Music Made from a Tree

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Diego Stocco sent me an email stating that he can make music from a tree. Watch the video and be amazed by his unique work!

Notes about this project from Diego:

In the garden of my house there’s a tree with lots of randomly grown twigs. It looks odd and nice at the same time. One day I asked myself if I could create a piece of music with it.
To tune the tree I picked a fundamental note and tuned the twigs by trimming them with a pencil sharpener. I used two NT6 and a NTG-2 as microphones, combined with a customized stethoscope.
I recorded the tracks live on a Pro Tools LE system. I didn’t use any synthesizer or sampler to create or modify the sounds. All the sounds come from playing the tree, by bowing the twigs, shaking the leaves, playing rhythms on the cortex and so on.

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27 Responses to “Music Made from a Tree”

Jul 15, 2009 1

David Castillo

Wow, I like this, it is really nice, sounds like a soundtrack of a movie.

Jul 20, 2009 2

Music Videos

Thanks for sharing this. This is great.

Jul 21, 2009 3

Noose

Haha you’re a tripper dude, I love it!! That’s easily as good as anything I’ve heard on the radio lately… You should do a backyard remix for 50 Cent

Oct 20, 2009 4

Not bad but not really that impressive. Just pulling a bunch of sounds you can make from the tree then mixing them together is a novel idea but I’m not all that impressed cause you can do that with mainly anything.

I could make a “music from my dryer” and just bang on it making different noises then pull them together to create a cool sounding beat.

Oct 22, 2009 5

Hey a, you ever heard of art? You may be ABLE to do it, but if you DON’T do it, then it doesn’t matter.

By the way, I liked this a lot. It’s creative and has a nice beat and reminds me of the jungle.

Oct 23, 2009 6

sus

awsome!!
waiting to c u play on more weird stuff

Nov 23, 2009 7

My ears hurt

Now I know where college radio stations find the music they play.

Nov 26, 2009 8

How fun would it be to be this guy’s neighbor ?

Nov 26, 2009 9

Anonimouse

gets really awesome at 1.00

Nov 26, 2009 10

Adriana

Hahaha, funny comment KC.

Nov 27, 2009 11

Sk0101

There’s a rumor that this tree can absolutely shred a guitar.

Nov 29, 2009 12

Wackysire

It’s great the way you’re using nature, man. This is tight.

Dec 04, 2009 13

bill

What a tool

Dec 04, 2009 14

Bahahahahahaha

what a toolbox

Dec 14, 2009 15

johnny b

You’re kidding me, right? This dude makes music from a tree?

Get a job. This is the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen in my life.

Dec 14, 2009 16

axel rose

Hey johnny b, enjoying your guns and roses?

Dec 22, 2009 17

honka

This is terrible. It starts out like OK maybe it will sound decent, but then the violin bow comes and and FFFUUUUUU. This is barely music.

Dec 26, 2009 18

Its fake ppl! My uncle Peter heard this song played by a tribe in east india over 6 years ago. They have released an album since! So in theory tho he did create a brand new video! well done on the video but bad luck tryin to pass the song as ur own!