HANDS-ON SESSION COURSE: Synchronize Musicians and Electronics

Prerequisites

Advanced knowledge of Max and knowledge of a software program like Finale, Sibelius, or NoteAbility.

Objectives

Upon completion of this session participants will have seen different methods for score-following and will have a deeper understanding of the Antescofo system, in theory, in practice, and musically.

Program

This hands-on session centers on three points:

• A presentation of various score-following methods on the market today, focusing on the mixed-music repertoire and, more specifically, on the Antescofo system developed at IRCAM


• A detailed presentation of the software necessary for the Antescofo system, particularly NoteAbility. Each participant will prepare a short musical score that includes sound events to be set off


• A hands-on exercise using the score-following system live with a guest musician who will perform the participants' scores

Friday Morning

• Presentation of the theory behind Antescofo, demos


• Exercises with Devenir by Durieux


• Presentation of a concert patch, the Antescofo object: messages to send to the object


• Tests - following with Antescofo simple: scores (and actions) and simulations

Friday Afternoon

• Syntax of SCORE


• Syntax of ACTIONS


• Global/local messages

Saturday Morning

• Writing the electronic score


• Additional syntax information; groups, loops, curves, mode tight/loose

Saturday Afternoon

• Demos: tight/not tight mode with Handel and with Bach’s Fugue


• Following settings in situ


• Reading sketches with electronics: 20 minutes per work


• Comments on electronics, corrections