Jean-Claude Risset

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Jean-Claude Risset
Computer Music

Jean-Claude Raoul Olivier Risset (French: [ʁisɛ]; 13 March 1938 – 21 November 2016) was a French composer, best known for his pioneering contributions to computer music. He was a former student of André Jolivet and former co-worker of Max Mathews at Bell Labs.[2][3]

Biography

Risset was born in

FM synthesis and waveshaping.[2][3]

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.[4]

A Shepard-Risset glissando
Risset's rhythmic effect – a breakbeat that accelerates forever
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Risset also created a similar effect with rhythm in which tempo seems to increase or decrease endlessly.[5][6] Risset was the head of the Computer Department at

Golden Nica (Ars Electronica Prize, 1987), the Giga-Hertz Grand Prize 2009,[8] and the highest French awards in both music (Grand Prix National de la Musique, 1990) and science (Gold Medal, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1999).[9] and in art (René Dumesnil Prize from the French Academy of Fine Arts, 2011).[10]

Risset died in Marseille on 21 November 2016.[4]

Selected works

Vocal music

  • Dérives, for choir and magnetic tape (1985) 15'
  • Inharmonique, for soprano and tape (1977) 15'

Orchestral music

  • Escalas, for large orchestra (2001) 17'
  • Mirages, for 16 musicians and tape (1978) 24'

Chamber music

  • Profils, for 7 instruments and tape (1983) 18'
  • Mutations II for ensemble and electronics (1973) 17'

Solo music

  • Trois études en duo, for pianist (bidirectional MIDI piano with computer interaction) (1991) 10'
  • Huit esquisses en duo, for pianist (bidirectional MIDI piano with computer interaction) (1989) 17'
  • Voilements, for saxophone and tape (1987) 14'
  • Passages for flute and tape (1982) 14'
  • Variants for violin and digital processing (1995) 8'

Music for solo tape

  • Invisible Irène (1995) 12'
  • Sud (1985) 24'
  • Songes (1979) 10'
  • Trois mouvements newtoniens, for tape (1978) 13'
  • Mutations (1969) 10'
  • Computer Suite from Little Boy (1968) 13'

References

  1. ^ "Jean Claude, Resources IRCAM".
  2. ^ a b "Jean-Claude Risset (biography, works, resources)" (in French and English). IRCAM.
  3. ^ a b "Jean-Claude Risset (1938-2016)". www.musicologie.org (in French). Retrieved 2018-11-23.
  4. ^ a b "Jean-Claude Risset, who reimagined digital synthesis, has died – CDM Create Digital Music". CDM Create Digital Music. 2016-11-22. Retrieved 2018-11-23. The sound for which Risset is best known is perhaps the most emblematic of his contributions. Creating a sonic illusion much like M.C. Escher's optical ones, the Shepherd-Risset glissando / Risset scale, in its present form invented by the French composer, seems to ascend forever.
  5. ^ Risset, Jean-Claude (1986), "Pitch and rhythm paradoxes: comments on "Auditory paradox based on fractal waveform"",
    PMID 3760341
  6. ^ Stowell, D (2010), "And the beat goes on...forever?", Cs4fn Audio! Magazine, no. 3
  7. ISSN 0148-9267
    .
  8. ^ "Giga-Hertz Award | 2007 to 2018 | ZKM". Retrieved 2018-11-23.
  9. ^ CNRS. "CNRS The National Center for Scientific Research – CNRS Gold medalists". www.cnrs.fr (in French). Archived from the original on 2019-05-03. Retrieved 2018-11-23.
  10. ^ "Jean-Claude Risset". brahms.ircam.fr. 27 May 2021. Retrieved 2023-01-18.

Further reading

  • Baudouin, Olivier, Pionniers de la musique numérique, Sampzon, Delatour, 2012.
  • Portrait polychrome n°2 : Jean-Claude Risset, INA/CDMC Publisher, 2001 (
    ISBN 2-86938-177-8
    )

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