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moominmollyHi, livejournal! I have lots to say but seem to be having trouble saying any of it. Instead, I will show you some jaw-dropping art. Years, by Bartholomäus Traubeck.
I encourage you to go watch and listen.
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A record player that plays slices of wood. 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.
I encourage you to go watch and listen.
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Date: 2012-07-26 04:20 am (UTC)I just saw a set of woodcuts done by sectioning old trees and lightly sanding them so the harder rings stood out, and they were pretty amazing. This is an interesting extension of that, and now that you mention it, I can imagine the process of making a line-following robot that would at least traverse such a thing.
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Date: 2012-07-26 04:29 am (UTC)I have lots to say but seem to be having trouble saying any of it.
Really? You're eloquent at saying things that I fall all over myself trying to get right.
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Date: 2012-07-27 12:13 am (UTC)The concept seems cool, but the actual application.. At times it looks like the video is cutting to different segments of the same piece of wood being "played". ...
Meh. Not sure, just not entirely won over by the process. (Maybe it seemed too pleasing!) -from an amateur curmudgeon. :)
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Date: 2012-07-27 10:35 pm (UTC)