Kinderszenen

Overview

The electronics of the piece consists both in a sound file and a live treatment of the piano source to be diffused on stage.
The sound file is a 13-channel tape (48.000Hz/24 Bit): 12 audio channels (to be diffused throughout 13 speakers and 2 subwoofers) + 1 click-track channel (to be assigned to conductor, pianist, harpist, first percussionist, second percussionist, third percussionist). The real-time treatments may be described as a dynamic amplification of the piano source that reacts to both dynamic and frequency ranges of the piano playing along the piece. Widening of the diffusion and remix (noises and resonances) are also parameters that change throughout the piece. The sound of the piano is kept by 6 microphones, four of them are supercardioid and two contact microphones.
Two subwoofers will diffuse the lowest range of the live sound treatment and the electronics projected through the 13 speakers (the 12th channel is split in 2 stage speakers). A line array speakers placed on top of the grand piano is highly recommended, this will be used only for the live treatment of the piano.

Soloist, conductor, harp and the three percussion players wear earphones to listen the click track.

Loudspeaker setup

Multichannel tape

The tape (and click track) can be played by any multichannel digital workstation.
Two versions are provided, you can choose at your convenience between the (equivalent) versions one for ProTools or Reaper

Pro tools Session

Reaper Session

Max patch

Routing in Max

ADC

1. Close mike low
2. Close mike Low medium
3. Close Mike High medium
4. Close Mike High
5. Contact low
6. Contact High

DAC

Max DSP Status Options

• Fs :48k
• IO :1024
• VS : 64
• Overdrive : no

Patch presentation

Initialization routine

• Press Reset
• Select the Kinderszenen.asco.txt antescofo score in the menu
• DSP on
• Right Arrow to start first Antescofo Preset

System calibration and tests

There is a piano recording in the SIMULATION patcher to test the spatialisation effect of the piano