1-Bit Symphony, by Tristan Perich

1-Bit Symphony

by Tristan Perich

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Daniel Daniel Electricity is a natural force; 1-Bit Symphony harnesses minimal electronics to convey deep emotion. The dithered, lush blocks of texture and fluttering, cascading melodic progressions prove that electronic music is only as cold as the musician behind it. Staggeringly beautiful and hypnotic. Favorite track: Movement 4.

bjjahnke8 Deceptively minimal with nothing held back - this is Tristian Perich's remarkable testament to what chip music never was

John Cratchley This doesn't feel 'austere' (as The Wire review would have it) to my ears but positively baroque in embellishment compared to some electronic pieces...it is a wonderful conceit, however, and a true symphony in its construction.
I don't pretend to understand the technology (buy the hardcopy and you actually get a hand-constructed piece of hardware in a cd case with a jack socket to play it through headphones) but the results are captivating.
There is a companion book which translates the computer based language into a visual work of art (a graphic score, if you will)...well worth exploring and groundbreaking.

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Tristan Perich's 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.

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0.01s, Perich's companion to 1-Bit Symphony, is a voluminous synthesis of sound 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.

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1.	Movement 1 05:17	buy track
2.	Movement 2 09:33	buy track
3.	Movement 3 08:47	buy track
4.	Movement 4 08:42	buy track
5.	Movement 5 14:51

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Tristan Perich's 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.

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released March 23, 2015

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Tristan Perich New York, New York

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."

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