kyma

sound design inspiration

Symbolic Sound makes Kyma — a hardware & software environment for creative sound design, live performance, and scientific exploration.

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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/