Open Symmetry

Description

Open Symmetry is the first album by New York composer Tristan Perich on Erased Tapes Records. The 50-minute work for 3 vibraphones and 1-bit electronics across 20 channels is performed by the dynamic French group, Ensemble 0, who returns to Erased Tapes after their collaboration in 2023 with Peter Broderick. Perich's music transcends the electronic/classical boundary, with explorations combining string instruments, piano, organ, and other acoustic instruments with custom 1-bit electronics, including his recent Drift Multiply, for 50 violins and 50 speakers.
This new version, Open Symmetry, reduces the ensemble to just 3 musicians playing the resonant metal bars of 3 vibraphones in concert with a shimmering array of 20 speakers, each playing its own distinct musical part of the composition.
Perich finds a very austere and clear poetry in the early minimalist compositions that have fascinated him since his beginnings at the piano. Open Symmetry is a kind of minimalism, but created by someone who grew up with the sounds of early video games and the synthesizers of electronic music.