- Jean-Claude Risset
Jean-Claude Risset (
March 18 ,1938 in Le Puy,France ) is a Frenchcomposer , best known for his pioneering contributions tocomputer music . He is a former student ofAndré Jolivet and former coworker ofMax Mathews at Bell Labs.Arriving at
Bell Labs , New Jersey in 1964, he used Mathew's MUSIC IV software to digitally recreate the sounds of brass instruments. He made digital recordings of trumpets and then studied their timbral composition using "pitch-synchronous" spectrum analysis tools, revealing that theharmonics of these instruments would differ greatly depending on pitch, duration and loudness. He is also credited with performing the first experiments on a range ofsynthesis techniques includingFM Synthesis and waveshaping.After the discrete Shepard scale Risset created a version of the scale where the steps between each tone are continuous, and it is appropriately called the continuous Risset scale or Shepard-Risset glissando.He has also created a similar effect with
rhythm in whichtempo seems to increase or decrease endlessly.Works by Jean-Claude Risset
Vocal music
*Dérives, for choir and magnetic tape (1985 ) 15'
*Inharmonique, for soprano and tape (1977 ) 15'Orchestral music
*Mirages, for 16 musicians and tape (1978) 24'Chamber music
*Profils, for 7 instruments and tape (1983 ) 18'Solo music
*Huit esquisses en duo, for piano (1989 ) 17'
*Trois Études en duo, for piano (1991 ) 10'
*Voilements, for saxophone and tape (1987 ) 14'Music for solo tape
*Songes (1979 ) 10'
*Trois Mouvements newtoniens, for tape (1978 ) 13'Bibliography
Portrait polychrome n°2 : Jean-Claude Risset, INA/CDMC Publisher, 2001 (ISBN : 2-86938-177-8)
External links
* [http://www.moderecords.com/profiles/jeanclauderisset.html Mode Records profile: Jean-Claude Risset]
* [http://composers21.com/compdocs/rissetjc.htm The Living Composers Project: Jean-Claude Risset]
* [http://mac-texier.ircam.fr/textes/c00000082/ IRCAM: Jean-Claude Risset] (in French)
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