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| Title | Transversal Meditation |
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| Details | Piccolo, 3 Flutes, Alto Flute, Bass Flute, Contrabass Flute Based on the sonority exercise of Marcel Moyse (Published in 1934, Leduc) A descending chromatic scale, modulating every two measures, is distributed among the seven instruments. Thematic lines intertwine with and at times obscure the scale, with an accelerando at the half way point and at the end of the piece. The Alto Flute is treated with a chorus effect, and the Bass Flute is processed with a flanger. Each instrument passes through an individual equalizer and a reverb unit. Piccolo and Flute 2 are panned left; Flutes 1 and Alto Flute are panned right. Bass Flute and Contrabass Flute are panned center. Each instrument is assigned to a separate mixer channel. The methods of editing every sound parameter are explained in the orchestra and the score file. The orchestra is comprised of seven flute instruments, seven EQ instruments, one flanger instrument, one chorus instrument, three stereo reverb instruments, one mono reverb instrument, and a seven channel mixer. There are variable tables to control each choir member, as well as ten parameter fields, many variable arguments within each choir instrument, several EQ settings, several reverb settings, and seven individual gain and pan controls. Because of the many tables in the score, the score renders faster using the console version of Csound. When auditioning individual choir sounds, it is easy to mute other instrument(s) by commenting the beginning of the EQ instrument line(s). This prevents the instrument(s) from going into and out of the mixer. For example: to mute EQ instrument 95, make the individual EQ line in the score example begin as follows: ;i95 To unmute instrument 95, remove the semicolon and re-render the score, putting it back in the signal flow. Each member of the choir is routed to a separate EQ instrument, and then into the inputs of the reverb instruments. The seven outputs from the four reverb instruments are then sent into a seven channel mixer, with individual gain and pan for each channel. |
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