Tristan Perich: “Elevation Maps” at Noguchi Museum

"Curated by Bang on a Can, the Noguchi Museum presents the premiere of Tristan Perich's “Elevation Maps” for five accordions and five-channel 1-bit electronics. The extended new work will be performed at 3pm in the afternoon for their final “Second Sundays” event this year. Performed by Jim Altieri, Matt van Brink, Benjamin Ickies, Franz Nicolay, Kamala Sankaram.
A $5 shuttle departs at 2:30pm from Asia Society in Manhattan (Park Ave and 70th St)
September 12, 2010 at 3PM
Noguchi Museum
3338 10th Street
Queens, New York (map)
N/Q to Broadway in Queens, or F to Queensbridge-21st Street
Free with museum admission: $10, $5 student/senior, children free
More Information:
http://www.noguchi.org/public_programs.html
http://www.tristanperich.com"

See the 1-bit label below for previous posts. Note all posts have to be about specific gear. This post is about Tristan Perich's 1-bit synth.

Tristan Perich Surface Image at Mass MoCA (7/16) and Caramoor (7/20) - Piano Meets 1-Bit Sounds

"Vicky Chow performs Tristan Perich's Surface Image this afternoon in the galleries at Mass MoCA (North Adams, MA) and on Sunday at Caramoor (Katonah, NY). Placing the solo piano within a dense frenzy of 1-bit sound, Surface Image is an hour-long concerto for piano and primitive electronics. Forty loudspeakers, each wired to hand-built circuit boards, blanket the stage and accompany Chow’s playing, accumulating in a dense polyphonic cascade of piano notes and 1-bit tones. Today's Mass MoCA performance is part of Bang on a Can Plays Art, and Caramoor's as part of "In the Garden of Sonic Delights", with Volume VI.

July 16, 2014 at 4:30pm
Mass MoCA
North Adams, MA
July 20, 2014 at 5pm
Caramoor
149 Girdle Ridge Rd, Katonah, NY

More information: http://tristanperich.com"

All the Teenage Engineering Synths for The Last Jam for #jamuary2019 (day31) feat. Tristan Perich

Published on Jan 31, 2019 amenemo1010

The 1-bit synth! The first time it was featured was back on August 31, 2005, just over a month after this version of the site launced.

"For this last jam I wanted to surprise you by putting together all the gears used during this period of #jamuary2019 and to surprise a rare and unavailable piece: the 1-bit symphony of Tristan Perich: programmed entirely in assembly code and inserted into a microchip to make the listening approach even more physical and direct."

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 "0.01s" Book Signing Tomorrow at Printed Matter

"Please come by Printed Matter tomorrow, Wednesday Dec 17, from 5-7pm for a talk and book signing for Tristan Perich's new art book, 0.01s: The First 1/100th Second of 1-Bit Symphony. Copies of 1-Bit Symphony will also be available.

Printed Matter
195 10th Ave (between 21st and 22nd, map)
New York, NY

Also available online from Physical Editions.
(Order today for shipping by Christmas within the United States).

More information:
http://tristanperich.com
http://physicaleditions.com"

Tristan Perich "0.01s" Book & 1-Bit Symphony Electronic Instrument CD

Some pics of my newly arrived "0.01s" book & "1-Bit Symphony" CD from Tristan Perich.

More information:
http://tristanperich.com
http://physicaleditions.com

Full details on the book release previously captured here. The book contains 635 pages of 1s and 0s. that cover cover the first 1/100th of a second of the 1-Bit Symphony CD.  Think about that the next time you play your digital synth for a bit.

1-Bit music made its first appearance here on MATRIXSYNTH back on August 8, 2005, just over one month after MATRIXSYNTH in the current format started.

When I put up that first post, the project brought a number of things to mind.  One, CDs are digital recordings of audio.  Here was a CD that generated audio through digital circuits.  Being 1-bit also implied bringing the audio down to its most simplistic, elemental form.  Digital synths are known for their complexity and variety, and typically, so is the audio recorded on CD.  The 1-bit CD seemed to be an expression of simplicity by breaking down what we define as music and syntheses to its minute source.  With the release of the book at 690 pages of 1s and 0s covering 10 milliseconds or a centisecond, you realize how much actually goes into it.

You'll find previous posts over the years on the 1-bit channel.

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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."

Tristan Perich - Noise Patterns (Excerpts)

Video added to this post.

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

Bleep Labs Bit Blob Jr.

Note: Auction links are affiliate links for which the site may be compensated.

via this auction

"The Bit Blob Jr.: Digital noise insanity from The Loud Objects & Bleep Labs.

The Bit Blobs are designed by The Loud Objects (Kunal Gupta and Tristan Perich) and Dr. Bleep. By connecting the pins together, you are able to explore a huge range of evolving drones and noise loops."

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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

The Mini Moog Synthesizer with Herb Deutsch - History of the Minimoog

YouTube Uploaded by Tifoso420 on Feb 12, 2012

"Herb Deutsch, the co-inventor of the first Moog synthesizer discusses the history and functions of the Mini Moog as well as its impact on the music of the time. Deutsch also plays one of his original jazz fusion pieces.

Directed by Michael Sterling"

This one in via Jorge Baez. You can read about the history of Moog including Herb Deutch and Buchla in Tristan Perich and Frank Trocco's book "Analog Days". You'll find it an other synth books in the Synth Books post here.

Tristan Perich: Interval Studies (Part 2)

Added to this post.

tiny synths overview

Published on Jul 10, 2019 Todd Barton

"some brief and very rough demos of these fun little synths from the early 2000s. Most are now unavailable though here are a few links of historical interest or updated versions of some of these:

Tristan Perich: https://tristanperich.bandcamp.com

Crackle Box: http://www.crackle.org/CrackleBox.htm

Rarebeast: https://www.etsy.com/shop/rarebeasts"

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."