February 20 & 21

Tristan Perich's music always combines acoustic instruments and 1-bit microprocessors played through small individual speakers. The radical nature of his approach seems to want to reconnect with the spirit of 1960s Minimal Art, at a time when so many so-called “minimalists” are tempted by cheap religiosity. And Perich isn't really that cold: there's also something adolescent about his 1-bit electronics, a tenderness for glitchy machines that's almost reminiscent of Steven Spielberg.

PARALLELS is a negotiation between material simplicity and cognitive complexity, in the dazzling light of the rhythmic textures of tuned triangles and hi-hats.
    

PERICH's BIO

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." 1-Bit Music, his 2004 release, was the first album ever released as a microchip, programmed to synthesize his electronic composition live. His latest circuit album, 1-Bit Symphony (Cantaloupe, 2010) has received critical acclaim, called "sublime" (New York Press), and the Wall Street Journal said "its oscillations have an intense, hypnotic force and a surprising emotional depth."

As a visual artist, Perich has had solo exhibitions at bitforms gallery (NYC), Mikrogalleriet (Copenhagen), Museo Carandente (Spoleto), The Addison Gallery (Massachusetts), Katonah Museum (New York), Monster Truck (Dublin), LEAP (Berlin) among others, as well as group shows aound the world. His Machine Drawings, pen-on-paper drawings executed by machine, were described as "elegantly delicate" by BOMB Magazine.

Perich studied math, music and computer science at Columbia University, and received a masters from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at Tisch School of the Arts, NYU.