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The setup and the execution of the electroacoustic part of this work requires a Computer Music Designer (Max expert).
Version Information
- Performance date
- June 3, 2004
- Documentation date
- June 3, 2004
- Version
- Macintosh version
- Status
- valid
- Validation date
- May 2, 2018
- Documentalist
- lemouton (lemouton@ircam.fr)
- Realisation
- Serge Lemouton (Computer Music Designer)
- Length
- 15 min
- Upgrade motivation
- first execution on a Macintosh (Power PC only)
- Comment
- Au conservatoire de Genève :
le 23 juin 2004 l'ensemble "Face à face" a interprété, dans le programme de leur examen postgrade de musique d'ensemble, une version de "Rhizomes" de M.Jarrell et tout c'est très bien passé; nous avons solutionné tous les problèmes, et la pièce c'est bien déroulée avec un suivi minutieux des évènements dans Max.
Other Versions
portage 2020in_progressApril 9, 2020
Rhizomes_2013validDecember 4, 2013
transfert_mustica_ftparchivedApril 14, 2010
Macintel versionvalidNovember 5, 2009
PremierevalidMay 17, 1993
Detailed Staff
2 pianos, 2 percussionists
Detailed staff comes from Brahms, send mail to ressources-contenus@ircam.fr for correction.
Electronic Equipment List
Computer Music Equipment
- 1 Max/MSP
- Max (Cycling74) - version 4.3
- 1 Macintosh G4
- Apple Desktops (Apple) - G4 - 860 Mhz under Mac OS9
- 1 MIDI Piano Interface KS1
- MIDI Converter (Gulbransen) - for piano 1 (coté cour)
- 1 Sound Board
- Sound Board (generic) - 4 ins - 4 outs
- 1 Midi interface
- MIDI Interfaces (generic) - midi interface
- 6 Footswitch / Sustain Pedal
- Footswitch / Sustain Pedal (generic) - one for each piano and two for each percussionist
- 1 AtomicPro
- MIDI Converter (Ircam) - to convert the switch pedal to midi controllers
Audio Equipment
- 4 Loudspeaker
- Loudspeakers (generic)
- 4 contact microphone
- Contact Microphones (Accusound) - 2 for each piano
Downloads
original Ircam documentation
Marc Battier
comment
doc for the original ISPW-based version (now obsolete)
143.67 Ko
max patch
serge Lemouton
9.73 Mo
Instructions
Audio, Loudspeaker and Midi setup
Stage setup
Software installation
Copy the RhizomesJuin2004 folder on your hard disk.
Start MaxMsp version 4.
Set the Max File Preferences to the folders :
- Rlib
- Rsounds
Check the DSP Status :
- Max Scheduler in Overdrive ON
- Scheduler in Audio Interrupt ON
- Driver : ASIO Hammerfall
- Alt ASIO Mode
- io vs 512
- vs 64
- optimize off
Patch presentation
Midi setup and tests
To check the midi devices, open the midi_io patcher.
The Piano 1 should be on midi channel 1
- piano 1 footswitch : controller n.64, channel 1
- piano 2 footswitch : controller n.65, channel 1
- perc1 footswitches : both on controller n.64, channel 3
- perc2 footswitches : both on controller n.64, channel 4
These assignements can be adjusted in the midi_io patcher
Input Audio assignment
- piano1 : adc1
- piano2 : adc2
- perc1 : adc3
- perc2 : adc4
Performance Notes
The Macintosh audio outputs are sent to a good quality reverberation (with a RT of about 3 sec), the ouput of this reverberation unit send to all the speakers.
To play the piece
Open the RHIZOMES-TR03.pat patch with MaxMsp version 4.
Switch the DSP on.
Select the section 1 : you are ready, the musicians can start playing !
During the performance of Rhizomes, you should carefully follow the musical score and monitor the event sequencing as it can be necessary to resynchronize the score following system (in case of too many consecutive wrong notes from the musicians, for instance)
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