Tristan Perich’s Interval Studies are a set of speaker arrays that play with microtonal systems. These arrays take a conventional musical interval (like the perfect 4th from D1 to G1) and divide it up into very small intervals (so 99 steps from D to G instead of 4). Then (and this is the best part), the speakers play all of these steps simultaneously, allowing you to hear the space between the notes in a dense cloud. Imagine banging your fist on the piano, except that instead of hitting 4 adjacent notes, you can hit 99 in the same tonal space. Awesome, right? The work fits well into the rest of Tristan’s oeuvre: the tones emitted by the speakers are 1-bit pulse waves, and the economy of a simple array of bare speakers is quite aesthetically pleasing. Here is a little documentary+interview with Tristan about the project (it only plays the sound for a moment, but I bet it’s better to hear in person anyway. Also, this embed won’t work for RSS or dashboard readers): (via Networked Music Review)

Tristan Perich’s Interval Studies are a set of speaker arrays that play with microtonal systems. These arrays take a conventional musical interval (like the perfect 4th from D1 to G1) and divide it up into very small intervals (so 99 steps from D to G instead of 4). Then (and this is the best part), the speakers play all of these steps simultaneously, allowing you to hear the space between the notes in a dense cloud.

Imagine banging your fist on the piano, except that instead of hitting 4 adjacent notes, you can hit 99 in the same tonal space. Awesome, right?

The work fits well into the rest of Tristan’s oeuvre: the tones emitted by the speakers are 1-bit pulse waves, and the economy of a simple array of bare speakers is quite aesthetically pleasing.

Here is a little documentary+interview with Tristan about the project (it only plays the sound for a moment, but I bet it’s better to hear in person anyway. Also, this embed won’t work for RSS or dashboard readers):

(via Networked Music Review)

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