In 1999, Jean-Claude Risset obtained one of the most important distinctions awarded to a scientist in France: the CNRS Gold Medal. In 1990, he had received the Grand prix national de la musique. His dual competence, scientific and artistic, was thereby recognized. This book relates and analyses ten decisive years in Risset's life (1961-1971), a decade during which, with the help of computing, he transformed acoustics and music. / Livre