The annual Kyma International Sound Symposium includes papers, workshops, demos, and live performances presented by Kyma practitioners along with master classes presented by the creators of Kyma, all tied together by a unifying theme. You are invited to learn, to share, to meet, and to enjoy!
Kyma experts from China, Germany, Greece, South Korea, UK, and the USA will be in Bozeman to share their expertise in workshops, demonstrations, talks, and live performances.
The following is the schedule of the presentations and performances; the program and performance notes and abstracts are available separately.
Sunday, 9 August 2015
- 12:00 Registration, Visual Communications Building Lobby
- 13:00 Master class for Kyma 7 practitioners — Carla Scaletti, 215 Cheever Hall
- 15:00 Kyma Open Lab, VCB Studio B
- 16:30 Break, VCB Lobby
- 17:00 Concert, Black Box Theatre
- 19:00 Dinner together (no host), The Story Mansion
The Road to Bozeman — Michael Wittgraf & Catherine Mullen. Michael Wittgraf, Kyma; SoundProof; Catherine Mullen, video
Tiger and Dragon — Simon Hutchinson. Simon Hutchinson, Kyma; Jennifer Gookin Cavanaugh, oboe
LINKS — Silvia Matheus. Silvia Matheus, Kyma; Stephen Ruppenthal, trumpet
Textures — Brian Belet & Madison McClintock. Brian Belet, Kyma; SoundProof; Madison McClintock, video
How The “Glitch” Stole The Party — İlker Işıkyakar. İlker Işıkyakar, video & Kyma
Monday, 10 August 2015
- 10:00 Keynote, 215 Cheever Hall
- 11:00 Break
- 11:30 Morning Session, 215 Cheever Hall
- 12:30 Lunch together, Alumni Room, Strand Union Building
- 14:00 Afternoon Session I, 215 Cheever Hall
- 15:00 Break
- 15:30 Afternoon Session II, 215 Cheever Hall
- 16:30 Break, VCB Lobby
- 17:00 Concert, Black Box Theatre
- 19:00 Dinner together (no host), The Story Mansion
Picturing Sound (and First Contact) — Carla Scaletti
Kyma: Creative environment for musical interface design — Kiyoung Lee
To Heaven — Mei-ling Lee
Rhetorical figures, sonifications and elements of Programmusik in live sound tracks for silent movies — Franz Danksagmüller
NOPera and Tiger & Dragon: Thoughts on composing for Kyma and traditional instruments — Simon Hutchinson
What do you MEAN? A journey in visual and auditory symbolism — İlker Işıkyakar & E. Zoe Schutzman
#Carbonfeed (45.676998, -111.042934) — Jon Bellona. Jon Bellona, Kyma; SoundProof
Natural Perturbations — John Mantegna & Ingrid Pfau. John Mantegna, brainwaves, guitar & Kyma; Ingrid Pfau, video
Syzygy: Life in a Healthy Constellation — Kiyoung Lee & Kathy Kasic. Kiyoung Lee, Kyma; Ha-Young Park, piano; Kathy Kasic, video
The secret life of Burton: Shadows — Marinos Giannoukakis. Marinos Giannoukakis, Kyma
Slow Glass Rush — Mark Phillips & Theo Lipfert. Mark Phillips, Kyma; SoundProof; Theo Lipfert, video
Tuesday, 11 August 2015
- 10:00 Keynote, 215 Cheever Hall
- 11:00 Break
- 11:30 Morning Session, 215 Cheever Hall
- 12:30 Lunch together, Alumni Room, Strand Union Building
- 14:00 Afternoon Session I, VCB Studio B
- 15:00 Break
- 15:30 Afternoon Session II, 215 Cheever Hall
- 16:30 Break, VCB Lobby
- 17:00 Concert, Black Box Theatre
- 19:00 Dinner together (no host), The Story Mansion
Sonographic Interpretation — Greg Hunter
Ideas and techniques behind Carbonfeed, an interactive Internet composition — Jon Bellona
Controlled Feedback — Michael Wittgraf
Kyma Open Lab — Carla Scaletti, Kurt Hebel & others
Still Harmless [BASS]ically, a roving test platform for Kyma development, 1996-2015 — Brian Belet
Successful (and not so successful) live performance paradigms using Kyma with the ensemble SoundProof — SoundProof
Frontier — Paul Turowski. Paul Turowski, Kyma & game software; SoundProof
Drop a Quark… — Rich O’Donnell. Rich O’Donnell, percussion & Kyma; Anna Lum, poet
Returning to Unknown Worlds — Michael Monhart & Scott Miller & Scott Wiessinger. Scott Miller, Kyma; Michael Monhart, saxophone; Scott Wiessinger, video
Pairs — Joel Chadabe & Cindy Stillwell. Joel Chadabe, Franz Danksagmüller, Scott Miller, Kyma; SoundProof; Cindy Stillwell, video
AQULAQUTAQU — Madison Heying & Kristin Erickson in collaboration with Matthew Galvin & David Kant. Madison Heying and Kristin Erickson, voice & Kyma; Matthew Galvin, voice & video; David Kant, voice
Wednesday, 12 August 2015
- 10:00 Keynote, 215 Cheever Hall
- 11:00 Break
- 11:30 Morning Session, 215 Cheever Hall
- 12:30 Lunch together, Alumni Room, Strand Union Building
- 14:00 Afternoon Session I, 215 Cheever Hall
- 15:00 Break
- 15:30 Afternoon Session II, 215 Cheever Hall
- 16:30 Break, VCB Lobby
- 17:00 Concert, Black Box Theatre
- 19:00 Dinner together (no host), MSU Duck Pond
A theory of electronic instruments — Joel Chadabe
Cybernetic Traces: Video Games as Dynamic Musical Scores — Paul Turowski
The Relationship between Cinematic Design and Performative Actions in Interactive Music Performance — Chi Wang
The Cinematics of Musical Performance with Data-driven Instruments — Jeffrey Stolet
The Orrery beneath Returning to Unknown Worlds — Scott Miller
Generative algorithms in AQULAQUTAQU — Madison Heying & Kristin Erickson
Voyage to the other shore — Churan Feng. Churan Feng, Kyma
Mind Meld — Samuel Pellman. Samuel Pellman, Kyma; Ella Gant, video artist
Cut-Up — Glen Hall & Katie Mullen. Glen Hall, saxophone, flute, Kyma; Catherine Mullen, video
Decay — Franz Danksagmüller & Jim Joyce. Franz Danksagmüller, Kyma; Pat Strange, violin; Rich O’Donnell, percussion; Jim Brashear, voice; Jim Joyce, video
Bugger — Jim Brashear. Jim Brashear, voice & Kyma
The SoundProof Ensemble
Brian Belet, viola, bass, & Kyma processing
Stephen Ruppenthal, trumpet, flugelhorn, text-sound composer
Pat Strange, violin
Getting around…
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Program as of 5 August 2015 and is subject to change. Please check back or visit our Facebook page for news and announcements.