"bitforms gallery's solo exhibition for the American composer Tristan Perich ends tomorrow (Saturday, November 7). Featuring recent drawings and video work, the show includes a preview of Perich's upcoming electronic album, 1-Bit Symphony.
Tristan Perich - 1-Bit Symphony
October 28 - November 7, 2009
bitforms gallery, 529 West 20th St, 2nd floor
Gallery Hours: 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM, Tue–Sat. Free and open to the public."
" BITFORMS PRESENTS TRISTAN PERICH'S 1-BIT SYMPHONYbitforms gallery is pleased to announce a solo exhibition and benefit concert for the American composer Tristan Perich. Featuring recent drawings and a video installation, the exhibition will also include a preview of 1-Bit Symphony, his second handmade album on Cantaloupe Music (forthcoming Spring 2010).
A departure from traditional recordings, 1-Bit Symphony literally ‘performs' its music live when turned on. A complete electronic circuit—programmed by the artist and packaged into a standard CD jewel case—plays the music through a headphone jack mounted into the case itself. The layered tones in its score are synthesized by binary pulses of electricity, emphasizing the physical quality of sound.
"I'm interested in the foundations of computation and data," says Perich. By reducing sound into primary units of digital measure, Perich's musical compositions offer critique to over production and recording, as well as proprietary formats of distribution. Rather than use data to produce a representation of analog phenomena, raw electrical pulses in these works create pitch and rhythm when played through a speaker—creating music that is, at its essence, electronic. Deliberately compact, Perich organizes melodic signal into minimal constructions. Fundamental to this craft are chains of information that can be read as on/off switches, which reference early theoretical study of computation in the 1930s by mathematicians Alan Turing and Kurt Gödel. "For me, a one or a zero is just that, and is represented in a microchip by the presence or absence of electrical charge", says Perich. "This patterned electricity is connected directly to a speaker or electron gun in a television, turning it on and off, thus creating sound or light."
Perich's visual compositions also explore texture, noise and order using recursive logic. Woven from geometric structures, his drawings contain layers of choreographed linear repetition. Executed with a machine, line in these images gives way to densely packed surfaces and planes.
bitforms gallery
529 West 20th Street, 2nd Floor
Gallery Hours: 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM, Tue–Sat. Free and open to the public
212-366-6939
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http://www.bitforms.com
Tristan Perich
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http://www.tristanperich.com
http://www.1bitsymphony.com"
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