Chattering Buchla

YouTube Uploaded by vgermuse on Sep 25, 2011

"This is a follow up to the 281e plays the 261e demo. This time the 281e is playing the 259e. Note that I haven't even twiddled many knobs or pressed buttons to scroll through the wavetables -- there are hours of fun ahead :-) Oh yeah, I did use the LFO from the 261e to modify the 259e LFO CV in there at the end."

Buchla 281e plays the 261e

YouTube Uploaded by vgermuse on Sep 24, 2011

"A simple real-time patching of various CVs from the 281e going into a simple constant tone in the 261e. Oh yeah, at the end I briefly patched in the 266e. The 261e is an amazing: an audio VCO, a LFO (which can go audio) and the filtering of the Timbre, Symmetry and High Order. I only used 4 of the 7 CV ins on the 261e."

threnody: september eleventh

Todd Barton, aka vgermuse, sent in a piece he composed four days after September 11, 2001. It was composed entirely in Metasynth. You can find it here. Let the player load and hit play.

I want to thank Todd for sending this in. Sometimes words can't capture what this day means to everyone across the globe.

continuum waterphone.mov

YouTube Uploaded by vgermuse on Sep 7, 2011

"the Haken Continuum is controlling a custom waterphone sample set of mine for Kontakt 4."

Serge Wackyness II

YouTube Uploaded by vgermuse on Aug 30, 2011

Xcuse My Serge Noise

YouTube ploaded by vgermuse on Aug 22, 2011

"time to break out the old Serge panels and hook 'em up. In my eagerness to patch it up this noise thing manifested -- something more elegant later. . ."

Serge TKS Timbral Fest

YouTube Uploaded by vgermuse on Aug 16, 2011

"...dusting off the old Serge Modular Music System...exploring self-generating timbres and envelopes. . .for better audio go here:
http://soundcloud.com/user7621213/serge-tks-timbral-fest"

Serge TKS Timbral Fest by bartonmusic

Serge Wackyness

YouTube Uploaded by vgermuse on Aug 15, 2011

Scratchin' the Buchla

YouTube Uploaded by vgermuse on Jul 18, 2011

"It must be a silly Monday morning -- exploring real-time patch touching. Sorry the sound isn't better but you'll get the idea."

Moog Bike

via Todd Barton, aka vgermuse

"The other day on my way to work I found myself behind this van with this DIY bicycle on the back. All I had was my cellphone to take a photo with but the main metal strut had a classic Moog logo on it (I know, hard to see in this photo)."

dougcl variation-2.

YouTube Uploaded by vgermuse on Jul 8, 2011

"Another homage to dougcl on muffwigglers -- here's a second variation on his recent patch."

Haken Continuum Exploration-1 looped

YouTube Uploaded by vgermuse on Jul 3, 2011

"This is a very brief exploration of Edmund Eagan's internal patch 0 for the Haken Continuum. His patch is amazingly flexible, responsive and sensitive, as are all the sounds/patches he created for the Continuum. I apologize for the poor sound quality -- just a simple flipcam, ugh. Just using a Boss RC-20 to loop the initial pass."

Haken Continuum Free Jazz exploration

Uploaded by vgermuse on Jul 3, 2011

"live performance with Continuum (todd barton), electronics (bruce bayard), saxes (michael vannice) and percussion (terry longshore). Excuse the poor audio -- just a flipcam. Hopefully more professional video/audio soon."

The sleeves of the MATRIXSYNTH T. :)

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

200e MultiTouch exploration

YouTube Uploaded by vgermuse on May 23, 2011

"a simple experiment in using various touchplates for different functions including arpeggiation."

jupiterT test drive

YouTube Uploaded by vgermuse on May 21, 2011

"an early exploration of the cool Jupiter T synth by chamberofsounds.com for some reason my camera recorded the audio just slightly our of sync,ugh."

Chamber of Sounds on eBay

Buchla 222e Basic Programming

YouTube Uploaded by vgermuse on Apr 30, 2011

"This is a very, very rough hand-held flipcam video tutorial of just the most basic programming of a few pitches on three touchplates. Be sure to pause the video to check all the knob and light settings. Sorry for the blurring readout of the 223e window but my verbal explanation covers it all. And, yes, I do have a moment of verbal dyslexia and call the 259e the 295e, ugh. Hope this helps."

Buchla 222e Bacic Programming pt. 2


Buchal 222e Basic Programming pt. 3

Uploaded by vgermuse on Apr 30, 2011

"a quick explanation and tutorial on setting up a simple sequence in the arpeggiator section of the Buchal 223e."

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.

buchla-esk prepared piano live

buchla-esk prepared piano live from todd barton on Vimeo.

"A short experiment reminiscent of prepared piano sounds. Buchla modules used: 259e-261e-266e-281e-291e-292e.
The flipcam sound is distorted at points, apologies. For a higer-res audio track go to:
soundcloud.com/​user7621213/​buchla-esk-prepared-piano"
Buchla-esk prepared piano by bartonmusic
Todd Barton aka vgermuse

Buchla by Todd Barton

buchla etude eighteen from todd barton on Vimeo.

"music created on a Buchla 200e Electric Music Box by blending and editing a few self-generating patches."

buchla tape piece from todd barton on Vimeo.

"a short "concrete" style piece created from variations on a single self-generating patch on a small Buchla 200e analog synthesizer system."

And...

"a short album, Ausprobieren, consisting of short experiments and explorations influenced by my obsession with the style of music coming from the electronic studios of the 1950’s and 60’s. Go here to download the album/artwork/notes: https://files.me.com/bartonmusic/k1w56k

Second, a set of four ringtones derived from the aforementioned album: https://files.me.com/bartonmusic/9v4l12

And, lastly, also from the album, a set of ten “single-shot” percussive “hits” of varying moods: https://files.me.com/bartonmusic/rvz4on

All compositions created on a nine-module Buchla 200e Electric Music Box: 266e-259e-261e-281e-292e-291e-285e-206e-222e"

via Todd Barton aka vgermuse