k y m a • t w e a k y — the kyma collective

%META:TOPICINFO{author="JeanLewis" date="1193412600" format="1.0" version="1.1"}% %META:TOPICPARENT{name="TWikiUsers"}%

• Name: David McClain
• Affiliation: Self
• URL: http://www.refined-audiometrics.com
• Country: USA
• Comment: DSP Forever!
• SuperNova! (10 arcsec SW of Galaxy Center):
  

Personal Preferences (details in TWikiVariables)

• Optionally write protect your home page: (set it to your WikiName)
  • Set ALLOWTOPICCHANGE = DavidMcClain
• This says it all!:
  

• Bio: David McClain worked for the past 20 years as a Senior Scientist for the Space Defense industry in Tucson, Arizona, teaching computers to "see in the dark." He has taken the knowledge gained from that journey into new realms where he now works as a Senior Corporate Scientist for Avisere, Inc., a company specializing in remote sensing and recognition of human gestures and gaits, with offices around the globe from Stockholm to Tucson and to Calcutta. All of this work uses massive amounts of signal processing, and so choosing Kyma as a favorite toy was a natural!

He studied music as a youngster playing piano, woodwinds, and violin. However, the siren song of science caught his ear and he, perhaps wisely, decided to pursue physics as a career (actually astronomy, the other non-paying profession, but having had lots of computer experience, he can now afford a Kyma system!).

However, music is still a burning passion and especially electronic instruments capable of producing unnatural sounds.

David first started using synthesizers in the early 1980s at the same time as getting diverted to software development in Forth, Smalltalk, Lisp, and ML. He worked with Lenra Studios, where they made one of the first, albeit small, attempts to completely automate the soundtrack production for documentary films. DSP knowledge was later obtained in a big way while working for the Intelligence Services, specializing in geolocation by means of radio signal correlation, and untangling Faraday rotation effects of Earth's ionosphere. There David worked mostly at 10 MHz sample rates, so the 44.1 KHz in the studio was a breeze!

"A physicist, astronomer, compiler writer, mathematician, and amateur musician describes me best," says David. "My latest language system, called NML, is useful for image processing and ad-hoc numeric modeling, but it also includes some CSound-like capabilities." Free source-included copies for the mathematically inclined can be had from http://dmcclain1.home.mindspring.com/ %META:FILEATTACHMENT{name="m51sn.gif" attr="" comment="SuperNova! (10 arcsec SW of Galaxy Center)" date="1065604595" path="D:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\My Pictures\m51sn.gif" size="19005" user="DavidMcClain" version="1.1"}% %META:FILEATTACHMENT{name="EarSpring.jpg" attr="h" comment="This says it all!" date="1077750447" path="C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\EarSpring.jpg" size="14116" user="DavidMcClain" version="1.1"}%