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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
- Documentation date
- May 1, 2025
- Version
- Concert 20/01/2025
- Status
- valid
- Realisation
- David Poissonnier (Computer Music Designer)
- Guillaume Bourgogne (Conductor (orchestra))
- Malena Fouillou (Computer Music Designer)
- Length
- 18 min
- Upgrade motivation
- Reconstruction of the original version for Max. The piece was performed in Lausanne on January 20, 2025 after a patch updated at Ircam, with Ensemble contemporain of HEMU at BCV Concert Hall. The original version ran on a Next ISPW
Other Versions
Concert 20/01/2025 a effacervalidMay 1, 2025
Archives-2023archivedOctober 19, 2023
Concert 2023in_progressSeptember 12, 2022
Archives-2022archivedJanuary 25, 2022
Detailed Staff
- Soloist
- solo soprano
2 flutes, oboe, 2 clarinets, horn, trumpet, trombone, 2 percussionists, piano, celesta, electronic/MIDI keyboard/synthesizer, 2 violins, 2 violas, 2 cellos
Detailed staff comes from Brahms, send mail to ressources-contenus@ircam.fr for correction.
Channel Details
- Number of input channels
- 4
- Number of output channels
- 6
Electronic Equipment List
Computer Music Equipment
- 1 KX 88
- MIDI Keyboard (Yamaha) - Nordstage 3
- 1 Footswitch / Sustain Pedal
- Footswitch / Sustain Pedal (generic)
- 1 Volume Pedal
- Volume Pedal (generic)
- 1 MacBook Pro
- Apple Laptops (Apple) - Apple M4 Pro macOS 15.4.1 (24E263)
- 1 Ircam Spat
- Library (Ircam) - version 5
- 1 antescofo~
- External objects (Ircam) - version 1.0-599
- 1 Max 8
- Max (Cycling74) - version 8.6.5
Audio Equipment
- 6 Loudspeaker
- Loudspeakers (generic) - L-Acoustics
- 27 Microphone
- Microphone (generic)
Downloads
Score
Frédéric Durieux
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Score annotated by Frédéric Durieux
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Recording
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Recording and interview (with the conductor Guillaume Bourgogne and Frederic Durieux) 20/01/2025. DO NOT DISTRIBUTE
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max project 2025
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Patch concert 2025 + simulation
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Simulation ensemble + voix
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Instructions
General Information
"So Schnell, Zu Fruh" is a work by Frédéric Durieux created in 1993. The premiere took place the 11-12-1993 at IRCAM's Espace de Projection. It is a work for ensemble and electronic. The electronic consists of real time audio effects and also audio samples.
Setup
Audio inputs
- soprano
- piano+percu1 (vibra)
- mix percu2
- tutti
Loudspeaker setup
Patch presentation
Patch installation
- Copy the SoSchnellZuFru2025 folder to your hard disk.
- Add this folder path in Max File Preferences.
- Restart Max.
Max audio status
Patch initialisation
- Open the SoSchnellZuFruh2025.maxproj.
- The main patch SoSchnellZuFruh2025.maxpat should open automatically.
- Check the Midi connection. You should receive pedals informations (volume, sustain) and the keyboard notes.
- Choose the midi input port corresponding to the keyboard.
- Start the dsp.
- Press the computer keyboard right arrow to init the patch.
- Open the Follower sub-patch and open the “Manual trigger enable” toggle to activate MIDI controller triggering.
The music is ready to start. All triggers are manual (by the computer music designer himself, or a musician with a MIDI controller).
Performance notes
Electronic events
- Bar 1/7 : "Clac" rebond sample pizz bartok. (frontal sound diffusion)
- 8/27 : marimba + flute sequences with spatialisation
- 28/35 : "Clac"
- 36/60 : marimba + flute sequences with spatialisation
- 61 : "Bali" with low marimba + Clarinet
- 64 : "Clac"
- 65: keyboard sounds preset 2: hybrid flute (from explosante fixe) + reverb on keyboards
- 76 : keyboard preset 1
- 76/179 : keyboards live transformations (harmonizer, freqshift)
- 105 : keyboard preset 2
- 167 : keyboard preset 1
- 180 : "Clac"
- 180/237 : flute sequences with repeated notes - rotations
- 180/179 : vibra + marimba processed sequence
- 186/189 : "Clac"
- 194/204 : "Clac" pizz bartok
- 196 : flute sound
- 206 : rebonds in delay + spatialisation
- 208/212 : "Clac"
- 217 : rebonds in delay + spatialisation
- 219/230 : "Clac"
- 231 : rebonds in delay + spatialisation
- 236/255 : transformed keyboard + Spatialisation
- 258/284 : vibra+piano live transformations
- 330 : voice transformation : reverb and spatialisation
- 332/360 : live transformation on tutti orchestra + metalic resonance, add more and more transformation at the mixing desk for a maximal effect at bar 358
- 358 : keyboard preset 2
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