Technology continues to advance beside nature, and often times the two concepts come into conspiracy with one another. It is known to any naturalist that one can determine the year of a tree by counting the rings from its disc. To biologists or archaeologists, this would be an immensely useful tool for dating fossils in relation to the rocks found in it’s vicinity. To others and particularly this neo-classical artist. The aesthetics of the tree ring itself is manipulated to play music on a record player. The tree ring is cut into it’s disk about the size of a 12″ LP and the weight/color/and space between each ring is analyzed by a camera on a bar instead of the needle. The images transmitted to the camera are corresponding to separate notes on a classical piano. Mechanical aberrations like knots in the tree ring produces deeper low octave notes, and closer ring produce higher notes. The following piece is nothing like Prokofiev or Penderecki, but perhaps a new form of avant-garde noise. In time, maybe the biological aesthetics of the tree will be reinterpreted in different ways to produce an entirely different composition.
YEARS from Bartholomäus Traubeck on Vimeo.
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