Publications

"Metaphor in Mathematics and Sound" Matematica e Cultura 2006, Michele Emmer, ed., Springer Verlag (in press).

Kyma X Revealed!,Symbolic Sound Corporation 2004.

The Kyma Sound Design Language 4.5, C. Scaletti and K. Hebel. Symbolic Sound Corporation, Champaign, 1997.

 “Reflections on the 20th Anniversary of CMJ,” Computer Music Journal , v20, n3, pp. 31-35, 1996.

 “A Framework for the Design, Development, and Delivery of Real-time Software-based Sound Synthesis and Processing Algorithms,” Proceedings of the 1994  Audio Engineering Society  97th Convention , San Francisco, 1994.

“The Software Architecture of the Kyma System,” Proceedings of the 1993 International Computer Music Conference , Tokyo, 1993. “Sound Synthesis Methods for Auditory Data Representation,” Proceedings of the First International Con­ference on Audio Display, Santa Fe Institute, October 1992. “Polymorphic Transformations in Kyma,” Proceedings of the 1992 International Computer Music Con­ference, San Jose, October 1992. “Lightweight Classes Without Programming,” Proceedings of the 1991 International Computer Music Conference, Montreal, Canada, October 1991. “Using Sound to Extract Meaning from Complex Data,” Extracting Meaning From Complex Data: Pro­cessing, Display, Interaction II Volume 1459, Edward J. Farell Chair/Editor, SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering, San Jose, February 1991. “An Object-based Representation for Musical Signals,” a chapter in the book Representations of Musical Signals, Giovanni De Poli, Curtis Roads and Aldo Picialli, editors, MIT Press, pp. 371-389, 1991. A chapter in the book The Well-tempered Object: Musical Applications of Object-oriented Programming, Stephen Pope, editor, MIT Press, pp. 119-140, 1991. “Kyma: an interactive graphic environment for object-oriented music composition and real-time soft­ware sound synthesis written in Smalltalk-80,” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Com­puter Science Department technical report, 1989. “The Kyma/Platypus Computer Music Workstation,” Computer Music Journal, v13, n2, pp. 23-38, 1989. “Composing Sound Objects in Kyma,” Perspectives of New Music, v27, n1, pp. 42-69, 1989. “An Interactive Graphic Environment for Object-oriented Music Composition and Sound Synthesis,” Pro­ceedings of the ACM Conference on Object-oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applica­tions, pp. 222-233, 1988. “Kyma: an Object-oriented Language for Music Composition,” Proceedings of the 1987 International Computer Music Conference, pp. 49-56, 1987. “The CERL Music Project at the University of Illinois,” Computer Music Journal , v9, n1, pp. 45-58, 1985. References in other publications

 “Listen Closely: Thanks to special effects, movies have been given a whole new look.  Get ready for a whole new Sound” by Eben Shapiro.  The Wall Street Journal Thursday March 10. 1998, pg C8

Joel Chadabe Electric Sound: The Past and Promise of Electronic Music.1997 Prentice Hall. pp 265-267, 337 “Sound FX: When Hollywood Needed to Create the Perfect-Sounding Movie Villain, It Turned to Kurt and Carla”. Paul Wood, Champaign-Urbana News Gazette. Thursday, August 3, 1995, page C1. Borchert, Gavin. “American Women in Electronic Music, 1984-94” Contemporary Music Review, 1997, Vol. 16, Parts 1-2, pp. 89-97. 1997, OPA. Amsterdam Audible Traces, In the forum Composing Women, Elaine Barkin & Lydia Hamessley editors. Zürich Switzerland. Forthcoming. Sherman B, & A. Craig. Working with Virtual Reality. Morgan Kaufman. Forthcoming.

 “Kyma Sound Design Workstation” Review by Craig Anderton.  EQ October 1998.

“Symbolic Sound Kyma” review by. Joel Chadabe. Keyboard July 1998. Yoichi Nagashima. Computer& Music. BIT Japan. Kyoritsu Shuppan Co. Ltd. pp 56-68 “1998 Editors' Choice Awards: The 26 Coolest Products of the Year”. Electronic Musician. January, 1998. “Symbolic Sound Kyma 4.5 The world's finest sound-design tool”. Dennis Miller, Electronic Musician . January 1998. “Kyma: The Ultimate Processor”. Dennis Miller, Radio World. August 20, 1997. “Future Perfect: Run DSP”, Dan Sicko. URB: Future Music Culture V7 N55 1997. “Making Waves: Sound Synthesis on a Computer”. Dennis Miller, Sound on Sound. May 1997. “Modularer Cyberspace: Portrat Symbolic Sound Kyma 4.1” Thomas Alker, KEYS January, 1997. "The 1996 Anderton Awards--Extended Dance Remix Version”--Craig Anderton, Pro Sound News December 1996. "Kyma Sound Design Workstation: A synthesizer, sampler, digital sound processor, digital recorder//controller, sound analysis tool, and a re-synthesizer all in one box? Kyma, from Symbolic Sound, can be any or all of these" Mike Steer, Audio Media June 1996. “Symbolic Sound Kyma System 4.0: A synthesis workstation with unlimited sound potential," Dennis Miller, Electronic Musician. July 1995. Pope, S.T. Music "Composition and Editing by Computer", In Music Processing., ed. Goffredo Haus. Madison: A-R Editions, Inc., 1993. Tarabella, L. Informatica e Musica. Milano: Jackson. 1992: 153-158. “International Computer Music Conference: Platypus, Granules, Kyma, Daton, & the DSP56001 in Your Future” by Bob Moog, Keyboard. December 1987.