HANDS-ON SESSION COURSE: Synchronize Musicians and Electronics
Date: Friday, March 6 and Saturday, 7, 2015
Time: 10am-1pm & 2:30pm-5:30pm
Instructor: Grégoire Lorieux
Language: French
Hands-On Session Level
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