Concert & Exhibition at Bitforms: Tristan Perich

1-Bit Symphony is an electronic composition in five movements that "explores the polyphonic potential of audio reduced to binary form." It "literally 'performs' its music live when turned on. A complete electronic circuit – programmed by the artist and packaged into a standard CD jewel case – plays the music through a headphone jack mounted into the case itself."

"By reducing sound into primary units of digital measure, Perich's musical compositions offer critique to overly produced and recorded media. Rather than use data to produce a representation of analogue phenomena, raw electrical pulses in these works create pitch and rhythm when played through a speaker-creating music that is, at its essence, electronic."

"Perich's visual compositions also explore texture, noise and order using recursive logic. Woven from geometric structures, his drawings contain layers of choreographed linear repetition. Executed with a pen connected to a machine, line in these images gives way to densely packed surfaces and planes."

As part of the show, a "pre-premiere" of Dual Synthesis for harpsichord and 1-bit electronics will take place in a benefit concert, Oct. 27, 6:30 PM. $100; tickets here. Exhibition Oct. 28 - Nov. 7, 200; all at bitforms, 529 W. 20th St., 2d flr.