Submission 2

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Beauty is an item sought after by the masses of our world.  Inhabited incognito throughout the nature we repeatedly neglect in our daily meandering.  The shrinking minority with an eye for this beauty labeled "artists" stand out from the masses and allow passage to their world through their creations.  Bartholomäus Traubeck is one of these visionaries.  The beauty of nature often lies within the sight of a forest, the smell of a flower, the taste of a fruit, we scarcely appreciate the beauty that lies in that which is audible.  Traubeck invented a passage that allows an interesting look at the sounds of nature.  With computer aid a turntable actually plays a cross section of a tree trunk.  The labyrinth of lines and patterns allow for music to be interpreted by a turntable.

Nature is often associated with a happy upbeat tone.  When a cross section of a tree trunk was played on this apparatus, a surprisingly opposite result was heard.  Ominously eerie music emerged.  The dark piano symphony extracted out of this tree hints that maybe nature isn't as content with their lives as their beauty portrays.  Deforestation, climate change, forest fires, the song extracted from this tree was not coincidence.  The song is a retelling of the perilous battles a tree faces.  The saying "If a wall could talk, imagine the stories it could tell," is exactly what this tree is doing.  This invention gave us an ear that broke down the wall of language barrier.  Traubeck gave us a window in which to listen to the musical beauty of an otherwise mute object, but this window revealed much more than that.  The music is a venue in which tells of its hardships in its life.  The sobering horror soundtrack emanating from a tree is that tree communicating its woes.  Many of these travesties come at the hands of man, in listening to nature we hear the flaws of man.  The bleak notes revealed by Traubek's turntable conveys the melancholy felt by nature.  In listening to the discontent of nature the aspects of life tainted by man are revealed.