Jean-Claude Risset - Computer Suite From Little Boy (1968)

Composer Jean-Claude Risset was a pioneer in the field of computer music and recipient of a great many honors for this music and research (especially in the area of sound synthesis). After studying the sciences, in addition to composition and piano with teachers like André Jolivet (Le Jeune France co-founder), Risset went on to work at Bell Labs, with Max Matthews, for a few years in the late ’60s, working on applications that would imitate instruments and others sounds. He brought sound synthesis to Orsay