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A record player that plays slices of wood. Year ring data is translated into music, 2011.
Modified turntable, computer, vvvv, camera, acrylic glass, veneer, approx. 90x50x50 cm.

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.

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Join me on Friday as I team up with THE CUBE London to do a talk on Energy and Wealth.  See you there! Friday July 6th, 1pm,  THECUBE, Studio 5, 155 Commercial Street, London E1 6BJ

Join me on Friday as I team up with THE CUBE London to do a talk on Energy and Wealth. 

See you there!

Friday July 6th, 1pm, 

THECUBE, Studio 5, 155 Commercial Street, London E1 6BJ

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Aelita André. 5 year old prodigy child creating abstract art, currently running a solo exhibition in New York. Controversial or not, if you recognize an old soul, this one has clearly been around for a while. 

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"Humanity is coming of age, and the old growth paradigm is becoming obsolete. Any attempts to maintain it past its time will fail as dismally as Rio failed. If anything good came out of the summit, it was in the smaller-scale side agreements involving individual nations and corporations that in various ways embody a post-growth sensibility. The time has come to interrogate our basic notions of growth, development, and economy. Like it or not, our relationship to Earth is changing. Indeed, our consciousness has changed already — probably no one at the Summit advocates the continued wanton despoliation of the planet. We all want ecological healing. We all want to enter into a new relationship to Earth. Our consciousness has shifted from the early-20th century ideal of conquering nature. However, our institutions, whether money or politics, are not yet in accordance with our changed consciousness. They trap us into behavior that no one really chooses and render us helpless to avert our collision course with catastrophe. That is why it is so important to question the blind ideological assumptions — particularly that of sustainable growth — that underlie those institutions."

Charles Eisenstein

Read the whole blog post here; http://charleseisenstein.net/why-rio-20-failed/

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“Energy, not time, is the fundamental currency of High Performance.”

-Jim Loehr

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 cliffbriggie

 cliffbriggie

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"‘Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change’"

Stephen Hawking
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‘Chos’ by Levente Bakos

‘Chos’ by Levente Bakos

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