Barton McLean’s Kyma Tutorials
Insights Contributor: Barton McLean
Having been taught and mentored by Henry Cowell and having developed his electronic music techniques in the studios under the …
Bart’s KYMA Tutorials
These tutorials arose from my own initial struggles with learning Kyma, and were spurred on by subsequent needs of my …
Bart’s Kyma Tutorial A: Getting Things Sounding, Organized, and Uncluttered, Part 1
In this first tutorial, we look at how to trigger and gate Sounds from a MIDI keyboard.
Bart’s Kyma Tutorial A: Getting Things Sounding, Organized, and Uncluttered, Part 2
In this second tutorial, we look at mixing Sounds and controlling them from the Virtual Control Surface.
Bart’s Kyma Tutorial B: The StepSequencer, Part 1
In this third tutorial, we examine the StepSequencer and how it can be thought of as one big, resource-rich automated MIDI keyboard.
Bart’s Kyma Tutorial B: The StepSequencer, Part 2
In this fourth tutorial, we continue our work with the StepSequencer.
Bart’s Kyma Tutorial C: Generating Patterns Outside the StepSequencer, Part 1
In this tutorial, we look at other ways to generate patterns in Sound parameter fields.
Bart’s Kyma Tutorial C: Generating Patterns Outside the StepSequencer, Part 2
This is a continuation of Tutorial C, Part 1. Part 2 focuses on the SampleAndHold in several manifestations.
Bart’s Kyma Tutorials D: Spectral Concepts, Part 1
In this tutorial, we explore spectral analysis and resynthesis. Before beginning this tutorial, please download the Kyma Tutorial Sound file …
Bart’s Kyma Tutorial D: Spectral Concepts, Part 2.
This is a continuation of Tutorial D, Part 1. In this tutorial, we explore live spectral analysis/resynthesis and spectral modification.
Bart’s Melodic Sculptor Tutorial
Introduction: I have developed this Kyma Sound over a yearlong time period to work specifically with melodic material as a …
Capytalk
Capytalk — a functional reactive programming language
Capytalk is a Functional Reactive Programming Language that you can use to define interactions between internal or external data streams …
Remote Collaboration
Remote collaboration, telematic performances, and online learning
Networked collaboration, telematic performances, and online learning have been growing in popularity for several years, but the lockdowns and social-distancing …
Getting sound from Kyma onto a network
There are several circumstances in which you might want to stream audio from your Paca(rana) onto a network, for example, …
Scott Miller on Ecosystemic Composition
Insights Contributor: Scott L. Miller
Scott Miller is a composer and performer of works described as “high adventure avant garde music of the best sort” (Classical-Modern Music Review). …
Ecosystemic Programming and Composition Part 1
A large part of my work the past decade has involved applications of ecosystemic programming. I was introduced to the …
Ecosystemic Programming and Composition Part 2 – Mobile and Orrery models
My approach to ecosystemic programming has involved conceptualizing the final product as a physically navigable space, as a metaphoric sculptural …
Jon Bellona: Creating Data-driven Music
Insights Contributor: Jon Bellona
Jon Bellona is an intermedia artist/composer who specializes in digital technologies. Jon’s work explores the enactive body and physical embodiment …
Reading CSV Files in Kyma: Part 1
I’ve been interested in data-driven music over the past few years, and have explored this topic in some of my previous …
Reading CSV/TSV files in Kyma: Part 2
In the previous article (part 1 of 2), we explored how to get a single column CSV [comma-separated-values] file working with Kyma. …
Control Signals at Audio Rate
This article addresses control signals at audio rate in the context of a working installation, Selector. Selector is an audio-visual installation …
Wacom tablet as a performative and dynamic SFX generator (using bilinear interpolation)
About a year ago while working as an advisor for an undergraduate student’s thesis about foley sound design, I discovered …
Behind the Algorithms with Roland Kuit
Insights Contributor: Roland Kuit
From his childhood, Roland Kuit has always been fascinated by the phenomenon of sound. Surrounded with instruments like a grand …
Thoughts on FM: behind the algorithms
In the past, the Frequency Modulation technique was used widely in radio transmission but had not been applied to sound synthesis. …