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Thursday, April 04, 2019

Softube Buchla 296e Demos by Todd Barton


Published on Apr 4, 2019 SoftubeStudios

✮ When looking for an expert in Buchla modules for modular synthesis, there's only one man you can really end up with: Todd Barton. In this series, Todd walks you through the ins and outs of our Buchla 296e module in ten short videos. ✮

Buchla 296e Demo w. Todd Barton pt. 1/10 – As a 16-band EQ – Softube
Buchla 296e Demo w. Todd Barton pt. 2/10 – All things envelope – Softube
Buchla 296e Demo w. Todd Barton pt. 3/10 – The attenuated outputs – Softube
Buchla 296e Demo w. Todd Barton pt. 4/10 – Envelope freeze mode – Softube
Buchla 296e Demo w. Todd Barton pt. 5/10 – Midi control – Softube
Buchla 296e Demo w. Todd Barton pt. 6/10 – The unattenuated outputs – Softube
Buchla 296e Demo w. Todd Barton pt. 7/10 – The kaleidoscopic range – Softube
Buchla 296e Demo w. Todd Barton pt. 8/10 – Physical modeling effects – Softube
Buchla 296e Demo w. Todd Barton pt. 9/10 – A Krell patch – Softube
Buchla 296e Demo w. Todd Barton pt. 10/10 – Presets – Softube

Friday, November 30, 2018

Todd Barton on BBC Sounds + Multum in Parvo Release


Excerpts of Todd Barton's performance at the Unsound Festival in Krakow is up on BBC Sounds.

"A rebroadcast of excerpts from my performance of Music and Poetry of the Kesh at the Unsound Festival in Krakow last month with a wonderful ensemble of Polish musicians. Here's the link which will be active for a month.

And the first excerpt on the broadcast is from my new solo Buchla Music Easel album, Multum in Parvo with cover art by Ursula Barton! [embed below]

Much more to come in 2019! Gigs in Belgium, NYC and Santa Barbara. New Album releases too.

Happy Holidays!
Best wishes,
Todd"




"If you’re anything like me, then one of your favourite albums of 2018 was Music and Poetry of The Kesh, released on the Freedom To Spend label. Recorded over two years in the mid-1980s, Music and Poetry of The Kesh in truth was never really designed as an ‘album’ as such. It was a cassette bundled with early editions of the legendary author Ursula K. Le Guin’s Always Coming Home novel.

The novel described the art, culture, language and ethnography of a fictional tribe of indigenous inhabitants of North California, 500 years from now. On the tape, Le Guin and her friend and collaborator, composer and sound artist Todd Barton, created a detailed, vivid musical identity for these people - the Kesh.

Listened to in 2018, the sounds of Music and Poetry of The Kesh feel simultaneously ancient and futuristic. Todd designed and built new instruments to realise the Kesh’s music, which were woven among synthesisers and field recordings from the Kesh’s native Napa Valley.

It’s a stunning, singular piece of work, but the story doesn’t end there. Anyone intrigued by Music and Poetry of the Kesh would be well advised to dig further into Todd Barton’s work, starting with Multum in Parvo - a brand new piece Todd composed using the Epoch Modular Benjolin and Buchla Music Easel.

“Don Buchla created a musical instrument that he said had no ‘preconceived ideas,’” Todd recently told the Listen to This website. “He wanted people to figure out how they wanted to interface with it. You see that with Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Alessandro Cortini—they’re bringing their own voice to the palette. For my part, I’m obsessed with sound, with the ‘Buchla Paradigm.’

“His approach to synthesis, which was so different from Moog on the East coast, is immediately evident to anyone who has ever touched a Buchla instrument. If you listen to a Buchla, it will start rewiring your synapses.”

Todd honed his craft composing for acoustic instruments - string quartets, small ensembles and orchestras. In the 1970s he was drawn to emergent synthesiser technologies because of their abilities to access tones ‘between’ the standard 12 notes of the Western musical scale, and to have the power to craft music out of glitches and unique sonic gestures that are unplayable on acoustic instruments.

Multum in Parvo is reflective of this approach - it has a definite and logical flow as a composition, but its content is abstract sound sculpted out of pure energy, something only analogue synthesis can offer.

Sometimes sparse, sometimes bristling and jumping with detail, Multum... provides a genuinely multidimensional experience. Listen to it in the dark on your best headphones, you experience your brain moving slowly through a black space where an orchestra of strange, electro-microorganisms seem to swarm, murmurate and disperse, adding their distinct flutters, whispers and calls to an immersive electronic symphony.

Like the classic Forbidden Planet soundtrack, which Todd was inspired by, or indeed Music and Poetry of the Kesh - Multum in Parvo seems to function as part of some unique sonic ecology, according to its own rules, in its own universe and somewhere just beyond time.

Multum in Parvo is available on CD with artwork by the artist Ursula Barton - Todd’s daughter, named after his great friend and collaborator. It is also available on cassette with Blue Tapes artwork as ‘blue twenty-eight’.

Praise for Todd Barton:

"Multum In Parvo creates a very real imaginary place, and then it weaves that imaginary place into exactly where you are right now. I’ve listened to Multum In Parvo a dozen times or more and I’ve never heard the same album twice, because I change and my mood changes but also because incidental noises in my body and my surroundings – from sighs to car horns to distant giggles – all seem to be on very friendly terms with Todd Barton and his Buchla." - The Quietus

“Listen outdoors and the creek water you hear in Le Guin and Barton’s songs may sync up to the muddy river you’re passing; listen during a city’s winter and the percussive rhythm and bell-like tones will commune with your apartment radiator. These are sounds that seek to speak from then and beyond, to right now.” - Pitchfork
credits
released October 5, 2018

Improvised soundscapes by Todd Barton
on the Buchla Music Easel and Epoch Hordijk Benjolin

Cover art by Ursula Barton (ursulabarton.com)"

Friday, January 13, 2023

HAINBACH / TODD BARTON Split Vinyl LP


video upload by Todd Barton





"Ultraviolet Light is proud to announce a split vinyl LP featuring three new tracks of exploratory music apiece by innovative electronic musicians Todd Barton and Hainbach.

Four decades into making music in conversation with modern classical, jazz, poetry, ancient music, new age, and the avant-garde, Todd Barton continues to craft sounds that know no boundaries. Berlin-based Hainbach’s side conjures a pulsing and immersive electronic landscape very much in conversation with Barton’s spacious and unfettered compositions. Taken as a whole, the album relocates us into a cerebral yet viscerally affecting cinema of orchestrated chaos and near-future noise.

This release continues Ultraviolet Light’s unique relationship with both artists. Todd Barton curated the artists featured on the label’s sold-old Buchla Now cassette; Barton and Hainbach’s first pairing was on a 2019 Ultraviolet Light split cassette.

The Hainbach and Todd Barton split vinyl LP will be limited to 300 copies.

Video created by Pam Anderson whose work can be explored here: instagram.com/windcruel."
Available at: https://ultravioletlight.bandcamp.com/album/hainbach-todd-barton-3

Saturday, March 16, 2019

HAINBACH / TODD BARTON - Ultraviolet Light Tapes & Upcoming Todd Barton Performances


HAINBACH / TODD BARTON from Ultraviolet Light Tapes on Vimeo.

Upcoming performances by Todd Barton futher below. The following is the description for the video above.

"Both pieces are composed/improvised in real time using a Buchla Music Easel

and a TC Electronic Ditto x4 looper. Angya is a journey that follows sounds as they

unfold into various sonic universes. Texture III explores creating an ever-changing

timbral drone."- Todd Barton

'Its a clichè that every composer travelling to Bali must be influenced by the Gamelan orchestra. I am not the exception. There is a magic to the Gamelan that conforms with what electronic music is to me, both in sound and composition. Using Adam Morford's cut down version of the Gamelan, the rough but beautiful Gamelan Strips, I composed the first piece of this collaborative album. The second uses modular synthesizers to mimic the layering techniques of the Gamelan. The final track, Antics, explores a different but similarly influential idiophone, the African mbira. Together, these three tell a story of immersion and disintegration, folding percussive sounds into ambient timbres.' - Hainbach

3 color Risograph. Hand labeled edition of 150 tapes. Download cards included.

www.ultravioletlight.blue

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"Here's the upcoming line up locally and out of state:

March 23 (Saturday)--Todd Barton & Bruce Bayard as Control Voltage Therapy with be performing the opening set for
Geist and the Sacred Ensemble coming through town on their West Coast tour.
Time: 8pm Where: Ashland Community Center, 59 Winburn Way in Ashland, Oregon
More info: http://www.geistandthesacredensemble.com/

April 12 (Friday), Control Voltage Therapy will join Caballito Negro (Tessa Brinckman and Terry Longshore)
Caballito Negro presents selections from their acclaimed program, Alone | Together, as part of the Ashland Independent Film Festival. The concert is an intimate tribute to futurist speculations, with science as play, in collaboration with electronic musicians Todd Barton and Bruce Bayard. The performance will take place in front of Bruce Bayard’s projected installation, Triptychs.

As a duo Todd Barton and Bruce Bayard create improvised soundscapes with electronic music instruments to accompany Bruce’s video projections. The projection, Triptychs, uses the tools (code) commonly associated with web pages, to create complex, ever changing, never repeating collage of images, animations and video.

Time: 7pm Where: Schneider Museum on the campus of SOU.

April 18 (Thursday), I will give a solo Buchla Music Easel improvised set as part of a concert at CREATE on the campus of UCSB. CREATE is the Center for Research in Electronic Art Technology.

Time: 8pm Where: Lotte Lehman Concert Hall

more info: http://www.create.ucsb.edu/events/

New Cassette Release: a split album with Hainbach. More information and purchase here:

https://www.ultravioletlight.blue/product/hainbach-todd-barton

All best wishes,

Todd"

Monday, December 08, 2014

Quadraphonic: Space as Metaphor - Final Perfomances with Bruce Bayard, Todd Barton & Jason Loeffler


Photos by Brian Comnes

Pictured: Bruce Bayard, Todd Barton [with a MATRIXSYNTH T-shirt!] & Jason Loeffler

Below are the final performances for the "Quadraphonic: Space as Metaphor" concert series featuring Bruce Bayard, Todd Barton & Jason Loeffler all on the Buchla Music Easel. You'll find videos along with SoundCloud embeds for each performance. The concert was part of a series at the Schneider Museum of Art that began back on August 1st.  You'll find some previous posts mentioning the series here on MATRIXSYNTH.

You can find more of Jason's work on his fadingempire SoundCloud page, Bruce on his official website featuring his digital art and video, and of course Todd Barton on his official site here.




Bayard Published on Dec 8, 2014 Todd Barton

"Bruce Bayard, on the Buchla Music Easel, begins a free improvisation for the Quradraphonic: Space as Metaphor concert series, December 5, 2014

toddbarton.com/2014/11/quadrapho…ffler-d­ecember-5/
other members of the ensemble: Todd Barton and Jason Loeffler
audio only: https://soundcloud.com/user7621213/ba..."




Barton Published on Dec 8, 2014

"Todd Barton, on the Buchla Music Easel, begins a free improvisation for the Quradraphonic: Space as Metaphor concert series, December 5, 2014"




Loeffler Published on Dec 8, 2014 Todd Barton

"Jason Loeffler, with his Eurorack system, begins a free improvisation for the Quradraphonic: Space as Metaphor concert series, December 5, 2014"

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Verbos Harmonic Oscillator Demos

Verbos Harmonic Oscillator demo 1 from todd barton on Vimeo.


"OK. . . this is just out of the box moments ago. This is a very rudimentary demonstration of just a few of the basic functions. Apologies for the poor recording quality of my flipcam mic -- you will occasionally hear some graininess, aliasing, and light distortion due, I think to the mics inability to handle the difference tones and rich harmonic content. The sounds I am hearing are very, very pure! The faders are as smooth as butter and the pots have a nice easy resistance. This demo is all just on a single fundamental pitch -- haven't even hooked this up to a sequencer. No effects or processing. At some point I'll post a high quality audio on soundcloud. Hope this is helpful."

Verbos Harmonic Oscillator demo 2 from todd barton on Vimeo.


"sweeping through the saw, triangle, square, pulse and harmonic outputs and finally engaging a little fm."

Friday, November 22, 2019

Todd Barton - Start From Silence


Published on Nov 22, 2019 Todd Barton

https://nathanmoody.bandcamp.com/album/start-from-silence

"I'm so excited that this album is now out! Last month I met Nathan Moody in person for the first time. He dropped by my place on his way to do a talk and performance at Velocity in Seattle. After just a few hours together my friend, Bruce Bayard came by and we three decided to jam. Nathan had a cool field recorder that he setup and recorded us all in the room. The jam turned out to be sonic serendipity, a rare conjunction of modular planets. I hope you enjoy it . . .

Todd Barton: Hordijk Blippoo Box, looper, shakuhachi flute samples
Bruce Bayard: Buchla Music Easel, Morphagene sampler
Nathan Moody: Ciat Lonbarde Tetrax Organ, Sidrax Organ, and Cocoquantus; Make Noise Ø-Coast

Recorded by Nathan Moody on October 1, 2019.
Mixed by the performers.
Mastered by Nathan Moody at Obsidian Sound.
Album artwork by Bruce Bayard.

Oh, and consider joining my Patreon to help support more tutorials et al. https://www.patreon.com/synthtodd"




"Recorded live in Ashland, Oregon, “Start from Silence” captures three masters of West Coast analogue synthesis performing with a focus on reciprocal listening and improvised expression.

Todd Barton, Bruce Bayard, and Nathan Moody combine a unique set of unusual instruments into a journey in tone, gesture, and sound. The aural dynamics were made in response only to the sounds, breaths, and movements of each performer. The music ranges from ambient to intense, gliding from amorphous to structured with bubbling streams of energy and contemplative drones that guide the listener throughout. The recording purposefully contains the artists’ breaths and movements, lending verisimilitude, presence, and authenticity to this organic performance.

The artists hadn’t played together before this recording, making the emergent soundscapes and sonic exploration all the more stunning…yet perhaps unsurprising, given the their combined 70+ years of composition and performing experience.

released November 22, 2019

Friday, May 31, 2019

Ro by Todd Barton


Published on May 30, 2019 Todd Barton

You might recall the Shakuhachi Ro Simultaneous Releases by Todd Barton posted here. I'm happy to announce the re-release of Todd Barton's solo shakuhachi album, Ro, is now available. An interesting aspect of this release is that Todd with the help of Walker Farrell at Makenoise music has made samples available in Makenoise/Tom Erbe Morphagene format here. Details on the re-release follow.




"Ro is the lowest note on the shakuhachi, all finger holes closed. Ro is the root. Blowing the note Ro for 10 minutes to an hour a day is traditional training for shakuhachi players. Ro focuses breath, embouchure, timbre and listening.

Originally self released in 2003, Ro is a meditative, solitary work focused on achieving rich timbral expressions. Todd Barton, best known for his momentous collaboration with Ursula K. Le Guin in the 80s, and recently re-released in 2018, Music and Poetry of the Kesh, is a multi instrumentalist and master synthesist. He is a well known educator, teaching Buchla, Serge and Hordijk synthesizers to curious music students around the world. His online tutorials, talks and performances have millions of hits.

This re-release explores new territory not available in 2003. Thanks to Walker Farrell at Makenoise music, we are releasing a set of audio samples from Ro which can be downloaded for free at freesound.org. Anyone can access, edit and remix these clips. The samples will be available in Makenoise/Tom Erbe Morphagene format. More on that module at: makenoisemusic.com/modules/morphagene

Ro will be released to all streaming outlets, on cassette and CD May 31st via Flying Moonlight.

released May 31, 2019"

Monday, October 30, 2017

Todd Barton Performance at Wayward Music 10/28/2017


Published on Oct 30, 2017 matrixsynth

You should all be familiar with Todd Barton over the years here on MATRIXSYNTH.

[Note: Todd has an upcoming performance coming up on Monday, November 13 at the Conservatory of Music at UOP, Stockton, California. That event will feature electronic instruments designed and built by Rob Hordijk. If you are in the area, you do not want to miss it.]

The above is the full performance by Todd Barton on the BEMI Buchla Music Easel at Wayward Music, announced here. Note the performance was in quad (four channels of spatial audio around the room), however, I was only able to capture it on my iPhone 6s, so unfortunately the quality is limited here. This video is meant more for historical purposes, but do enjoy it. It was an amazing performance.

You can find Todd Barton's website at http://toddbarton.com.

The following bio is from the Wayward Music event page http://www.waywardmusic.org/event/tod...

"Todd Barton is a composer, sound designer, multimedia performer, and analog synthesist specializing in Buchla, Serge and Hordijk modular systems. After four decades of exploration Barton is still delving deeply into the ever-expanding frontiers of musical expression: from his DNA derived Genome Music to his innovative scores for plays at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival; from performances of Zen shakuhachi meditation music to avant-garde music for electronic synthesizers and computers; from performing with luminaries of jazz and poetry to lecturing on music and composition from the Middle Ages to the 21st Century. He gives Skype lessons and consultations in analog synthesis worldwide and is currently a trainer for MacProVideo.com. Todd is fascinated and obsessed with exploring sound and its infinite manifestations. This performance will be a live improvisation which “Follows the Sound” of a Buchla Music Easel.

Presented by Nonsequitur."

Friday, April 21, 2017

Buchla 102 - The Easel Explored by Todd Barton


Todd Barton has a new course up on the Buchla Music Easel over on MacProVideo here. Hop on over for the tutorials.

"The 'NEW', reimagined Buchla Easel is one of the most original and best sounding analog all-in-one synths ever made. See what this amazing instrument can do in this Easel Video Manual created by renowned Buchla expert Todd Barton.

Electronic music instrument pioneer, Don Buchla, created the original Easel in 1973. It was the very first all-in-one, pre-patched West Coast style synth! Fast forward 40 years and now there’s the “NEW” Easel. It retains its core analog roots, but when mated with its iProgram card, companion iPad app and the new 218e keyboard, it becomes one of the best sounding and fun to play instruments out there.

This course by Buchla expert, Todd Barton, explores every aspect of the Easel, from its unique sound generation to its powerful controls, sequencing and programming. In essence, Todd has created the very first Easel Video Manual. Todd is an internationally recognized Buchla expert and performer, and he works very closely with Buchla Electronic Musical Instruments in designing patches and creating product documentation.

If you have an Easel or are thinking about getting one... or even if you're simply interested in modular synthesis, this course is for you! So learn everything about the 208 and the 218e modules, which together comprise the one and only Buchla Easel, in this very in-depth course by Todd Barton."

Friday, October 02, 2015

Moog Mars Musings Part I - a Moog Voyager Tribute by Todd Barton



via Todd Barton

"Back in January 2004, when NASA’s Rover Lander touched down on Mars, Todd Barton began creating and posting a one minute daily music composition based on that day’s image from NASA’s website. Using his new Signature Moog Voyager as the exclusive sound generator, a looper and an effects pedal he created 110 Moog Mars Musings tracks.

Soon after the first few posts Edmund Eagan responded with the idea of tying each score to a current Mars image. Near the end of February Edmund started to create and synchronize his video manipulations with the music and posted those on his site.

The mars musings project ran online every day from January 25 to May 14th, 2004.

Here are the first 20 of the Moog Mars Musings project. More to follow over the next few months.

all best wishes,
Todd"

Moog mars musings part ii


"Back in January 2004, when NASA’s Rover Lander touched down on Mars, Todd Barton began creating and posting a one minute daily music composition based on that day’s image from NASA’s website. Using his new Signature Moog Voyager as the exclusive sound generator, a looper and an effects pedal he created 110 Moog Mars Musings tracks.

Soon after the first few posts Edmund Eagan responded with the idea of tying each score to a current Mars image. Near the end of February Edmund started to create and synchronize his video manipulations with the music and posted those on his site.

The mars musings project ran online every day from January 25 to May 14th, 2004.

Here are the second batch of 20 of the Moog Mars Musings project. More to follow over the next few months."

Part 1 here

This one in via Soviet Space Child.

Moog mars musings part iii


"Continuing to upload these, here is part iii

Back in January 2004, when NASA’s Rover Lander touched down on Mars, Todd Barton began creating and posting a one minute daily music composition based on that day’s image from NASA’s website. Using his new Signature Moog Voyager as the exclusive sound generator, a looper and an effects pedal he created 110 Moog Mars Musings tracks.

Soon after the first few posts Edmund Eagan responded with the idea of tying each score to a current Mars image. Near the end of February Edmund started to create and synchronize his video manipulations with the music and posted those on his site.

The mars musings project ran online every day from January 25 to May 14th, 2004.

Here are the second batch of 20 of the Moog Mars Musings project. More to follow over the next few months."

Saturday, October 21, 2017

Upcoming Todd Barton


via Todd Barton:

Dear Friends,

I’m excited to announce a brief West Coast Tour this Autumn:

Friday, October 27 at Modular 8 in Portland, Oregon - Details here
"Join us at Modular 8 on Friday, October 27 at 9 PM for our free Halloween Party with special Buchla synthesizer performances by Zerosum Inertia and Todd Barton. Wear a costume and get entered into a raffle for special prizes! Refreshments will be available, so stop by and check it out!"


Saturday, October 28 at Wayward Music Series in Seattle, Washington - Details here

This event will feature Todd Barton and Jason E Anderson.


Monday, November 13, Conservatory of Music at UOP, Stockton, California - Details here

"Conservatory composer, Robert Coburn, and guest artist, composer/performer Todd Barton, will present a rare performance of new works for custom electronic instruments designed and built by the Dutch musician Rob Hordijk. Hordijk's instruments capture a warm, natural sound unique in the world of electronic music, while balancing performer control with the surprises of a subtly chaotic system."

Hope to see some of you in a venue near you!

All best wishes, Todd

Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Transitions 6


video upload by Todd Barton

Todd Barton Transitions series

"To wrap up this series I thought I'd share my score to Butoh for Easels which I composed 7 years ago. The score is a series of performance notes for specific transitions. It is a study in slowly evolving transitions. So rather than me talk and demonstrate I will be leaving links to the score and the video of the premiere performance for you to study at your leisure. Enjoy! And thanks so much for coming along with the this ride of transitions! Btw, it turns out I continued this series after this…stay tuned!
The score: https://www.dropbox.com/s/b8uxur7ec03... (jpg captured below as well) The performance:"

Butoh for Easels from todd barton on Vimeo.

a video by Jim Long and Mark Brown of the premiere performance of Butoh for Easels by Todd Barton. Featured performers: Todd Barton, Bruce Bayard, Eden Mononym and Adam Scramstad. The score to this piece for 4 Buchla Music Easels can be downloaded here: https://www.hightail.com/download/UlRSSXQ5dENBNkhOUjhUQw
Also, there will be a CD/digital 2015 release of the entire concert featuring solos by Adam Scramstad and Eden Mononym. CD available here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/bartonbayardmononymscram



The score:

Friday, August 24, 2018

Multum in Parvo by Todd Barton & Upcoming Performances



via Todd Barton: "My new solo Buchla Easel album is now available for streaming with the opportunity to pre-order the CD or cassette. I'm stoked about the awesome cover art by Ursula Barton! Check it out here.

Saturday, September 8 at 7:30 pm at the DanceSpace in Ashland I'll be performing freely improvised electronic music with Bruce Bayard and improvised vocals by Kay Hilton. Bruce's video of abstract figures filmed at SF MOMA is not to be missed. Tickets and more information here: http://brucebayard.com/event/tone-blur/

Friday, September 14 from 7:30-10:30 pm at the Butler Bandshell in Lithia Park Silent Movement presents The Silent Discovery Series with Control Voltage Therapy: Todd Barton & Bruce Bayard improvising on Buchla Music Easels with visuals by Michael Maag. You've got to see/hear this!! Opening live looping by Landen Griffith. $5 donation - all ages.

The audio portion will be broadcast with the technical wizardry of Jordan Rose and Landen Griffith (organizers of The Silent Disco) sending separate and mixed channels of our musical improvisations to special wifi headsets (available at the Park), with video mapping on the bandshell by Michael Maag, resident lighting designer at OSF. You will be able to hear Todd in one channel, Bruce in another, and a mix of both in the third channel, with the ability to switch to any mode at any time and wander around and move! A truly unique concert experience.

Stay tuned for my next Notes from Todd with more album release dates and October tour dates in NYC, Krakow and London! All best wishes, Todd"

Saturday, March 25, 2017

Soundplex Encounters


Published on Mar 25, 2017 Todd Barton

"A new Serge style panel I configured and was built and faceplate artistry by Charles Seeholzer. Better sound here: https://soundcloud.com/user7621213/so..."



Update:

Thursday, November 10, 2016

Todd Barton - Buchla - The 200e Series Modules - Training Videos


MATRIXSYNTH regular and supporting member, Todd Barton has a Buchla 200e tutorial series up on macprovideo.com. It is pay to view, but there are a few preview videos that are worth checking out.

"The Buchla 200e electronic music modules are world-renowned. This groundbreaking course is dedicated to teach the Buchla “way” and how these unique hybrid, analog/digital modules work. Learn Buchla with Todd Barton!

Donald Buchla was an electronic music pioneer. His instruments are revered and collected by great musicians the world over. Don recently passed away (2016) but his extraordinary 200e series modules are still being manufactured. This course, by longtime Buchla performer Todd Barton, explains and explores 10 of Buchla’s most popular modules including:

-261e Complex Waveform Generator
-281e Quad Function Generator 281e
-206e Mixer/Preset Manager
-259e Twisted Waveform Generator
-266e Source of Uncertainty
-222e Kinesthetic Input Port
-223e Tactile Input Port
-256e Quad Voltage Processor
-251e Sequential Voltage Source
-291 Triple Morphing Filter

If you’re into modular synthesizers, then you owe it to yourself to learn about Buchla’s electronic musical instruments. If you already own a Buchla, then this course can serve as a manual to help you get a better understanding of the Buchla "way". Either way, enjoy this unique course by Todd Barton and keep exploring the world of synthesis!"

Thursday, February 07, 2019

Todd Barton : Upcoming Portland Gigs


Published on Feb 7, 2019 Todd Barton

"I'm really looking forward to being one of many amazing modular performers this weekend in Portland, Oregon!

Friday at Modular 8 6-9pm it's our 2 year anniversary!
featuring Art from Ursula Barton
Performances from
Todd Barton
Joseph Paillo
Daniel Menche
and we'll be raffling off a new piece of gear!

Doors at 6pm, Show starts at 7pm!
FREE
Modular 8
1416 SE Morrison
Portland, 97214

Saturday 2/9 at Volt Divers 7-10pm 17 live hardware synth performers: 6 solo acts + 2 quartets + visuals : Terror Apart • Synth Witch • SunFalls • Cult Quartet II • Plea • Dance of the Atomic Structure • Todd Barton • Cult Quartet I • Visuals by Cysmic, only $5 - %100 benefits our friend Jason with his heart transplant!"

Saturday, October 04, 2014

Bayard Barton Improv i


Published on Oct 4, 2014 Todd Barton

"A live improv from our quadraphonic concert at the Schneider Museum of Art on the Southern Oregon University campus 10-3-14. Two Buchla Music Easels and a Skylab. Better audio:
https://soundcloud.com/user7621213/ba..."

Todd Barton gestures 10 3 14

Published on Oct 3, 2014 Todd Barton

"live performance at the Schneider Museum of Art at the Southern Oregon University campus. Todd Barton at the Buchla Music Easel and Buchla Skylab. Better audio:

Part of the ongoing concert series:
http://toddbarton.com/2014/08/septemb...

Direct audio from the 227e spatial mixer headphone feed here:
https://soundcloud.com/user7621213/gestures-10-3-14"

Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Todd Barton performing with Endorphin.es SHUTTLE System


Published on Jan 23, 2018 TheEndorphines

"From the very beginning, Endorphin.es modules starting from Furthrrrr Generator had very west-coast influence in design philosophy and sound. Over the years, SHUTTLE system developed into the powerful and versatile instrument which can be used in different music genres.

And going back to its roots - we are proud to have Todd Barton on board - the legend of the avant-garde music - as the independent expert in our SHUTTLE - Life is a trip ✈ tour. Todd attentively follows all the participating artists and then we together resume the campaign by the end of spring and the audience will define the winner.

Meet the maestro!"

And a quick description from Todd Barton's posting of the video - Endorphines' video above came in first so up it went. ;)

"I've been exploring the Endorphines' Shuttle recently bringing my wacky experimental/expressionistic live performance approach to this instrument. Here's the caption and more information from Endorphines: From the very beginning, Endorphin.es modules starting from Furthrrrr Generator had very west-coast influence in design philosophy and sound. Over the years, SHUTTLE system developed into the powerful and versatile instrument which can be used in different music genres.

And going back to its roots - we are proud to have Todd Barton (@synthtodd ) on board - the legend of the avant-garde music - as the independent expert in our SHUTTLE - Life is a trip ✈ tour. Todd attentively follows all the participating artists and then we together resume the campaign by the end of spring and the audience will define the winner."

Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Upcoming Performances by Todd Barton Featuring the Buchla Music Easel & More

via Todd Barton:

"Hi Friends,

I'm excited to announce these upcoming concerts at the Schneider Museum of Art on the SOU campus:

Spatial Frontiers
Noon, Friday, May 22, 2015
Schneider Museum of Art

Todd Barton and Bruce Bayard, with special guest Eden Monomyn. All three artists will be playing the Buchla Music Easel, each using a special program card designed by Todd which brings focus to the incredible expressive power of this electronic instrument. Additional controls to the placement of sound in space is also featured.

This concert is free and open to the public.

AND . . .

Special Edition
Noon, Thursday, May 28, 2015
Schneider Museum of Art

Todd Barton and Bruce Bayard, are joined by special guests Sarah Belle Reid and Ryan Gaston from California Institute of the Arts.

This concert is free and open to the public.

Sarah Belle Reid is a trumpet player, intermedia artist, and improvisor who is described as having an onstage presence that is both captivating and passionate. Sarah is an endlessly curious artist, one who collaborates closely with composers, choreographers, actors, and multimedia artists, and is always eager to experiment and explore novel approaches to expression. More than a trumpeter, Sarah has been described by audiences as a true “character” and “story-teller”; a musician whose drive to innovate and re-imagine performance is at the heart of her artistic vision. Sarah holds an MFA in trumpet performance from the California Institute of the Arts.

Ryan Gaston is a composer, bandleader, and sound artist from Little Rock, Arkansas. Currently a candidate for an MFA in Experimental Sound Practices at the California Institute of the Arts, Ryan's work centers around musical interface/instrument design, modular synthesizer performance, network music, and research into techniques for sound spatialization and strategies for notation and analysis of electronic and timbre-based music. Fascinated by developing new modes of listening and performing, Gaston writes both performed and recorded music that seeks to exploit the unique possibilities of its own venue of realization--be it a concert hall, dingy dive bar, art gallery, or a pair of headphones.

all best wishes, hope to see you there,
Todd"
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