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The Prix Ars Electronica Archive is a collection enabling search and viewing of all the submissions since 1987. The award-winning projects are documented with catalogue texts and audio-visual media. All other submissions can be searched by title/artist and displayed with year, category in list form. Please cite the credits (artwork name, artist and photographer) and only use the materials if your article is related to Ars Electronica.
"Active Field" for ten violins and ten-channel 1-bit music
Tristan Perich
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“1-Bit Music” is a project by artist and composer Tristan Perich that combines his classical training in music with primitive, hand-programmed electronics that investigate the foundations of digital sound.
In 2005, Cantaloupe Music released “1-Bit Music”, custom-built electronics packaged inside a standard CD jewel case, which synthesize an album of electronic music, illustrating the structure of the circuit and combining that transparent aesthetic with the lowest-fidelity sound. Since that release, Perich’s work has shifted towards compositions for traditional classical ensemble with 1-bit audio accompaniment.
The live musicians are paired with a set of speakers on stage, creating a hybrid multi-part work for acoustic and electronic sound. Connecting microchips directly to speakers, the resultant ensemble’s sound is “mixed” in the air, treating the speakers as a form of acoustic instrument, approaching the concept of electronic sound as a physical phenomenon.
In 2005, Cantaloupe Music released “1-Bit Music”, custom-built electronics packaged inside a standard CD jewel case, which synthesize an album of electronic music, illustrating the structure of the circuit and combining that transparent aesthetic with the lowest-fidelity sound. Since that release, Perich’s work has shifted towards compositions for traditional classical ensemble with 1-bit audio accompaniment.
The live musicians are paired with a set of speakers on stage, creating a hybrid multi-part work for acoustic and electronic sound. Connecting microchips directly to speakers, the resultant ensemble’s sound is “mixed” in the air, treating the speakers as a form of acoustic instrument, approaching the concept of electronic sound as a physical phenomenon.
Tristan Perich (US). In all of his creative activities Perich is inspired by the aesthetics of math and physics, and works with simple forms and complex systems. The challenge of elegance provokes his compositions for solo instruments, small ensemble and orchestra. As a visual artist, he works primarily with machines to create pen-on-paper drawings that explore the limits of traditional drawing through randomness and order. His recent activities include electro-acoustic pieces for 1-Bit Music with instrumental accompaniment. His experimental electronic music group, the Loud Objects, has performed in Germany, Japan, Italy (Screen Music 2), Norway (Piksei), England (Evolution) and in the US (including at the NIME festival).