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

• 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