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Recollections and Reflections on Organised Sound

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2015

Jean-Claude Risset
Jean-Claude Risset*
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Mécanique et d’Acoustique, CNRS & Aix Marseille Université, 31 Chemin Joseph Aiguier, 13402 Marseille Cedex 20, France
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Email: jcrisset@lma.cnrs-mrs.fr
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Abstract

In this contribution to the twentieth anniversary issue of Organised Sound, I first recall the reasons for dedicating a periodical to organised sound which I mentioned in my answer to inquiries from Cambridge University Press before the journal existed. The digital era is still in its infancy and it will permit a host of new ways to organise sound. I suggest in particular the development of an intimate relationship between acoustic and digital sounds; the extension of structural notations of sound and music and their exploitation for novel musical transformation; the amplification of the use of functions and combinations of functions. I evoke some issues discussed in Organised Sound, elaborating in more detail some problematic topics: analysis and reconstruction of computer music, live electronic music performance, perception of musical sound and sensory aesthetics.

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Organised Sound , Volume 20 , Issue 1: Special issue: Organised Sound Celebrates 20 Years , April 2015 , pp. 15 - 22
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© Cambridge University Press 2015 

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