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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,…

  • 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.

  • Creativity in the Generation of Machine Rhythms

    S. Barton (2016). In proceedings from The 1st Conference on Computer Simulation of Musical Creativity. Abstract: This paper explores musical, psychological and philosophical ideas about how humans and machines interact in creative processes. It argues that creativity is a function of both generator and receiver, and that these roles can be amorphous in the creation and experience…

  • MARIE: Monochord-Aerophone Robotic Instrument Ensemble

    T. Rogers, S. Kemper, S. Barton (2015). In proceedings from The 15th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. Abstract The Modular Electro-Acoustic Robotic Instrument System (MEARIS) represents a new type of hybrid electroacoustic-electromechanical instrument model. Monochord-Aerophone Robotic Instrument Ensemble (MARIE), the first realization of a MEARIS, is a set of interconnected monochord and…

  • Extended Abstract for Drum Circle

    S. Barton, S. Kemper (2015).  Published in UTS ePRESS; March, 2015. The paper was presented at the International Conference on Social Robotics 2014. link to paper