The Kyma Language for Sound Design, Version 4.5

These sections tend to be graphical summaries, tables, and extremely concise descriptions, which is exactly
what you want out of a reference, though they don’t necessarily make for the most entertaining
straight-through reading. (However, if you do read through these sections, your reward is that you will
be a POWER USER, and we may have a job for you on our support staff. So if you sit down and read
through the entire book, let us know!)
Kyma Users’ Group
When you do have questions about Kyma, don’t overlook one of the best resources of all: the collective
experience and intelligence of your fellow Kyma-ites. When you write a note to
kyma@SymbolicSound.com, you can access the collective knowledge of not only the entire Symbolic
Sound staff, but an international network of Kyma users who have been using Kyma to make music and
sounds since 1990 (even earlier, if you include the developers).
Teaching Kyma to Others
If you are using Kyma in a one-semester beginning course in sound synthesis algorithms or electroacoustic
music, you could use the tutorials as part of the homework assignments (about two per week, in
whatever ordering that makes sense with your lecture topics).
If it is an advanced course in which Kyma is to be used as the language, you could spend the first two to
four weeks of class lecturing on the material in the overview and assign one tutorial per day for the students
to complete during studio or lab time. After this intensive introduction to Kyma, the rest of the
semester could be devoted to higher-level topics and Kyma could be used for in-class demonstrations,
projects, labs, and assignments.
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