| Kyma | | Computer/OS: | Mac, PC - Windows | Year: | 1986 | | Author: | Carla Scaletti | Manipulates: | | | Web: | http://www.SymbolicSound.com | Implementation: | Smalltalk | | Paper: | 'The Kyma/Platypus Workstation,' Computer Music Journal, vol. 13, no. 2. 'Composing Sound Objects in Kyma,' Perspectives of New Music, vol. 27, no. 1 | | Description: | A language for specifying and manipulating sound. It is a visual language and is based on units called "sound objects" rather than the "notes" of standard music notation. Structures specified in Kyma can be compiled for real-time samples generation on a digital signal processor. Kyma is described in an issue of CMJ devoted to object-oriented music applications. | |
