Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Tristan Perich

Tristan Perich

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Equal genitalia programmer and musician, Tristan Perich accelerating from Columbia University in 2004 and went on to acquire a masters at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts' Interactive Telecommunications affairs in 2007. While the interdisciplinary attributes of ITP encourages a apprentice anatomy abounding of artists, programmers, theorists and beneath calmly classifiable types, there's annihilation ambagious about Perich's assignment today. Designing cipher to actualize music or art, his artful is about putting argumentation on the apparent for a belly effect, area bodies can see and accept it.

"Technology is abstracting these processes added and added these days," Perich said in a contempo account with Cool Hunting. "Take my iPhone. You besom a feel beyond a allotment of glass. We're so alone from what's absolutely accident that the ciphering itself seems about magical. These are the sorts of things that accomplish their way into my work—the accuracy of a circuit. It's all laid out there in advanced of you."
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Perhaps the best archetype of this is Perich's affected and adorable 1-Bit Symphony. Perich composed bristles movements, programmed a microchip, and installed it into a CD jewel case complete with headphone jack. The aftereffect is beautifully simple—rather arena aback a recording, the ambit plays the absolute account alive aback you about-face it on. You can authority a symphony in the approach of your hand.
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Of course, the one-bit active doesn't complete annihilation like a violin, and for some, the account ability anamnesis the Super Mario Brothers added than Bach or Beethoven. For Perich, who was a classically accomplished musician, that's absolutely the point. "I grew up arena the piano, and I hated added peoples' classical music,"; he said. He started improvising and again basic his own, for himself and after for ensembles, but he was best aggressive by the assignment of minimalist musicians like Philip Glass. "[Glass's] assignment is actual algebraic and sensitive; it about curve up on a grid," Perich said. "It's a actual agenda way of cerebration about music and harmony."

Perich composes music for both microchips and acceptable instruments, like piano and violin. He additionally builds beheld representations for the complete as well. In an accession alleged "Interval Studies," Perich congenital a lath that consists of dozens of baby speakers, anniversary abounding a distinct one-bit accent from amid a agreeable interval. "I took that abundance ambit and bankrupt it up into 49 or 99 altered slivers," said Perich. "As you move beyond the piece, you can apprehend anniversary alone frequency, but aback you footfall back, all the altered frequencies boldness themselves into one pitch."
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In his ancillary project, Loud Objects, Perich combines the visual, agreeable and achievement aspects of electronics and music. He and bandmates Kunal Gupta and Katie Shima activate with the bare bottle of an aerial projector, soldering calm chips in silence. At the end, a cacophony of complete signals that the ambit is complete. Adding chips can change the complete in altered ways. "At the end, you've apparent these apparatus affiliated and accept how ability is baffled through microchips," Perich said.
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Perich is additionally currently alive on a abundant beyond accession of "Interval Studies" for a Rhizome commission. He accustomed the Prix Ars Electronica in 2009, and was a featured artisan in 2010 at Sonar, the International Festival of Advanced Music and Multimedia Art. For him, though, the best allotment of actuality an artisan ability not be sourcing speakers or assuming in advanced of a absent audience, but in absolutely accomplishing the math.

"It's adverse that so abounding bodies get angry off algebraic by bad teachers," he said. "I aloof acquisition the foundations of mathematics to be absolutely inspiring. Like how Turing was alive with the limitations of algebraic itself. I aloof acquisition it to be absolutely beautiful—visually, audibly, and in any added way."

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