Parthenope
a robotic musical siren
Whamola
a robotic bass monochord that tunes by adjusting string tension
Cyther
a human-playable robotic zither
PVC Aerophone
an automatic open-tube aerophone
Modular Percussion
automatic modular percussion instruments
Harmonium
an automated harmonium
Recorder
an automatic recorder
Glocky
an automatic glockenspiel
Publications
S. Barton (2020). Circularity in Rhythmic Representation and Composition. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, Birmingham City University, pp. 505–508.
M. Sidler, M. Bisson, J. Grotz, and S. Barton (2020). Parthenope: A Robotic Musical Siren. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, Birmingham City University, pp. 297–300.
K. Sundberg, S. Barton, A. Walter, T. Sane, L. Baker, A. O’Brien (2018). A Robotic Percussive Aerophone. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME). Blacksburg, VA.
P. Mitrano, A. Lockman, J. Honicker, S. Barton (2017). Using Recurrent Neural Networks to Judge Fitness in Musical Genetic Algorithms. In proceedings of The 5th International Workshop on Musical Metacreation (MUME) at The 8th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC). Atlanta, GA, USA.
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.
S. Barton (2016). Creativity in the Generation of Machine Rhythms. In proceedings from The 1st Conference on Computer Simulation of Musical Creativity. Huddersfield, UK.
S. Barton (2013). The human, the mechanical, and the spaces in between: explorations in human-robotic musical improvisation. In proceedings from the Ninth Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment Conference. Boston, Massachusetts.
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