That is what German-born artist Bartholomäus Traubek appears to have accomplished with “Years”, a new artwork that takes a converted record player and uses it to “play” cross-sections of a tree, generating sound by scanning the spinning rings on the surface of the wood with a PlayStation Eye Camera. This data is transmitted through the control arm (which has a stepper motor attached) to a computer, which generates a music track based on the surface readings using the program Ableton Live.
(Source: cbc.ca, via forestlings)
