Symbolic Sound @SymbolicSound
Creators of the Kyma/Pacamara sound design environment symbolicsound.com Joined April 2009-
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The Science is Sound! From acoustic analogs of electron entanglement to using Chladni plates to position heart cells & more, check out the July @shaastramag cover story by @RoyguptaP on the unexpected ways sound is being used to probe nature. shaastramag.iitm.ac.in/lead-story/sci…
SonicBoom autonomous robot uses sound to sense objects in visually cluttered environments. Small differences in signal intensity & phase across an array of contact mics localize the sound source & thus the point of contact with accuracy of ~0.4 to 2 cm spectrum.ieee.org/farm-robots-so…
Can the sound of laughter promote optimistic behavior? Study shows that bonobos approach ambiguous stimuli to search for rewards more often after hearing laughter. nature.com/articles/s4159…
Concert for pipe organ & live Kyma electronics: 5 June 6:30 pm St Paul's Cathedral London. While performing the pipe organ, Franz controls Kyma processing with an EEG scanner & a MIDI glove! stpauls.co.uk/whats-on/celeb…
Paper describes how, 0.3 s after hearing a sound, the brain briefly represents pitch in a helix-like structure! (consistent with octave equivalence?) jneurosci.org/content/45/8/e…
Paper describes how, 0.3 s after hearing a sound, the brain briefly represents pitch in a helix-like structure! (consistent with octave equivalence?) jneurosci.org/content/45/8/e…
Kyma 7.44 is HERE! 🚀 New synthesis/processing Sound objects, !SongPosition from MIDI, new Smalltalk messages, roll the dice on a single component of VCS, selectable MPE mode, Community Library access & tons of UI/workflow improvements. #Kyma #SoundDesign #MusicTech
Prosody — pitch contour, stress, rhythm & loudness of speech — found to have its own vocabulary, semantics & simple syntax. Study finds Intonation Units (IUs) —which when stripped of text consist of a pitch contour — as an element of a prosodic vocabulary doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2…
Just heard the closest lightning strike I’ve ever witnessed (no delay between the flash & the sound. Here’s a video of Symbolic Sound offices shortly afterward
What’s Behind the ‘Pop and Slosh’ When Opening a Swing-Top Bottle of Beer? Using high-speed video+ audio recordings plus computational fluid dynamics simulations, researchers say the sound is explained by a sudden expansion of CO2 + a drop in temp to -50C publishing.aip.org/publications/l…
Audible enclaves: Delivering audio to a targeted listener located at the intersection of 2 nonlinear ultrasonic beams without disturbing others nearby pnas.org/doi/abs/10.107…
In memory of Kaija Saariaho, the Sons of Chipotle (Anssi Karttunen + John Paul Jones) are performing w/ piano, cello, various controllers & live Kyma processing this Saturday 15 March 2025 @ the Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam—part of the first Saariaho Festival news.symbolicsound.com/2025/02/sons-o…
Study of human hand claps finds Helmholtz resonators to be a good model for the dominant sound generation mechanism & for physically separating factors contributing to different aspects of the sound. doi.org/10.1103/PhysRe…
Check out Cork by Phil Maguire & Anne La Berge (flutes, Kyma System, laptops & synthesizer), mastered by Jim O'Rourke. On Mar 7, Bandcamp waives their revenue share & passes the funds directly to artists maguirelaberge.bandcamp.com/album/cork
Hearing is triggered by a molecular spring: Researchers at Göttingen’s Max Planck Institute identify an elastically suspended molecular spring that opens an ion channel in the human ear mpinat.mpg.de/4945389/pr_2503
Franz Danksagmüller: live Ciné-concert: Kyma electronics & 1937 Wurlitzer organ to accompany Fritz Lang’s Metropolis 7 March at 8 pm in Geneva at Collége Claparède. Masterclass on 6 March 2 pm. news.symbolicsound.com/2025/02/metrop…
A rapid, inexpensive method using sound (24 kHz/400W) to change the surface of glass to be either hydrophobic or charged. 'Sonochemical modification' has applications in filtration systems & biofuel cells advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ad…
Sound design insights from an interview with @lowellpickett, Senior Audio Engineer at @zoox: "A well-considered audio experience improves workplaces and recreational spaces alike." Full interview here: news.symbolicsound.com
Aminoglycosides (AGs) antibiotics are ototoxic, causing irreversible hearing loss in millions annually. By inhibiting GABARAP expression in inner ear hair cells, researchers successfully prevented AG-induced hair cell death & subsequent hearing loss pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…
U of Chicago researchers demonstrate multi-phonon entanglement between two physically separated acoustic wave resonators. [Reminds me of Huygens' "odd kind of sympathy"?] nature.com/articles/s4146…
A spherical 10-100 µm microrobot converts acoustic energy into thrust for velocities of 300 body lengths per second. Resonance of a trapped bubble disrupts acoustic streaming symmetry for multiple frequency-dependent boundary-free 3D locomotion modes doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2…

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