Artist and engineer Bartholomaus Traubeck has made a record player that plays slices of wood from trees instead of vinyl. The cross-section marking the wood’s age acts as the grooves on a record, creating different tunes depending on how old or young the tree is. Just like a normal record, you can also scratch it, as exemplified in the video above. From The Huffington Post:
HuffPost Arts: By playing a tree as an instrument, do you see this as revealing something about the tree that is already there or manipulating the tree for new possibilities?
Bartholomaus Traubeck: If you just listen to the sound nothing is really revealed, especially not in comparison to just looking at the tree rings themselves. But I think it rather serves as impulse for the recipient’s imagination. You can speculate about things like the passing of time or natural phenomena, but it is never based on scientific facts that could be found in the music.
Though the slices of wood don’t necessarily play catchy melodies, the sounds generated are unique and beautiful in a contemplative way. Traubeck made the wooden records for a special art project entitled “Years,” which you can watch here.
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