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."

Elegies Soundtrack by Todd Barton Featuring Buchla & Omnisphere

ELEGIES from Bruce Bayard on Vimeo.

"In collaboration with Todd Barton, music; Suzee Grilley, dance; Jonah Bornstein, poetry; and Christine Williams, vocals and Bruce Bayard, video, visual effects and editing. See more of Bruce's work here: brucebayard.com/ and Todd's work here: toddbarton.com/"



via Todd Barton: "Here's a soundtrack that uses a lot of BEMI Easel and 208r plus a few samples and a bit of Omnishpere. Oh, and, of course, some stunning vocals and words. best wishes, Todd"

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 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"

Todd Barton's Analogie - 100% Buchla

A new release by Todd Barton
Cover art by Bruce Bayard

"Analogie is deeply influenced by my passion for vintage electronic music. The sounds embrace the 1950’s and 1960’s golden age of musique concrete and elektronische musik. All sounds and music were created using the Buchla 200e Electric Music Box."

Todd Barton to Perform on Buchla Music Easel at TRASH_AUDIO Portland Event & Upcoming Gigs

"Dear Friends, I'm happy and excited to announce these upcoming gigs I'll be doing:

Inside/Outside Passages: An Evening of Multimedia improvisation performance by Todd Barton—sonics, Christine Williams--vocals,  Jonah Bornstein--poetry, Suzee Grilley--dance and Bruce Bayard—digital moving images and sonics.

Saturday and Sunday, April 19 and 20 at 8pm at the DanceSpace 280 East Hersey, Ashland, Oregon
more information here:

http://brucebayard.com/2014/03/inside-passages-outside-passages/

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Todd Barton and Adam Scramstad: Solo and Duets performances featuring two Buchla Electronic Music Easels.

Thursday, May 8 at 7:30 pm at the Eugene Springfield Art Project (ESAP), 224 East 11th St., Eugene, Oregon

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My Solo performance on the Buchla Music Easel in Portland

Saturday, May 24 at the Trash Audio synth meet in Portland, Oregon. Time and venue TBA. More information here:
http://trashaudio.com/2014/02/trash_audio-synth-meet-14-portland-or-may-24th/

All best wishes,
Todd"

Todd Barton Live with Buchla - Saturday, Nov. 3 Ashland, OR

one oscillator improv from todd barton on Vimeo.

"Dear Friends,

This Saturday, Nov. 3 at 8 p.m. at the DanceSpace 280 East Hersey Street in Ashland, Oregon I will be performing a solo analog synthesizer concert on a Buchla Electric Music Box.

I’ll be creating sounds from various tone generating modules then folding, unfolding, sculpting, twisting, caressing and distorting them into one long, free-wheeling improvisation.

And my pal, digital artist Bruce Bayard will be unfolding a collage of video images gathered from this past week. Hope you can join us.

Another way of looking at this sonic experience is that I will be creating an new electronic musical instrument which I will listen to and quickly learn its charaterictics/personality in order to learn to play it. I will then perform this new instrument and record it onto a track of my looper pedal at which point I will connect different modules together to create yet another new instrument, learn it, perform it, loop it . . . and so the process continues. . .

Like folding a square piece of paper into unusual and surprising shapes, think of this evening as sonic origami. Hope to see you there! All best wishes, Todd

Here’s a very rough sample of this process [embed above]

Here's more information:
First Saturday Concert Series

TBA stands for Time-Based Art, or To Be Announced. With the first series complete, Todd and I are now moving into the next phase of monthly concert presentations. These performances will consist of various experiments in the audio and visual world. The next First Saturday concert is November 3, 8pm at the DanceSpace in Ashland. Todd Barton will compose an electronic score in the moment, using the Buchla synthesizer with a setting (patch) that creates a wonderfully expressive sound. I am putting together some video clips that I hope will find some resonant synchronization with Todd's music.

Tickets are $5 at the door.

http://www.toddbarton.com
http://vimeo.com/user2359061
http://soundcloud.com/user7621213"

Update: embed for the performance here.

Todd Barton Live in Ashland, OR - MATRIXSYNTH T Spotted

via Brian Comnes:

"Today's improv show in at Noon in Ashland at SOU Schneider Gallery. Today was Todd Barton on Hakem Continuum X-Station and Theremin , joined by Bruce Bayard on X-station , Michael Vannice on reeds and Terry Longshore on Roland HPD15 Handsonic and Korg WaveDrum."

I hear it's also Todd's b-day. Happy Birthday Todd!

Catch previous posts featuring Todd's videos and audio here(vgermuse) & here (todd barton).

video here

Todd Barton Night in the Cyber Forest & Upcoming Concert Series

"self-generating Buchla Easel patch with special original program card patching. . ."

And a note from Todd on his upcoming concert series with Bruce Bayard:

"Dear Friends,

I'm really excited to announce this upcoming concert series. Bruce Bayard and I have been exploring quadraphonic sound and are really eager to share our sonic explorations with you! Here is more information:

Quadraphonic: Space as Metaphor

Beginning Friday, August 1, Bruce Bayard and I will be performing as the duet Control Voltage Therapy, presenting a series of concerts every First Friday at the Schneider Museum of Art. Featuring two Buchla Easel electronic music instruments, and a quadraphonic sound system, we'll be exploring “Space as Metaphor.” The concerts are every First Friday, August through December beginning at 11am. Some months will have special guests to be announced. The performances are free and open to the public. Performances begin at 11 a.m.

The Schneider Museum of Art is located on the Southern Oregon University campus.
1250 Siskiyou Blvd Ashland, OR 97520
(corner of Siskiyou and Indiana)

for Control Voltage Therapy audio tracks

see also Bruce's site: http://brucebayard.com/

All best wishes,

Todd"

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."

Buchla Video Tutorials by Todd Barton

00 Buchla Mind Introduction from todd barton on Vimeo.

You can find the full set of 26 videos in this series on Vimeo here.  Per Todd Barton:

"These instructional videos were created for a course I co-taught with Prof. Robert Coburn this past autumn (2015) at the University of the Pacific. The focus is on the main Buchla 200 series modules in their system housed at the new Analog/Digital Studio.

Though the focus is on the older Buchla 200 modules almost all of the information, tips & tricks are applicable to the newer 200e series. I will be adding more 200e tutorials to this collection in the coming months.

My deep thanks to Prof. Coburn and the enthusiastic and talented students of this first class: http://www.analogital19.com

Also a big thank you to my friend and colleague, Bruce Bayard, who patiently taped and editied this entire video series. http://brucebayard.com/

For more information and discussion of things Buchla please visit my blog:

http://toddbarton.com/category/buchla-blog/

'The videos have been great! I've gone through them all and will continue to review them for quite a while I am sure.'
-- Mark Isham, film composer"

Buchla CVT One

Published on Jan 13, 2017 Todd Barton
Update: Re-Published on Mar 18, 2017 Todd Barton

"Free improvisation: todd barton & bruce bayard"

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 and Bruce Bayard Easel Duet at Schneider Museum, SOU Ashaland

Pic in via Brian Comnes

"Todd Barton and Bruce Bayard Easel Duet at Schneider Museum, SOU Ashaland. Bruce's Easel is actually a Russian Clone [I'm guessing it is a Roman Filippov Easel clone]. And the bigger Buchla to the right of Todd was used mostly for spatial movement in a quadrophonic set up. They will do this every month here for the next few months."

The performances happen the first Friday of the month. You'll find details posted here.

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"

Gentile Robyn

Published on Aug 17, 2018 Todd Barton

Music Design by Todd Barton
Video by Bruce Bayard
Based on the tune, "Ah, Robyn" by William Cornysh (1456-1523)
Original recording (1973) Laurie Monahan, Sherril Kannasto & Beverly Simmons
Music morphed and manipulated in the MakeNoise Morphagene by Tom Erbe

First Easel Patch: Bruce Bayard

Published on Nov 8, 2013 Todd Barton·139 videos

"My dear friend, Bruce Bayard explored a Buchla Music Easel for the first time today and came up with this very cool flexible patch. The only precursor was this video: http://youtu.be/O41CjLc1lYg Enjoy!"

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.

Buchla CVT Two

Published on Jan 27, 2017 Todd Barton

"Exploring Easel/Benjolin drone. Todd Barton & Bruce Bayard"



Part 1 here.

Upcoming Performances and Release by Todd Barton

via supporting member, Todd Barton:

"April is filling up beginning with the recent release of Softube.com’s Buchla 296e Spectral Processor plugin for their Modular platform.

I was lucky enough to do a 10 part video series overview/tutorial of the amazing Spectral Processor. [posted here]

Bruce Bayard and I, known as Control Voltage Therapy are looking forward to joining our friends Caballito Negro: Terry Longshore & Tessa Brinckman this Friday, April 12 at 7 pm at the Schneider Museum of Art as part of the Ashland Independent Film Festival’s celebration which included a video by Bruce which we will perform with. More details here.

And on Thursday, April 18 I will be performing an improvised solo set as part of the UCSB’s CREATE concert in Santa Barbara. I’m delighted and honored to have be invited by one of my guiding lights, Curtis Road’s. More details here.

Upcoming in May: a simultaneous rerelease from https://flyingmoonlight.bandcamp.com/music of my 2008 solo shakuhachi album, Ro and a sample reel from that album for the MakeNoise Morphagene available from freesound.org"