Kyma X is a powerful visual programming language for music and sound, originally created by Symbolic Sound in 1987 and still going strong today. The Kyma sound design environment is used by composers, researchers and sound designers for realtime sound generation and manipulation.
The First International Kyma Symposium will be held from the 8-10 October 2009 at the Niu Espai Artistic Contemporani in Poble Nou, Barcelona. Current and potential Kyma practitioners are invited to attend* an in-depth 3 day interactive conclave devoted to the technical and artistic aspects of the Kyma sound design language.
Unidentified Sound Object will be live microblogging from Barcelona (via Twitter) and they’ll write a daily report on his website. Photos of the event will be available via Flickr.
If you cannot attend…
Not everyone can make it to Barcelona, but your Kyma Sounds can! Cristian Vogel invites you to submit AIFF or WAV files created exclusively with Kyma for an automated “DJ Pacarana” set which will be providing background ambience for the ‘Meet and Greet’ reception on Thursday evening. Textures, sound design sketches, loops, and ambiences ranging in duration from 1 second to 5 minutes can be submitted in 16 bit, 44.1K WAV or AIFF and will be combined, spatialized, and layered according to a random number generator seeded with “0.8102009”. In the spirit of ‘Meet and Greet’, please include your name and your city as part of the sound (spoken, sung, or otherwise encrypted) so we can meet and greet you virtually! Please send your files to his drop box.
Preliminary Program
THURS (8 October 2009)
18:00 meet & greet
w/ DJ Pacarana: installation created by Cristian Vogel with participation of the international Kyma user community
21:00 Dinner at nearby restaurant (no host)
FRI TALKS
11:00 Welcome
11:30 Carla Scaletti & Kurt Hebel: “Recombinance Makes Us Human”: Philosophy of Kyma
Demo of Recently Added Features
14:00 —Lunch at Bharma
16:00 Camille Troillard: New Developments in OSCulator (1 hour)
17:00 Hector Bravo-Benard: Using the AC Toolbox with Kyma (30′ lecture + 10′ piece)
17:45—-Coffee Break—-
18:00 Cristian Vogel: The Black Swan: Composing with Kyma for Dance (1 hour)
19:00 Eckard Vossas: Improvising with Kyma: Miniaturen X, Cecil Variations B, Lehnade 2: (30′)
19:45—Break for concert setup–
FRI CONCERT at Niu
20:00 Franz Danksagmüller: Kökarlen: Silent film + voice +live Kyma & voice (~2 hrs)
22:00 tear down, Dinner together nearby (no host)
SAT TALKS
11:00 Carla Scaletti & Kurt Hebel: Composing with Kyma: Vector spaces, Timeless nonlinear timelines, sequencing
CapyTalk, Smalltalk, Tools
14:00 —Lunch at Bharma
16:00 Bruno Liberda: siebenmal gefärbt: Addicted to Kyma (1 hour)
17:00 Cristian Vogel: Kyma in the Club: The Never Engine (1 hour)
18:00 —break— (set up and sound checks for concert)
19:00 SAT CONCERT at Niu
* Carla Scaletti: SlipStick for Continuum and Kyma (~10′)
* Marin Vrbica: Tiger in the Jungle: Video + Live Performer (~10′)
* Hector Bravo-Benard: Styrotron: Live Kyma performance (~10′)
—INTERMISSION—
* Franz Danksagmüller: Frtiz Lang’s Metropolis: Silent film + Live Kyma accompaniment (~30′)
21:00 Tear down
22:00 Celebratory Dinner together
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1:30 AM * Cristian Vogel: Never Engine (Live Kyma!)
The Moog
SUN
Informal breakfast and lunch, consulting, meetings, demos, sightseeing, travel day
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