January 21, 2012   14 notes

lastpolarbear:

(via Years – Bartholomäus Traubeck)

A record player that plays slices of wood. Year ring data is translated into music.

A tree’s year rings are analyzed for their strength, thickness and rate of growth. This data serves as basis for a generative process that outputs piano music. It is mapped to a scale which is again defined by the overall appearance of the wood (ranging from dark to light and from strong texture to light texture). The foundation for the music is certainly found in the defined ruleset of programming and hardware setup, but the data acquired from every tree interprets this ruleset very differently.

Dude. This is fantastic!

tree music is actually terrifying

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    I will be really impressed if a tree can play John Stump’s Death Waltz.
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    tree music is actually terrifying
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