Stumbled across this - it takes all kinds!
http://www.digitaltrends.com/music/years-modified-turntable-plays-a-trees-inner-rings-like-a-record/
?Years? modified turntable plays a tree?s inner rings like a record
JANUARY 19, 2012BY AMIR ILIAIFAR
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Utilizing various make-shift components, German designer Bartholom?us Traubeck has managed to create a modified record player that takes wood slices of a tree and makes music from its inner rings.
In what might give new meaning to the term ?green technology? Bartholom?us Traubeck?s amazing ?Years? turntable takes slices of wood rings from a tree and plays them like a record.
Traubeck?s make-shift tree-spinning turntable makes use of an old-school modified record player, a PlayStation Eye Camera, and a stepper motor, which controls the record players arm. Once data is analyzed and collected, and with the help of computer running Ableton Live software (a loop-based software music sequencer), the inner rings of a tree are transformed into audible arboreal sound.
Perhaps appropriately, the music coming from the particular wood sample in the video below isn?t the most upbeat or chart-topping. And yet it seems quite fitting given the often tumultuous relationship technology and nature have both shared over the decades.
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More About: Bartholom?us Traubeck, Green Technology, Music, Record Players, Years
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LAURA-JO SMITH at 7:15AM 20TH JANUARY 2012
Can that be done with finger prints too?
http://www.digitaltrends.com/music/years-modified-turntable-plays-a-trees-inner-rings-like-a-record/
?Years? modified turntable plays a tree?s inner rings like a record
JANUARY 19, 2012BY AMIR ILIAIFAR
INSHARE
21
Utilizing various make-shift components, German designer Bartholom?us Traubeck has managed to create a modified record player that takes wood slices of a tree and makes music from its inner rings.
In what might give new meaning to the term ?green technology? Bartholom?us Traubeck?s amazing ?Years? turntable takes slices of wood rings from a tree and plays them like a record.
Traubeck?s make-shift tree-spinning turntable makes use of an old-school modified record player, a PlayStation Eye Camera, and a stepper motor, which controls the record players arm. Once data is analyzed and collected, and with the help of computer running Ableton Live software (a loop-based software music sequencer), the inner rings of a tree are transformed into audible arboreal sound.
Perhaps appropriately, the music coming from the particular wood sample in the video below isn?t the most upbeat or chart-topping. And yet it seems quite fitting given the often tumultuous relationship technology and nature have both shared over the decades.
In Case You Missed It:
Chip Solar House is powered by the sun and controlled through Xbox Kinect
Philips developing energy gathering OLED sunroof concept, leaves roof open for other exciting applications
Monster ramps up the style factor with its sleek Diesel Vektr on-ear headphones
Where the wild things grow: NASA map shows virtually every tree in the US
More About: Bartholom?us Traubeck, Green Technology, Music, Record Players, Years
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LAURA-JO SMITH at 7:15AM 20TH JANUARY 2012
Can that be done with finger prints too?
