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I got wood!

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    I got wood!

    Hacked Turntable Plays a Tree’s Rings Instead of Records

    Here’s another one of those crazy, weird, artsy-style hacks. Somebody decided to see what tree rings sound like by making this rather unorthodox turntable.

    All things considered, the cross-section of a tree trunk does kind of resemble a vinyl record. [Bartholomäus Traubeck] noticed this and decided to see what would happen if you could listen to it.

    Of course… it’s not quite that simple. When you cut a slice of wood, you’re not leaving any grooves in the rings, so you can’t just throw it on a slightly modified record player. What [Traubeck] had to do was engineer a record player with a Playstation Eye camera strapped to the end of the arm — simple image recognition software creates a signal based on the pattern of the rings, knots, and other imperfections in the wood. This is then filtered into a program called Albeton Live, and converted into a very angst-y piano track.

    Take a listen and let us know what you think!
    rather fun.
    Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

    #2
    I rather like that. Nice find.

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      #3
      I am going to play with live more. Very good for algorithmic music tinkering, esp now it comes with max. Might need a book on max though, it makes not much sense to the uninitiated.
      While you're waiting, read the free novel we sent you. It's a Spanish story about a guy named 'Manual.'

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