Auditory Illusion and Violin: Demonstration of a Work by Jean-Claude Risset written for Mari Kimura

Jean - Claude Risset : 70 th Birthday Celebration with Mari Kamura

Making of VITESSIMO for Augmented Violin: Compositional Process and Performance

This paper describes the compositional process for creating the interactive work for violin entitled VITESSIMO using the Augmented Violin [1].

Listening to the Shepard-Risset Glissando: the Relationship between Emotional Response, Disruption of Equilibrium, and Personality

The endless scale illusion, obtained by cyclically repeating a chromatic scale made up of Shepard tones, has been used in a variety of musical works. Music psychology and neuroscience has been interested in this particular psychoacoustic phenomenon mainly for studying the cognitive processes of pitch perception involved. In the present study, we investigated the emotional states induced by the ...

Extracting Human Expression For Interactive Composition with the Augmented Violin

As a 2010 Artist in Residence in Musical Research at IRCAM, Mari Kimura used the Augmented Violin to develop new compositional approaches, and new ways of creating interactive performances [1]. She contributed her empirical and historical knowledge of violin bowing technique, working with the Real Time Musical Interactions Team at IRCAM. Thanks to this residency, her ongoing long-distance colla...

Jean - Claude Risset

One of my early desires as a musician was to sculpt and organize directly the sound material, so as to extend compositional control to the sonic level to compose the sound itself, instead of merely composing with sounds. My use of the computer has focused mostly on this goal. I have been able to fullfill this desire to some extent by resorting to digital synthesis and also digital processing of...