Kyma Symposium 2009 Preliminary Program

The First International Kyma Symposium is scheduled for 8-10 October 2009 in the vibrant Poble Nou neighborhood of Barcelona during the annual LEM festival. The preliminary program includes master classes presented by the creators of Kyma, papers and demos presented by Kyma practitioners, and a program of concerts, live improvised silent film scores.

Symbolic Sound and Station 55 invite you to share your ideas, experiences and art with fellow practitioners at the First Kyma Symposium by attending the symposium and interacting with your fellow Kyma practitioners!

We'll be live microblogging from Barcelona (via Twitter) and we'll write a daily report here on Unidentified Sound Object so that even those who cannot attend can still benefit from the symposium. Photos of the event will be available via Flickr.

If you cannot attend...

Not everyone can make it to Barcelona, but your Kyma Sounds can! Cristian Vogel invites you to submit AIFF or WAV files created exclusively with Kyma for an automated "DJ Pacarana" set which will be providing background ambience for the 'Meet and Greet' reception on Thursday evening. Textures, sound design sketches, loops, and ambiences ranging in duration from 1 second to 5 minutes can be submitted in 16 bit, 44.1K WAV or AIFF and will be combined, spatialized, and layered according to a random number generator seeded with "0.8102009". In the spirit of 'Meet and Greet', please include your name and your city as part of the sound (spoken, sung, or otherwise encrypted) so we can meet and greet you virtually! Please send your files to his drop box.

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Kyma Symposium in Barcelona 8-10 October 2009
Preliminary Program (as of 31 August 2009)
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THURS (8 October 2009)
18:00 meet & greet
w/ DJ Pacarana: installation created by Cristian Vogel with participation of the international Kyma user community
21:00 Dinner at nearby restaurant (no host)


FRI TALKS
11:00 Welcome
11:30 Carla Scaletti & Kurt Hebel: "Recombinance Makes Us Human": Philosophy of Kyma
Demo of Recently Added Features
14:00 ---Lunch at Bharma
16:00 Camille Troillard: New Developments in OSCulator (1 hour)
17:00 Hector Bravo-Benard: Using the AC Toolbox with Kyma (30' lecture + 10' piece)
17:45----Coffee Break----
18:00 Cristian Vogel: The Black Swan: Composing with Kyma for Dance (1 hour)
19:00 Eckard Vossas: Improvising with Kyma: Miniaturen X, Cecil Variations B, Lehnade 2: (30')
19:45---Break for concert setup--

FRI CONCERT at Niu
20:00 Franz Danksagmüller: Kökarlen: Silent film + voice +live Kyma & voice (~2 hrs)
22:00 tear down, Dinner together nearby (no host)

SAT TALKS
11:00 Carla Scaletti & Kurt Hebel: Composing with Kyma: Vector spaces, Timeless nonlinear timelines, sequencing
CapyTalk, Smalltalk, Tools
14:00 ---Lunch at Bharma
16:00 Bruno Liberda: siebenmal gefärbt: Addicted to Kyma (1 hour)
17:00 Cristian Vogel: Kyma in the Club: The Never Engine (1 hour)
18:00 ---break--- (set up and sound checks for concert)

19:00 SAT CONCERT at Niu
* Carla Scaletti: SlipStick for Continuum and Kyma (~10')
* Marin Vrbica: Tiger in the Jungle: Video + Live Performer (~10')
* Hector Bravo-Benard: Styrotron: Live Kyma performance (~10')

---INTERMISSION---

* Franz Danksagmüller: Frtiz Lang's Metropolis: Silent film + Live Kyma accompaniment (~30')
21:00 Tear down
22:00 Celebratory Dinner together
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1:30 AM * Cristian Vogel: Never Engine (Live Kyma!)
The Moog

SUN
Informal breakfast and lunch, consulting, meetings, demos, sightseeing, travel day

For up-to-the-minute information on schedules, maps, accommodations, travel, and discussions, please join the erutufon forum (there is no cost to join the forum).

Venue: Niu Espai Artistic Contemporani
Cost: € 80 (includes workshops, concerts and 2 lunches)

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ULAMIZER II : Cellular Automata Music Module

Since the early experiments by contemporary composers such as Iannis Xenakis, interest in the use of Cellular Automata in music has only increased. ULAMIZER II is the second prototype of a Cellular Automata (CA) music module, designed to be an independent part-time project of the Noyzelab studio environment for both analogue modular and MIDI synthesizers. It is designed from a musicians perspective on CA, using fundamentally new techniques resulting from Noyzelab's many years of research in this field.

Complex systems such as CA produce a myriad of pattern from rule-based interactions of simple cells. CA are capable of producing more patterns than can possibly be observed by a single human in one lifetime. CA have a long distinguished history in computer science, from its foundation to their present day influence in the field of Artificial Life and numerous other disciplines (genetics, digital biology, digital physics, virology, self organising systems).

[Read more - via noyzelab.com]

Herbert Brün

Herbert Brün began his work as an electronic music composer in the late 1950s, in Paris, at the WDR (Cologne) and at the Siemens studio (Munich). He continued his work in the electronic studio at the faculty of the University of Illinois and began research on composition with computers, which resulted in pieces for tape and instruments, tape alone, and graphics (some to be performed by interpreters). In the late 1960s, Brün created his own programs in FORTRAN. Brün took a new direction in 1972, leading to his 'Sawdust' compositions. The goal was to create sounds that were unfamiliar and new.
He was a pioneer in the development of computer music, recognized as a thinker who focused on musical process, creativity, language and thought, performance and everyday life. His concerns included the social functions of composer and listener, communication, originality, and the human implications of various compositional processes. You can find Brün's important lectures and articles (with excerpts from his book 'When Music Resists Meaning') here:

[Herbert Brün - Interviews, Articles, Public Talks, and Skits]

"It is one thing to search for events that will produce the sound one wants, and quite another to discover the sound of the events one wants. In the first case the wanted sound renders desirable the necessary events; in the second the wanted events are the standard for the desirability of the resulting sound. These are not only two different approaches to the composition of music, but also two different political attitudes."

SAWDUST is the fourth in a series of four CDs containing the complete works of Herbert Brün. This CD contains Brün's music with sounds generated largely by his computer program 'Sawdust', which he wrote in the 1970s.

"The computer program which I called SAWDUST allows me to work with the smallest parts of waveforms, to link them and to mingle or merge them with one another. Once composed, the links and mixtures are treated, by repetition, as periods, or by various degrees of continuous change, as passing moments of orientation in a process of transformations."

[SAWDUST samples - via emfmedia.org]