Round 9: Tossup 4

Jean-Baptiste Barrière created a program that performs this task by slowly interpolating between spectral envelopes. Assistants at a Parisian institute help technologically challenged residents perform this task in Miller Puckett’s programming language Max/MSP. Drawings on a tablet are interpreted by a computer in a system developed for this task called UPIC. A software used for this task, Dorico, gained popularity after an alternative was discontinued in 2024. Tristan Murail taught FFT-based analysis for use in this task at IRCAM. Pierre Schaeffer’s “concrete” approach to this task influenced avant-garde artists such as Iannis Xenakis (“YAH-nees ksen-AH-kees”), Kaija Saariaho (“KYE-uh sah-ree-AH-ho”), and Karlheinz Stockhausen. (10[1])For 10 points, name this task that can be performed in notation software such as Sibelius. ■END■ (10[1]0[2])

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