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Diego Stocco - Music from a Tree

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Uploaded by on Jul 22, 2009

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 Røde 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.

At this link you can see some pictures with more detailed descriptions: behance.net/Gallery/Music-from-a-Tree/263872
I hope you'll like it.

The track is also available as an high-quality download on my Bandcamp page: diegostocco.bandcamp.com/track/music-from-a-tree

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  • Do you ever shift the pitch of some sounds after recording?

  • @CyclopsSpectreVideos Not for this piece, the idea is to play only the notes that I can get out of the tree. There's no sampling involved here.

  • Amazing! How do you turn a stethoscope into microphone?

  • @einsamaberfrei Thanks, I modified a stethoscope by using some hose accessories, if you google: Music from a Tree Behance you'll find pics with more details.

  • this is awesome! I have one question: What microphones did you use? (on your Fingers)Thanks.

  • @littledicemonster Thanks : ) those are Røde NT6.

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  • Theres so much art in nature. you just have to help her express it

  • @musicnlove91 I agree : )

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  • And that was one time when a tree smiled and thanked a human. :)

    Incredibly talented you must be. Respect. :) :)

  • The moment when a tree is infinitley better than Justin Bieber

  • Will this tree perform in Los Angeles?

  • Another good reason for keeping our trees growing and healthy!

  • No big deal. Just playin' my tree.

  • Love this. Thanks.

  • amazing! The roots of music :D

    Channel subed

  • waooo, so much creativity and talent!

  • It helps that you have great rhythm!

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