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    Murail Winter Fragments

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    This document provides technical instructions for synchronizing video playback with live performances of "Bois flotté" and "Winter Fragments" using MIDI and Max/MSP software. Two PowerMac G4 computers are used - one for music and one for video. MIDI signals from a keyboard are sent to control the video playback from QuickTime movie files loaded onto the second computer. The movies are divided into sequences that fade between still frames to allow synchronization with live musical cues. Max/MSP software analyzes the MIDI signals and controls adjusting the video playback to match the live musical performance.

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    Murail Winter Fragments

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    This document provides technical instructions for synchronizing video playback with live performances of "Bois flotté" and "Winter Fragments" using MIDI and Max/MSP software. Two PowerMac G4 computers are used - one for music and one for video. MIDI signals from a keyboard are sent to control the video playback from QuickTime movie files loaded onto the second computer. The movies are divided into sequences that fade between still frames to allow synchronization with live musical cues. Max/MSP software analyzes the MIDI signals and controls adjusting the video playback to match the live musical performance.

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    This document provides technical instructions for synchronizing video playback with live performances of "Bois flotté" and "Winter Fragments" using MIDI and Max/MSP software. Two PowerMac G4 computers are used - one for music and one for video. MIDI signals from a keyboard are sent to control the video playback from QuickTime movie files loaded onto the second computer. The movies are divided into sequences that fade between still frames to allow synchronization with live musical cues. Max/MSP software analyzes the MIDI signals and controls adjusting the video playback to match the live musical performance.

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    Murail Winter Fragments

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    Evi Kar
    This document provides technical instructions for synchronizing video playback with live performances of "Bois flotté" and "Winter Fragments" using MIDI and Max/MSP software. Two PowerMac G4 computers are used - one for music and one for video. MIDI signals from a keyboard are sent to control the video playback from QuickTime movie files loaded onto the second computer. The movies are divided into sequences that fade between still frames to allow synchronization with live musical cues. Max/MSP software analyzes the MIDI signals and controls adjusting the video playback to match the live musical performance.

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    Winter Fragments

    Macintosh Computer

    Midi Interface

    Midi keyboard with easy program changes

    Sound interface : 5 inputs , 8 outputs

    5 microphones (or 6 , if 2 microphones are used for the piano)

    Sound projection : 8 loud-speakers – can be reduced to 4 (meaning that the amplified


    instruments are mixed in the 4 LPs with the electronics ; this solution is less satisfactory)

    Reverberation unit

    Mixer

    The electronic sounds are played back on speakers 1,2,3,4


    The instruments are amplified and spatialized on speakers 5,6,7,8
    Loud-speakers 3,4,7,8 should be at the rear, behind the audience

    The software is running in Max-MSP


    hp hp
    Clavier Midi
    Pno
    1 2

    Cl Vc

    Fl Vn 6
    5
    hp hp

    Winter Fragments

    interface MIDI

    Mix 12 x 8 Réverb instruments


    carte-son
    in

    carte-son 8 voix
    Macintosh out

    7 8
    hp
    hp

    hp hp

    3 4
    Technical instructions for video playing synchronized
    with live executions of «Bois flotté» and «Winter Fragments»

    MIDI keyboard

    copy files
    provided on DVD-R
    MIDI dispatch onto internal hard disk:
    MIDI (or connection MIDI
    QuickTime movies
    interface 1 interf.1 –> interf.2 interface 2
    by MidiThru) (≤4 and ≤5 GB each)
    + Max Patch and/or
    Stand Alone
    PowerMac G4 PowerMac G4
    used for MUSIC used for VIDEO
    733 Mhz mini / system 9.2
    SW: MAX/MSP 4.05 mini some of the MIDI instructions
    («movie» objects required) dedicated to electronic sounds
    will make Max adjust the video
    reading to preset time-codes
    of the QuickTime movies

    built-in
    Caution : no test have been done any additional
    GeForce or
    using G4ʼs capable of PCI graphic
    dual-screen display. additional Radeon main
    adapter
    display graphic card display
    output output

    VERY IMPORTANT :
    Desktop and Menubar have to be
    displayed on the monitor (≥ 640 x 480)
    connected to additional display output.

    Max / Movie window


    (800 x 600) displayed PROJECTOR
    on main display (to projector) 832 x 624
    ≥ 2600 lumens
    For a perfectly smooth video reading,
    (screen edges
    the Max commands must be shown
    have to be clipped
    only on Desktop screen, and the
    using commands
    Movie window only (and entirely)
    of projector)
    on main display.
    computer
    input

    The QuickTime movies provided are adaptations of the original movies released by Accord/Universal on DVD
    «Tristan Murail / vidéos Hervé Bailly-Basin». They are composed of 31 (Bois flotté) or 45 (Winter Fragments)
    sequences. Every sequence ends smoothly by fading out to a still picture, that is also the frame on which the
    next sequence will fade in. The still picture fullfills the screen a little before the «theoric» end, as indicated on
    the score, of the current musical passage. Waiting for the next MIDI instruction to be considered by the Max
    patch, the video runs on with the still picture for a while (extending the sequence up to 25% of its duration), as
    if it were «waiting» for the musicians in case they play noticeably slowly. The next MIDI instruction will make
    the video reading «jump» to the first frame of the following sequence – and so on.
    A large amount of live performed MIDI instructions allow the video to be regularly synchronized with
    the music execution. Besides, thanks to the fadings and common still pictures, no break will be seen between
    the sequences : the video appears as continuous, just like the music it «accompanies».
    Software development: Philippe Moënne-Loccoz – Collectif & Cie / Musiques Inventives dʼAnnecy - 2002

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