** RELEASE PARTY FEB 29 AT PRINTED MATTER NYC **
w/ live performance + Q&A
www.printedmatter.org/programs/events/1780
A companion release to Tristan Perich's circuit album Noise Patterns, Pseudorandom is a massive, unabridged 1024-page printout of the 16,777,215 numbers that comprise one complete cycle of the 3-byte random number generator from its code. Originally released as a circuitboard that plays its music through a headphone jack, Noise Patterns employs 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 (in this case, all permutations of the 24 binary bits that make up a 3-byte number). 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.
Includes unlimited streaming of
Noise Patterns
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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0.01s (book, 2nd printing)
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Noise Patterns
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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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