Tip! *2025 stock* 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.
Reissue of the 2010 release. Battery-powered circuit with on-switch, volume knob, and button to skip or fast-forward, designed to play through a mounted 1/8" headphone jack and housed in a CD jewel case.
Made possible with general support from Nailya Alexander, Candace Dwan, Virginia Dwan, Warren Fischer, Oscar Gerardo, Kunal Gupta, Bob Holman, Karen Japenjie, Allison Kemmerer, Miru Kim, Wynn Kramarsky, Suzanne Bocanegra and David Lang, Myo-On-Susan Linnell, John Mannix, William McGowan, Evelyn and Alan Meyers, Paul D. Miller, Edward Nersessian and Mary LuAllen, Anton Perich, Jonathan Rose, Joseph Saidock and Jaclyn Flanigan, Bernard Francis Kyle and James Schmidt, Michael Straus, Scott Varland, Gian Pablo Villamil, Laban Wingert. Packaged with liner notes, which contain a folded sheet with a drawing of the device and its coding. "Small variations are due to the hand crafting of this piece." Assembled in China "Movement 5" plays indefinitely until the device is turned off, at the point in time listed above. Album gives its length as ∞. © 2009 Tristan Perich
