Conspirator
Carla Scaletti
Composer and the inventor of Kyma. I beta-tested it, and my name is on the Kyma X startup screen.
Carla Scaletti (born 1956, Ithaca, New York) is an American composer, harpist and music technologist, the inventor of the Kyma sound design language, first outlined in 1986, and co-founder with Kurt Hebel of Symbolic Sound Corporation, spun out of the CERL Sound Group at the University of Illinois in 1989. She holds a DMA in composition from Illinois and received the SEAMUS Award in 2017; her works include Trinity (1989), QUANTUM (2013) and misfold (2023).
I am glad to get this shout out from SSC because Kyma was so central to the sound and feel of The Book of Sarth, especially Primary Deforestation [vocal processing] and If I Can [pulse code cello played on continuum fingerboard].
Sarth Calhoun, sarth.net, November 30, 2012
Kyma
I beta-tested Kyma and am credited on the Kyma X startup screen. Kyma is under Lucibel Crater, Metal Machine Trio, the 2011 Reed tour, Lulu, Book of Sarth and “Junior Dad,” and Symbolic Sound’s blog wrote about that work five times between April 2011 and November 2012, including a review of the Book. I have used Kyma to develop a kind of synthesis I call SeqOSC, a relative of AM synthesis derived from exploring the analogies between rhythm and timbre.
The creditSarth Calhoun beta-tested Kyma, made by Carla Scaletti and Kurt Hebel’s Symbolic Sound Corporation, and is credited on the Kyma X startup screen.
My thoughts
The profile is from public sources, linked where they appear. What we made is the record on this site and the sources cited above.