Jean-Claude Risset has passed away

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Aged 78. One of the pioneers of computer music and synthesis.

http://next.liberation.fr/musique/2016/11/22/mort-du-compositeur-jean-claude-risset-pionnier-de-la-musique-electronique_1530103

http://cdm.link/2016/11/jean-claude-risset-reimagined-digital-sound-europe-abroad/

I like his music very much and it certainly falls within what I associate a very typically 'French' sound.

[some guy]

Lovely man and lovely music, it's true.

He'll be very much missed.

At least his music will hang around for a long, long time.