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Jean-Claude Risset

Jean-Claude Risset has been played on NTS shows including Slime w/ Little, with Mutations first played on 24 October 2017.

Jean-Claude Risset (18 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.

Born in Le Puy-en-Velay, France, arriving at Bell Labs, New Jersey in 1964, he used Max Mathews' MUSIC IV software to digitally recreate the sounds of brass instruments. He made digital recordings of trumpets and studied their timbral composition using "pitch-synchronous" spectrum analysis tools, revealing that the…

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Mutations
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INA-GRM1987
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Jean-Claude Risset
WERGO1988
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INA-GRM2001
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INA-GRM1978
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INA-GRM1987
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