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Human-Robot Improvisation
I have been developing software that allows humans to improvise with the robots built by EMMI and the Music, Perception and Robotics Lab at WPI. The bots have interacted with some wonderful performers: Performance at Clark 2o-21 with Matt Jaskot, Peter Sulski and CADI / modular percussion instruments, Oct 30, 2013 Performance excerpt 2 at…
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HCL Chicago sponsored artist video
This is a video about my residency as a sponsored artist at High Concept Laboratories in Chicago in the summer of 2013. By Carly Mostar.
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Understanding Musical (dis)continuity
S. Barton (2012). Dissertation. Published by ProQuest. Abstract While our experience of musical (dis)continuity is often powerful and clear, articulating the relations that inspire such percepts is not always easy. Part of the reason for this is that our experience of musical (dis)continuity is influenced by a number of physical, cognitive and perceptual factors, and thus is complex.…
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Solar House
Spring, 2013. A piece I composed for a video documenting the construction of Solatrium, a solar house project that WPI helped to design and build. http://wp.wpi.edu/solatrium/en/
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Reposition
Fall, 2012 for the musical robots AMI, CARI and TAPI; 5:00
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The Faucet Drips – by Autotype
produced, recorded and mixed by Scott Barton
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Weird and Unusual Machines Make Music
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from here to there
2012 for the musical robots AMI and CARI; 5:00 From Here to There explores the transformational distance between contrasting entities. The idea of transformational distance, borrowed from psychology and algorithmic information theory, measures the similarity between entities as a function of the list of instructions that is required to transform entity A into entity B.…