Engineer Hacks Wood to Play Music

[Mave]

This is pretty damn impressive.

http://vimeo.com/35892437

 

[Impulse]

Making it might be impressive, but the thing actually working is not that impressive if you consider how you "read" the music from LPs.

 

[Nimphiouus]

It's wood... how do you play music from wood?

 

[Stybar]

It's wood... how do you play music from wood?

How do you play music from plastic?

 

[Nimphiouus]

It's wood... how do you play music from wood?

How do you play music from plastic?

Magic.. But how can you place noise on wood..

 

[Stybar]

I'm guessing the same way they do normal discs, by making tiny bumps in the wood that create vibrations in the needle to play music. Although I guess on wood the bumps are a bit bigger than on vinyl.

 

[Mave]

I think the software (ableton) just reads irregularities and then translates them to piano sounds.