This is an extended piece exclusively created with the Tau Kalimba sound in Kyma, performed on the Continuum Fingerboard.
The Sampled Kalimba
The Kalimba Kyma sound is based on two original Kalimba samples, both the same pitch, one softer/duller and the other brighter/louder. The louder sample has some of the nasty bite that occurs when a Kalimba is stuck hard. The TAU routine in Kyma smoothly interpolates between the two analyzed sample. Each sample can have a formant shift applied, which I've mapped to pitch shifts of the sample. It's quite amazing to me how far that single pitch can be stretched in the Kyma TAU player and still sound viable. As well the formant shift (which is labelled Tone in the Kyma sound) makes for a nice variance in Kalimba timbres within the same pitch.
The original Kalimba that was sampled was a Latin Percussion model, quite gentrified compared to the authentic African varieties.
