Uncharted Waters: Advanced Waterphone Performance Sampler

"Welcome to a new and exciting instrument, the Advanced Waterphone Performance Sampler. This instrument for Kontakt 3 and 4 is designed from high quality samples of Richard Waters’ amazing invention, the waterphone.

These samples are rich in microtonality and complex timbres. Our instrument is designed to respond like a waterphone giving you the joy and surprise of exploring some of the random sonic worlds that are born from different bowings, strikes and hits on the waterphone.

Different velocities trigger different timbres, samples and combinations. Some are predictable, some surprising. Please see the video demos [below]

Uncharted Waters is exclusively available through Richard Waters’ website: www.waterphone.com. This introductory offer is a steal at $15 for the complete downloadable instrument."

Uncharted Waters: Advanced Waterphone Performance Sampler from Joel Henigson on Vimeo.

"This is a demo of Uncharted Waters, a sampler instrument for Kontakt 3 and 4 utilizing Richard Waters' amazing invention the Waterphone. The sampler will be available on Richard Waters' site waterphone.com
Made by Todd Barton, Joel Henigson, and Richard Waters"

Uncharted Waters: advanced Waterphone performance sampler from todd barton on Vimeo.

"This is a live, real-time performance sampler based on samples made with the blessing of Richard Waters, the inventor of the Waterphone. Samples are mapped to a keyboard in a to give the "feel" of actually playing a waterphone. Velocity, repeated key strokes, aftertouch and mowheel all interact for a surprising and inspiring timbral journey for the sonically curious. This audio file was performed in a single pass without editing or external effects. Original programming and design by Todd Barton and Joel Henigson. Enjoy!"

unchartedWaters.MOV

YouTube via vgermuse — March 25, 2010 — "New Performance Sampler: Uncharted Waters based on sample from this very waterphone performed by Todd Barton...coming soon for Kontakt 3 & 4."

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."

Nocturnal - Buchla Waterphone Piece by Todd Barton

You can find the track on Todd Barton's website here along with more. You can find the mp3 here. Below is a video featuring only the Waterphone.


YouTube via Vbik
"By Dr. Todd Barton. Waterphone made by Richard Waters... (Demo.)"

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"

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.

Todd Barton and Bruce Bayard

Published on May 30, 2014 Mail Tribune·919 videos

"Todd Barton and Bruce Bayard present an improvisational electro-acoustic response to the installation Flood Control by Avantika Bawa at Noon on Friday, May 30."

Also see: Elegies Soundtrack by Todd Barton Featuring Buchla & Omnisphere

Update: Some additional info via Todd: "Just came across this short clip from yesterday's concert at the Schneider Museum of Art on the campus of Southern Oregon University. I'm playing waterphone and BEMI Music Easel Bruce is playing amplified/effected cello and a Buchla 208r."

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!

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.

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).

Envelop detected waterphone

Envelop Detected Waterphone from todd barton on Vimeo.

"a simple exploration using a contact mic on one of Richard Water's Waterphones, a Buchla 207r's preamp and a CBS 130 Envelop Detector -- all was sent to various CV ins of a 258v oscillator and a 266r Source of Uncertainty. Oh yeah, and the final output going through a Eventide Space reverb. more on waterphones here: http://www.waterphone.com/ and a better audio of a similar exploration here: http://soundcloud.com/user7621213/envelop-detected-waterphone
cheers!

Envelop detected waterphone by bartonmusic

Todd Barton Performance & Buchla Clinic Coming to the next Knobcon

via Todd Barton:

"I'm thrilled to announce that I will be a featured clinician at Chicago's upcoming Knobcon. With a live performance Friday Sept. 13 and a two hour clinic on Buchla Electronic Musical Instruments system on Saturday Sept. 14.

If any of you are in the area I'd love to have you drop by. Or, if you know of friends and colleagues that are into analog synthesis please forward this email to them.

For more information go to: knobcom.com

Also, please checkout my newly remodeled website at: toddbarton.com"

BTW Todd has an updated website: "This site reflects my new direction as Consulting Artist for Buchla Electronic Musical Instruments. It also lets you wander around in my many other musical explorations: shakuhachi, waterphone, genome music, chamber music, et al.

Enjoy wandering at toddbarton.com"

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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Waterphone and Buchla more experiments

video upload by Todd Barton

"Continuing my experiments with the Waterphone and Buchla 296e Spectral Processor. More on waterphone here: https://waterphone.com and Buchla here: https://buchla.com
My Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/synthtodd"

Kurosawa's Throne of Blood Scoring Set by Todd Barton

Throne of Blood Scoring Set from todd barton on Vimeo.

"In preparation for scoring a stage adaptation of Kurosawa's epic film, Throne of Blood, I've been sampling my performances on the following instruments: shakuhachi, ryuteki, hichiriki, sho, waterphone, pianoharp, et al. This video is just a random journey through this scoring set mapped to Native Instruments Kontakt 3/4. enjoy! Also see:
http://opb.org/programs/artbeat/segments/view/873 and
http://www.toddbarton.com"

Some of the instruments used:  What's that doing there?! :)

Matris Terra Ultionis

If you have been following this site over the past couple of months you should be familiar with the work of Richard Lainhart and Todd Barton (vgermuse). You will recall the Buchla 200e compositions from Richard posted here and the Akai EVI compositions from Todd posted here. You might also recall daddio of Tapewarm from these posts.

After hearing the brilliant compositions by Richard and Todd, Daddio contacted them about creating a new composition featuring theirs. They gave him the ok and Matris Terra Ultionis is the result. You can listen it here.

part one features:
metaliton, buchla2Crop, eviExtended, and buchlaStormBirds.
mixed with my WarStorm samples and an old waterphone recording

part two:
Thonk and SlowEvolution
w/more WarStorm samples and Launch

part three:
Orchestra of the Damned, SpaceMetal, buchlaDemo2, buchlaDrumSolo, eviSerge and eviSerge2
yet more from Warstorm (lol) and my My Hydrogen Gas Tank

Regarding the sources of the compositions:
"Thonk and Orchestra of the Damned are from Richard.
200e/Haken continuum

WarStorm, Launch and My Hydrogen Gas Tank are my compositions.
I used a Doepfer modular, twin Kaoss pads and a waterphone along with a boatload of samples.

All other files are Todd's: metaliton, buchla2Crop, eviExtended, and buchlaStormBirds, SpaceMetal, buchlaDemo2, buchlaDrumSolo, eviSerge and eviSerge2.
evi, buchla, serge"

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. . ."

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."

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.

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-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."