Symbolic Sound Kyma: Community KymaWorkshops

Austria

Ton aus Strom: An intensive three-day apprenticeship with Viennese composer Bruno Liberda. You leave the workshop carrying an iPod recording of your own composition executed in Kyma!

Ton Salon: An evening of wine, cheese, and music composition. Each month, Viennese composer Bruno Liberda discusses a different aspect of music composition in an informal soirée at his studio. If you're planning to be in Vienna this summer or fall, contact him for details on the next salon evening!

France

CCMIX Main Course: Eight months at Centre de Création Musicale Iannis Xenakis in Paris, lectures by Gerard Pape, Bill Sethares, Trevor Wishart, Sinan Bokesoy, Julien Bilodeau, Julio Estrada, Agostino Di Scipio, Carla Scaletti, Jean-Claude Risset, Yiorgos Vassilandonakis, Curtis Roads, and others. Work in a studio equipped with a fully-loaded Kyma System.

CCMIX Summer Course: This summer, spend a month at Centre de Création Musicale Iannis Xenakis in Paris studying with Randall Neal, Ana Paula Portilla, Agostino di Scipio, Gerard Pape, Eduardo Miranda, Trevor Wishart, Sharon Kanach and others. Work in a studio equipped with a fully-loaded Kyma System.

Residencies at CCMIX: The CCMIX offers compositional residencies in our studios to experienced composers who propose projects that are realizable with the tools that we have available. For example, the UPIC, which was the initial reason for the existence of our center, is still available but other tools such as KYMA or Max MSP are equally available. Collaboration between the composer and the musical assistant permits the development of tools that are programmed to respond to the individual needs of each artist. Each artist who wishes to have a residency at CCMIX is asked to send a dossier that includes an application form (downloadable) as well as a biography / resume accompanied by representative recordings and scores.

Italy

Matteo Milani and Federico Placidi: Theorisation and Practice Sessions. Introducing Kyma beginners to a wide variety of creative sound transformation techniques. The educational goal is to extend programming skills and knowledge of Kyma in order to design sound for picture, installation, and sound art. Participants will learn how to conceptualise, plan and build customised Sounds suitable also as computer music composition or electroacoustic performance tools, using advanced signal processing and MIDI devices. No prior experience with Kyma or computer programming is required, though existing computer and digital media production skills are highly recommended. Matteo and Federico can be reached at contact_at_usoproject.com.

UK (and international)

Pete Johnston is available for private Kyma coaching, training for small groups, and consulting on specific projects. On-site training/consulting in the UK and international teleconferencing (AIM/iChat, telephone, email) are both available.

USA

Norbert Oldani: Offers private lessons or personal coaching. Based in Utica New York but can travel to your location(if expenses are paid). His special interests are composition, fractals, microtonal tunings. Oldani holds a Master's Degree in mathematics from University of Detroit and degrees in music from Columbia University and SUNY Buffalo. He was visiting composer at Colgate University 1979-1981 and has composed electronic music for industrial films. Contact

Otto Laske: Private lessons, personal coaching, or workshops on creativity. Can travel to your location (if expenses are paid) or consult via telephone and email in English, German, and French. Interested in CREATIVITY, in contrast to skill and competence, Laske has formulated a theory of music around notions of the compositional process, rather than "pieces" as external artifacts. Otto invites artist colleagues of any age who want to benefit from his artistic experience in music and poetry, and his expertise in algorithmic composition working with pre-computed scores. In his coaching, he emphasizes what an artist is developmentally ready for, and encourages a higher level of self-awareness of the artist's own process. He writes, "As I know from personal experience of being a 'pioneer,' it is hard always to take responsibility for the quality of one's life, there being so many hindrances, including internal ones (e.g., obsession with work)."