"Celebrating the five-year reprint of 1-Bit Symphony, Tristan Perich releases companion art book: 0.01s: The First 1/100th Second of 1-Bit Symphony
In 2005, Tristan Perich’s 1-Bit Music was the first album released as a self-contained electronic circuit. His 2009 followup, 1-Bit Symphony, was called “sublime” by New York Press and rated “high-brow” and “brilliant” by New York Magazine, and quickly sold out its first pressing. To celebrate its 5-year anniversary, 1-Bit Symphony is back in stock in its original hardware format, now on Perich’s own imprint Physical Editions. In conjunction with the reprint, Perich is publishing 0.01s: The First 1/100th Second of 1-Bit Symphony, a conceptual art book that exposes the computational processes behind the album.
1-Bit Symphony is a dazzlingly low-fi electronic composition in five movements on a single microchip. A complete electronic circuit utilizes on and off electrical pulses, synthesized by assembly code, to manifest data as sound. The Wall Street Journal wrote, “Its oscillations have an intense, hypnotic force and a surprising emotional depth.” The device treats electricity as a sonic medium, making an intimate connection between the materiality of hardware and the abstract logic of software.0.01s, Perich's new companion to 1-Bit Symphony, is an impressive synthesis of art and computation in book form, giving a tangible mass to the code behinds its music. Digging even deeper into the basic operations of computation, 0.01s captures the inner workings of 1- Bit Symphony over the first hundredth of a second after it is switched on. In just 0.01 seconds, its processor executes 80,000 computational cycles, enough information to fill a 695-page book with austere tables of numbers and machine language, becoming a visual meditation on the internal mechanics of computation.
Tristan Perich's (New York) work is inspired by the aesthetic simplicity of math, physics and code. The WIRE Magazine describes his compositions as "an austere meeting of electronic and organic." His award winning work coupling 1-bit electronics with traditional forms in both music and visual art has been presented around the world, from Sonar and Ars Electronica to MoMA and bitforms gallery."
More information:
http://tristanperich.com
http://physicaleditions.com
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