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 8 January 2026 at 02:39
"[E]very design is a decision, and every decision shapes the future of musical thinking." Andrew Telichan-Phillips interviews the developers of SuperCollider, ChucK, Max, and Kyma, concluding that "symbolic systems do not merely describe the world; they organize it." https://direct.mit.edu/comj/article/48/3/18/132061/Encoding-Sound-Perspectives-on-Cultural-Bias-in
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on 14 December 2025 at 00:52
Synchronizing movement to music is a hallmark of human culture. New study demonstrates that macaques can spontaneously synchronize to a beat, contradicting the “vocal-learning hypothesis” that only species with learned complex vocalizations can synchronize. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adp5220