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Here's a small taste of the kinds of sounds you can make with Kyma. Of course the real power of Kyma is in your own mind — Kyma just gives you the tools to realize the sounds you already imagine in your mind's ear (plus a few you haven't even dared to imagine yet!)

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ReBack: grain clouds, GA resynthesis, chopping, FilterBank?, and CloudBank? resysnthesis
Snailsbury Remix: Remix of a children's song by PDJ, includes morphing, vocoding, chopping, and resynthesis
Arabesque: QuickTime of Edmund Eagan playing an additive resynthesis instrument on the Continuum fingerboard made by Lippold Haken
Many Times Continuum (8.3 MB): QuickTime of Carla Scaletti playing a realization of Joel Chadabe's Many Times... at the City Gallery in Leicester 16 October 2002
ColdPlanet: granular synthesis
SampleCloud: granulating a harp loop and a vocal sample
Couscous: a mix of processed voice, chopped granular synthesis, and an electronic drum loop*

BassBits: a bass guitar loop is chopped up and rearranged by Kyma's SampleBits? module (here's the original*)
RandoMiniLoop: this module randomly changes the start and end loop points (the original was a bass drum hit*)
Deranger: vocal, drum, & saz* samples chopped to bits and rearranged in real time by the Kyma Deranger module

Multiwave: oscillator whose waveform and filter cutoff are being changed in real time
HarpAh: a MIDI keyboard-controlled additive resynthesis of a harp morphs into a voice singing 'ah'

BucketShoppe: a drum loop* filtered by a harmonic resonator that tracks the amplitude envelope of the drum
FilteredDrumChoppedVox: a drum loop filtered by an amplitude-tracking all-pass filter plus chopped rap sample*
Vocoder: live vocoder with changing noise content, input frequency, formant, and bandwidth

Morphs: woman to cat, baby to dog, dog to Harley, woman to little boy — all over a drum loop* background
HarpGuitarDog: a harp morphs into a guitar morphs into a dog bark
SingScratch: a scratch drum loop is crossed with a voice

InvertSpectrum: various frequency ranges of a harp sample are spectrally inverted (original harp is at the end)
BirdCymbal: different amplitude ranges of a drum loop* are clipped in the spectral domain (here's the original*)
ReZooma (5 MB): all sounds came from two short samples of Zooma** (chopped & spectrally transmogrified)

Examples of Kyma's new Aggregate Synthesis methods...

More sound examples from a review in Keyboard magazine...

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*Thanks to s p e c t r a l n o i s e and Sounds Good for some of the original samples on which these examples are based.

**Thanks to John Paul Jones for giving us permission to use samples from Zooma to make the ReZooma? example

REAL WORLD EXAMPLES

You may not realize it, but you've already been hearing Kyma on some of your favorite albums, concerts, films, television shows, computer games, websites, installations, and advertisements (do you have a favorite advertisement?). Here's a small sampling (no pun intended) of Kyma music & sounds that you can hear online (and here are even more albums and films where you can hear examples of Kyma):

Albums

Zooma John Paul Jones' solo album on DGM
Aliens On Line from The Away Team
Deovolente: In the Distance an album by Cliff White and Chris Chillier (See also their MP3.com page)
The Kids Are Alright by the Rip-Off Artist on the Sub Rosa/Quatermass label

Brain Salad Surgery by the Rip-Off Artist on the Hot Air label

Larva3 David Mooney and his Kyma-based implementation of the Rhythmicon

Naturalist, Schnittstelle, & DSP Holiday by Atom Heart on the Rather Interesting label

Sample Libraries

Amethyst•Dissolve by s p e c t r a l n o i s e

Radio

Radio advertisements with Kyma morphs (from The Tape Gallery in London)
Interlude from Manson Revisited radio play by Edgar Lipki, music by Joker Nies

Tracks

Pop, a track featuring Kyma vocal treatments by BT for NSYNC on the Celebrity album
QuickTime Movie Sound track by Danny Zelonky
I am the Cephalophage an all-Kyma track from Sarah Thompson's album Mage of Machines
Remote Viewing and Pyroclastic Flow, 2 tracks by Bill Whitehouse w/ granulated voices and time-stretched vocals
Aunt Helen's Bath a Kyma track by the Crimson Twins
Needle remix by Oivind Idso on Transmission0014 released on the Beta Bodega (USA) label

Concerts

Hyper Pipa Meets the Werewolf: Live concert by Yoichi Nagashima, Yasushi Yoshida, and Fumitaka Nakamura
Yasuski Yoshida Concert at IAMAS: 4 channel performance recorded using a Studer dummy head. Yasuski connected his guitar directly to the Capybara, and Kyma provided 4 channels of audio output to the main console. There were 4 B&B speakers (full range and woofer combo) set at the corners of the hall, and Yasuski played guitar in the center of the audience. Yasuski created a complex custom patch in Kyma to capture live audio and play it back as layers of loops, reversed loops, and stuttering granulations. He controlled when to capture and playback the various layers using Yamaha MFC-10 MIDI foot switches.

Computer Music

Music of David Ozab (8.2 MB) Future Music Oregon and COM
Music of Mark Phillips, composer & professor at Ohio University
Music of Agostino Di Scipio, composer & professor in L'Aquila
- Paesaggio Scalare N2 28 Set
- La Voix De Brussels
Music of Dennis H. Miller, composer & professor at Northeastern University in Boston

And more...