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One day, Diego Stocco decided to play the tree in his back yard:

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.

And now, here he is playing a bonsai tree.

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It will be no longer possible to play music at a graveside without permission from the county council if new draft bye laws for the regulation of cemeteries in Mayo are approved.

The members of the environmental SPC of Mayo County Council were generally welcoming of the new bye laws which will govern the running of the cemeteries in the county, including the regulations on the size of headstones. However one item in the bye laws regarding the playing of music at a graveside unless permission has been granted by Mayo County Council did raise concern.

“If we are to have to seek permission from Mayo County Council to play a flute or some music at a grave, we are going too far,” Independent councillor Richard Finn told the meeting. “I’m sure no elected member will vote for that at all.”

‘The Last Post’ For Graveside Music? (Mayo Advertiser)

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As you’ll discover, right at the end, this is an ad. But before that, it’s a rather wonderful film featuring a Japanese musical Rube-Goldberg machine. In a forest.

BoingBoing

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OK. She’s not famous.

But she will be after tonight.

So consider this a before-before they were about to become famous on the X Factor.

Yes, it’s MayBe, when she was just Mary Byrne, of Ballyfermot, singing with the Wexford Singers on TG4’s version of X Factor, Nollaig No.1.

Daithi O’Se’s  brother, Tom O’Barnetgone, is a judge (he’s around 1.58), Mary sings You’ll Never Walk Alone in English AND Irish and we suspect it was filmed on or around Christmas. Also there’s a little fella at 1.20. We only see his eyes and then the camera drops bringing the lolz with him.

So. Ireland’s Dame Vera?

Can her lungs lift us out of recession?

Fuck yeah.

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They’ve just played this on de radio and everyone’s whistling to it in the office. It’s a bit of a classic. John Spillane, from Passage West. That’s in Cork. Don’t let that put you off.

(Camera operator now in AA)