Kyma was created by C. Scaletti as part of her Masters degree work
at the University of Illinois. At OOPSLA 88 in San Diego she
demonstrated the Kyma system (which at that time had a big custom
DSP called Platypus that did the number crunching). As I recall,
it was an iconic workbench for manipulating sound. She gave a most
impressive performance piece on the exhibit floor that really showed
what Kyma could do. Kyma does music, but oh so much more. It
is really more of a comprehensive sound field manipulator.

The paper she presented was titled, "An Interactive Environment
for Object-oriented Music Composition and Sound Synthesis."
It was demonstrated using ParcPlace Smalltalk with a Macintosh client.

FWIW,
John

Helge Horch wrote:

> At 13:14 22.11.99 +1300, Stewart MacLean wrote:
> >Kyma? That sounds really interesting - what dialect does it run under and
> >where can one obtain some more information about it?
>
> There was a paper in the Computer Music Journal, Vol. 13, #2 (Summer 1989)
> about Kyma. That's also published as a chapter (pp. 119-140) in
>
> Pope, Stephen T. (ed.): The Well-Tempered Object: Musical Applications of
> Object-Oriented Software Technology.
> [MIT Press 1991, ISBN 0-262-16126-5]
>
> A *very* interesting and informative collection for anyone interested in
> music and OOP. There's also a chapter about MODE, Stephen's precursor to
> SIREN.
>
> (No affiliation etc., just a very happy book owner.)
>
> Judging from the pictures, the dialect might have been Smalltalk-80
> (ObjectWorks?), on the Macintosh platform.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Helge