Happy Acoustic Halloween!! From Todd Barton

Published on Oct 30, 2018 Todd Barton

Something a little different from supporting member, Todd Barton, although you have seen him with the waterphone before. :)

Be sure to see the Halloween label below for more!

Waterphone and Shuttle

Published on Jan 26, 2018 Todd Barton

"I'm having more fun exploring the Endorphin.es Shuttle...this time using the external audio input to the filters and fx with my waterphone. Enjoy!"

Hordijk Waterphone

Published on Nov 1, 2017 Todd Barton

"Last night's Halloween improv"

Waterphone: Waters/Hubbert

Waterphone: Waters/Hubbert from todd barton on Vimeo.

via MATRIXSYNTH Member, Todd Barton:

"I’m really, really excited by this new official Richard Waters’ waterphone made by Brooks Hubbert. Brooks is an amazing musician and instrument builder who knew and worked with Richard. This new bass waterphone is so very resonant, responsive and expressive! It is a dream to play. For a longer audio demonstration go to:
https://soundcloud.com/user7621213/hubbert-waters-waterphone-demo
You may contact Brooks for more information at waterphoneman@gmail.com"

Waterphone-Easel Texture i

via MATRIXSYNTH Member, Todd Barton: "I'm really stoked about the new Richard Water's waterphones being loving made by Brooks Hubbert! He has totally channeled Richard's energy, spirit and further evolved the waterphone. I will make a proper demo of just the waterphone soon, but today I played live over a looped sonic bed of Buchla Music Easel analog synth textures."

Todd Barton Spatial Frontiers I - in memoriam richard waters

"Here is the set of Buchla Music Easel duet improvisations. The first piece in the performance was a for solo waterphone and can be found here: [in memoriam richard waters SoundCloud & Video below]

Todd Barton and Bruce Bayard performing as the duet, Control Voltage Therapy, begin another concert series at the Schneider Museum of Art. The series continues their exploration of space as a compositional tool, this time, expanding the quadraphonic sound into all four galleries of the Museum. Besides the Buchla Easel: Electric Music Box, Barton and Bayard will be exploring other acoustic instruments beginning this Friday with the waterphone."

"On July 4, 2013 we lost Richard Waters, inventor of the Waterphone. Here is my humble tribute to a wonderful person, friend, musician and instrument builder.

For more information: waterphone.com

In this performance the waterphone is being looped then processed through a Buchla Music Easel another amazing instrument by genius invetor/designer, Don Buchla. buchla.com"


in memoriam richard waters Published on Feb 28, 2015 Todd Barton

"this is just for visuals -- the sound did not pick up all the speakers places throughout the museum space."

Dumb Songs Two Player Musical Hardware

Dumb Songs Jam from Joseph Moore on Vimeo.

"A Jam I did with Brendan Byrne to show off the capabilities of the Dumb Songs cabinet. Dumb Songs was my thesis project at Parsons MFADT program. It's an arcade cabinet that outputs MIDI notes and codes to be interpreted in Ableton Live."

Some additional info in via Joseph:

"Dumb Songs is a two player musical toy that uses physical arcade controllers to send MIDI notes and control signals to Ableton Live, creating a musical environment for two people. The look is inspired as much by Dr. Seuss, Pee-Wee's Playhouse and The Phantom Tollbooth, as my intent to use a messy, dilapidated, asymmetrical aesthetic to further convince potential players that it's supposed to be touched and played. (If it looks imperfect, people won't hesitate.)

The collaborative nature of the work is evident in the sound sculpting as well. The layout, design of controls, and configuration of software were all considered, not only for their own pure aesthetic qualities, but also in furtherance of fun and collaboration. Dumb Songs gives you a chance to be silly and make fun sounds with whoever happens to be around."

Envelope Detected Waterphone ii

Envelope Detected Waterphone ii from todd barton on Vimeo.

"another exploration of using the Buchla 130 envelope detector driving a few Buchla 200 modules. For more on waterphones go to http://www.waterphone.com/"

Follow-up to this post.

Studio Wormbone 'Metal In Water' - Waterphone Sample Set

"'Metal In Water' explores the artistic properties of forged industrial materials from an entirely new perspective. Combine the harmonic overtones of steel, aluminum, bronze and iron with the highly emotive way that water influences resonance, in a pristine collection of 24-bit samples."

All Studio Wormbone sample sets are 50% for December.

OBP TV Interview with Composer Todd Barton

via OBP

"He’s the man behind much of the music at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. And he says, it’s OK if you don’t even notice the music. Todd Barton’s goal is to affect the mood without being obvious."

Some synth spotting in an interview with Todd Barton aka vgermuse. You should recognize the name from numerous posts. Metasynth, the Waterphone, and a pocket theremenin get a mention along with various other instruments.

Todd is currently working on the premiere of an adaptation of Akira Kurosawa's Throne of Blood in NYC by Ping Chong.

Dracula Trio by Todd Barton

Some Halloween tracks via Todd Barton, aka vgermuse.

"Three tracks from my score to Dracula from 1983 with the KRONOS Quartet, Roland JP-8 and MC-202 et al."


"A track from my 1983 score for the stage production of Dracula. Scored for two sting quartets (the KRONOS Quartet), JP-8 synthesizer, Roland MC-202, Wulitzer electric piano, waterphone and grand pianos."

"A track from my 1983 score for the stage production of Dracula.Scored for two sting quartets (the KRONOS Quartet), JP-8 synthesizer, Roland MC-202, Wulitzer electric piano, waterphone and grand pianos."


"A track from my 1983 score for the stage production of Dracula. Scored for two sting quartets (the KRONOS Quartet), JP-8 synthesizer, Roland MC-202, Wulitzer electric piano, waterphone and grand pianos.
This is an excerpt from a 12 minute piece.
For the synthgeeks, the multiple MC-202 sequences were tape-synced and all JP-8 tracks were individually performed onto an old Tascam 1/2" eight-track tape deck."

See the Halloween label below for more. BTW, if you have anything you want to send in for the holidays, send it to matrixsynth at gmail.com. The general rule for posts is they have to demo specific synths you can identify, but for holiday posts I'll typically make the exception as long as they are remotely synth related.

V-Synth & Waterphone and a Halloween Soundpack

via Studio Wormone
"'Atmospherix: Ominous Environments' from Studio Wormbone effectively transports listeners to anxious underworlds. These disturbing dystopias are ready to inject your next production with gloom and doom. They are ambient inhospitable places, where dread lurks just beneath the surface. These soundscapes are intended as backdrops to invoke moody settings for Halloween, downtempo chill, minimal techno, or a scene from the next video game blockbuster. They contribute subtlety and detail to any number of musical and post production applications, particularly film cues that demand forboding vibes."

Note: "there's no waterphone used in this collection (though keep an eye out for my future releases!) but I thought it and the V-Synth were a recognizable visual representation of what this collection sounds like, since it's mostly digitally processed dark ethereal backdrops."

Atmospherix Demo Song by Studio Wormbone

waterphone processed ii

waterphone processed ii from todd barton on Vimeo.

"This is a very, very rough experiment processing a Richard Waters' waterphone through some MoogerFoogers (Ring & Murf), a Jomox T-Resonator and a Boss looper."

Waterphone - Electronic Valve Instrument

Waterphone - Electronic Valve Instrument from todd barton on Vimeo.

"Here's a little exploration of a Richard Water's waterphone and an Akai Electronic Valve Instrument. This experiment was done by live looping going through a variety of effects boxes (moogerfoogers, jomox, boss)."
follow-up to this post.

waterphone processed

waterphone processed from todd barton on Vimeo.

" This is a very rough experiment processing a Richard Water's waterphone through a Buchla 200e (and also triggering sound in it), some MoogerFoogers (Ring & Murf) and a Jomox T-Resonator. More to come. . ."

Richard Lainhart @ Creative Music Incubator October 4 NYC

A chance to see a Buchla 200e and Haken Continuum live.

via Richard Lainhart
"Friends: on Monday, October 4, at 7:30PM, I'll be performing as one of a rotating group of improvisers at Creative Music Incubator at The Tank in Manhattan:

http://www.thetanknyc.org/music

Creative Music Incubator unites experimental sonic artists on the first Monday of every month to share creative concepts, explore new sonic possibilities and collaborate in new line ups and in unique situations. Each month is curated and hosted by a member of the NYC experimental music community. Creative Music Incubator is a monthly event produced by the Oxygen Music Collective and is dedicated to the experimentation and exploration of new sonic possibilities.

This month's lineup:

Richard Lainhart - Buchla 200e and Haken Continuum
Mitch Blank - Dulcimer
Tres Warren – Guitar

Richard Lainhart - Buchla 200e and Haken Continuum
Bob Siebert – Thumb Piano and Circuit Bent Casio SK-1
Tom Swirly – Electronic Woodwinds

Adam Dym – Tenor and Alto Saxohones
Lucio Menegon - Guitar
Brian Olin – Guitar

Brian Thayer - Guitar
Jon Worthley – Waterphone, Percussion, Toys
Steve Orbach – Sax, Drums

Damien Olsen - Synths
Isaac Taylor - Bass
Bob Siebert – Circuit Bent Casio SK-1


Tickets are $8 at the door, and I hope to see you there."

Richard Devine - Objects Of Granularity on Curtis for iPad

Objects Of Granularity by RichardDevine
"This track was composed for the "Curtis" (iphone/ipod/ipad) app by The Strange Agency. This piece is a Acousmatic composition based on everyday found objects. I recorded various wine glasses, gears, metal, motors, Ratchets, chimes, croaking frog scraper, Indian bells, Tibetan Singing Bowls, Santoor, waterphone, piano, hematite magnets, processed voice, underwater ambiances, computer, and sprinkled bits of Buchla 200e/Doepfer Euro rack Modular.

All of the sounds originally captured at 24-bit 96khz with a Neumann RSM 191 A/S stereo shotgun mic, SMK4060 Stereo Matched 4060-BM Miniature Omnidirectional Microphones and Sound Devices 702 recorder. Download the wave in 16-bit 44.1khz wave:)

Process and further granulate my piece with the"Curtis" app version 1.1 here on the itunes store."

iPads on Ebay

waterphone sampler

YouTube via vgermuse | August 26, 2010

"This is a performance sampler created in Kontakt 4 with samples from original Richard Water's instruments. This video shows some of the very subtle velocity-to- timbre functions. The sampler is available at Richard Water's waterphone(dot)com site."