Spatial Fontiers vi

"The last concert in Control Voltage Therapy's series, Spatial Frontiers featuring Todd Barton and Bruce Bayard on BEMI Music Easels. Rendered in stereo here but performed at the Schneider Museum of Art in quadraphonic."

Todd Barton Transmissions II at The Dance Space in Ashland, OR

"Saturday, October 17 8pm.

 Studio A.B and Control Voltage Therapy present an evening of multimedia / interdisciplinary performance by Todd Barton and Bruce Bayard, with special guests Lawson Inada, Damon Honeycutt, and Christine Williams. Buchla Music Easels, video projections, movement, poetry, and voice come together in a creative melting pot. Each artist brings their own responses to a single abstract concept, that of the conveyance of ideas and information. They then create the evening's performance in the moment without rehearsal or prepared script beyond general agreement of sections relating to emphasis on word, movement, imagery or all at once. The collaboration produces an intriguing, surprising concordance.

Left to right: Todd Barton, Bruce Bayard, Damon Honeycutt, Lawson Indada, Christine Williams.

Lawson served as Poet Laureate of Oregon and has won numerous book awards including the Oregon Book Award, and the American Book award. Damon is currently pursuing an MFA in Music Composition at The Vermont College of Fine Arts. He has traveled extensively worldwide and has preformed with Pilobolus Dance Company. Christine is a classically trained singer and actor, and has performed at Barbican Centre in London, the Growtowski Institute in Poland, and eight seasons at OSF. She is currently developing her own form of solo music theatre. Todd was composer at Oregon Shakespeare Festival for over forty years and is now creative consultant to Buchla Electronic Music Instruments. Bruce is a self-taught visual artist and video designer. Together, Todd and Bruce form the music performance duo Control Voltage Therapy.

tickets $15 general / $10 seniors + students
online brucebayard.com/tickets
outlet Studio A.B 621 A Street Ashland
 info 541-482-2253

Seating for this performance is limited and advance tickets are recommended.
A very special thank you to Medford Fabrication for sponsorship of this event."

For more information and tickets go to: http://brucebayard.com/2015/09/transmissions-ii-at-the-dancespace/

Todd Barton and Bruce Bayard Buchla Music Easel Pics

Update: audio of the performance added above.

"Here's today's live recording of our Spatial Frontiers gig at the Schneider Museum of Art
at the SOU Campus. With a rippin' (maiden voyage) Easel solo by Bruce Bayard.
I Waterphone solo (barton)
II Easel Solo (bayard)
III Easel Duet
IV Shakuhachi solo (barton)
V Easel Duet"

Some pics in via brian comnes at their Schneider Museum Quadraphonic Concert in Orgegon this afternoon.

http://toddbarton.com

Update: two more pics of the performance including one with Todd on the waterphone in via brian comnes below.

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Schneider Concert Featuring Todd Barton, Bruce Bayard & Michael Vannice

via MATRIXSYNTH Member, Todd Barton:

"Dear Friends,

Please join us: Friday, July 24 at Noon. Free and open to the public.

Our special guest is Michael Vannice, whose playing is influenced by experimental music, free jazz, and avant-garde classical music. He will be playing a Eurorack modular synthesis system with a WX-5 wind controller. Todd and I [Bruce Bayard] will both be playing Buchla Electronic Easels.

While this music is electronic in nature, it is not computer music. The instruments are analog synthesizers, and in the case of the two Easels, each has a hard-wired circuit board designed by Todd that creates a very expressive setting we use as our starting point. It allows us to modulate the sound with touch, and it also adds random elements into the mix. It becomes a very interactive process between musician and instrument. In a similar way, Michael uses a wind controller to trigger and modify sound events through breath.

The spacial and acoustical characteristics of the Schneider Museum make for a unique listening experience. A speaker is placed in each of the four galleries, and sound can be directed to each discreetly. In this way, space plays a huge compositional role in the creation of the music.

hope to see you there!!

all best wishes, Todd"

Todd Barton to Perform on Buchla Music Easel with Bruce Bayard at Britt Festival, Jacksonville OR

Update: corrected the date from Friday, July 18 to Friday, July 17. Also this is in Jacksonville, not Medford.

MATRIXSYNTH Member, Todd Barton will be performing on the Buchla Music Easel with Bruce Bayard Friday, July 17, at the Britt Festival in Jacksonville Oregon.

"I'm really, really looking forward to performing with Bruce Bayard at the Britt Festival's
Performance Garden on Friday, July 17 at 8 pm.

Bruce and I have been exploring Buchla analog Music Easelss and quadraphonic surround sound now for over a year and this proves to be an exciting culmination of quadraphonic performances in this wonderful outdoor venue.

Hope you can make it!! Tickets (only $10) available here: http://www.brittfest.org/performances/quadraphonic

Come on down and enjoy new electronic music with Bruce and I along with some amazing video collages by Bruce.

all best wishes,
Todd"

Spatial Frontiers III

"Todd Barton and Bruce Bayard performing as the duet, Control Voltage Therapy, continue their quadraphonic concert series at the Schneider Museum of Art. Again this month with special guest Eden Mononym. Here is a live recording of the completely improvised concert of May 22, 2015 [announced here] featuring 3 Buchla Music Easels and a special program card, 'Pontillism' by Todd Barton"

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"

Todd Barton Spatial Frontiers II

Live recording of Friday's performance.

"Todd Barton and Bruce Bayard performing as the duet, Control Voltage Therapy, continue their quadraphonic concert series at the Schneider Museum of Art. This month with special guest Eden Mononym. Here is a live recording of the April 24, 2015 concert featuring 3 Buchla Music Easels.

1-Three Easel Improv I
2-Eden Easel solo
3-Three Easel Improv II
4-Todd Sho solo
5-Three Easel Improv III"

Part 1 here.

via brian comnes.

Spatial Frontiers: Quadraphonic Concert Featuring Three Buchla Music Easels This Friday

via Todd Barton:

"Spatial Frontiers: Quadraphonic Concert

Noon, Friday, April 24, 2015
Schneider Museum of Art
With special guest Eden Mononym

The next performance is Friday, April 24, noon at the Schneider Museum of Art on the campus of Southern Oregon University. Todd Barton and Bruce Bayard are joined by Eden Mononym and all three perform on the Buchla Music Easel. The performance begins at Noon and is free and open to the public.

The series continues the exploration of space as a compositional tool, this time, expanding the quadraphonic sound into all four galleries of the Museum. For this performance, in addition to the Buchla Easel: Electric Music Box, Todd adds the Japanese Sho to the ensemble, to continue the investigation of acoustic instruments in the mix.

Eden Mononym is a local sound artist, working for Buchla Electronic Musical Instruments. He began tape splicing at the age of 10, essentially planting the seeds for a self taught journey. Exploring various techniques from modular electronics, computers, live coding, acoustics, to the avant-garde. Eden is always searching for an electro-organic sound, with a focus on expression based approaches.

Todd Barton is former Director of Composition Studies for the Music Department at Southern Oregon University and Resident Composer Emeritus for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Todd is currently Consulting Artist for Buchla Electronic Musical Instruments. 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 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.

Bruce Bayard began oil painting at age 9, and although briefly attended the University of New Mexico, is largely self-taught. He has worked in various media and techniques including oil, acrylic, casein, collage, lithography, etching, screen printing, pencil, crayon, encaustic and assemblage.

In 2000, Bayard began an exploration into digital technology as a means of creating art, producing archival pigment prints. During the last couple years, he has been exploring performance and multimedia improvisation with an ensemble that combines sound, voice, dance, poetry and video collage.

all best wishes,
Todd"

Transmissions I Concert with Todd Barton, Bruce Bayard & Darrell Bluhm this Saturday, April 18

"Ashland, OR — Studio A.B presents Transmissions I, a multimedia concert by the performing art ensemble of Todd Barton, Bruce Bayard and Darrell Bluhm, with poetry by Jonah Bornstein as recorded by Christine Williams. The performance takes place Saturday, April 18, 8pm at the DanceSpace located at 280 East Hersey in Ashland. Tickets are $10 and there is limited seating.

The performance is a continuation and expansion on a series of improvised concerts, creating a sound and image collage in the moment. For this performance, sound and visual artist Bayard along with sound artist Barton are joined by martial artist Darrell Bluhm to explore the interpenetration and transmission of sound, image and movement. These three artists build an abstract narrative, live, using movement, voice, words, sound, and video.

Where: The DanceSpace 280 East Hersey, Ashland

When: Saturday April 18, 2015 8pm

For tickets and information, call Bruce Bayard at Studio A.B: 541-482-2253 or visit babayard.com/tickets."

The performance will feature two Buchla Music Easels and an EVI.

Music For Easels Excerpts

"Here are a few excerpts from our recent CD. [previously posted here]

We are excited to announce the release of our new CD: Music for Easels!
CD available here: www.cdbaby.com/cd/bartonbayardmononymscram
Digital downloads available soon on iTunes, Amazon, etc.

This is a live recording of a rare convergence on November 7, 2014 at the Schneider Museum of Art in Ashland, Oregon where Todd Barton, Bruce Bayard, Eden Mononym and Adam Scramstad gathered to explore the improvised interactions of four Buchla Music Easels.

In this historic performance these Oregon sound artists met in quadraphonic space surrounding the audience with speakers, offering them a unique listening experience. The CD is a stereo mix of all four channels.

The five tracks on this live performance album range from the world premiere of Todd Barton's composition, Butoh for Easels, to compelling solo improvisations by Eden and Adam to exciting ensemble soundscapes."

Music for Easels by Todd Barton, Bruce Bayard, Eden Mononym & Adam Scramstad

via Todd Barton:

"Dear Friends,

I am excited to announce the release of our new CD: Music for Easels!

Digital downloads available soon on iTunes, Amazon, etc.

This is a live recording of a rare convergence on November 7, 2014 at the Schneider Museum of Art in Ashland, Oregon where Todd Barton, Bruce Bayard, Eden Mononym and Adam Scramstad gathered to explore the improvised interactions of four Buchla Music Easels.

In this historic performance these Oregon sound artists met in quadraphonic space surrounding the audience with speakers, offering them a unique listening experience. The CD is a stereo mix of all four channels.

The five tracks on this live performance album range from the world premiere of Todd Barton's composition, Butoh for Easels, to compelling solo improvisations by Eden and Adam to exciting ensemble soundscapes.

All best wishes, Todd"

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."

Todd Barton and Bruce Bayard as Control Voltage Therapy Coming to Schneider Museum of Art

Noon, Friday, February 27, 2015
Schneider Museum of Art
free of charge

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.

The Schneider Museum of Art is located on the campus of Southern Oregon University. The performance is free and open to the public. Future concerts include guest appearances by Eden Mononym and Michael Vannice.

Control Voltage Therapy tracks can be heard here (embed below).

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"

Buchla Music Easel iProgram Card Tip No. 3 from Todd Barton & Upcoming Quadraphonic Performance

Published on Nov 29, 2014 Todd Barton

"Just realized even when the iProgram Card for the Buchla Music Easel is in "remote" mode you can still get CVs out of the physical Easel's Inverter out, Envelop Detector out and Mod CV out jacks.
Thus you can synchronize, affect and connect other Buchla modules to your Easel. And you can control, program and save those Easel output settings via the Easel iPad app."

And the upcoming performance featuring Todd Barton & Bruce Bayard:

"Quadraphonic: Space as Metaphor

Beginning Friday, August 1, Todd Barton and Bruce Bayard, performing as the duet Control Voltage Therapy, presented a series of concerts every First Friday at the Schneider Museum of Art. The concerts were every First Friday, August through December beginning at 11am. This coming Friday will be the final concert in this series. The performances are free and open to the public. Performances begin at 11 a.m."

Butoh for Easels

Butoh for Easels from todd barton on Vimeo.

"a video by Jim Long 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."

sweep. pulse.

"a live improvisation for two Buchla Music Easels accompanying a modern dance performance on 11-14-14 choreographed by Ellie Leonhardt with her students at Southern Oregon University. Easels: Bruce Bayard-Todd Barton."

Todd Barton Butoh for Easels

via Todd Barton

"I'm proud to announce the premiere performance of my new piece, Butoh for Easels. On Friday, Nov. 7 at 11 a.m. at the Schneider Museum of Art on the campus of Southern Oregon University I will be joined by three amazing synthesists: Bruce Bayard, Eden Mononym and Adam Scramstad to perform this piece for 4 Buchla Music Easels (analog synthesizers) in quadraphonic sound space. This is part of our ongoing series: Quadraphonic: Space and Metaphor Not since the 1970’s group, The Electric Weasel Ensemble spearheaded by Don Buchla and Allen Strange, have this many Music Easels been seen and heard in a single performance space. This new composition was created for the reverberant acoustic of the Schneider Museum coupled with a quadraphonic surround-sound system. This will be a unique sonic experience! I know many of you on this list are from out of town and won't be able to be here, but I hope to have good video and audio of the performance available. If you are in town I encourage you to make it -- there is nothing like quadraphonic sound LIVE! Also, there will be exciting solo performances by Eden, Bruce and Adam!

all best wishes,
Todd"

Wood of uncertainty & Upcoming Todd Barton Buchla Performance

"Buchla 200e system. . . self-generating patch. . . source of uncertainty. . . . . ."

And an upcoming performance in Ashland, OR:

"Bridge State at the DanceSpace

Dear Friends,

I'm really excited about these upcoming multimedia performances! It is a wonderful opportunity for me to
work with an amazing ensemble of diverse artists.

Bruce Bayard with be offering his creative and evocative video projections and sonic improvisations
Suzee Grilley dancing with grace, elegance and connection
Christine Williams unfolding a wide spectrum of nuanced and compelling vocals
David Bithell manipulating poetry written by Jonah Bornstein and recorded by Dan Donohue and Christine
Williams.

Two nights! Each will be different!
Saturday, October 18, 2014 8pm
Sunday, October 19, 2014 8pm

We will present two evenings of improvisational multimedia performance. The event includes quadraphonic sound, music on two Buchla Easels, dance, vocals, video projections and Max processed poem by Jonah Bornstein as read by Dan Donohue and Christine Williams.

Bridge State is funded by a grant from The Haines Philanthropic Foundation.

The DanceSpace is located at 280 E. Hersey in Ashland.

Advanced tickets available via Paypal here:

http://brucebayard.com/2014/09/bridge-state-at-the-dancespace/

I hope you can join us for these exciting events!!

all best wishes,

Todd"