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    How does a tree stay in key for the most part?

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    Ingenious way he came up with to make the rings to translate to musical notes. Imagine a slice from one of these trees. I am not condoning the act of any form of a natural wonder, but wow would it be a L.P. The world's 10 oldest living trees: General Sherman | MNN - Mother Nature Network

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    Quote Originally Posted by Money Shot View Post
    Tooo coooool!

    A Play station eye camera and a stepper motor attached to its control
    arm
    ? The article doesn't say what software, or medium, was used to
    transfer the wood to notes.

    The majority of the comments to the article are quite mindless.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Prunepicker View Post
    Tooo coooool!

    A Play station eye camera and a stepper motor attached to its control
    arm
    ? The article doesn't say what software, or medium, was used to
    transfer the wood to notes.

    The majority of the comments to the article are quite mindless.
    It relays the data to a computer with a program called Ableton Live.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Money Shot View Post
    It relays the data to a computer with a program called Ableton Live.
    I didn't see that. Thanx.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Money Shot View Post
    It relays the data to a computer with a program called Ableton Live.
    I use a notation and engraving software called Finale. It's an incredibly
    powerful software, however, I'm not sure if it can do the same thing that
    Ableton did. I'm going to look into it.

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    The composer, or the individual who manipulated the tree rings to sound,
    had to have decided what sounds, i.e. piano, clarinet, etc..., to use. I would
    have liked to have heard non traditional instrumentation. Perhaps samples
    of plants growing or wildlife. Maybe birds. Mammals. Aquatic life.

    By plants growing, I mean a recording of the sound a plant makes during
    growth. No doubt that would be a difficult undertaking but it wouldn't be
    an impossible endeavor. Maybe expensive.

    I've played several pieces that included recordings of whales. I don't
    remember the names of the pieces. They were manipulated by
    software and the results were amazing.

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