France mourns an electronic music pioneer

France mourns an electronic music pioneer

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norman lebrecht

November 22, 2016

Less famous than Pierre Henry or Pierre Schaeffer, Jean-Claude Risset who died yesterday in Marseille worked at the Bell Labs in the early 1960s creating electronic simulation of brass instrument sounds.

His inventions, demonstrated below, were adopted extensively.

Risset was 78.

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Comments

  • Robert Holmén says:

    “His inventions, demonstrated below…”

    Were there supposed to be links or videos there?

  • Clarrieu says:

    Could we dare – with, or more probably without borstlappish approval – to find this piece beautiful?
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8fSKk4OqZp0

    • John Borstlap says:

      For sonic art, this is quite nice, in spite of the naivety.

      I watched the video together with my PA who said it reminded her of that night when she was abducted by aliens.

  • Holly Golightly says:

    Noise to accompany those either stoned or drunk. Created under those conditions too, most probably. Very 1960s!!

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