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. For 10 points, name this task that can be performed in notation software such as Sibelius. ■END■
| California (North) | Main Site | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 89.00 |
| Canada | Main Site | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 60.00 |
| Florida | Main Site | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 0% | 105.50 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | Y | 9 | 89% | 0% | 11% | 97.13 |
| Midwest | Main Site | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 103.56 |
| Northeast | Main Site | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 105.00 |
| Overflow | Main Site | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 83.00 |
| South Central | Main Site | Y | 2 | 50% | 0% | 50% | 113.00 |
| Southeast | Main Site | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 14% | 96.57 |
| UK | Main Site | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 86.17 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 11% | 75.44 |
| Upstate NY | Main Site | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 0% | 94.67 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia | Virginia Tech B | 48 | 10 |
| James Horsley | Iowa State | Claremont | 49 | -5 |
| George Matsumura | Washington A | Missouri A | 50 | 10 |
| Riley Bruce | Tennessee B | Alabama A | 50 | -5 |
| Nikolas Polsinelli | Chicago A | Purdue A | 51 | -5 |
| Athena Shadden | Texas A | Murray State A | 51 | -5 |
| Abby Smith | Berkeley C | Stanford A | 57 | -5 |
| Sam Kung | North Carolina B | NC State B | 57 | -5 |
| Audrey Evans | Dartmouth A | Harvard A | 57 | -5 |
| John Mitnik | Columbia C | Georgetown | 57 | 10 |
| Jack Rado | Columbia B | NYU A | 57 | 10 |
| Andy Yu | Maryland A | Columbia A | 58 | 10 |
| Jake Wingfield | Bristol | LSE | 59 | 10 |
| Xavier Bornhorst | Maryland B | Vassar | 59 | 10 |
| Ian Parsons | Maryland C | Swarthmore | 59 | 10 |
| Joyann Hua | UBC B | McGill A | 60 | 10 |
| Tosca Zhang | NYU B | Johns Hopkins A | 60 | 10 |
| Faraz Foroughi | NC State A | North Carolina C | 61 | 10 |
| Vivian Malouf | Berkeley A | Berkeley D | 62 | 10 |
| Eric Lipsutz | Chicago E | Notre Dame B | 62 | 10 |
| Alex Thomas | Georgia Tech B | Mississipi State | 62 | 10 |
| Delia Cropper | Oxford A | Cambridge C | 62 | 10 |
| Joel Miles | Minnesota A | Georgia Tech A | 66 | 10 |
| Hiten Umarnani | Imperial C | Edinburgh B | 71 | -5 |
| Oscar O'Flanagan | Imperial A | Cambridge B | 77 | 10 |
| Teigue Kelly | Penn State | Cornell A | 78 | 10 |
| Sriram Koritala | Illinois C | Northwestern B | 80 | -5 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT | Brandeis A | 85 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin | WashU B | 85 | 10 |
| Denis Liu | Stanford B | Berkeley B | 92 | 10 |
| Cooper Stringer | Northwestern C | Indiana C | 92 | 10 |
| Dustin Sanders | Chicago D | Purdue B | 92 | -5 |
| Philip Yao | Brown | Bowdoin B | 92 | 10 |
| Charles Hang | WashU A | Vanderbilt B | 92 | 10 |
| Imran Abdul Rahman | UCL | Oxford B | 92 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT | Cornell B | 92 | 10 |
| Brendan Baumer | Central Florida B | Central Florida C | 97 | 10 |
| Akshar Goyal | Illinois A | Indiana A | 97 | 10 |
| S. A. Shenoy | Georgia Tech D | Louisville A | 97 | 10 |
| Vikshar Athreya | Rutgers A | Rutgers B | 97 | -5 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay | Catholic | 101 | 10 |
| Alan Fan | Washington B | Carleton College | 102 | 10 |
| Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | North Carolina A | 103 | 10 |
| David Ropp | Duke | William and Mary | 109 | 10 |
| Jake Markus | Dartmouth B | Southern Connecticut State | 111 | 10 |
| Samarth Ram | Chicago B | Notre Dame A | 112 | 10 |
| Beckett Gillmore | Louisville B | Kentucky | 112 | 10 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford A | Berkeley C | 113 | 10 |
| Coby Tran | Chicago C | Illinois B | 113 | 10 |
| Randy Guo | Texas B | Texas A&M A | 113 | 10 |
| Hamish Campbell | Durham | City St. George's | 113 | 10 |
| Anh Khoa Tran | Central Florida A | Florida C | 114 | 10 |
| Alex Olson | Florida B | Florida A | 114 | 0 |
| Nicholas Nguyen | Florida A | Florida B | 114 | 0 |
| Abby Keith | Liberty B | James Madison B | 114 | 0 |
| Erin Williams | James Madison A | Liberty C | 114 | 10 |
| Kabir Zaman | South Carolina B | VCU | 114 | 10 |
| Laila Peterson | James Madison B | Liberty B | 114 | 0 |
| Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | South Carolina A | 114 | 10 |
| Suyesh Paraju | NC State B | North Carolina B | 114 | 10 |
| David Nickel | Purdue B | Chicago D | 114 | 10 |
| Eric Yang | Purdue A | Chicago A | 114 | 10 |
| Faith Magiera | Northwestern D | Indiana B | 114 | 10 |
| Azura Gollamudi | Northwestern B | Illinois C | 114 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Martin | Brandeis B | Bowdoin A | 114 | 10 |
| Dash Rumble | Bowdoin A | Brandeis B | 114 | 0 |
| Chloe Chow | Harvard B | Yale | 114 | 10 |
| Rohan Ganeshan | Harvard A | Dartmouth A | 114 | 10 |
| Akshay Seetharam | Claremont | Iowa State | 114 | 10 |
| Kanyon Beck | Murray State A | Texas A | 114 | 0 |
| Parker McCoig | Tennessee A | Sewanee | 114 | 10 |
| Jackson McDonald | Alabama A | Tennessee B | 114 | 10 |
| Daniel Bloom | Edinburgh B | Imperial C | 114 | 10 |
| Jarman Taylor | Johns Hopkins B | NYU C | 114 | 0 |
| Zaid Asif | NYU C | Johns Hopkins B | 114 | 10 |
| Mark Tawfik | Rutgers B | Rutgers A | 114 | 10 |
| Derek Li | Cornell C | Binghamton A | 114 | 0 |
| Robert Chen | Rochester | Binghamton B | 114 | 10 |
| Peter Smith | Binghamton A | Cornell C | 114 | 0 |