Kyma

Sound design language treating every level of a composition, from single timbre to whole piece, as a composable object.

Type: Software
Creators: Carla Scaletti, Symbolic Sound
Subjects: Computation Sound

First written by Carla Scaletti in 1986 in Smalltalk, Kyma treats everything in a piece — from a single sound’s internal structure to the composition as a whole — as a “Sound Object,” with no fixed distinction between instrument and score, run on Symbolic Sound’s dedicated digital signal processing hardware.