With the ESMUC Laptop Orchestra we performed an improved version of the piece "Poéme Symphonique pour 100n metronomes" (see below)
at the SMC 2009 conference in Porto. You can see here below a bootleg video of it.
Hopefully we'll soon have acces to a better quality recording.
Jean Claude Risset - Italian language translations
"An introductory catalogue of computer synthesized sounds" Download the document here (PDF, 1.55 MB)
(note: the original source code for the instruments has been omitted from this translation) Image scanning and recreation: Mario Gerosa
Translation and editing: Mathieu Bosi
"My 1969 Sound Catalog: looking back from 1992" Download the document here (PDF, 125 KB)
Translation and editing: Mathieu Bosi
A sonic simulator of arrow storms for a quadriphonic/octophonic sound system using C-Sound and a custom score generation algorithm.
Used during the concert "Musiche nuove, suggestioni antiche"Corpo musicale "La Cattolica" Cineteatro Fumagalli, Cantù, Italy.
"Bowlie" a network driven Instrumental Improvisation
"Bowlie" is an Instrumental improvisation controlled by a conductor using a networked interactive physical simulation of a sphere moving inside of a slightly bowl-like surface (hyperboloid).
A conventional language is used to communicate with the various musicians by mean of scores represented on their own laptop's screen.
The conductor can throw and freeze the spheres and can control the speed of the simulation time.
The sphere will tend to reach its equilibrium in the center of the surface.
Idea and direction: Domenico Stranieri Software realization: Mathieu Bosi
ScratchLib to Open Sound Control, Windows. Download it here (ZIP, 791 KB)
Synaptic2OSC
Synaptic touchpad SDK to Open Sound Control, Windows. Download it here (ZIP, 44.8 KB)
Gigaverb VST plugin
Download plugin (windows version), source code and Dev C++ project files here (ZIP, 145 KB)
Walking
An interactive installation reacting to sound qualities.
Download the windows executables, patches and documentation here (ZIP, 1.93 MB)
Poeme Symphonique pour 100n metronomes
György Ligeti's work "Poeme Symphonique pour 100 metronomes" (1962) was originally performed by 10 players under the leadership of a conductor.
Each player operated 10 metronomes which where charged and then let to play up to their halting.
"Poeme Symphonique pour 100n metronomes" is a reinterpretation and multiplication of this original piece. The real metronomes are substituted by virtual ones and the players by some personal computers. There are various groups of metronomes, each one consisting of 100 metronomes.
This work explores some geometric relations between sonic and visual patterns. These patterns are obtained just by controlling the starting time and the speed of each one of the metronomes. A real metronome is also used to influences these whole groups.
