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A unique stereo sound file accompanies the bassoon, which undergoes some transformations (filtering, distortion, chorus, frequency shifting).
The bassoonist plays following a click.
A first sound file (introvox.aif), lasting 36 seconds, plays alone at the beginning of the piece. Then the player triggers a second sound file (despair.aif), lasting 9'17", which is synchronized with a click track and the cues are triggered automatically.
A soundfile with the audiofile "despair" with click superimposed, for practicing purposes, is available in the folder "Practicing CD", for the instrumentalist
Score and recording by bassoonist Martin Brice are also available, respectively in "Score" and "Recording" folders.
This piece can be played in simple stereo configuration, with 2 loudspeakers, or in double cross stereo configuration, with 4 loudspeakers.
A DPA 4061 microphone is attached to the top of the instrument with an elastic, + two Neumann KM 184 microphones are used, in order to catch both registers of the instrument, corresponding to the position of the hands of the player.
These three microphones are then mixed in mono and then send into both adc 1 + 2 in the patch (same signal for the two channels).
A secondary computer can be set to show cues to the instrumentalist (optional).
The sound files from the electronics are output from the audiocard through dac 1 + 2. The electronics can be also output in "cross Stereo" configuration (cross stereo: left channel is output from front left and rear right, while the right channel is output from front right and rear left).
Treatments for the basson are output through dac 3
The click track is output through dac 4
The sound engineer mixes at the console the relationship between the sound files and the treatments.
A BCF2000 mixer is used to control the levels of the soundfiles and the treatments
For the beginning of the piece :
Click the umenus on the panel on the right side of the patch to choose the midi input for the pedal, and also for the midi output for lights (optional).
Click on the subpath midimix to set the midi input for the BCF2000 midi mixer.
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