Episode 4
Todd Barton
Todd Barton is a composer, sound designer, multimedia performer and an analog synthesist specializing in Buchla Electronic Musical Instruments. From innovative scores for plays at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival to avant-garde music for electronic synthesizers and computers, Todd’s musical resume is impressive and unique to say the least.
From the trumpet to the buchla, Todd shares his musical background plus we chat what it means to “play the space,” the unconventional beauty of the buchla, composing with uncertainty and his advice for the next generation of musicians.
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Links from the show
- Connect with Todd Barton
Instagram | SoundCloud | YouTube
- Akai EWI/EVI 2000
- Blippo Box
- Buchla (Module – The source of uncertainty)
- Buchla Music Easel
- Concertgebouw – Amsterdam
- Dave Brubeck – Take Five
- Indiana Jones
- Kronos Quartet
- Kyle Swisher – Podcast – The Source of Uncertainty
- Mummy: The Movie
- Oregon Shakespeare Festival
- Oregon Symphony
- Peer Gynt
- Russion Hill Recording
- San Francisco Symphony
- Siskiyou Saxophone Orchestra
- Sonoluminescence
- The order of time by Carlo Raveli
- Shakuhachi
- Toru Takemitsu – Choral Island, Water Music ( Music Concrete), AIA – Love
- Velocity -Seattle
- Ursala Le Guin – Always coming home, Tao Te Ching
SHOW NOTES
PEOPLE MENTIONED
- Bana Hafarr – Analog Synthesist (Modular Synthesis and Third Coast Percussion Ensemble)
- Carlo Rovelli
- Dizzy Gillespie
- Don Reinberg – principle with San Francisco Symphony
- Federico Placidi – St Louis College of Music (LP – Lucid)
- Franz Brüggen – Amsterdam baroque flute teacher
- Hank Dutt
- John Geist
- Marv Stamm– Summer Jazz Camps
- Michael Vannice
- Nathan Moody
- Rhett Bender
- Siat Lombard
- Si Conn
- Karlheinz Stockhausen
- Ursala Le Guin
- Ursula Barton
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