The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #143043 Message #3299849
Posted By: Charley Noble
31-Jan-12 - 04:05 PM
Thread Name: Play Your Favorite Tree Slice
Subject: Play Your Favorite Tree Slice
This experiment could generate a whole new set of "ring tones." The link will take you to a video recording of music generated by the tree rings from a thin section of a tree trunk: click here for music
"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."
Who needs musicians, when we've got forests?
Cheerily,
Charley Noble