Tree Rings Make Beautiful Music

Started by Kame Ayyo’koti, November 06, 2014, 11:58:26 PM

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Kame Ayyo’koti

QuoteThe age old question is, "If a tree falls in the woods and no one is around to hear it, does it still make a noise?" Well, of course it does, but who knew a tree's rings, which resemble a vinyl record, could bring our hearts to beat a little faster.
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Tree Rings Make Beautiful Music
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Blue Elf

Really interesting usage of tree rings. That music is quite good.
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Tirea Aean

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Quote from: Kame Ayyo'koti on November 06, 2014, 11:58:26 PM
QuoteThe age old question is, "If a tree falls in the woods and no one is around to hear it, does it still make a noise?" Well, of course it does, but who knew a tree's rings, which resemble a vinyl record, could bring our hearts to beat a little faster.
YEARS on Vimeo

Tree Rings Make Beautiful Music

WOW. How does this actually work? O_O (kind of reminds me of those singing plants at Damanhur I saw where they attached electrodes to a synth and the plants.)

archaic

Quote'Years' Tree Turntable demonstration. Utilizing various make-shift components, German designer Bartholomäus Traubeck has managed to create a modified record player that takes wood slices of a tree and makes music from its inner rings.
Found here .....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYLaPVi_I2U
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Tirea Aean

What I want to know is, how that modified record player works :D

Tìtstewan

Txantsan! :D

Quote from: Tirea Aean on November 07, 2014, 05:15:43 PM
WOW. How does this actually work? O_O (kind of reminds me of those singing plants I saw where they attached electrodes to a synth and the plants.)
It's the surface's structure of the tree rings. :) A sensor 'read' the surface's stucture and transform it into audio signals.


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Tirea Aean

Quote from: Tìtstewan on November 07, 2014, 05:26:06 PM
Txantsan! :D

Quote from: Tirea Aean on November 07, 2014, 05:15:43 PM
WOW. How does this actually work? O_O (kind of reminds me of those singing plants I saw where they attached electrodes to a synth and the plants.)
It's the surface's structure of the tree rings. :) A sensor 'read' the surface's stucture and transform it into audio signals.



... and it sounds EXACTLY like a Piano / piano synth? for some reason I have doubt. Maybe it takes the signals and passes them through a synth, like they did with those living plants here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZaokNmQ4eY

Either way, totally cool and really beautiful. :D

archaic

QuoteInstead of a record player needle, a modified camera is analyzing the tree rings for their thickness, the space between rings and other factors.

It sends that data over to Ableton Live audio production software, where it's turned into the piano notes we hear.
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Tìtstewan

As for the singing plants, it's also a sensor that record (in that case) the bioelectric impulses of the plants and a synthesizer transform them into hearable audio.

Generally the same thing was used to make planets hearable like this:
Jupiter sounds (so strange!) NASA-Voyager recording
In this case, they recorded the interaction of the electromagnetic particles of the solar wind and jupiter's atmosphere.

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Quote from: archaic on November 07, 2014, 05:31:21 PM
QuoteInstead of a record player needle, a modified camera is analyzing the tree rings for their thickness, the space between rings and other factors.

It sends that data over to Ableton Live audio production software, where it's turned into the piano notes we hear.
Found here .....

O wow. Thanks for that :)

Quote from: Tìtstewan on November 07, 2014, 05:34:58 PM
As for the singing plants, it's also a sensor that record (in that case) the bioelectric impulses of the plants and a synthesizer transform them into hearable audio.

Generally the same thing was used to make planets hearable like this:
Jupiter sounds (so strange!) NASA-Voyager recording
In this case, they recorded the interaction of the electromagnetic particles of the solar wind and jupiter's atmosphere.

Planets too! Nice!

Kame Ayyo’koti

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I suddenly want remixes of all these things. :P

I can haz some Sun Sound Dubstep plz.
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