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: Noise Patterns Coming to NYC This Wednesday, April 2

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2
Tristan Perich: Noise Patterns
Daniel Wohl w/ Iktus Percussion
Lucky Dragons
This Wednesday: a special intimate NYC performance of Tristan Perich's "Noise Patterns", with performances by Lucky Dragons and Daniel Wohl + IKTUS.
April 2, 2014 at 8:00pm
Baby's All Right
146 Broadway (at Bedford Ave), Brooklyn, NY

Info on Noise Patterns (click through for audio and more pics)

"Expanding on Perich's 1-Bit Symphony and tonal works for electronic circuits and acoustic instruments, Noise Patterns is a composition for sequenced 1-bit patterns of white noise, programmed for and performed by microchip. Instead of synthesizing definite frequencies, the code in Noise Patterns outputs random sequences of 1s and 0s. The 'notes' of Perich’s 'score' are then varying probabilities of randomness—ranging from the sound of white noise to sporadic instantaneous pops—which he composes into rhythmic patterns. In a tidal wave of 1-bit noise, the music is an investigation into the foundational limits of computation, which surface in the seemingly simple world of randomness."


And other events featuring Tristan's work:

MAR 29
Ensemble 0 performs Tristan Perich's "Observations" (with other works by Billy Martin, John Cage, Steve Reich, Angelica Negron)
Médiathèque André Labarrère
Pau, France

MAR 30
Unwind Concert Series: Mark DeMull performs Tristan Perich's "Momentary Expanse"
The Avenue, Lansing, MI

APR 2
Frontiers Festival: the festival's Resident Ensemble presents a program of works by Birmingham Conservatoire students alongside music by Tristan Perich, Anna Clyne, and Missy Mazzoli’s Orrizonte.
Birmingham Conservatoire
United Kingdom

MAY 30
FIVE: junctQin keyboard collective plays Tristan Perich's "qsqsqsqsqqqqqqqqq" (and works by Thierry De Mey, Elisha Denburg, Chad Martin, and Tomi Räisänen)
Gallery 345
Toronto, Canada

JUNE 5
Ensemble 0 performs Tristan Perich's "Observations"
Carcassonne, France

JUNE 12
Open Ears Festival: junctQin keyboard collective performs Tristan Perich's "qsqsqsqsqqqqqqqqq" (with works by Thierry De Mey, Elisha Denburg, Chad Martin, and Tomi Räisänen)
Registry Theatre
Kitchener, Canada

JUNE 21
Socrates Sculpture Park: SOUND EVENT
Socrates Sculpture Park
Queens, NY

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Tristan Perich Announces Noise Patterns + Release Party June 23

Tristan Perich - Noise Patterns (Excerpts) from Tristan Perich on Vimeo.

"Release party June 23 at (le) Poisson Rouge. Out July 22.

Noise Patterns digs into the primitive particles of digital 1-bit audio that has become Perich's signature sound. As with his previous circuit albums, Noise Patterns is not released as a CD or record. Noise Patterns comes as a minimalist matte-black circuit board with a headphone jack in the side. Plug in and switch it on to listen to Perich's music unfold.

The 6-track album explores how digital noise can be shaped and stressed, from glittering static into the mesmerizing electronic thump of a nightclub. On a technical level, the sonic raw material in Noise Patterns is digital 1-bit noise: a probabilistic density of random oscillations that Perich sequences into rhythmic patterns and layers into textures, pulses, rumbles and beats. These sounds are Perich's very own, programmed by the artist and synthesized in real-time as the circuit plays. The physical format of Noise Patterns reveals how Perich engages music at all levels, from sound all the way down to the binary instructions of the hardware.

INFORMATION: Noise Patterns on Physical Editions
PRE-ORDER: from Bleep.com

Release Party Performance: June 23 at (le) Poisson Rouge
6pm doors / 7:30pm show, 158 Bleecker St, NYC
TRISTAN PERICH: NOISE PATTERNS LIVE
ROBERT HENKE: 8032_TEST_COMPOSITION_01
KARL LARSON: ALVIN LUCIER'S MUSIC FOR PIANO WITH SLOW SWEEP PURE WAVE OSCILLATOR
+ Perich: Remixed after-party by Ricardo Romaneiro & Leo Leite with live visuals by Christian Hannon

TICKETS: from LPR"

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: 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: Pseudorandom

Infinity Gradient Trailer (for organ and 100 speakers) by Tristan Perich - Death of Classical video upload by Death of Classical

Note the above is a video of Tristan Perich's Infinity Gradient performance from March 22, 2022. You'll find details on his new book Pseudorandom, and upcoming performance further below. You might remember Tristan Perich from his 1-Bit synth featured in previous posts here.

Description for the Infinity Gradient performance above: "Composer Tristan Perich has made a name for himself creating sweeping, viscerally overwhelming soundscapes out of armies of 1-bit speakers playing synthesized sounds. We're pleased to present the U.S. Premiere of his newest work, Infinity Gradient, which takes his musical vision to the next level by combining 100 of those speakers with the soul-blasting power of all 7,069 pipes in the Miller-Scott Organ, housed amidst the magnificent Gothic architecture of Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue and played by the inimitable James McVinnie."



via Tristan Perich:

"Book Release + Performance at Printed Matter, Feb 29

Tristan Perich's Pseudorandom is a companion release to his circuit album Noise Patterns. The new art book is a monolithic, unabridged 1024-page printout of the 16,777,215 numbers that comprise one complete cycle of the 3-byte random number generator from Noise Patterns' code.

Originally released as a circuitboard that plays its music through a headphone jack, Noise Patterns employed randomness at the core of its sound synthesis. However, true randomness is beyond the limitations of any deterministic computer algorithm. Because a digital computer’s memory is intrinsically finite, any attempt towards randomness will eventually exhaust every possible memory value. When those values are used up, the cycle must repeat. What results is termed “pseudorandom” — an approximation of randomness, and an illustration of the vast but fundamentally limited nature of computation.

Join me at Printed Matter on Feb 29 to celebrate the book release, with a solo performance of Noise Patterns + Q&A

Tristan Perich: Pseudorandom Book Release
Thursday, Feb 29, 6pm
Printed Matter
231 11th Ave, NYC
➝ Event Info
➝ Pre-Order"

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Announcing Tristan Perich: Compositions - four works for 1-bit electronics and acoustic instruments

Tristan Perich: Parallels (w/ Meehan/ Perkins Duo) - Trailer from Physical Editions on Vimeo.

Tristan Perich: Compositions
Parallels
Meehan/ Perkins Duo, percussion
Out March 24 on Physical Editions (http://physicaleditions.com)

"Tristan Perich's composed works for acoustic instrumentation with 1-bit electronics are the subject of 'Compositions,' a new series of recordings to be released individually in special packaging that includes their full musical scores printed in poster form. This year, four works will be released, scored as duos between percussion, winds, harpsichord, strings and his 1-bit electronics. In each recording, the 1-bit electronics perform through on-stage speakers alongside classical instrumentation, continuing Perich's exploration into the physical nature of electronic and acoustic sound. Featuring performances by Meehan/ Perkins Duo, Ensemble Signal, Daniel Walden and others, the recordings will be available individually ($12-$18) or as a $50 pre-order subscription, released over the course of 2015. A limited artist edition will be available for $250 at the end of the year."

And from the official press release:

"Announcing Tristan Perich: Compositions

four works for 1-bit electronics and acoustic instruments

each CD packaged with miniaturized complete score

FIRST RELEASE: Parallels with Meehan/ Perkins Duo

RELEASE PERFORMANCE: GAP Presents! at Sky Gallery, March 25 8pm

PRE-ORDER: from Physical Editions

Tristan Perich's composed works for acoustic instrumentation with 1-bit electronics are the subject of Compositions, a new series of recordings to be released individually on CD in special packaging that includes their full musical scores printed in poster form.

This year, four works will be released, scored as duos between percussion, winds, harpsichord, strings and his 1-bit electronics. Featuring performances by the Meehan/ Perkins Duo, Ensemble Signal, Daniel Walden and others, the recordings will be available individually ($12-$18) or as a $50 pre-order subscription, released over the course of 2015. A limited artist edition player will be available as a self-playing device for $250 at the end of the year.
Join us on March 25 at 8pm for Meehan/ Perkins Duo performing Parallels at the Sky Gallery, 460 Union St, Brooklyn. Presented by Gowanus Art + Production. Tickets: $15 advance (buy now), $20 at door.

Compositions Release Schedule
March 24: Parallels
for tuned triangles, hi-hats and 4-channel 1-bit electronics
MEEHAN/ PERKINS DUO, PERCUSSION
May: Telescope
for 2 bass clarinets, 2 baritone saxophones and 4-channel 1-bit electronics
SARA BUDDE, EILEEN MACK, BASS CLARINETS
ARGEO ASCANI, ALEX HAMLIN, BARITONE SAXOPHONES
August: Dual Synthesis
for harpsichord and 4-channel 1-bit electronics
DANIEL WALDEN, HARPSICHORD
November: Active Field
for 10 violins and 10-channel 1-bit electronics
ENSEMBLE SIGNAL, VIOLINS
BRAD LUBMAN, CONDUCTOR"

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 Releases “1-Bit Symphony” Reprint + Companion Art Book “0.01s”

"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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Tristan Perich: Impermanent (excerpt) at the Stone

Tristan Perich: Impermanent (excerpt) at the Stone from Tristan Perich on Vimeo.

"Tristan Perich: Impermanent
For tubular bells and 1-bit electronics
At The Stone, NYC

Performed by Doug Perkins, Nathan Davis, percussion

2011.

Tristan Perich: tristanperich.com
Doug Perkins: dougperkins.com
Nathan Davis: nathandavis.com"

Tristan Perich's 1-bit Music was first featured on MATRIXSYNTH back in August of 2005, only one month after the site launched. You can find more posts via the 1-bit label below.

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"

Vicky Chow - Tristan Perich: Surface Image

Vicky Chow - Tristan Perich: Surface Image from New Amsterdam Records on Vimeo.

"Vicky Chow - Tristan Perich: Surface Image

AVAILABLE TODAY ON NEW AMSTERDAM RECORDS

Stream/Buy on Bandcamp, iTunes and Amazon

New Amsterdam Records is proud to announce Surface Image, the new album-length composition for solo piano with 40-channel 1-bit electronics, composed by Tristan Perich and performed by pianist Vicky Chow.

Surface Image is a stunning marriage of Perich’s inspired electronic aesthetic and Chow's nuanced yet fiercely virtuosic playing. The line between electric and organic is artistically blurred, as the simple hand-wired electronics fuse with the individual notes of the piano on the same, expansive plane. Recorded at EMPAC’s sound studio by producer Argeo Ascani and mix engineer Jeffrey Svatek.


"Gorgeous...played by the virtuoso Vicky Chow" – RHAPSODY

"A brilliant, glittering web of piano and 1-bit electronics"
– WONDERING SOUND/JOHN SCHAEFER

"A masterpiece of (Post)Romantic proportions: an epic struggle between man and machine, pushing the piano beyond the limits of playability. There are moments of breakneck virtuosity and profound lyricism, beauty and menace. It is both an alien landscape and one that's eerily familiar." – FEAST OF MUSIC

"Album of the Week" - "Microcosmic fascination aside, Surface Image's power comes from the sublime, sheer power of its whole...creates a universe all its own."
– Q2 MUSIC

"The depth gathered in just the first nine minute bulk of Surface Image alone is brilliantly wearing, folding pixels and wires over themselves in a dizzying manner to smooth and lull." – TINY MIX TAPES

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.

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: 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

Final week to see Tristan Perich's Microtonal Wall at MoMA

"Sunday is the last day of the Museum of Modern Art's Soundings: A Contemporary Score

Each of the 1,500 speakers in Tristan Perich's Microtonal Wall is tuned to play a specific tone, dividing four octaves into 1,500 microtonal pitches across its 25-foot length. The resulting cloud of frequencies resembles white noise from a distance, transitioning into individual tones as the viewer approaches the piece.

MoMA's first major exhibition of sound art presents work by Luke Fowler, Toshiya Tsunoda, Marco Fusinato, Richard Garet, Florian Hecker, Christine Sun Kim, Jacob Kirkegaard, Haroon Mirza, Carsten Nicolai, Camille Norment, Tristan Perich, Susan Philipsz, Sergei Tcherepnin, Hong-Kai Wang, Jana Winderen, and Stephen Vitiello. Organized by Barbara London, Associate Curator, with Leora Morinis, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Media and Performance Art.

Soundings: A Contemporary Score
On view: Aug 10 to Nov 3
The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53rd Street, New York, NY (map)
More information:
http://tristanperich.com"

Some of you might remember Tristan Perich from his 1-bit synth and other projects.

Tristan Perich - Microtonal Wall at Interaccess - Walkthrough

Tristan Perich - Microtonal Wall at Interaccess - Walkthrough from Tristan Perich on Vimeo.

"1,500 speakers, each playing a single microtonal frequency, collectively spanning 4 octaves. Commissioned in part by Rhizome, with additional support from the Addison Gallery.

Video walkthrough from the exhibition "Microtonal Array" (with work by Tristan Perich and Sarah Rara)
InterAccess
Toronto, Canada

http://www.interaccess.org
http://www.tristanperich.com"

Tristan Perich: 1-Bit Symphony (Part 2 - Music Excerpts)

Tristan Perich: 1-Bit Symphony (Part 2 - Music Excerpts) from Tristan Perich on Vimeo.

Part 1 here. According to the pre-order post back on June 4, today is the release date.

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.

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.