Uploaded May 2014 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
What would the trunk of a Tree sound like if a cross section of it were played like an LP?
Artist Bartholomäus Traubeck has custom-built a Record Player that is able to "play" cross-sectional slices of Tree trunks.
The result is his Artpiece "Years," an audio recording of tree rings being read by a computer and turned into music, much like a record player's needle reads an LP.
The tree rings are being translated into the language of music, rather than sounding musical in and of themselves.
According to Makezine, the custom record player takes in data using a PlayStation Eye Camera and a stepper motor attached to its control arm, and relays the data to a computer.
A program called Ableton Live then uses it to generate an eerie piano tracks featuring 7 recordings from different Austrian Trees including Oak, Maple, Walnut, and Beech.
What would the trunk of a Tree sound like if a cross section of it were played like an LP?
Artist Bartholomäus Traubeck has custom-built a Record Player that is able to "play" cross-sectional slices of Tree trunks.
The result is his Artpiece "Years," an audio recording of tree rings being read by a computer and turned into music, much like a record player's needle reads an LP.
The tree rings are being translated into the language of music, rather than sounding musical in and of themselves.
According to Makezine, the custom record player takes in data using a PlayStation Eye Camera and a stepper motor attached to its control arm, and relays the data to a computer.
A program called Ableton Live then uses it to generate an eerie piano tracks featuring 7 recordings from different Austrian Trees including Oak, Maple, Walnut, and Beech.
