Sunday 18 May 2014

This is What it Sounds Like When You Put Tree Rings on a Record Player

This is an excerpt from the record Years, created by Bartholomäus Traubeck, which features seven recordings from different Austrian trees including Oak, Maple, Walnut, and Beech. What you are hearing is an Ash tree’s year ring data. Every tree sounds vastly unique due to varying characteristics of the rings, such as strength, thickness and rate of growth.
Keep in mind that the tree rings are being translated into the language of music, rather than sounding musical in and of themselves. Traubeck’s one-of-a-kind record player uses a PlayStation Eye Camera and a stepper motor attached to its control arm. It relays the data to a computer with a program called Ableton Live. What you end up with is an incredible piano track, and in the case of the Ash, a very eerie one.
Hats off to Traubeck for coming up with the ingenious method to turn a simple slice of wood into a beautiful unique arraignment. It makes you wonder what types of music other parts of nature would play. (see video below)



Read more at http://www.the-open-mind.com/this-is-what-it-sounds-like-when-you-put-tree-rings-on-a-record-player/#zkhxmMqeF6xRpgRP.99

Monday 12 May 2014

36 Countries, 600 Days, 125,946 Miles and 1 Perfect Selfie Video



If this doesn't want to make you travel and go and see the world, maybe something else will. Whatever you do just get out there.