Music Links : A Record Player that Plays Tree Rings, Three Sheet, Jay-Z and Feminism

A Collection of Interesting Links From the Week

YEARS from Bartholomäus Traubeck on Vimeo.
 German-born artist Bartholomäus Traubek has created "'Years', a new artwork that takes a converted record player and uses it to "play" cross-sections of a tree, generating sound by scanning the spinning rings on the surface of the wood with a PlayStation Eye Camera. This data is transmitted through the control arm (which has a stepper motor attached) to a computer, which generates a music track based on the surface readings using the program Ableton Live." [Source CBC : George Stroumboulopoulos]

Cracked.com rounds up the "The 7 Least Anticipated Albums of 2012" and it includes ICP and Willow Smith.

The youngest hardcore artist ever?

Drake says that all his friends think he is an amazing actor.

For a very brief time this week, Disney sold a mickey mouse Joy Division t-shirt. That's the same Joy Division whose name comes from the prostitution section of Nazi concentration camps and whose singer, Ian Curtis, hung himself.

The Crunk Feminist Collective talks about Jay-Z, and gender issues in hip hop.

East Coast Music Awards announce the nominations for this year's event. Halifax's own Three Sheet is nominated for Rap/Hip Hop Album of the Year and music video of the year.