ABOUT CYCLOSONICS

Some ideas arrive fully formed. This one arrived at about 30 mph, on a Boston street, when a driver cut off my friend, and nearly ended his ride for good.

We both ride high-powered ebikes, machines capable of speeds that demand the same situational awareness as a motorcycle, but wrapped in the cultural invisibility of a bicycle. Drivers don't hear you coming. Sometimes they don't see you at all. When something goes wrong at speed, there's not much room for error.

As a musician, sound designer for film and television, and graduate of Berklee's Electronic Production and Design program, I've spent years at the intersection of audio and technology, studying how sound shapes perception. Sound can orient an audience, tell them what to feel, where to look, what's important, what's coming. I was deep in that work when the ebike boom quietly transformed the streets around me. I built my own bike from a pre-war bicycle frame, running mud tires and more than 5,000 watts of electric power. I grew up around classic cars and motorcycles, machines that announce themselves, that practically beg for the world around them to react. Electric vehicles had stolen that language. I noticed how car manufacturers were beginning to solve this with EVAS systems, engineered acoustic signatures meant to restore the communicative dimension that electrification erased. I thought: why not bikes?

A few hours after that conversation with my friend, I had a synthesis patch making sounds keyed to throttle input. It was rough, but obviously cool.

What followed was years of building and rebuilding. A synthesis engine. A native app. Stubborn perfectionism. A hardware product I designed to be manufacturable in my apartment. Dead ends, pivots, and a discovery process that ultimately led somewhere better than where I started: a pure software solution, built by reverse-engineering the Bluetooth communications already flowing between our bikes' controllers and our phones. No additional hardware. No installation. Just your bike, your ride, and sound that moves with you.

Cyclosonics is a synthesis engine that listens to your bike in real time and turns what it hears into something the world around you can feel. It is, at its core, a safety tool, built by someone who has spent a career shaping the way sound communicates. The sounds aren't alerts or warnings. They're an acoustic presence, designed with the same care and intention that goes into building a musical instrument, a garage-built muscle car, or a performance motorcycle. Because I believe that the most effective safety technology is the kind you actually want to use.

I'm building for riders first, with eyes on a future where this kind of intelligence is embedded in the vehicles themselves. Until then, it lives in your pocket.