Absolutely Amazing Music Made from a Tree!

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http://www.vimeo.com/5583313

Diego Stocco sends me a personal email telling me he used a tree as a musical instrument. Yet again, he’s effectively selected objects and vegetation from our surrounding to create music. Simply, amazing work!

Also, check out past posts: “The Making of Ã¢â‚¬Å“The Conduit ShapingÃ¢â‚¬Â Soundtrack,” “Typosonic Machine,” and “Music from Sand.”

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 RÃƒÂ¸de 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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24 Responses to “Absolutely Amazing Music Made from a Tree!”

on Jul 15, 2009 at 9:35 am

1 David Castillo

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

on Jul 20, 2009 at 12:54 am

2 Music Videos

Thanks for sharing this. This is great.

on Jul 21, 2009 at 7:08 pm

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

on Oct 20, 2009 at 3:00 am

4 a

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.

on Oct 22, 2009 at 3:57 am

5 H

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.

on Oct 23, 2009 at 3:02 pm

6 sus

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

on Nov 23, 2009 at 4:16 am

7 My ears hurt

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

on Nov 26, 2009 at 5:06 pm

8 KC

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

on Nov 26, 2009 at 5:37 pm

9 Anonimouse

gets really awesome at 1.00

on Nov 26, 2009 at 5:38 pm

10 Adriana

Hahaha, funny comment KC.

on Nov 27, 2009 at 8:35 am

11 Sk0101

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

on Nov 29, 2009 at 10:01 am

12 Wackysire

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

on Dec 04, 2009 at 11:56 am

13 bill

What a tool

on Dec 04, 2009 at 11:57 am

14 bill

Bahahahahahaha

what a toolbox

on Dec 14, 2009 at 3:26 am

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.

on Dec 14, 2009 at 6:18 pm

16 axel rose

Hey johnny b, enjoying your guns and roses?

on Dec 22, 2009 at 8:26 am

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.

on Dec 26, 2009 at 5:01 pm

18 jp

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!

on Jan 13, 2010 at 9:43 am