Introducing The 1-Bit Symphony
The 1-Bit Symphony is not a recorded album in a traditional sense, it instead adapts to create the music right in front of you; essentially a live show in a music case. Tristan Perich has composed an electronic composition in five movements on a single microchip. A complete electronic circuit plays the music through a headphone jack mounted on the side of the case itself. The whole thing is programmed by the artist and assembled by hand. 1-Bit Symphony works by utilizing on and off electrical pulses, which are then synthesized by an assembly code and routed from microchip to speaker (or in this case,…