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“Bots and Beer” – The Daily Herd

June 14, 2016; by Julia Quinn-Szcesuil

“New Music Instruments Hackathon: Meet the Speakers” – I CARE IF YOU LISTEN

June 9, 2016

“Robotic Music” – I CARE IF YOU LISTEN

March 2015; by Ronni Reich

“Full STE(A)M ahead” – Worcester Magazine

The article features projects from my course Making Music with Machines as well as the modular percussion arms built by the MPR Lab at WPI

Featured

Using Recurrent Neural Networks to Judge Fitness in Musical Genetic Algorithms

P. Mitrano, A. Lockman, J. Honicker, S. Barton (2017). In proceedings of The 5th International Workshop on Musical Metacreation (MUME) at The 8th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC). Atlanta, GA, USA.
Cyther: A human-playable, self-tuning robotic zither

S. Barton, E. Prihar, P. Carvalho (2017). Cyther: a human-playable, self-tuning robotic zither. In proceedings of The 17th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. Copenhagen, Denmark.
Systematic Variation in Rhythm Production as Tempo Changes

Barton, S., Getz, L., & Kubovy, M. (2017). Systematic Variation in Rhythm Production as Tempo Changes. Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 34(3), 303-312. We investigated the effect of tempo on the production of the syncopated 3-2 son clave rhythm. We recorded eleven experienced percussionists performing the clave pattern at tempi ranging from 70 bpm to […]
Creativity in the Generation of Machine Rhythms

S. Barton (2016). In proceedings from The 1st Conference on Computer Simulation of Musical Creativity. Abstract: This paper explores musical, psychological and philosophical ideas about how humans and machines interact in creative processes. It argues that creativity is a function of both generator and receiver, and that these roles can be amorphous in the creation and experience […]
“New Music Instruments Hackathon: Meet the Speakers” – I CARE IF YOU LISTEN

June 9, 2016
Original Gravity Podcast: Rise of a City

Join Original Gravity Artistic Director Keith Kirchoff and Public Relations Guru Greg Carlson (both exceptional brewers) as they design a unique, homebrewed beer that will aesthetically pair with Scott Barton’s Rise of a City, a piece for musical robot and guitar featured on our Summer 2016 Mystic Brewery concert.
MARIE: Monochord-Aerophone Robotic Instrument Ensemble

T. Rogers, S. Kemper, S. Barton (2015). In proceedings from The 15th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. Abstract The Modular Electro-Acoustic Robotic Instrument System (MEARIS) represents a new type of hybrid electroacoustic-electromechanical instrument model. Monochord-Aerophone Robotic Instrument Ensemble (MARIE), the first realization of a MEARIS, is a set of interconnected monochord and […]
Extended Abstract for Drum Circle

S. Barton, S. Kemper (2015). Published in UTS ePRESS; March, 2015. The paper was presented at the International Conference on Social Robotics 2014. link to paper

Tweets

RT @mpr_lab: Come see some of our bots at the Robot Block Party today, 11-5, City Hall Square, Boston @HUBweek https://t.co/gEWUvUfitj 6 days ago retweeted via mpr_lab
iZotope is releasing a portable recording device that looks interesting: https://t.co/qnpZYEafXZ 1 month ago
Tell Congress: block concealed carry reciprocity https://t.co/smigEHcgkl 3 months ago
Body Clock: What makes you tick? https://t.co/CwsdVpGiGV 3 months ago
Those in Atlanta: I'll be doing a human-robot improv tomorrow night at the @MetaMusical concert https://t.co/VHiu0G0pIL 4 months ago

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