This Is What It Sounds Like When You Put Tree Rings On A Record Player

[edgitarra]

This is quite interesting, it is music from a tree ring:

What you are hearing is an Ash tree’s year ring data. Every tree sounds vastly unique due to varying characteristics of the rings, such as strength, thickness and rate of growth.

Keep in mind that the tree rings are being translated into the language of music, rather than sounding musical in and of themselves. Traubeck’s one-of-a-kind record player uses a PlayStation Eye Camera and a stepper motor attached to its control arm.

Link:
http://higherperspective.com/2014/05/sounds-like-put-tree-rings-record-player.html?utm_source=CE

 

[Zadius Sky]

Wow, that's very interesting and almost classical. A tune created throughout time.

 

[Laura]

What would make it more interesting would be to have the years related to the tones.

 

[edgitarra]

What would make it more interesting would be to have the years related to the tones.

Thats a nice idea. Maybe one tone in one year could symbolize the status of life on earth? Even so, it sounds pretty grim!

 

[trendsetter37]

Wow pretty interesting. I wonder if you mapped each sound track produced per tree and marked the musical notes and their corresponding time of entry; if you could find a pattern. You can almost hear recurring events according to when each note is played relative to the musical time scale.

Nice find!

 

[Nević Nenad]

A bit fake. Because he digitally attributed piano sounds to what laser reads from the tree. It could also be violin sounds, trumpet sounds, just the rhythm, or any else. However it is great idea and sounds interesting.

I remember few years back that some laboratory tried the same with the old Roman clay pottery. They assumed that pottery, since made on the thread wheel could have some sounds recorded from the tools used when it was fresh. The same principal how the sound is recorded on the vinyl records. Cant remember what became of that, did they succeeded.

 

[trendsetter37]

A bit fake. Because he digitally attributed piano sounds to what laser reads from the tree. It could also be violin sounds, trumpet sounds, just the rhythm, or any else. However it is great idea and sounds interesting.

I remember few years back that some laboratory tried the same with the old Roman clay pottery. They assumed that pottery, since made on the thread wheel could have some sounds recorded from the tools used when it was fresh. The same principal how the sound is recorded on the vinyl records. Cant remember what became of that, did they succeeded.

True. But isn't the point of the experiment related to the rhythmic patterns of tree rings as opposed to the specific sound it would make? I could be off the mark a bit but that's how I interpreted it at least.

The concept of using the piano was icing on the cake in my opinion.

 

[Nook]

Pretty awesome, thanks for sharing edgitarra!

A bit fake. Because he digitally attributed piano sounds to what laser reads from the tree. It could also be violin sounds, trumpet sounds, just the rhythm, or any else. However it is great idea and sounds interesting.

I remember few years back that some laboratory tried the same with the old Roman clay pottery. They assumed that pottery, since made on the thread wheel could have some sounds recorded from the tools used when it was fresh. The same principal how the sound is recorded on the vinyl records. Cant remember what became of that, did they succeeded.

Avala, is this what you were talking about?

Link: _http://archaeopop.blogspot.com/2010/04/sound-recordings-from-ancient-pottery.html

Sound recordings from ancient pottery
A few years back, Belgian researchers announced a technology that allowed ancient sounds to be recovered from the grooves in pottery. The concept is much like a vinyl LP: as the pot spins, sound vibrations are gently etched into the fabric of the pot, giving us a record of the ambient sounds of an ancient Roman pottery workshop.

I have no idea what they're saying in the video, it's in French with no subtitles.

 

[Palinurus]

I remember few years back that some laboratory tried the same with the old Roman clay pottery. They assumed that pottery, since made on the thread wheel could have some sounds recorded from the tools used when it was fresh. The same principal how the sound is recorded on the vinyl records. Cant remember what became of that, did they succeeded.

A few years back, Belgian researchers announced a technology that allowed ancient sounds to be recovered from the grooves in pottery. The concept is much like a vinyl LP: as the pot spins, sound vibrations are gently etched into the fabric of the pot, giving us a record of the ambient sounds of an ancient Roman pottery workshop.

I remembered we have a thread about this: Ancient Sound from a Vase

Because of dead links there, I backtracked the source. Turns out to have been a prank (April Fool's day):

Ancient Sounds Indeed--We Get Hoaxed!
Friday, February 24, 2006

We could not resist the idea that ancient sounds had been recovered from pottery grooves. The idea was so fascinating that we didn't stop to read the website involved carefully enough. It's actually a brilliant hoax posted last April 1 [i.e. 2005]. This is especially ironic, because we have a notoriously bad habit of posting hoax stories on April 1 ourselves. So kudos to those of you who wrote saying this could not possibly be real, and thanks to the alert reader who pointed out to us that the site is featured in the web's wonderful Museum of Hoaxes.

(I inserted the 2005 year).

Digging around I found also this topic: Listening to Sacred Places

Key word seems to be: Archaeoacoustics for which one can google if interested.

The sounds based on tree ring patterns are intriguing to say the least. Thanks for sharing, edgitarra.

 

[Nević Nenad]

A bit fake. Because he digitally attributed piano sounds to what laser reads from the tree. It could also be violin sounds, trumpet sounds, just the rhythm, or any else. However it is great idea and sounds interesting.

I remember few years back that some laboratory tried the same with the old Roman clay pottery. They assumed that pottery, since made on the thread wheel could have some sounds recorded from the tools used when it was fresh. The same principal how the sound is recorded on the vinyl records. Cant remember what became of that, did they succeeded.

True. But isn't the point of the experiment related to the rhythmic patterns of tree rings as opposed to the specific sound it would make? I could be off the mark a bit but that's how I interpreted it at least.

The concept of using the piano was icing on the cake in my opinion.

I agree. And don't want to sound nitpicking, but I wonder how that would sound with for example violin. Maybe a bit less dramatic than the piano I believe :)

Pretty awesome, thanks for sharing edgitarra!

A bit fake. Because he digitally attributed piano sounds to what laser reads from the tree. It could also be violin sounds, trumpet sounds, just the rhythm, or any else. However it is great idea and sounds interesting.

I remember few years back that some laboratory tried the same with the old Roman clay pottery. They assumed that pottery, since made on the thread wheel could have some sounds recorded from the tools used when it was fresh. The same principal how the sound is recorded on the vinyl records. Cant remember what became of that, did they succeeded.

Avala, is this what you were talking about?

Link: _http://archaeopop.blogspot.com/2010/04/sound-recordings-from-ancient-pottery.html

Sound recordings from ancient pottery
A few years back, Belgian researchers announced a technology that allowed ancient sounds to be recovered from the grooves in pottery. The concept is much like a vinyl LP: as the pot spins, sound vibrations are gently etched into the fabric of the pot, giving us a record of the ambient sounds of an ancient Roman pottery workshop.

I have no idea what they're saying in the video, it's in French with no subtitles.

It was something like that. Although I don't know is it really april fool joke or not.