Tristan Perich’s newest release in his set of 1-bit compositions is set to be released in August. Like his 1-Bit Music, the music is produced by a microchip stuck inside a CD jewel case.
I love this stuff because of the intentional play Tristan engages in around the ideas of “performance” and “liveness”: since the chip produces the music (in 1-bit, no less), it can be said to play “live.” Of course, this is similar to the way a player piano might be said to play “live,” in the way that “live” has come to mean “not on an audio recording.” 1-bit audio doesn’t need to be processed as it comes out of the chip—the ons and offs translate directly into the motion of the speaker cone—so it has a kind of immediacy.
Tristan was kind enough to sit in on a class I was taking at MIT last year and talk about his work with the Loud Objects, which provided me with the material to write an article about this kind of immediacy and “liveness” in the context of noise art. Maybe someday, when I’m done polishing up another thing, I’ll get back to that one and make it postable.
(via Synthtopia)
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