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JEAN-CLAUDE RISSET

Jean-Claude Risset, today considered one of the major pioneers of computer music, was born in France in 1938 and pursued simultaneous studies in music and science. In the 1960s he worked as a young researcher in the Bell Telephone Laboratories alongside the “father of computer music”, Max V. Mathews.
This book originally published in French presents recent articles by composers and musicologists, often published in English for the first time, concerning the aesthetic, ideas, repertory and career of JC Risset. Texts by Pierre-Albert Castanet, Olivier Meston, Daniel Teruggi, Fabien Lévy, Daniel Teruggi, Jean-Claude Rissetr, Pierre Couprie.