The setup and the execution of the electroacoustic part of this work requires a Computer Music Designer (Max expert).

Version Information

Documentation date
June 12, 2023
Version
premiere
Status
valid
Validation date
September 6, 2023
Documentalist
lemouton (lemouton@ircam.fr)
Realisation
Luca Bagnoli (Sound engineer)
Length
35 min

No other versions

Detailed Staff

Detailed staff comes from Brahms, send mail to ressources-contenus@ircam.fr for correction.

Channel Details

Number of output channels
12

Electronic Equipment List

Computer Music Equipment

1 BCF 2000
MIDI Mixer (Behringer) - optional
1 MIDI Keyboard
MIDI Keyboard (generic) - two octaves
1 MacBook Pro
Apple Laptops (Apple)
1 iPad
Tablets (Apple) - with Mira installed
1 Ircam Spat
Library (Ircam) - version 5 (spat5.panoramix~)
1 antescofo~
External objects (Ircam) - version 1.0.465 - intel version
1 Mira
Library (Cycling74)
1 Max 8
Max (Cycling74) - In Rosetta emulation mode
1 Digiface Dante
Sound Board (RME)
1 SuperCollider
Music Software (Open Source) - version 1.13.0 + install sc3-plugins extensions
1 BlackHole
Misc (Existential Audio) - 64 channel - to route supercollider to Max (Panoramix)

Downloads

Corteges_electro : Full version

Sasha Blondeau

comment

contains a multichannel simulation of the whole piece

41.13 Go

Technical Rider

Luca Bagnoli

3.16 Mo

Corteges_electro : Electronic part

Sasha Blondeau

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contains all the required elements to perform the electronic part

253.55 Mo

antescofo external object

Jean-Louis Giavitto

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version 1.0.465

2.61 Mo

midi keyboard score

Sasha Blondeau

488.12 Ko


Instructions

Audio Setup

  • All the electroacoustic part of Corteges is synthesised in Supercollider.
  • The audio output of Supercollider is routed to the Spatialisateur (spat5.panoramix~) in Max using
    • loopbacked channels in the audio board
    • or through Blackhole-64ch.
  • The audio output of max is send to the surround loudspeaker system.

Loudspeaker setup

  • A frontal PA system for voice amplification (see Tech Rider)
  • 12 loudspeakers around the audience
  • Subwoofers
# Midi setup
  • A 2 octave keyboard in the orchestra to trigger the electronic events

Software installation

  • install supercollider (version 3.13.0)
    • install sc3-plugins extensions
  • install Blackhole 64ch
  • copy the Corteges_ELECTRO_light onto your hard disk.

Supercollider

  • open Corteges-startup.scd
  • edit the Corteges-startup.scd and Corteges-ph2.scd files to point to the location of the Corteges_ELECTRO_light folder
  • evaluate each line of Corteges-startup.scd one after the other (supercollider menu “evaluate line”)

Max

  • open SJB_Corteges.maxpat in Max8
  • SR = 48 kHz
  • IO Vector Size 256
  • Signal Vector Size 64

Patch presentation

Shortcuts

  • “a” : start the antescofo score
  • right arrow : next event

Main patch

Initialization routine

  • start the supercollider server
  • in Max :
    • press “a” to initialize
    • DSP on

Orchestra Simulation

There is a multichannel version of the whole piece in the folder Corteges_simulation folder located in the Corteges_ELECTRO.dmg disk image

  • open the 00_Cortéges_Maquette.RPP session in Reaper
  • open the Corteges_simul.maxpat in MAX

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