Zach Herchen

Above is a piece called Years by Bartholomäus Traubeck. From his project page:

A tree’s year rings are analysed for their strength, thickness and rate of growth. This data serves as basis for a generative process that outputs piano music. It is mapped to a scale which is again defined by the overall appearance of the wood (ranging from dark to light and from strong texture to light texture). The foundation for the music is certainly found in the defined ruleset of programming and hardware setup, but the data acquired from every tree interprets this ruleset very differently.

There’s some great info about it on the Creative Applications Network website.

Shoutout to Boing Boing where I first saw the video.

Boing Boing had a neat post last month about Papa Sangre, a video game with no video. Instead of video, the game generates binaural audio on the fly.

From the Papa Sangre website:

Papa Sangre is a video game with no video. It’s a first-person thriller, done entirely in audio by an award-winning team of game designers, musicians, sound designers and developers. We’ve created an entire world using the first ever real-time 3D audio engine implemented on a handheld device. Which was BLOODY HARD.