Jean Claude Risset’s duet for one pianist: challenges of a real-time performance interaction with a computer-controlled acoustic piano 16 years later

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Sofia Lourenço
Universidade Católica Portuguesa, School of the Arts, Research Centre for Science and Technology of the Arts; Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Escola Superior de Música, Artes e Espectáculo
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0647-0997

Abstract

This study aims to discuss the work Duet for one Pianist (1989) by the French composer Jean-Claude Risset (b. 13 March 1938) by analyzing the challenges of the music performance of this Computer-Aided Composition work Disklavier and implies Human-Computer Interaction performance. Extremely honored to perform the revised version of the 8 Sketches for One Pianist and Disklavier within a research project of CITAR and a new Sketch Reflections (2012) by Jean-Claude Risset dedicated to me in a World premiere in the closing ceremony of Black&White 2012 Film Festival promoted by the Catholic University of Portugal. Several issues on the performance of this work are analysed as a case-study, from the point of view of the performer, particularly the components of expressive performance in a real-time interaction between performer and computer. These components can work as analysis criteria of a piano interpretation, in here, of a pianist and Disklavier interpretation. 

Keywords: Duet for one Pianist, Jean Claude Risset, Disklavier, Real-time interaction performer and computer, Computer-aided composition, Human-computer interaction

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