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In memoriam Pierre Schaeffer
Both a lamento and a funeral march, this paraphrase of Pierre Schaeffers Etude Aux Objets is not without connections to ornate, figured choral style. Three voices (in the contrapunctal sense of the term), developed from elements drawn from the first movement of the Etude, embroider and animate the long values of the original subjects that make up the “choral”, which constitutes the fourth voice of this polyphonic composition. The choice of a classical form, so important in Bach, was conscious one that was designed to honor the memory of Schaeffer.
Objets retrouves (Refound Objects) was realized in 1996 in the composers studio with sound material obtained from the Syter system of Ina-GRM and it premiered on May 31st 1996 at the “Hommage-Tombeau de Schaeffer” festival as part of Synthese, the festival international de musique electroacoustique de Bourges (France 1996)
Video created with vokoscreen and Sonic Visualizer on an openSUSE 13.1 Linux system.
In memoriam Pierre Schaeffer
Both a lamento and a funeral march, this paraphrase of Pierre Schaeffers Etude Aux Objets is not without connections to ornate, figured choral style. Three voices (in the contrapunctal sense of the term), developed from elements drawn from the first movement of the Etude, embroider and animate the long values of the original subjects that make up the “choral”, which constitutes the fourth voice of this polyphonic composition. The choice of a classical form, so important in Bach, was conscious one that was designed to honor the memory of Schaeffer.
Objets retrouves (Refound Objects) was realized in 1996 in the composers studio with sound material obtained from the Syter system of Ina-GRM and it premiered on May 31st 1996 at the “Hommage-Tombeau de Schaeffer” festival as part of Synthese, the festival international de musique electroacoustique de Bourges (France 1996)
Video created with vokoscreen and Sonic Visualizer on an openSUSE 13.1 Linux system.
![Jean-Claude Risset - Sud (1985) [Full Version]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Fhj2O4jToKI/mqdefault.jpg "Jean-Claude Risset - Sud (1985) [Full Version]
Jean-Claude Risset - Sud (1985)
This work was commissioned by the French Ministry of Culture, from a project initiated by the GRM, where it was produced circa 1984-1985. The piece mainly uses sounds recorded in the Massif des Calanques, south of Marseille, as well as sounds synthesized via a computer (again in Marseille). These sounds were then treated via another computer at the GRM. The natural and synthetic sounds are first presented separately. Along the piece, they increasingly merge, through mixing and processing. Thus real bird songs, as well as synthetic bird-like or insect-like sounds, have been spatialised. In the third movement, the filtering of birds caws first appears as a colored echo, later as a genuine birds raga using the defective scale. The origin of the many sounds deduced from the germinal material can be ascribed to a family tree displaying the sonic proliferation and resembling a rhizome. (J-C. R.)
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