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January 28, 2012

Yeah girl.

Filed under // song and dance.

January 27, 2012

Will shared this on Facebook and I thought it was real neat.

Bartholomäus Traubeck/Screen capture
Aside from the gentle rustling of leaves in the breeze, or the creaking of a bough in a winter gale, a tree's character may best be described as 'the strong and silent type' -- but, as so often is the case with such personalities, they just might have the most hauntingly beautiful stories to tell.
For nearly a century, dendrochronologists have practiced reading tree-rings for clues about the lives of trees. And though the field of study has helped immensely to shed light on historic growth cycles for scientists, it's all been rather dry and clinical. But now, thanks to a special turntable designed to read tree-rings like tracks on an LP, a tree's biography can now actually be heard as its discography.
German artist Bartholomäus Traubeck recently debuted a record-player he developed which is capable of digitally reading tree-slices and translating them into surprisingly moving piano music. Tree-rings, of course, considered to be annual records of a tree's growth rate -- which in turn offer clues to the hardships and fruitful periods experienced over the life of the tree.
A description of Traubeck's project, fittingly entitled 'Years', from Creative Applications:
A tree’s year rings are analysed for their strength, thickness and rate of growth. This data serves as basis for a generative process that outputs piano music based on the year ring data. Those are analyzed for their thickness and growth rate and are then mapped to a scale which is again defined by the overall appearance of the wood (ranging from dark to light and from strong texture to light texture). The foundation for the music is certainly found in the defined ruleset of programming and hardware setup, but the data acquired from every tree interprets this ruleset very differently.
Like any great composition, the sounds produced from reading tree-rings are both aesthetically beautiful while at the same time a strangely ethereal glimpse into the otherwise silent life of our planet's most essential organisms. And likewise, when presented in such a visceral way, it becomes difficult to imagine Earth's pristine forests as merely places where life can thrive, and not as quiet musicians recording, in their own way, what it means to be alive.

via treehugger.com

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January 26, 2012

Starting February 28 I will be seriously overplaying Memoryhouse tunes.

(download)

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January 26, 2012

So this guy Ian made this and he is from Saint Augustine and he's wonderful.

via youtube.com

More here: http://soundcloud.com/chromadadata

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January 25, 2012

"I'd Rather Go Blind"- Etta James

This makes all of my days betterrrrr (P.S. These are my dancin' friends. They are the best):CLICK

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January 25, 2012

I just watched Exit Through the Gift Shop last night. It was amazing, genius. I just loved it. That guy was ridiculous, obsessed, impulsive, unbelieveably irresponsible. Mr. Brainwash psh. That show was such a cluster of just, nothing. I can't believe he "made" all of it so fast. It was more a show of how seriously publicity and names influence the art industry. I think MBW was slightly crazy. Banksy seemed like a cool guy though. I liked listening to him. Pretty normal and pretty funny. I really like his artwork. I think it really says lots of things that need to be said and that a lot of different people can relate to it. So many people see it. Street art is COOL.