Looping (was Re: Frank & stupidity)

["Dennis W. Leas" <dennis@mdbs.com>]

At the DANGER of talking about looping...

I've been experimenting with Shepard's Tone (see:
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/nest/imager/contributions/flinn/Illusions/ST/st.html
and
http://www.ee.washington.edu/conselec/CE/sp95reports/other_labs/shep.htm ).

It's great for looping because Shepard's Tone IS a kind of loop itself.

Anyway, I found a reference to Jean Claude Risset (in the first webpage 
above)
saying, "For example, Jean Claude Risset has produced a rhythmic variant in
which tempo appears to increase (or decrease) continuously."

Does anybody know more about Risset's work in this area?

[And please, no jokes about "Risset must have been a drummer."  :)  ]

Dennis Leas
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