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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"

Mr. Braska and an Ultimate Percussion module

via synth-diy were you'll find more shots of Mr. Brasky at tigrics' studio.

Propellerhead Reason 4.0 Overview, How to Use

YouTube via ProAudioDVDs
"This is an excerpt from a full length DVD available at www.ProAudioDVDs.com. Host David Wills has toured with major artists such as Michael Jackson, Phil Collins, Whitney Houston, Chicago and Diana Ross and provides you with a professional's perspective but always demonstrated in an informal, easy to understand way."

'Dance' uit de jaren vijftig

'Dance' uit de jaren vijftig from Dood Lijk on Vimeo.

"Elektronische (dance)muziek is niet typisch iets van deze tijd. Het is eigenlijk in de jaren vijftig ontstaan in het natuurkundig laboratorium van Philips, het Natlab.

In het lab werden - zonder computer - allerlei elektronische geluidseffecten gecomponeerd en geproduceerd. Niemand kon toen nog vermoeden dat die geluiden ooit zouden leiden tot wat nu dance- en housemuziek is. Dat culturele erfgoed is vastgelegd op een serie cd's die deze week verschijnt. Moderne dj's dwepen er mee."

Googlish:
"Electronic (dance) music is not something typical of this time. It is actually in the fifties created in the physics laboratory of Philips, the Natlab.

In the lab were - without a computer - all composed and produced electronic sound. No one could then suspect that the sounds could ever lead to what dance and house music. This cultural heritage is recorded on a series of CDs this week appears. Modern DJs infatuated with it."

via BS-1
http://www.bs-1.nl
http://www.myspace.com/bs1electro

Electro-Dziska

Electro-Dziska from Dood Lijk on Vimeo.

"Electro-Dziska is a film about street sounds and future technologies in electronic music.
A music documentary about the creative process of one of the oldest forms of electronic /dance music known as "electro", some of the artist who produce it (who visited or live the city of Miami) and their music influences."

via BS-1
http://www.bs-1.nl
http://www.myspace.com/bs1electro