General Information

"So Schnell, Zu Fruh" is a work by Frédéric Durieux created in 1993. The premiere took place the 11-12-1993 at IRCAM's Espace de Projection. It is a work for ensemble and electronic. The electronic consists of real time audio effects and also audio samples.

Setup

Audio inputs

1. soprano
2. piano+percu1 (vibra)
3. mix percu2
4. tutti

Loudspeaker setup

Patch presentation

Patch installation

• Copy the SoSchnellZuFru2025 folder to your hard disk.
• Add this folder path in Max File Preferences.
• Restart Max.

Max audio status

Patch initialisation

• Open the SoSchnellZuFruh2025.maxproj.
• The main patch SoSchnellZuFruh2025.maxpat should open automatically.
• Check the Midi connection. You should receive pedals informations (volume, sustain) and the keyboard notes.
• Choose the midi input port corresponding to the keyboard.

• Start the dsp.
• Press the computer keyboard right arrow to init the patch.
• Open the Follower sub-patch and open the “Manual trigger enable” toggle to activate MIDI controller triggering.

The music is ready to start. All triggers are manual (by the computer music designer himself, or a musician with a MIDI controller).

Performance notes

Electronic events

• Bar 1/7 : "Clac" rebond sample pizz bartok. (frontal sound diffusion)
• 8/27 : marimba + flute sequences with spatialisation
• 28/35 : "Clac"
• 36/60 : marimba + flute sequences with spatialisation
• 61 : "Bali" with low marimba + Clarinet
• 64 : "Clac"
• 65: keyboard sounds preset 2: hybrid flute (from explosante fixe) + reverb on keyboards
• 76 : keyboard preset 1
• 76/179 : keyboards live transformations (harmonizer, freqshift)
• 105 : keyboard preset 2
• 167 : keyboard preset 1
• 180 : "Clac"
• 180/237 : flute sequences with repeated notes - rotations
• 180/179 : vibra + marimba processed sequence
• 186/189 : "Clac"
• 194/204 : "Clac" pizz bartok
• 196 : flute sound
• 206 : rebonds in delay + spatialisation
• 208/212 : "Clac"
• 217 : rebonds in delay + spatialisation
• 219/230 : "Clac"
• 231 : rebonds in delay + spatialisation
• 236/255 : transformed keyboard + Spatialisation
• 258/284 : vibra+piano live transformations
• 330 : voice transformation : reverb and spatialisation
• 332/360 : live transformation on tutti orchestra + metalic resonance, add more and more transformation at the mixing desk for a maximal effect at bar 358
• 358 : keyboard preset 2