Tree-ring music: tree cookies on turntables

YEARS from Bartholomaus Traubeck on Vimeo.

And we thought trees were the “strong and silent type.”

Check out this music made by a turntable that reads tree-rings. Who knew trees could make music in addition to rustling their leaves?

Thank you to Treehugger blogger Stephen Messenger for posting this story and to artist Bartholomäus Traubeck for designing a record-player “capable of digitally reading tree-slices and translating them into surprisingly moving piano music.”

Listen for yourself.