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Generative Music System - Mac & PC

Noatikl replaces the (retired) SSEYO Koan generative music system. Noatikl's a key member in Intermorphic's family of generative tools, creativity tools for generating ideas.

The Intermorphic founders started building the Koan music system back back in 1990, way before the genre was even called Generative Music. That came about when Brian Eno saw Koan in 1995 and he coined the term "Generative Music" prior to the release of "Generative Music 1" with SSEYO Koan software.

Now that Koan's gone, the Intermorphic founders have created Noatikl to more than better it. When it comes to generative music systems, Noatikl's now "the one to beat".

Past Koan users will find Noatikl similar to Koan in many ways & there's a way it can play content created with Koan tools, too. So for Koan users the 'format' lives on in .noatikl files instead. Noatikl is the future for Koan.

What's new? Powerful scripting, VST/AU plugins, ongoing development and an active user base! And, more is coming in Noatikl 2, due Q1 2010.

Generative Music & Loop Mixing System - Mobile, PC/Mac, Web, Tweets

Mixtikl is a key member in Intermorphic's family of generative tools, creativity tools for generating ideas. Why listen to generative music when you can easily make your own?

Mixtikl is the "mothership" for Intermorphic's next generation of generative (music) tools and apps for mobile (iPhone/iPod touch, Windows Mobile Pocket PC, Smartphone, Windows PC, Mac OS X, Web browsers, VST plugins for desktop sequencers) and replaces the (retired) SSEYO miniMIXA mobile music mixer.

Mixtikl is a powerful, unique, 12 track 'live' generative music & loop mixer. Create mixes for performance, web pages, emails and tweets.

Mix/mash audio, ogg, MIDI & generative music. Edit synth sounds and FX, too. Have fun making it up as you go...

VST & AU Sequencer plugins let you create on mobile & finish on Mac / PC, & vice-versa.

SSEYO (1990 - 2007) » Intermorphic (2007 to date)

SSEYO (www.sseyo.com) was founded in 1990 by Pete and Tim Cole; namely, us, the founders of Intermorphic. SSEYO's positioning was "Mobile Music Making".

SSEYO was acquired by Tao Group in 2002, which went bust in 2007. So, in 2007 we co-founded Intermorphic to continue the life's work we started at SSEYO, in the areas of cross-platform generative music tools and generative music mixing tools [formerly miniMIXA].

We finally got our 'back catalogue' back in 2008 when Intermorphic acquired the rights to the SSEYO.com domain, SSEYO trademarks and all the SSEYO, Koan, miniMIXA and iSS related IP. Result!

Generative Music - with SSEYO Koan

Development on SSEYO Koan products [1990 - 2002] (such Koan Pro, Koan X and the Koan Plugin) stopped after SSEYO was acquired by Tao Group in 2002. Thanks to Intermorphic, however, Koan still has a future - albeit with a new name- as Koan is replaced by Intermorphic's totally new, clean-roomed developed successor: Noatikl for Windows, Mac (& Mobile via Mixtikl).

In fact, Noatikl provides Koan users a bridge to an exciting future: a new code base & tools that are being maintained, developed and extended to meet new challenges. For example, a runtime Noatikl generative music engine is an integral component of Mixtikl.

Intermorphic's Noatikl trans-generative music tool is THE long awaited and powerful replacement for the SSEYO Koan Generative Music System, as used by Brian Eno in his '96 "Generative Music 1" release).

Mobile Music Mixing & Making - with SSEYO miniMIXA

Mixtikl is the Intermorphic brand name for a mobile music making product that first started life as SSEYO miniMIXA, a product we built whilst at Tao, but that we have now ported and significantly extended. miniMIXA V1 was first released to the market in 2004, miniMIXA V2 in 2006 and miniMIXA V3 was due for release in 2007, but Tao Group folded before then.

Intermorphic's Mixtikl 2 12 track mobile music mixer for iPhone/iPod touch (soon!), Windows Mobile Smartphone, Pocket PC / PDA, and desktop (Windows and Mac) is an advanced, portable and fun generatrive music mixing application.

SSEYO website archive

When we have time we hope to put some of the SSEYO website back on line, but right now we are focused on the future, which is looking very exciting for our family of generative tools, which also includes the Liptikl lyric generator & cut-up word arranger!

If you want to go back in history right now, you can access the old SSEYO site at the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. The last effective date for the site was March 7 2007 (after which Tao Group cleansed it of all SSEYO information). When accessed from there the menuing no longer seems to work, and some versions now redirect you back to the intermorphic website (in which case try using sseyoindex.html after the SSEYO domain in the Wayback Machine, or sseyo.html).