Bartholomäus Traubeck has answered a question that none of us ever asked. He has found out what a slice of tree sounds like when it’s played on a record player. Before you dash out and try to replicate this on your own gramophone, Traubeck has used a very special record player. I’m not sure yours would survive.
Traubeck’s record player detects different things to yours. Here’s his explanation:
A tree’s year rings are analysed 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.
It sounds… well… lovely.
PUN REPOSITORY: he’s really branching out, leaf it alone, that wood be nice, don’t shoot the messenger, his bark’s worse than his bite.
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