Tempo Mecho
2019 for the robotic instruments PAM, modular percussion and percussive aerophone (built by WPI’s MPR Lab and EMMI) by Scott Barton A groove changes identity depending on the tempo it
Mechanophore
2021 for virtual and robotic strings and percussion by Scott Barton robotic instruments by WPI’s Music Perception and Robotics Lab and EMMI Mechanophore was inspired by the force-sensitive molecular units
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.
Mixing AI with Music & Literature
March 4, 2019; by Jessica Messier; The Herd
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.
Musical Robotics presentation at Music and the Brain Seminar
April 3, 2018; WPI; Worcester, MA
Musical Robotics Presentation at the Boston Museum of Science
December 9, 2107; Boston, MA
Musical Robotics Presentation at HUBWeek 2017
October 15, 2017; Robot Block Party, HUBWeek 2017; Boston, MA