Tristan Perich

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Tristan Perich: "Interval Studies" at Museo Carandente, Spoleto, Italy (Jun 26 to Sep 30, 2010)

Sep 2

Loud Objects with Text of Light (Lee Ranaldo, Alan Licht, Ulrich Krieger) at Le Poisson Rouge, New York, NY

Sep 12

Tristan Perich Compositions with 1-Bit Electronics at Noguchi Museum, Queens, NY

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Piano

Halftone

three flutes and three-channel 1-bit electronics (2010)

Dual Synthesis

harpsichord and 4-channel 1-bit electronics (2009)

qsqsqsqsqqqqqqqqq

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)

A/B/C/D

solo piccolo with single-channel 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.

New York-based Tristan Perich is inspired by the aesthetics of math and physics, and works with simple forms and complex systems. The challenge of elegance provokes his work in acoustic and electronic music, and physical and digital art.

The WIRE Magazine describes his compositions as "an austere meeting of electronic and organic." His works for soloist, ensemble and orchestra have been performed internationally by ensembles including Bang on a Can, Calder Quartet and Meehan/Perkins at venues from the Whitney Museum, P.S.1, Merkin Hall, the Stone and Joe's Pub to Los Angeles’ Zipper Hall and Lentos in Austria. He has received commissions from Bang on a Can, Dither Quartet, Yarn/Wire and Transit New Music.

In 2004 he began work on 1-Bit Music to experiment with the foundations of electronic sound, culminating in a physical "album," a music-generating circuit packaged inside a standard CD jewel case, available from Cantaloupe Music. His new circuit album, 1-Bit Symphony, is a long-form electronic composition in five movements.

As a visual artist, Perich has had solo exhibitions at bitforms gallery (NYC) and Mikrogalleriet (Copenhagen) in 2009, and Museo Carandente (Spoleto) in 2010. His Machine Drawings, pen-on-paper drawings executed by machine, were described as "elegantly delicate" by BOMB Magazine. His work with 1-bit video, including Eighteen Linear Constructions, exhibited in 2009 at Issue Project Room, employs binary electrical pulses to create images on cathode ray televisions. His artwork has been included in group shows at LABoral (Barcelona), iMAL (Brussels), MCLA's Gallery 51 (MA), ABC No Rio (NY), the Philoctetes Center (NY), and Greylock Arts (MA) and a traveling science museum exhibit in Arkansas.

His experimental music group, the Loud Objects (with Kunal Gupta and Katie Shima), perform electronic music by soldering their own noise-making circuits, live, from scratch in front of the audience. They have performed and exhibited at festivals around the world, and received a 2009 commission from Turbulence.org to create a networked noise toy development tool.

He received the Prix Ars Electronica in 2009 and will be a featured artist at Sonar 2010 in Barcelona. Rhizome awarded him a 2010 comission for a microtonal audio installation with 1,500 speakers. He was artist in residence at Issue Project Room in 2008, at Mikrogalleriet in Copenhagen in 2010, and at the Addison Gallery in Fall 2010. He has spoken about his work and taught workshops around the world. He studied music, math and computer science at Columbia University, and electronic art at ITP/Tisch.

Tristan Perich

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