Escape to a world of pure sound design, music, & ideas!

Kyma International Sound Symposium (KISS2011): 15-18 September 2011 in Porto Portugal

Treat yourself to an inspiring four days of sound design, ideas, discussions, and music! Return home reinvigorated, with a head full of new ideas and a contact list full of new colleagues and friends!

KISS2011 offers a wide range of opportunities for you to increase your Kyma mastery: from introductory master classes for novices to hands-on question-and-answer sessions with an international panel of experts, to discussions with colleagues over lunch or espresso. Be among the first to see a sneak preview of the new features coming soon to Kyma! Influence future developments by speaking directly with the Kyma creators.

Join Symbolic Sound and your fellow Kyma practitioners in Porto Portugal, 15-18 September for four intensive days of master classes, workshops, technical presentations, live performances, films, discussions, and brain-stimulating fun.

See the updated schedule of speakers, classes & performances here!

Space is limited, so please register soon to reserve your spot!

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To cite just a few highlights:

• Featuring the EU premiere of Minibus Pimps, the innovative electronic collaboration of John Paul Jones and Helge Sten
• Laura Tedeschini-Lalli, mathematician and co-editor of a new book on the Sonic Spaces of Music (Spazi sonori della musica) will discuss the public space defining and defined by the sounds of the Trevi Fountain in Rome;
• Kyma practitioners will have opportunities to attend master classes, participate in interactive workshops and consulting sessions, and most importantly, to make connections with and to learn from fellow Kyma practitioners;
• Jeffrey Stolet, author of a new text for teaching and learning Kyma (published in both English and Chinese) will describe his search for the SumOfSines disco club;
• Plus there will be an abundance of technical talks on a wide range of topics including how to use the spectrum of a sound as a sequencer; techniques for data sonification; using sound to help people confront pain; how to create a dynamic sonic ecology; using context-free-grammars to simultaneously generate dance movements and trajectories through abstract timbre space; techniques for spectral modification & morphing; and more.

Evening performances are to include a screening of the very first science fiction film accompanied by a live-improvised electronic sound track generated by Kyma reconstructions of Luigi Russolo's intonorumori instruments; and a live-generated audio/video film about Galileo that uses Kyma to control VJ software via Open Sound Control (OSC). Other live musical performances will create sound spaces controlled by (among other things) dancers, RFID cards held by the audience, iPads, Wacom tablets, video position trackers, Continuum fingerboards, SoftStep pedal-boards, OSC, acoustic instruments, the acoustics of the room itself, and even a sensor-enhanced Teddy Bear!

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