Official organ of the Symbolic Sound Corporation
The Central Library of The Hague will be filled with mathematical functions for the ear and textures for the eye when Roland Kuit creates poetic quadraphonic formulas for Kyma and Karin Schomaker synthesizes images of abstract beauty. Visuals and sounds together create a flow of spatial and textural experience.
Sunday 07 February 2016, 14:00 – 14:50
Spui 68, The Hague, The Netherlands
Carlos Alberto Augusto’s new opera — “TMIE: on the threshold of the outside world†(TMIE is an acronym for Trans Membrane Inner Ear) — for soprano and electronic track, interleaves three stories of audition and spirals. A single soprano plays three women — a Selene goddess, a deaf astronomer named Henrietta Leavitt who “heard what the stars were telling her”, and Beverly Biderman, a Canadian who underwent cochlear implant surgery to regain the pleasure of music.
Augusto produced the electronic track entirely in Kyma using roulette curves applied to different sonic parameters.
The libretto is based, among other texts, on books by Beverly Biderman and George Johnson.
The work, a Miso Music Portugal production with support from Widex Portugal, premiers on February 25th in Lisbon at the O’culto da Ajuda venue with two more performances on the 26th and 27th, and will start touring Portugal later this year.
Composer/producer Miguel Gil is working on new improvisation project featuring Kyma 7 and the poems of Fernando Pessoa
In this video, featuring LucÃa Flor-Laguna (voice), Jorge Cabadas (guitar) and Miguel Gil (Kyma 7 and sax), you can see Miguel using a Wacom tablet to elegantly perform a synthesis model and to process and capture the audio from the other performers using Kyma 7.
Here’s the poem:
Las pompas de jabón
(Fernando Pessoa)Las pomas de jabón que este chiquillo
se entretiene en soltar por la pajita
son, traslúcidamente, toda una filosofÃa.
Claras, inútiles y pasajeras como la Naturaleza,
amigas de los ojos como las cosas,
son lo que son
con una precisión redondita y aérea,
y nadie, ni aun el niño que las suelta,
pretende que sean más que lo que parecen ser.
Algunas apenas se ven en el aire lúcido.
Son como la brisa, que apenas roza las flores al pasar
y de la que tan sólo sabemos que pasa
porque algo se aligera en nosotros
y todo lo acepta más nÃtidamente.
Guitarist Dan Lippel and composer Scott Miller are collaborating on several upcoming concerts in St. Cloud and Minneapolis Minnesota featuring acoustic guitar and live interactive processing of the guitar and the acoustics of the space through Kyma:
January 15, 2016 @ 8pm @ The Nest Above the Pickled Loon (St. Cloud, MN)
January 16, 2016 @ 8pm Gut, Lungs, & Silicon (Minneapolis)
January 17, 2016 @ 7pm @ The Nicollet (Minneapolis)
John Paul Jones will be performing live with Kyma 7 electronics diffused through the famous Acousmonium loudspeaker orchestra
8:30 pm (doors open at 7:30)
SATURDAY 28th NOVEMBER 2015
BÂTIMENT DES FORCES MOTRICES
GENEVA SWITZERLAND
as part of the Prèsences Électroniques Genève festival of spatialized electronic music.
Kyma had a strong presence at the 2015 International Computer Music Conference in Denton Texas, September 25 — October 1, including live performances by
Jeffrey Stolet,
Wang Chi,
Leap Motion music. #ICMC2015 pic.twitter.com/3ZlA4tRJHH
— Iacopo Sinigaglia (@iacopoconlai) September 28, 2015
Jon Bellona,
and Sun Hua,
a keynote lecture by Symbolic Sound president Carla Scaletti,
a one-hour Kyma workshop also presented by Scaletti (new music pioneer Larry Austin is seen in the audience at the lower left)
and fixed media pieces by Fred Szymanski and Jinshuo Feng. (If we’ve left anyone out, please let us know!)
Thanks to the ICMC 2015 organizers, presenters, and composers!
Special thanks to the ICMC organizers, Wang Chi, Sun Hua, and Jon Bellona for the photos and Iacopo Sinigaglia for the video excerpt.
A Little Night Music is an evening of Visualized Music—films composed to music (rather than music composed for films) featuring videos by Roxanne Rea in collaboration with composers Bill Rea, Debra Kaye, and the owner of Kyma system serial number 1: Dick Robinson!
Sycamore Place Gallery
120 Sycamore Place
Decatur GA 30030
October 10, 2015
at 8:30 p.m.
Suggested Donation $15
Described by the New York Times as “A pianist of deep authority and resolute purpose”, Stanley Cowell will be in New York City this weekend with his quartet (Bruce Williams [saxophone & flute], Stanley Cowell [piano], Jay Anderson [bass], Victor Lewis [drums]) for a 3-day gig/CD release party at the Smoke jazz and supper club, 1-4 October 2015.
Cowell is also featured in the October issue of Jazz Times Magazine where he also describes how he uses Kyma in live performance and was just interviewed on WKCR radio).
If you’re in New York, be sure to check out his Smoke debut so you’ll be able to hear (among other things) Cowell using Kyma to do live harmonization of the piano. At 7, 9 and 10:30 p.m., Smoke, 2751 Broadway, at 106th Street, 212-864-6662, smokejazz.com.
According to the Smoke web site,
Smoking is not permitted at the club, or at any venue in NYC for that matter. But the music will be smokin’ for sure.
Have a greedy sweet tooth when it comes to Tango? Indulge your craving with Tangoloso—Diego Collatti on piano, Bruno Liberda on Kyma and Eventide— starting at 8 pm 17 October 2015 at the Klavierwerkstatt Felix Lenz in Vienna Austria.
Tasty sonic appetizer (and a page of Liberda’s beautiful graphic score) available here.
Flutist/composer Anne La Berge is featured on the cover of the July 2015 issue of freiStil magazine. Inside, an in-depth interview delves into Anne’s history, music, and politics.
When asked about her electronic beginnings, she recounts, “My first electronic instrument was the microphone. To this I owe some of the most magical aspects of my sound: whistling, harmonies, echoes of vowels and consonants, to name just a few.” She soon started to expand on those effects with hardware like the Clavia Micro Modular, then the Clavia Nord Modular G2, and now “currently I am a passionate Kyma system user… I do most of my pieces in conjunction with a Kyma. I am fascinated by the expansion of the flute sounds by electronics. I really appreciate auxiliary means for obtaining an incredible dynamic range. Sometimes in an ensemble situation, the flute can’t be heard. So I’ve developed sound patches that allow me to be heard in almost any musical situation.”
Anne can be heard performing her live Kyma-processed flute compositions at the Berlin Heroines of Sound festival in 10-12 July.