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Okay, that's just awesome!
(Not as awesome as our Midler arrangements but still awesome.)

^agrees with SdS^

Thanks for posting, ali!

Way cool. The trees are much more serious than I would have imagined, although I suppose if we had the kind of time they do to stand around and think about things while watching the world change, we would be rocking very slow and somber music too.

A high school friend of mine has a classical music radio program once a week up in New York. I shared the link on Facebook and tagged him, wanting his opinion. He and Owlie had the same thoughts, that there is no "artistic" input. I commented that I found it interesting that each "platter" played something different though, and wondered if the same platter would be read and interpreted the same way, or also play something different each time. He replied he wouldn't be surprised if the program did read it differently each time, meaning each platter wasn't necessarily different, but the programing may be.

He then went on the say the titles of the track playing could be either I Only Have Twigs For You or Tree Coins in the Fountain.

There's a lot that's in the software to "interpret" it. I suspect if you "played" it at the same speed with the same starting point it would sound the same every time for the same disc. But what fun would that be? I bet there are options to select stuff like most others..."brass band" "string quartet" "horror sound effects" etc.

But each platter will be different, just like every snowflake, even if you don't change the programming [though the thinner the platters, and the closer together the original location in the tree the more alike they'd be].

Heh...I'd love to hear the difference between "ancient oak, 10 ft above ground" and "weeping willow 4 feet high" from the same general location. Would they have certain similarities if they'd both been scorched in the same forest fire, but both survived? How does the blight that made the willow suffer but left the oak alone sound? Better yet...we know that blights/insect attacks cause trees to send chemical signals to nearby trees and those trees adapt...does an oak that got sick/chewed on sound different than one that avoided it? Is there any way to really tell, since they sound different anyway? Do "families" of birch in one place have a similar language/accent? One that's different from those trailer-trash birches across the tracks?

Similar thing has been done with astronomical stuff, btw. Y'all should look around, it's kinda cool [some of it].

wow!

Cant wait to listen to that with my good headphones...i want i want!

Menolly wrote:A high school friend of mine has a classical music radio program once a week up in New York. I shared the link on Facebook and tagged him, wanting his opinion. He and Owlie had the same thoughts, that there is no "artistic" input. I commented that I found it interesting that each "platter" played something different though, and wondered if the same platter would be read and interpreted the same way, or also play something different each time. He replied he wouldn't be surprised if the program did read it differently each time, meaning each platter wasn't necessarily different, but the programing may be.

I disagree that there is "no artistic input", but then I believe that each tree is the handiwork of an intelligent Designer. I would, however, like to hear the same idea, further developed-- that rather than arbitrary, virtual sounds like "piano", that the technicians had somehow synthesized a sound based on measurements and parameters inherent in the tree rings.