Tree ring records

[Money Shot]

This is what it sounds like when you put tree rings on a record player. | REALfarmacy.com | Healthy News and Information

Who even thinks to do this kind of stuff? Absolutely brilliant

[Oh GAWD the Smell!]

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

[Mel]

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

[Prunepicker]

This is what it sounds like when you put tree rings on a record player.
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Who even thinks to do this kind of stuff? Absolutely brilliant

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.

[Money Shot]

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.

[Prunepicker]

It relays the data to a computer with a program called Ableton Live.

I didn't see that. Thanx.

[TheTravellers]

Nature can be pretty amazing sometimes...

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[Prunepicker]

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.

[Prunepicker]

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.