ABSTRACT
Jean-Claude Risset realized this young, but already relatively well-known work in 1984–1985 at the Groupe de recherches musicales (GRM) studio in Paris, the studio where musique concrète was born. The work lasts twenty-four minutes; the Wergo CD recording (WER 2013–50) was used for the enclosed score. 1 Risset, after his studies in France, worked for a period in the United States at the Bell Laboratories where, under the direction of Max Mathews, computer music synthesis was born. Risset later became the first director of IRCAM’s computer music department in Paris. He is currently director of the computer music studio in Marseille.
