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Capytalk — a functional reactive programming language

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 and Kyma Sound parameters. Reactive programming is a paradigm for computing and modifying asynchronous data streams. Some examples of asynchronous

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Getting sound from Kyma onto a network

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, you may want to: Share a Paca(rana) or a small number of Paca(rana)s among a group of sound designers working

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Remote collaboration, telematic performances, and online learning

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 guidelines precipitated by the global COVID-19 pandemic have accelerated the adoption of these modes of interaction. This is a brief

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The online magazine where sound designers, musicians, researchers, and educators share insights on what they’ve found to be the most effective, productive and inspiring approaches to Kyma.

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    on 24 April 2025 at 00:02

    Prosody — pitch contour, stress, rhythm & loudness of speech — found to have its own vocabulary, semantics & simple syntax. Study finds Intonation Units (IUs) which when stripped of text consist of a pitch contour — as an element of a prosodic vocabulary https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2403262122

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    on 19 March 2025 at 01:09

    What’s Behind the ‘Pop and Slosh’ When Opening a Beer? Using high-speed video, audio recordings, & computational fluid dynamics simulations, researchers say the sound is explained by a sudden expansion of CO2 + a drop in temp to -50C which slows the speed of sound https://publishing.aip.org/publications/latest-content/whats-behind-the-pop-and-slosh-when-opening-a-swing-top-bottle-of-beer/

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