Music: Diego Stocco – Music From A Tree
You gotta see this! This is totally captivating. Diego performs a complex rhythmic musical composition using only various parts of the tree for different tones or pitches (think timpani or tom toms). And what’s awesome is he captures it all in Pro Tools on his MacBook Pro. I die!! He’s a musician after my own heart! LOL! Check him out: diegostocco.com.
Here are his notes:
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.UPDATE 10/24/09. If you’d like to connect on Twitter:
twitter.com/DiegoStoccoThe track is also available as an high-quality download on my Bandcamp page: diegostocco.bandcamp.com/track/music-from-a-tree
