Performance Handbook Philippe Manoury, Jupiter (Version Max/MSP 2002)

Performance Handbook Philippe Manoury, Jupiter (version Max/MSP 2002)

Managing director: Bernard Stiegler Publishing director: Vincent Puig Director of pedagogy: Andrew Gerzso Director of production: Alain Jacquinot

Texts collected and edited by Serge Lemouton (musical assistant), Denis Lorrain and Bertrand Cheret (IRCAM documentation manager). All rights reserved. Any reproduction by any means of parts or the entirety of this document without the written permission of IRCAM is expressly forbidden.

For any performance of the piece, the user must contact the publisher: Durand, Paris.

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1 Table of Contents Publication Information ...... 1 Presentation of Jupiter ...... 3 General Presentation ...... 3 Instrumentation ...... 3 Performance Elements...... 4 Elements Description...... 4 Equipment List ...... 5 Audio and MIDI Diagram...... 6 Stage Set-Up Diagram...... 7 Max/MSP Patch...... 8 Main Patch...... 8 Test Patch (Jupiter-2002β.pat> p Test)...... 9 How To Run Jupiter...... 10 History...... 11 1987: Original Version...... 11 1992: NeXT/ISPW Version...... 11

2 Presentation of Jupiter General Presentation

First performance (current version): December 2002, Institut Finlandais, Paris

First performance (first version): 1986

Performer: Ichiro Nodaira (1989)

Duration: 30'

Publisher: Durand

Musical assistants: Serge Lemouton

Dedication: to Lawrence Beauregard

Discography: ADES 206 062

Instrumentation

• Flute • Electronics: computer and live electronic devices

3 Performance Elements Elements Description

1 CD-ROM containing all software elements

• One main Max/MSP patch file for concert: Jupiter-2002β.pat • The ASIO Drivers folder contains audio card ASIO drivers, among wich you can add your own card's drivers if necessary • All audio files are in the folder *Jupiter-snd • One audio file contains a recording of the flute part for a performance simulation: *Jupiter-snd:jupiter-audio-sim.mono • All required library elements are in the folder *Jupiter-lib

4 Equipment List

• Computer ➢ 1 Macintosh G4 (800Mhz or better) ➢ 1 ASIO audio card (ex.: RME Hammerfall) • Software ➢ Mac OS9 ➢ Max/MSP (cf. http://www.cycling74.com) • MIDI ➢ 1 MIDI mixer with at least 9 faders (ex.: Kawai MM-16) is used to control the internal mixing of the electronic layers (cf. sub-patch MIDI-Mix) ➢ 1 MIDI interface to connect the MIDI mixer to the Macintosh • Audio ➢ 1 microphone has to attached to the flute mouthpiece ➢ 1 mixing console (ex.: Yamaha O2R) ➢ 1 compressor to pre-process the flute sound before the Macintosh input for pitch tracking (ex.: Yamaha O2R internal effect) ➢ 1 ASIO audio card mentioned above... ➢ 1 effects processor for a gobal reverberation of the flute if necessary (ex: Lexicom M300) • P.-A. ➢ 6 loudspeakers or more ☑L/R stereo pair in front (mix of flute amplification and Macintosh outputs) ☑Quadraphonic setup around the audience (Macintosh outputs 1 to 4) ☑Optional extra speakers if necessary ➢ 1 monitor speaker for the flutist (sections 8 and 10, for instance, must be heard very distinctly by the performer)

5 Audio and MIDI Diagram

6 Stage Set-Up Diagram

Speakers 5 and 6 optional, according to the room size and audience seating

7 Max/MSP Patch Main Patch

AUDIENCE

8 Test Patch (Jupiter-2002β.pat> p Test)

9 How To Run Jupiter

• Copy all the contents of the CD-ROM to a single folder on your hard disk • Set the Max/MSP File Preferences to include this folder • Open Jupiter-2002β.pat with Max/MSP (version>3.6) • Configure the DSP Status options according to the following screenshot:

• Proceed to the tests

➢ Play section 8 event 2 (this is a sequence of tam-tam sounds) ➢ Test the score follower with the flute simulation

☑Start section 1 ☑Go to the sub-patch Test ☑Click the open jupiter-audio-sim.mono message box ☑Switch the toggle, just below, ON ☑You can listen to the whole piece (outputs 7 and 8 play the flute simulation)

• Test the flute microphone (slider Flute input), check the tuning of the flute (sub-patch refPitch) • Begin to play

10 History 1987: Original Version

Duration: 38' Publisher: Durand, Paris Musical assistants: Marc Battier, Cort Lippe Scientific assistants: Miller Puckette, Olivier Koechlin Performer: Pierre-André Valade Dedication: to Lawrence Beauregard First performance: April 25th 1987, Espace de Projection, IRCAM, Paris Instrumentation: MIDI flute, 4X computer (IRCAM dedicated real-time sound computing processor)

1992: NeXT/ISPW Version

Duration: 28' Publisher: Durand, Paris Musical assistant: Miller Puckette Performer: Sophie Cherrier Dedication: to Lawrence Beauregard First performance: July 1992, Avignon Instrumentation: MIDI flute, NeXT/ISPW (IRCAM Signal Processing Workstation)