Jean-Claude Risset - "Mutations"

[L0VECHILDD]

Hey, I have a question not about this video but one in the side. If you search 'shepard tone(Jean-Claude Risset) there is a program that creates shepards tones, it has a pink background. does anyone know what this software is? thanks! paul

[mrbobmanbob]

You cannot grasp the true form of Jean-Claude Risset's music!

[jak352]

This piece was made in 1969 using the MUSIC V program developed by Max Mathews in Bell Labs, New Jersey.

[scytheceps]

A compination of samples, processed/edited and actual electronic (synthetisized) sounds. I read from this article of Sibelius Academy that there was to schools in the early years of electronic music. Studio wich used recorded samples and one that preferred synthetisized sounds. I think Risset didn´t want to choose between. I like this piece very much

[Thrash0Jazz0Assassin]

@scytheceps yeah, actually the "samples" one is usually called the "concrete music" school and developed mainly in France, while the "synthesized sound" one is called the "electronic music" school and developed in Germany; the subsequent combination of the two was called "electroacoustic" music. This Risset piece is from 1969, and by that time the boundary between "electronic" and "concrete" music was very blurred...

[jbuzzde]

very inspiring

[sisterenrodentia]

actually; more so- about 3:40 in, on here.

this is beautiful, though.

[sisterenrodentia]

aspects of the beginning remind me a little bit of a certain section of Désintégrations by Tristan Murail (around 8 minutes into the piece when you hear the chiming sounds).

[jaroussky1]

that is a true masterpiece !!! Risset is more gentle that Xenakis but I like them both...I think Risset is using the UPIC here or not ? sorry if I am wrong

[L0VECHILDD]

what is that? the upic/?

[jaroussky1]

UPIC is a musical composition tool invented by the great avant-garde greek composer Iannis Xenakis, and i think that Risset also had been using it, but not on this piece as i checked it out.

You can search youtube for Xenakis - Mycenae Alpha - it is a composition made with the UPIC.

[MarylandJuly89]

magnificent

[danielberio]

jean claude risset is great¡¡¡¡¡¡¡

[sbringe]

Very interesting, was that the old computer simulation called 'Life' I saw in there?

[lecatie]

Yes it was Conway's Game of Life