Tristan Perich: 1-Bit Symphony Pre-Orders

You can find Tristan Perich's 1-Bit Symphony on Pre-Order here. Pre-orders ship two weeks before official August 24 release date. See this video and the 1-bit label at the bottom of this post for more.

"Tristan Perich's 1-Bit Symphony is an electronic composition in five movements on a single microchip. Though housed in a CD jewel case, 1-Bit Symphony is not a recording in the traditional sense; it literally "performs" its music live when turned on. A complete electronic circuit programmed by the artist and assembled by hand plays the music through a headphone jack mounted into the case itself.

A return to the format of Perich's lauded 1-Bit Music (described by the Village Voice as "technology and aesthetic rolled into one"), 1-Bit Symphony further reduces the hardware involved while simultaneously expanding its musical ideas. 1-Bit Symphony utilizes on and off electrical pulses, synthesized by assembly code and routed from microchip to speaker, to manifest data as sound. The device treats electricity as a sonic medium, making an intimate connection between the materiality of hardware and the abstract logic of software.

While 1-Bit Symphony is purely electronic in its execution, its contents reflect Perich's long-standing interest in orchestral composition. Since the release of 1-Bit Music in 2006, Perich's compositional work has combined 1-bit audio with acoustic classical instruments, providing insight into the conceptual and aesthetic relationships between physical and electronic sound. With 1-Bit Symphony, Perich brings this insight back into the digital realm, juxtaposing the grand form of a classical symphony with the minimal nature of 1-bit circuitry.

For more information, please visit http://www.1bitsymphony.com"

Tristan Perich: 1-Bit Symphony (Part 1: Overview)

Tristan Perich: 1-Bit Symphony (Part 1: Overview) from Tristan Perich on Vimeo.

"Tristan Perich's 1-Bit Symphony is an electronic composition in five movements on a single microchip. Though housed in a CD jewel case, 1-Bit Symphony is not a recording in the traditional sense; it literally "performs" its music live when turned on. A complete electronic circuit—programmed by the artist and assembled by hand—plays the music through a headphone jack mounted into the case itself. The project is set to be released on Cantaloupe on August 24, 2010.

More info:
Cantaloupe Music: cantaloupemusic.com
1-Bit Symphony: 1bitsymphony.com
Tristan Perich: tristanperich.com"

Update: pre-orders available here. Pre-orders ship two weeks before official August 24 release date.

Tristan Perich - Interval Studies, Sound Tool 2010

YouTube via MediaArtTube
"Interval Studies is a formal look at musical intervals as a dense continuum of microtonal pitch, expressed en masse as discrete 1-bit frequencies distributed across hundreds of individual speakers.
More info: http://www.tristanperich.com/"

Click here and scroll for prior posts featuring Tristan Perich's work. The very first post I put up on his One Bit Synth was back on August 31, 2005.

Tristan Perich: Interval Studies (Part 2)

Added to this post.

Tristan Perich - Interval Studies (Part 1)

Tristan Perich - Interval Studies (Part 1) from Tristan Perich on Vimeo.

Tristan Perich: Interval Studies (Part 2) from Tristan Perich on Vimeo.

"Tristan Perich: Interval Studies
audio art exhibition in Copenhagen
closing this Sunday

Mikrogalleriet's solo exhibition for New York-based composer and artist Tristan Perich ends this Sunday in Copenhagen. His new body of work, Interval Studies, is a formal look at musical intervals as a dense continuum of microtonal pitch, expressed en masse as discrete 1-bit frequencies distributed across hundreds of individual speakers. Each speaker, emitting a single, primitive 1-bit tone, becomes a microscopic voice in the total cluster, substituting individual pitch for larger sonic masses.

Tristan Perich: Interval Studies
on view: February 5 - 14
gallery hours: Thursday/Friday 5pm-9pm; weekends 1pm-7pm
Mikrogalleriet
Gormsgade 9, Copenhagen, Denmark

More Information:
- http://www.tristanperich.com/interval_studies
Photographs from the exhibition:
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/tristanperich
Video about the show:
- http://vimeo.com/9218458
Press Release:
- http://mikrogalleriet.net/presse

Mikrogalleriet
Address: Gormsgade 9, 2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark
Gallery hours: Thursday/Friday 5pm-9pm; weekends 1pm-7pm
Telephone: +45 29723927
hello@mikrogalleriet.net
http://www.mikrogalleriet.net

Tristan Perich
mail@tristanperich.com
http://www.tristanperich.com
Confirmed Guests"

Tristan Perich: bitforms gallery show ends Saturday

"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 SYMPHONY
bitforms 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
info(that thing)bitforms.com
http://www.bitforms.com
Tristan Perich
mail(that thing)tristanperich.com
http://www.tristanperich.com
http://www.1bitsymphony.com"

Tristan Perich: 1-Bit Symphony Live

via Tristan Perich:

"Hi Everyone!

This coming week is a really important one for me.

If the $100 ticket price for Tuesday's benefit is too much, on Friday I kick off a big USA tour with Lesley Flanigan at the Stone for a much more reasonable $10. It's the official premiere of my new piece for harpsichord and electronics, and Lesley will be performing her beautiful speaker instruments with voice. [It's also your first official chance to pick up a pre-release copy of 1-Bit Symphony.]

And starting Wednesday, bitforms is presenting my first solo exhibition (featuring three 6-foot machine drawings, a 1-bit video installation, and two listening stations), on view through November 7th.

Hope to see you.

Regards,
Tristan

Tuesday, Oct 27: 1-Bit Symphony benefit concert + artist talk ($100 tickets)
6:30pm at bitforms gallery, 529 West 20th St (2nd Floor) (map), NYC

Friday, Oct 30: Tristan Perich and Lesley Flanigan ($10)
8pm at The Stone, 2nd Street and Avenue C (map), NYC

On view Oct 28 to Nov 7: Tristan Perich solo show
bitforms gallery, 529 West 20th St (2nd Floor) (map), NYC"

previous posts with more info

Tristan Perich: 1-Bit Symphony Benefit

"On October 27th, bitforms gallery presents a benefit event for Tristan Perich's new album, 1-Bit Symphony, an electronic composition in five movements to be released by Cantaloupe Music, Bang on a Can's sister record label. Following a wine reception, Perich will give a short artist talk about the work and a pre-premiere performance of Dual Synthesis, a new composition for harpsichord and 1-bit electronics.


Special Benefit Concert

Tuesday, October 27
6:30pm Wine reception
7:00pm Artist talk and performance

bitforms gallery
529 West 20th St, 2nd Floor
New York City
212 366 6939

Levels of Tax-Deductible Giving
- $100 per ticket to benefit concert
- $250 single ticket to benefit + limited artist edition (ed. 50, see below)
- if you cannot attend, your donation is still appreciated

Reserve online at: http://1bitsymphony.com/give

Or send checks to Bang on a Can, the fiscal sponsor:
Bang on a Can
Attn: 1-Bit Symphony
80 Hanson Place, Ste 702
Brooklyn, NY 11217


Artist edition: copy of 1-Bit Symphony, hand-made and signed by the artist, including a 26"x40" archival print of source code and schematic

Patrons may have their name appear in the sponsors on the poster if their donation is received by October 20th. Contributions are tax-deductible to the extent of the law. For more information contact Cantaloupe Music at info@cantaloupemusic.com or 718 852 7755.

1-BIT SYMPHONY
Following the success of his 2005 release 1-Bit Music, Tristan Perich’s new album, 1-Bit Symphony, contains a complete long-form electronic composition in five movements, programmed on a single microchip. Probing the foundations of digital sound, 1-Bit Symphony celebrates the virtuosity of electricity. Its music explores the intricate, polyphonic potential of 1-bit audio, uniting simple with complex.

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 inside a standard CD jewel case, plays the music through a headphone jack mounted in the case itself. The layered tones in 1-Bit Symphony are synthesized by binary pulses of electricity, emphasizing the physical quality of sound.

Each album in the limited edition of 5,000 copies is a small sculpture, hand-assembled in New York City. bitforms gallery is hosting a benefit event for 1-Bit Symphony on October 27th, 2009. The official release by Cantaloupe Music is scheduled for the Spring of 2010.

Accompanying the general release is a special artist edition of 50 copies. The artist edition includes a signed and numbered copy of 1-Bit Symphony, constructed by the artist, and an archival silkscreened print of the source code and schematic, available from the artist's website.

The WIRE Magazine describes Tristan Perich's compositions as “an austere meeting of electronic and organic.” His creative activities are inspired by the aesthetics of math and physics, and work with simple forms and complex systems. His composition Active Field (for ten violins and ten-channel 1-bit music) received an Award of Distinction from Austria's Prix Ars Electronica. He received a 2010 Rhizome Commission to create an audio installation with 1,500 speakers. His compositions for soloist, ensemble and orchestra have been performed nationally and abroad by ensembles including Bang on a Can (2008 People’s Commissioning Fund), Calder Quartet, Hunter-Gatherer and Ensemble Pamplemousse at venues from the Whitney Museum, Merkin Hall, the Stone and Issue Project Room to Los Angeles’ Zipper Hall. Perich studied math, music and computer science at Columbia University after attending Philips Academy, Andover. More recently, he studied art, music and electronics at Interactive Telecommunications Program at Tisch School of the Arts, NYU."

http://www.tristanperich.com
http://www.1bitsymphony.com


Tristan Perich on MATRIXSYNTH Tristan Perich's One Bit Synth was first posted back in August of 2005.

Tristan Perich: One Bit Music

via John Levin:

"I'm in Copenhagen for a few days where I'm playing in a music festival. Anyway, last night I saw this guy named play at the festival named Tristan Perich.
Here's some photos: link
Here's one of Tristan's sites for more info: link

Basically, he's made this circuit that does one-bit music. In the performance shots, he'd controlling one through what looks like a home-made Korg MIDI interface."

You can find prior posts on Tristan Perich and his One Bit Music project including video here.

Bent Festival 2009

YouTube via eddie23a
Bent Festival 2009 : Lesley Flanigan - Speaker Synth
Bent Festival 2009 : Tristan Perich - Impulse Manifold
Bent Festival 2009 : Burnkit 2600
Bent Festival 2009 : Pixel Form
Bent Festival 2009 : Boring Machine
Bent Festival 2009 : Playboy's Bend
Bent Festival 2009 : Computer at Sea

Tristan Perich at the Stone with Ensemble Pamplemousse Compositions with 1-Bit Music

"This Saturday, February 21st, three new and recent compositions by Tristan Perich for ensemble with 1-bit music will be performed at the Stone (curated this month by Shannon Fields). The recital marks the premiere of a new work composed for Ensemble Pamplemousse, his first composition exploring white noise as a basis for sound. Computationally, pure oscillation and total randomness occupy opposite ends of the information spectrum, yet both are found in the foundations of sound and pattern, and this new body of work on white noise explores this domain. Two other pieces involve pure tones: one for three violas, the other featuring Perich on piano.
- 1/4 Revolution
For three violas and three-channel 1-bit music
Performed by Nadia Sirota, Elizabeth Weisser and Andrea Hemmenway
- Intersticials
For flute, violin, cello, percussion and three-channel 1-bit noise
Performed by Ensemble Pamplemousse: Natacha Diels, Kiku Enomoto, John Popham, Andrew Greenwald
- Five Architectures
For solo piano and four-channel 1-bit music
Performed by Tristan Perich
Tristan Perich at the Stone
February 21, 2009, at 8PM sharp
At The Stone
North-west corner of 2nd Street and Avenue C, New York City (map)
Kind Regards,
Tristan Perich
- tristanperich.com
- 1bitmusic.com"

Tristan Perich: Active Field - LIVE Tonight

Tristan Perich: Active Field
WITH William Brittelle: Mohair Time Warp

Tonight, Active Field, Tristan Perich's first major work for ensemble with 1-bit music accompaniment, arranges ten violinists and ten audio speakers on stage in a work that investigates the fundamental relation between physical and electronic sound. Working with primitive electronic machines he creates, Tristan Perich explores the foundations of sound. Last heard live at the Whitney Museum, Active Field is a jubilant intersection of the opposite but equal domains of data and sound, treating the violin and computer, each pinnacles of their respective disciplines, as primitive machines for the creation of sound.
William Brittelle's Mohair Time Warp is a full-length, lip-synched, mixed-genre, art-music concept album featuring an 8-person, mixed rock/classical ensemble. Possible descriptions include: a punk-classical collage version of the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds; a marriage of Basquiat, Prince and Debussy; and/or Captain Beefheart put through an art-pop filter with a well-dressed, wildly charismatic lip-synching frontman.

Tristan Perich and William Brittelle
Saturday, January 17, 2008, $10
7pm wine reception, 7:30pm music
Chelsea Art Museum, 556 West 22nd St (at 11th Ave), New York

Violin: Sage Cole, Monica Davis, Olivia De Prato, Kiku Enomoto, Sasha Korczynski,
Matt McBane, Elena Park, Jessica Pavone, Andie Springer, Tom Swafford

Kind Regards,
Tristan

- tristanperich.com
- 1bitmusic.com

Note the image in this post wasn't part of the announcement above. You might remember it from this post back in 2007. The first post I put up on 1-bit music was back in August of 2005, one of the first posts on MATRIXSYNTH.

Science or Art?

YouTube via marthajheil.

 If you've been coming to this site for a while you might recognize this as the One Bit Synth, posted back in August of 2005.

"Musician Puts Love for Computer Science into Minimalist Synthesizer

Recycled CD cases become bare-bones music players with the addition of a simple microchip and handful of other components, in a creation by a New York University graduate student in interactive telecommunications. Tristan Perich composes electronic music that can be encoded with just one bit -- compared to the sixteen bits of a CD -- and stores it in the 8 Kilobyte chip at the heart of his low-tech iPods."

1-Bit Music

I originally put up a post on 1-Bit Music back in August of 2005. An anonymous reader sent me a track he did with one and a little stereo reverb and amplification/EQ. You can find that track here. site.


Tristan Perich's 1-bit Music

One Bit Synth in CD Case

Via Boing Boing. The One Bit Synth in a CD case. Apparently it plays "minimalist glitch electronica." : )



Update:
From the man himself, Tristan Perich, via the comments:
"Just read about the One Bit Synth from this article. My One Bit Music project has been in development since May 2004, just to be clear. It has 11 programmed tracks in 1-bit stereo."