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  • Musical Machines Book Published

    July 14, 2026. Oxford University Press. A new breed of musical machines has emerged, synthesizing physical and computational worlds. With a unique set of abilities, these machines allow artists and musicians to be creative in new kinds of ways. This book explores the creative possibilities of these tools by asking questions of motivation and meaning,…

  • Context-specific Knowledge Is the “Key” to Salsa Music

    L. Getz, S. Barton & L. Perry (2021). Auditory Perception & Cognition, DOI: 10.1080/25742442.2021.1964341

  • Circularity in Rhythmic Representation and Composition

    S. Barton (2020). Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, Birmingham City University, pp. 505–508.

  • Parthenope: A Robotic Musical Siren

    M. Sidler, M. Bisson, J. Grotz, and S. Barton (2020). Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, Birmingham City University, pp. 297–300. full text

  • Mechatronic Expression: Reconsidering Expressivity in Music for Robotic Instruments

    S. Kemper, S. Barton (2018). In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME). Blacksburg, VA.

  • A Robotic Percussive Aerophone

    K. Sundberg, S. Barton, A. Walter, T. Sane, L. Baker, A. O’Brien (2018). In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME). Blacksburg, VA. full text

  • 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…