Bartholomäus Traubeck - Years (2011)

If you ever wonder how a tree sounds, you may want to hear this album. The best way to explain this work may be quoting the artist himself. Straight from Traubeck's 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."

In this new approach to experimental music, even though the tracks from Years are generated based on wood pieces, the songs somehow remain strangely coherent, with a defined style between every track, resulting in a particular, relaxed and atmospheric record. Besides the interesting concept of this, the music itself may result appealing to some ambient, classical, and experimental music listeners. Totally worth to give it a try in my opinion.

Bartholomäus Traubeck - Years Tracklist (every song features a different kind of tree)

1. Picea (Spruce) - 04:54

2. Fraxinus (Ash) - 05:21

3. Quercus (Oak) - 04:53

4. Acer (Maple) - 04:52

5. Alnus (Alder) - 05:16

6. Juglans (Walnut) - 05:10
7. Fagus (Beech) - 04:22

DISCLAIMER: Since I had to rip the files directly from Traubeck's bandcamp, the tracks are featured in 280kbps, considered by some people as bad audio quality. However, there's no other free download mirror on the internet (that I could find, at least), so I think this is an OK option if you want to download this album.

DOWNLOAD HERE