Discovering a 'Singing' Tree - Bernie Krause

[BernieKrauseTV]

Find our more about how the natural world is filled with music in Bernie Krause's new book: "The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places" (Little/Brown, 2012).

[riveredirt]

excellent

[Tones4me1]

I will share this with everyone I know. Awesome!

[PeregrineTrousers]

Don't let it bug ya. Nice periodic waveform tho!

[0BatGirl0]

Trees have good rythm

[marsCubed]

This correlates with something I have been playing with, which is the concept that signals within cells or organisms can be thought of as sound. a kind of meeting of music geometry and information.

Sound in this context is a series of arrangements each making their case, summing to a whole which may be thought of as a kind of jazz representing the beliefs a cell has.

These kinds of relationship are fascinating. interconnections on so many levels.

[freesk8]

The sound is caused by tree cells dying?

Why are they dying in such a regular rhythm? That makes no sense at all. If these were the sounds of tree cells dying, they would be random. More like white noise. The cells don't "line up" for their chance to die.

Why not the sound of a straw slurping when the liquid gets too low? This is regular, and the tree's cells are like long straws.

[Inupiatun]

It sounds like a fractal rhythm :D

[InTheSticks1881]

Who wooda thunk? Do animals hear the forest talking?

[franksvenatra]

That's awesome. It sounds like aphex twin.

[Anjimom]

Awesome...sounds like the beat of a native drum maybe we aren't as far removed from nature as we might feel sometimes.

[9thincarnation]

Good stuff. Was an arborist for 20 years and some trees scream when you cut them with a chainsaw.

[shayral]

That is just fucking creepy to think about. Why'd you quit?

[9thincarnation]

First - some trees scream in the spring due to great internal pressure. When you make a cut ( you hear it when using a handsaw or turn off your chainsaw) all of that running sap can create a sudden negative pressure and it'll make a high pitched squeeking noise. Quit from too much wear and tear on my body. Torn rotator cuffs , almost died from tuleramia. I once loved caring for trees.

[shayral]

Sounds like a pretty interesting profession. Hope your body is in better shape these days.

[Kreneep1052]

@9thincarnation "some trees scream when you cut them with a chainsaw."

that's sad

[madhoyden]

That was pretty cool.

[blackiron60]

Very interesting.

[globalarte]

Amazing!!!

[mattghtpa]

Makes me wonder and also sad at what else we are missing or just ignoring.

[ncfwhitetigress]

that's kewl

[dunndudebemelol]

We live in a wonderous world

[rastarigate]

that is the tree's sound before it attacks humans!

run!

[mattghtpa]

It's Happening!

[rastarigate]

hahahaha... is that movie any good?

[m0nkeybl1tz]

Damn, someone should sample this... That would be a sweet techno beat. Plus anyone tripping would love to know that the music they're listening to came from the tress, man, the trees.

[zacdee316]

Wow, that is weird.

[ancientkiki]

amazing