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Figure <-> Ground featured on SEAMUS Electro-Acoustic Miniatures 2013 CD “Negative Space”
Available on Spotify, Amazon, CDBaby and iTunes
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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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The Human, the Mechanical, and the Spaces in between: Explorations in Human-Robotic Musical Improvisation
S. Barton (2013). Published in the Proceedings of the Ninth Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment International Conference (AIIDE 2013) Abstract HARMI (Human and Robotic Musical Improvisation) is a software and hardware system that enables musical robots to improvise with human performers. The goal of the system is not to replicate human musicians, but rather to explore the novel…
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Figure <-> Ground
two channel recording; 2:39 Fall 2013 Figure <-> Ground interprets the idea of negative space in the context of rhythm and time. In one formulation, the subjects are percussive sound points and the negative spaces are the durations that connect those sound points. As the piece progresses, the elements that constitute a sound point are…
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music technology at WPI
WPI’s commitment to the study of music is evident through groundbreaking research and student projects in several areas of music technology. Faculty are working in musical robotics, assistive learning technologies, audio production, radio station programming, and much more.