Note Taking Synthesis

Jean-Claude Risset - Sud, Dialogues , … (2001)
Avant-garde/Electronic | EAC (FLAC + CUE + LOG) | Scans | 263 MB

About the Artist:
Music studies piano, composition with Andre Jolivetl. Scientific studies at the Ecole Normale Superieure, During the sixties, worked with Max Mathews in the United States to develop the resources of computer sound synthesis, imitation of instrumental timbres, sonic composition, pitch paradoxes, catalog of computer-synthesized sounds, composition of mixed works for instruments and computer. Implements computer sound synthesis systems at Orsay [1970-71], Marseilles-Luminy [1974-81] and IRCAM, Paris. as head of the computer department between 1975 and 1979. Presently researcher in Marseilles [Laboratoire de Mecanigue et d’Acoustique]. Music works for instruments. voice and computer. Scientitic and musicological articles. Received since 1963 numerous distinctions. among which the Ars Electronica Prize [1987], the Grand Prix National de Ia Musigue of France [1990]. the first prize for digital music [1981] the Euphonie d’Or [1992] and the Magisterium prize at the international Bourges competition, the gold medal of CNRS [1999].

As is well known, the Third Reich drove many of its gifted composers into exile, to early deaths or to the concentration camps. But a significant responsibility devolved on another group, who became ‘internal exiles’, remaining in Germany, but refusing to become cultural ornaments of the Nazi regime. Karl Amadeus Hartmann (1905–1963), in Bavaria, consistently kept the spirit of modernism and human commitment alive in his own work.