France mourns an electronic music pioneer
mainLess 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.
“His inventions, demonstrated below…”
Were there supposed to be links or videos there?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQRxTGLp8AY
As you like it.
But one should be warned: there is an octave at 1:25, which is both a sonic and a musical interval.
Could we dare – with, or more probably without borstlappish approval – to find this piece beautiful?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8fSKk4OqZp0
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.
Noise to accompany those either stoned or drunk. Created under those conditions too, most probably. Very 1960s!!
I wonder whether inebriation was involved because at 2:43 I heard something like an algorithm.