Interval Studies
Interval Studies
by Tristan Perich
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Opening:
Friday 16 September 2011, 20:00 with performance at 21:00
Installations:
Wednesday to 16–30. September 2011, 12:00-18:00
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LEAP was pleased to present a solo exhibition by New York-based artist and composer Tristan Perich. Inspired by the aesthetics of maths and physics, Perich works with simple forms and complex systems. For this exhibition, Perich exhibited a body of work that include the sound sculptures Interval Studies and Machine Drawings – the result of a long-standing interest in code and systems.
Perich’s sound sculptures – Interval Studies – takes a formal look at musical intervals as a dense continuum of microtonal pitch, expressed en masse as discrete 1-bit frequencies distributed across hundreds of individual speakers. Each speaker, emitting a single, primitive 1-bit tone, becomes a microscopic voice in the total cluster, substituting individual pitch for larger sonic masses. The Machine Drawings – pen on paper or wall drawings executed by a custom-built machine over the course of the exhibition at LEAP, use randomness and order as raw materials within a composition. The machine drawings are a combination of the delicacy of real drawings and the rigid, structured system of mechanics and code.
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Artist Bio:
Tristan Perich (b. 1982) holds a B.A. from Columbia University and M.P.S. from N.Y.U. Tisch As a visual artist, Perich has had solo exhibitions at bitforms gallery (NYC) and Mikrogalleriet (Copenhagen) in 2009, Museo Carandente (Spoleto), Motelsalieri (Rome), Addison Gallery (MA) in 2010, and the Katonah Museum in 2011. His artwork has been included in group shows at Lydgalleriet (Bergen), LABoral (Barcelona), iMAL (Brussels), ABC No Rio (NY), and Greylock Arts (MA) and a traveling science museum exhibit in Arkansas. He was awarded the Prix Ars Electronica in 2009 and was a featured artist at Sonar 2010 in Barcelona. The WIRE Magazine describes his compositions as “an austere meeting of electronic and organic.” His works for soloist, ensemble and orchestra have been performed internationally by ensembles including Bang on a Can, Calder Quartet and Meehan/Perkins at venues from the Whitney Museum, P.S.1, Merkin Hall, and the Stone to Los Angeles’ Zipper Hall and Lentos in Austria. In 2004 he began work on 1-Bit Music to experiment with the foundations of electronic sound, culminating in a physical “album,” a music-generating circuit packaged inside a standard CD jewel case. His new circuit album, 1-Bit Symphony, is a long-form electronic composition in five movements, released in 2010 on Cantaloupe Music.
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