to go to their Platial site, where you can find a map of the project as a whole, all the tracks, and the coordinates of your many destinations (meet you at N 47° 38.690' W 122° 17.864', yo). They're also on MySpace, so you can totally be The Bike Bin Project's internet friend.

Look, there's not going to be many more nice days before The Rains set in, so get to work. It'll be a good way to make the transition and literally ride into fall.