Burnt Dot Quartet: Improvised Music for Trumpets & Synthesizers Pt. 1

Published on Apr 2, 2016 Burnt Dot

"First video excerpt from Burnt Dot Quartet's February 2016 concert at the Wild Beast Pavilion, Valencia CA. A concert of improvised music for trumpets and synthesizers.

Featuring Sarah Reid and Kris Tiner on trumpets, Ryan Gaston on Euro, Frac, and Serge, and Todd Barton on Buchla, Hordijk, Euro, and waterphone. Todd performed telematically from his studio in Oregon.

Special shout out to Sahir Khan and Andrea Yasko for motion graphics and David Howe for videography.

See http://www.burntdot.com/ for more."

This one in via MATRIXSYNTH Member, Ryan Gaston.

Harmonic Resonator - EMS VCS3 Clone + BOSS SE-70

Published on Jul 28, 2018 100 Things I Do

"Hopefully with this clip you can play it on some nice open back headphones or good quality speakers and just chill out of a few minutes!

I thought I would have a play with the SE-70. Its been sitting around the studio gathering dust and waiting for its moment in the sun for a while. It has a preset call Sitar... basically a harmonic resonator set to around 1k to create a sitar effect. I'm sure with a Guitar it would be convincing enough in some situations and sound OK! But put some oscillators in it and move them in pitch very gradually you get a whole new effect.

Close in some ways to that of an Waterphone. Do check out Todd Barton's videos on the Waterphone if this unique instrument has slipped past you!)

In this clip I have used the VCS3 + SE-70 and Valhalla Vintage Verb"

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"

Throne of Blood Scoring Set

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!
toddbarton.com"

Blood of my blood (excerpt)

This one in via Todd Barton

"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."

Be sure to see the Halloween channel below for more Halloween posts.

Buchla 296e and Waterphone

video upload by Todd Barton

"Back to mad scientist experiments…."

nexus spectrogram

video upload by Todd Barton

"Here's a track from my split album with Hainbach on the Ultraviolet Light label:
https://ultravioletlight.bandcamp.com... [featured here]

I've popped it into Chrome Music Lab spectrogram software for the visuals: https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/
Instruments: 73-75 Serge, Buchla Music Easel, piano & prepared piano, waterphone, shakuhachi and Metasynth.
My Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/synthtodd"