Todd Barton

music, composition, buchla synthesis

Résumé

resume-2Consulting Artist for Buchla Electronic Musical Instruments, 2013

Resident Composer Emeritus for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 1969–2012

Director of Composition Studies, Southern Oregon University, 1999–2010

THEATER MUSIC

  • Peer Gynt, Breaking the Silence, Dracula—KRONOS Quartet
  • Throne of Blood,—Various artists, director, Ping Chong
  • Cymbeline—Rogue Valley Symphony Orchestra
  • King Lear—Shasta Taiko
  • Rosmersholm—Alexander Tutunov, piano
  • Comedy of Errors—Brothers of the Baladi
  • Music for the entire canon of Shakespeare’s plays

CONCERT MUSIC

  • Terrains—Oregon Symphony Orchestra
  • Translucencies—San Jose Chamber Orchestra
  • A Way Through—Cavani String Quartet
  • Changing Light and Galaxians—KRONOS Quartet
  • Shadow Teachings—Rogue Valley Symphony Orchestra
  • Diastems II, Transformations, and Meldings—Rhett Bender, saxophone
  • It Is My Soul, and What Should We Speak?—Southern Oregon Repertory Singers

ALBUMS

  • Anthony Braxton Eugene 89—synthesizers and EVI
  • John Singer Naked Vision—composer and synthesizers
  • Millennium Tribute to Adolphe Sax, vols. 1 & 4—contributing composer
  • Metasynthia I, II and III—contributing composer
  • Mountain Ghost Breathing—shakuhachi
  • Ursula Le Guin Music and Poetry of the Kesh and Tao Te Ching—composer
  • Original composition albums: Analog Horizonings, Metascapes, Genome Music

FILM AND VIDEO SCORES

  • NightJohn—Disney/Sarabande
  • Money & Life,—director, Katie Teague, StormCloud Media
  • Fire On The Mountain—Gage Productions/Sundance
  • Japanese Mythology—Wataru Sugiyama
  • Legends from Camp—Miles Inada
  • William Stafford: The Life of the Poem—TTTD Productions

RADIO, BOOKS & MULTIMEDIA

  • The Tao Te Ching with Ursula K. Le Guin—Shambhala
  • The Curve of Wonder, National Public Radio with David Ossman
  • Clandestiny—Trilobyte, multimedia game
  • The Left Hand of Darkness—Warner Bros. (books on tape)