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The Catgut Acoustical Society Library |
| File #: | R5960 |
| Name: | Risset, Jean-Claude |
| Dates: |
| See also: | M4295 - Mathews, Max V; L5310 - Leipp. |
| General Information: |
| A physicist with a D es Sc from the university of Paris, who is also a pianist and composer, Risset has |
| done much definitive work in the analysis and synthesis of speech and musical tones and computer |
| composition. He was first associated with the Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique and then |
| came to the Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill in the 1960s during which time he became interested in the |
| research of the CAS and the Octet instruments. His paper with M.V. Mathews "Analysis of |
| Musical-Instrument Tones", Physics Today Vol. 22 No. 2 gives the evolution in time of the onset of 13 |
| harmonics for the first 0.2 sec of a trumpet tone. Risset tried to do this for a violin tone, but found the |
| violin tones too variable. In 1972 Risset wrote that he had a position at University d'Aix in Marseille |
| where he was developing a research center in musical acoustics and computer music. He was also at |
| IRCAM in Paris. |
| File Contents: |
| R5960 | -- | 101 |
| Correspondence: (1968-1976) involving CMH and Risset. Some on research in France (Leipp & |
| Bladier). Miscellaneous: Tourist map of France. |
| Key Words: |
| R5960 | -- | 102 |
| Technical: Memo from BTL 1966 - Computer study of Trumpet Tones. |
| Key Words: | Trumpet Tones | Sound Perception | Computer analysis |