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

Version Information

Performance date
February 9, 2010
Documentation date
February 9, 2012
Version
premiere
Status
valid
Validation date
May 3, 2018
Documentalist
lemouton (lemouton@ircam.fr)
Length
35 min

Other Versions

Manifeste 2018May 5, 2018

Detailed Staff

Soloist
solo soprano

trumpet, horn, bassoon, clarinet, bass clarinet, flute, piccolo, alto flute, oboe, English horn, harp, vibraphone, piano, violin, viola, cello

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

Electronic Equipment List

Computer Music Equipment

2 Fireface 800
Sound Board (RME)
1 BCF 2000
MIDI Mixer (Behringer)
2 MacBook Pro
Apple Laptops (Apple) - one for the score follower (Mac A), and the other for the dsp part (Mac B)

Audio Equipment

2 HF System
HF System (Sennheiser) - For the soprano solo
10 Loudspeaker
Loudspeakers (generic)
20 Microphone
Microphone (generic)
4 subwoofer
Subwoofers (generic)

Downloads

lamuette-msp.zip

Serge Lemouton

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This archive contains everything to play the Computer Music part of La Muette (patches, sounfiles and libraries)

1.86 Go

laMuette-surtitres.ppt.zip

Serge Lemouton

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The subtitles in French (in Microsoft Powerpoint format)

109.13 Ko

BaschetLaMuettePOmontee.pdf.zip

Florence Baschet

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Complete Score - do not distribute : contact Jobert editions (www.jobert.fr)

29.47 Mo

BaschetLaMuettePO.pdf

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partition

2.18 Mo


Instructions

Audio setup

Audio Setup for Ircam Espace de Projection

Setup and DM2000 patch

Loudspeaker setup

Software installation

Two computers are required : one for the score following (using the gfx gesture follower object) and event triggerring, the other to play sound files, sound transformation and spatialisation processes.

Both runs MaxMsp version 5.1.8

On the Score follower Macintosh: DSP status should be :

  • IOVector Size 2048,
  • signal Vector Size 64,
  • overdrive on,
  • scheduler in audio interrupt

Files Preferences should be:

/lamuette-msp/

On the DSP Macintosh, DSP status should be :

  • IOVector Size 512,
  • signal Vector Size 64,
  • overdrive off,
  • scheduler not in audio interrupt

Files Preferences should be:

/lamuette-msp/lib

Initialization routine

On the Score follower Macintosh:

  • open VoiceOrchestraFollower-24.v03.maxpat
  • choose the vox24smooth item in the top-right menu
  • press "readall" and choose the lamuette-24g.mubu file in the Followers/gestureData/Sections folder
  • Start the dacs (DSP on)
  • Adjust the OSC host address in the subpatcher "p OSC" to be the IP adress of the other macintosh, in order to be able to send the cues thru a udp connexion.

On the DSP Macintosh :

  • open laMuettte20.maxpat
  • choose the init item in the top-left menu
  • Start the dacs (DSP on)
  • Test the UDP connexion from the other computer
  • Test the Spat
  • Test the Midi Mixer

Patch presentation

max patch running on the "Score follower" macintosh

Main patch on the DSP Macintosh

La muette sections and sound files tracks


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