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Tristan Perich: "Machine Drawings" in "Illuminating Data: Visualizing the Information that Moves Our World" at The College of New Jersey Art Gallery, Ewing, NJ (Mar 14 to Apr 19, 2012)
Jan 27
Tristan Perich ("Impermanent" for tubular bells) and Lesley Flanigan (speaker feedback instruments) at La Sala, Brooklyn, NY

Mar 2
Pulse 2012 presents Loud Objects (with Medeology Collective), Savannah, GA

Mar 3
Pulse 2012: Loud Objects Noise Toy Workshop, Savannah, GA

Mar 9
Ohio University New Music Ensemble performs Tristan Perich's "Observations", Athens, OH

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Sequence
percussion quartet and string quartet with gated amplification (2011)
commissioned by So Percussion and Calder Quartet
Interference Logic
guitar quartet and 4-channel 1-bit electronics (2010) (download)
Commissioned by Dither Quartet.
Dual Synthesis
harpsichord and 4-channel 1-bit electronics (2009) (download)
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three toy pianos and three-channel 1-bit tones (2009) (download)
Between the Silences
nine strings, nine-part 1-bit music (2008) (download)
1/4 Revolution
three violas, three-part 1-bit music (2008) (download)
Observations
two sets of crotales, three-channel 1-bit music (2008) (download)
All Possible Paths
clarinet, acoustic guitar, cello, double bass, marimba,
piano, 5-channel 1-bit electronics (2008) (download)
commissioned by Bang on a Can's People's Commissioning Fund
Telescope
two bass clarinets, two baritone saxophones, 4-channel 1-bit electronics (2007) (download)
Interface
string quartet, 4-channel 1-bit electronics (2007) (download)
Active Field
10 violins, 10-channel 1-bit electronics (2007) (download)
Rotary
three violins (2006) (download)
Lit
three soprano voices, piano (2004) (download)
Perhaps
piano, bass clarinet (2003) (download)
Duet
piano duet (2002) (download)
Interval Studies

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.

 
Machine Drawings

The Machine Drawings—pen on paper or wall drawings executed by a custom-built machine—use randomness and order as raw materials within a composition. Inspired by physics and math, the machine drawings are a combination of the delicacy of real drawings and the rigid, structured system of mechanics and code.

 
1-Bit Video

1-Bit Video involve low resolution black-and-white images synthesized by microchips and display on cathode ray televisions. On and off pulses of electricity are sent from the microchips to cathode ray televisions, directly controlling the electron gun inside, making the digital physical.

 

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." 1-Bit Music, his 2004 release, was the first album ever released as a microchip, programmed to synthesize his electronic composition live. His latest circuit album, 1-Bit Symphony (Cantaloupe, 2010) has received critical acclaim, called "sublime" (New York Press), and the Wall Street Journal said "its oscillations have an intense, hypnotic force and a surprising emotional depth." His award winning work coupling 1-bit electronics with traditional forms in both music (Active Field, Observations) and visual art (Machine Drawings, Microtonal Wall) has been presented around the world, from Sonar and Ars Electronica to the Whitney Museum and bitforms gallery.

Read More: biography/resume
E-mail: mail@tristanperich.com
Vimeo: vimeo.com/tristanperich
Flickr: flickr.com/photos/tristanperich
Tristan Perich on Cantaloupe Music
1-Bit Symphony

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 album is available from Cantaloupe Music ($29), or as a limited art edition ($150).

 
Loud Objects

Wielding soldering irons over a ramshackle overhead projector, Tristan Perich, Kunal Gupta and Katie Shima wire up live musical circuits. Punctuated silence occupies the first few minutes of their set while the initial circuit is wired up on an antique overhead projector. The resulting explosive sound is dense and grows as more microchips are added.

 
1-Bit Music

1-Bit Music probes the foundations of digital sound. An electronic circuit is assembled inside a CD case with a headphone jack on the side. The device plays back 40 minutes of low-fi 1-bit electronic music, the lowest possible digital representation of audio. The Cantaloupe Music release of 1-Bit Music is no longer available, except as a limited art edition ($100).

 

Tristan Perich: "Machine Drawings" in "Illuminating Data: Visualizing the Information that Moves Our World", The College of New Jersey Art Gallery, 2000 Pennington Road, Ewing, NJ (March 14 to April 19, 2012)
Jan 27
Tristan Perich ("Impermanent" for tubular bells) and Lesley Flanigan (speaker feedback instruments) at La Sala
8:00 PM, $5
La Sala @ Cantina Royal, 58 North 3rd St (map), Brooklyn, NY

Mar 2
Pulse 2012 presents Loud Objects (with Medeology Collective)
6:00 PM, Free
Telfair Museums Jepson Center, 207 W. York Street (map), Savannah, GA

Mar 3
Pulse 2012: Loud Objects Noise Toy Workshop
10:00 AM, Free Admission (with advance registration 912.790.8827)
Telfair Museums Jepson Center, 207 W. York Street (map), Savannah, GA

Mar 9
Ohio University New Music Ensemble performs Tristan Perich's "Observations"
7:30 PM, Free
Ohio University, Templeton-Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium , Athens, OH

Mar 23
American Mavericks Festival presents "Instrumentals" at the Kitchen: Tristan Perich and William Basinski
8:00 PM, $15
The Kitchen, 512 West 19th Street (map), New York, NY

 

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