Rebecca Gates is an Oregon based musician, artist, curator, and activist. She has toured and released albums internationally (both under her own name and The Spinanes moniker) and appeared on recordings by a range of artists including Willie Nelson, and The Decemberists. Her programs and work relating to issues of sound and space, listening, and artist’s roles in their communities have been hosted by MOMA PS1, Mass MOCA, WFMU’s Radiovision Festival, PICA, The Museum of Contemporary Craft, New York University and galleries in the United States and Europe. She is an avid cyclist and race fan who first toured by bicycle at the age of eleven.