Years

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Using a selection of various 'makeshift components,' Years is a record player that translates wood's year rings into sound. Created by Bartholomäus Traubeck, the player reads the grain on the slices of wood and converts it into music.

In what gives a new meaning to the term 'green technology,' Bartholomäus Traubeck's tree-spinning turntable makes use of a Playstation Eye Camera and a stepper motor which controls the records arm. Once data is analysed and collected from the wood slices, the inner rings of the tree are transformed into audible arboreal sound, with the help of a computer running Ableton Live software.

The record player has been on display at the Galerie Lisa Ruyter in Vienna, and with a host of further scheduled exhibitions throughout 2012, be sure to keep an eye on Bartholomäus Traubeck's personal website.