Hilda Paredes - Altazor (2011)

Presentation

The piece was made at Ircam for the Festival D’automne 2011 at Paris

detailled formation

• Baritone solist
• ensemble : Flute, Clarinet, Oboe, Percussion, Piano, Viola, Violin, Violoncello
• live electronics, for 6 output

Equipment list

Computer Music equipement

• 1 MacBook Pro - Apple Laptops (Apple)
• 1 Max 8 - Max (Cycling 74)
• 1 midi interface
• 1 digital audio interface with at least 1 input & 8 output
• 1 Footswitch / Sustain Pedal
• 1 Pedal to Midi converter
• 1 BCF 2000 or equivalent - MIDI Mixer (Behringer)

Audio Equipment

• 6 loudspeakers and 2 subwoofer for the electronics diffusion
• Reverberation module for the electronics, the voice and the ensemble
• 1 mixing desk with sufficient inputs and outputs

Suggested equipment

General & Loudspeaker setup

Loudspeaker setup

Wiring Diagram

Percussion setup

Audio setup

• The electronics consists in the diffusion of multichannel audiofiles and real time processing on the voice of the barytone.
• There are three effects, Spectral, Freeze and Munger
• DAC 7 & DAC 8 of the Max Patch are for additional reverb
• All the electronics are comprised in the Max Patch. The audio outputs of max are sent to the loudspeaker system following the connection diagram.
• Special attention will be paid to the mixing of the real time processing on the voice with the pre-recorded files of the same nature.

Midi setup

• A footswitch/sustain pedal with the conductor to trigger electronic events
• A midi mixer to mix the level of the real time processing.

Patch

All you need execute (externals, sound file…) the patch under Max 8 is comprised in the zip file name “Altazor_All”

Initialization routine

Open the patch “Altazor_2023.maxpat”
Add the paredes_externals folder in Max File preferences

On the main window patch :

• Define if this machine is the master or the spare

• Open the pedal reception

• Check the pedal polarity/phase, change it if necessary, by default the controller number is 64. Change it if necessary in “p midiin”

• Load the folder containing the soundfiles (“##ALTAZOR-ficheros-final-OK” by default in the archive)

• Load the .json preset file with the “read” button

• Open DAC

• Check volumes in the “mixer” part of the main patch and test with the spacebar

• check “p midiin” to use a midimixer

DSP Status

• SR : 44.1 kHz
• IOVS/VS: 64
• Overdrive ON

Shortcut

Spacebar to go to the next event

Presentation

main patch