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  • The specificity of expertise: For whom is the clave pattern the “key” to salsa music?

    L. Getz, S. Barton, M. Kubovy (2014). Acta Psychologica; Volume 152, October 2014. Each Latin salsa music style is associated with a characteristic clave pattern that constitutes an essential structure for performers. In this article we asked what types of expertise are needed to detect the correct salsa–clave pairing. Using two clave patterns (the 3–2 and 2–3 son clave) and…

  • Musical Robots presentation / performance at Touch Tomorrow

    June 14th, 2014; WPI; Worcester, MA

  • Figure <-> Ground performance at NYCEMF

    June 8, 2014; 3:30pm; New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival; Playhouse at the Abrons Arts Center; NYC

  • “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

  • Figure <-> Ground featured on SEAMUS Electro-Acoustic Miniatures 2013 CD “Negative Space”

    Available on Spotify, Amazon, CDBaby and iTunes

  • Breeding in Pieces performance at Clark 20|21

    March 28, 2014; 7:30pm; Clark University; Worcester, MA

  • Presentation of “Composing for Musical Robots” at the Composition in the 21st Century Conference

    March 6th, 2014; Trinity College Dublin; Dublin, Ireland

  • Presentation of “Off the Integer Grid: Using Robots to Create New Rhythmic Identities” at the Timing Workshop, HRI 2014

    March 3rd, 2014; Bielefeld, Germany

  • Millennial Masters vol. 4 featuring Rise of a City has been released

    for guitar and EMMI’s robotic instruments – PAM (poly-tangent string instrument), MADI (16-arm snare drum), CADI (modular percussion instrument playing darbuka, ice bucket, tambourine and djembe) Recorded by Scott Barton, mixed by Scott Barton and Marc Urselli at East Side Sound, NYC read more / listen

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