Sing, Sing a Song Saturday

Sing, Sing a Song Saturday is all about me discovering something that is different. I don't want to post things that you and I have more than likely heard before. I want to find something different. It could be from another country, someone singing from the streets of NY, and more.

This week I'm not going to feature a band. I'm featuring what tree rings on a record player sound like.

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Artist Bartholomäus Traubeck has custom-built a record player that is able to "play" cross-sectional slices of tree trunks. The artist called this piece, Years.

Keep in mind that the tree rings are being translated into the language of music, rather than sounding musical in and of themselves. A 1 of a kind record player uses a PlayStation Eye Camera and a stepper motor attached to its control arm. It relays the data to a computer with a program called Ableton Live. What you end up with is an incredible piano track.

When I first heard it I was thinking it was supposed to be the actual sound of a record needle on a piece of wood. It's a piano piece that's an iinterpitation of the