“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Saturday, February 4, 2012

Tree Music

Thin slices of tree translated into piano sounds by a camera on a stylus. Key signature by algorithm. The composer says the music is 50% him, 50% tree--a nicely Romantic balance, as is his choice of piano...



1 comment:

Schizostroller said...

I have to admit to preferring turntablists such as Phillip Jeck, Otomo Yoshihide and a few others, perhaps the art collective Project Dark who would rather just stick the slice of tree on the turntable and play that. Sod the algorithms (or algorhythms). :-)