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CMPRRSN RTFCT @joshuaacnewman.xeno.glyphpress.com.ap.brid.gy · 29/10/2026

This is where my thinking was about Boston Dynamics back in 2014. (The story took place in 2024.) glyphpress.com/talk/2014/the-boston…

A wicked beefy robot dog with an industrial crusher for a mouth.

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CMPRRSN RTFCT @joshuaacnewman.xeno.glyphpress.com.ap.brid.gy · 28/10/2026

I thought I was done with game design for a while. The Pandemic hit on the literal day I released Bronze, and I couldnb’t really recover. But then, people started asking me what I was up to, and how to get ahold of my games. So… Now I’m working on a […] [Original post on xeno.glyphpress.com]

A crop of a sketch page about aquatic aliens with callouts.

DIRECTION OF TRAVEL
SONAR MELONS ACT LIKE HIGHLY-DIRECTIONAL
EAR/ EYES. CAN BE DEFLATED FOR SPEED OR SAFETY.
MULTIPLES AROUND BODY BUILD 3D MODEL IN
BEING'S PERCEPTION
PORPULSIVE EXHAUST BLOWS OVER
THEIR ARMS
SIPHON
STRIATION
PLATES FOR
"PINGS"" &
COMMUNICATION.
PATTERN IS
UNIQUE TO THE
INDIVIDUAL.

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CMPRRSN RTFCT @joshuaacnewman.xeno.glyphpress.com.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026

Granular synthesis is so much fun. I'm adapting the Granular Philosophy patch for performing at #westernmasselectronics this weekend. Part of it is voice (not sure the lyrics yet) and part of it, I think, will be drawn from an SDR station in the Netherlands, live.

A complex plugdata patch using three granular sources. One is live input, one is reading from a file, and the third is undefined.

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CMPRRSN RTFCT @joshuaacnewman.xeno.glyphpress.com.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

This guy was the lone, dim-eyed Trump counterprotester at the #nokings demonstration in Newport, RI. I went and stood in front of him and asked him why he’s waving a flag of the guy who’s making him ashamed and afraid. He said he doesn’t like Muslims or […] [Original post on xeno.glyphpress.com]

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CMPRRSN RTFCT @joshuaacnewman.xeno.glyphpress.com.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

I’m piping a software-defined radio through #plugdata and holy crap I don’t know what I found here, but it’s sure great. A little like living on a comet? Also, controlling things like this with real knobs is really fun. Not as much fun as it will be to […] [Original post on xeno.glyphpress.com]

The SDR frequency band is on the left, showing some sort of Shephard Tone thing going on. On the right of the screen is a plugdata screen with an Oblique Palette object at the time controlling three little sets of knobs and sliders. The output is going to an envelop follower that is sending its values to output 1 of the Palette.

Behind it is a big yellow oscilloscope that’s showing a complex waveform.

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CMPRRSN RTFCT @joshuaacnewman.xeno.glyphpress.com.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

it's easy to mistake volume, repetition, or popularity for truth it works out for us most of the time if a lot of us eat a mushroom it's probably a safe mushroom if a lot of us remember how something happened, that's probably how it happened if a lot […] [Original post on xeno.glyphpress.com]

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CMPRRSN RTFCT @joshuaacnewman.xeno.glyphpress.com.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

One of the highlights of tonight’s #westernmasselectronics was Solid State Entity playing in front of this episode of #startrek .

Solid State Entity rocks out in front of an alien saying “I’ve always wanted to make love with an alien.”

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CMPRRSN RTFCT @joshuaacnewman.xeno.glyphpress.com.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

People always ask me where I got this bitchin shirt. It's from @zinrock.bsky.social and it's for sale again! www.bonfire.com/support-black-women…

A black T shirt that reads

Support Black Women
Who
Write Weird Shit

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CMPRRSN RTFCT @joshuaacnewman.xeno.glyphpress.com.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Post production solutions to production problems.

I was suggesting the reader purchase “ceramic resistors” when I meant “capacitors”. So I crossed it off. In 25 copies.

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CMPRRSN RTFCT @joshuaacnewman.xeno.glyphpress.com.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

Hey, I'm working on a thing. It's a zine called electric ant. It's notionally about our local, incredibly creative, and BIG electronic music scene here in Western Massachusetts. It's also about human/machine creativity in general. I'm trying to build a […] [Original post on xeno.glyphpress.com]

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CMPRRSN RTFCT @joshuaacnewman.xeno.glyphpress.com.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

The way you can best demonstrate that AI is saving your company money is by paying humans exponentially more, indexed to AI costs.

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CMPRRSN RTFCT @joshuaacnewman.xeno.glyphpress.com.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

Apparently, Target has decided to outsource their hiring to the Battle Sorcerers of Dzghaal.

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CMPRRSN RTFCT @joshuaacnewman.xeno.glyphpress.com.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

I would only buy authentic, non-bootLego just like my college was a drug-free campus.

The info plate for a Star Wars LEGO set that is all wiggly and shit-printed.

Ok, I’ll tell you a secret: it’s a bootleg. The original is $400 and I didn’t want to spend that much to someone who just got kits to flip them.

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CMPRRSN RTFCT @joshuaacnewman.xeno.glyphpress.com.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

Tonight was awesome. This patch literally & spiritually moved a lot of people tonight. We walked through some doors of perception together. Normally #westernmasselectronics posts are about everyone, but I’m just so proud my #rubicon set went off so well […] [Original post on xeno.glyphpress.com]

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CMPRRSN RTFCT @joshuaacnewman.xeno.glyphpress.com.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

Hey, sound nerds! I'm performing TONIGHT at #THCC in Easthampton, MA! And I only know one of my fellow performers, so come experience them all with me! You can hear the kinds of sounds I make at compressionartifact.bandcamp.com and I'll be […] [Original post on xeno.glyphpress.com]

(This OCR text really conveys the spirit so I'll leave it, but the gist is that:
BB DOZER (live looped majestics from NH)
Spray Bottle Fever (aliasing digicore from CT)
CMPRSSN RTFCT (handmade electronics/coldwar vibes)
OFFLAND (the oscillator replaces the singing bowl)

are playing Thursday, July 30 (tonight) at THCC, 1 Northampton St, Easthampton, MA. Doors at 7, cover is $10-20)

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CMPRRSN RTFCT @joshuaacnewman.xeno.glyphpress.com.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026

Went to a local record store to drop off the latest issue of my zine, electric ant. Discovered that Eno, Mœbius, and Rodelius released an album in 1978 that I was unaware of. And there was a free pile with some 1/4" tape with who-knows-what on it, that […] [Original post on xeno.glyphpress.com]

The cover of the Japanese release of the Eno/Mœbius/Rœdelius album After the Heat.

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CMPRRSN RTFCT @joshuaacnewman.xeno.glyphpress.com.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

Do you like long, meditative, experimental, modular synth tracks? I'm really proud of this one. It's called Standing, and is a piece of music I couldn't have made a couple of months ago before I got back to my feet. I don't feel like I'm at my best […] [Original post on xeno.glyphpress.com]

The cover of Standing is a couple of X-rays of foot bones overlaid. I particularly like the fiduciary info on X-rays, so it's featured prominently here. It seems to be a giant L (though perhaps that's some sort of registration mark" and the letters DS.

I have a huge pile of X-ray films at this point. I have some intentions to use them as a signal source but that requires me to build a synth module that is effectively a scanner.

Which, yes, is a project I've begun.

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CMPRRSN RTFCT @joshuaacnewman.xeno.glyphpress.com.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2026

I was trying to understand if molasses is considered a syrup in German (here, it implies maple syrup), and I tied myself in the funniest knot.

I accidentally wrote “dicksaft” on the English side of the translator, which means “syrup” in German. But it translated it as “Schwanzsaft”, which means “dick juice”.

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CMPRRSN RTFCT @joshuaacnewman.xeno.glyphpress.com.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026

Indian dad chaperoning his daughter at the Tortoise concert started cynical and grouchy and wound up kind of amazed leaning in and cheering for all the hypercomplexity. Eyes closed, smiling and rocking with the 6/4 time.

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CMPRRSN RTFCT @joshuaacnewman.xeno.glyphpress.com.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2026

Amazing night at #rubicon here in Easthampton! Powerful, moving music. I’ll have some reviews of the acts in electric ant issue #2!

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CMPRRSN RTFCT @joshuaacnewman.xeno.glyphpress.com.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026

I've been a fan of Graham Lewis of the 1st gen Punk band Wire since my friend Gary, comic-and-games-shop owner ergo mayor of local weirdos, gave me a cassette of It's Beginning To And Back Again in 1988 or so. Eventually, I figured out that most of what […] [Original post on xeno.glyphpress.com]

The cover of UUUU by s/t seems to be an imaginary cityscape that reminds one of the old World Trade Center, if it were made of solid blocks of glass. It has a City of the Future kind of vibe to it.

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CMPRRSN RTFCT @joshuaacnewman.xeno.glyphpress.com.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026

Front panels! You can see how I drilled the corners, then scored with a scoring plastic cutter to cut out panels from this cassette caddy. The bottom slots will probably be the mixer and μClouds. I don’t think I’ll have much room past that. Good thing […] [Original post on xeno.glyphpress.com]

A Mordax Data (the most expensive module I own by far) and a passive mult (which I think was a free pack-in from a Nonlinear Circuits module, so is probably my cheapest)

Check out that good-enough plastic cutting! I’ve got a lifetime of making stuff in me, and still I’m encouraged by Sam Battle insisting “Don’t be afraid to try it!”

Sloppy is so much better than hypothetical.

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CMPRRSN RTFCT @joshuaacnewman.xeno.glyphpress.com.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026

Hey, alright. Power bus is in place. Gotta get up the courage to plug it in and test voltages. Plus, I did the 5V bus differently this time: I can power Arduinos or whatever out of here now off the pairs of 5V and ground with a little 2-conductor DuPont connector. I doubt I’ll have any in here tho

The power bus now has colored lines running to ±12V, GND, and a separate line for 5V with lots of pin headers if I need them.

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CMPRRSN RTFCT @joshuaacnewman.xeno.glyphpress.com.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2026

Replicating a success here in the MakeFixHack Makerspace. Years ago, I found one of these cassette caddies in a thrift market with @SepticSnake and turned it into Rad Dog, the signal-generating heart of my #modularsynth rig. My gear all daisy chains […] [Original post on xeno.glyphpress.com]

Two black vertical Eurorack cases, one of which has only just been begun. It had power plugs and a power distribution board inside so far, but nothing is screwed in place yet.

The power all runs through Neutrik Speakon connectors, chosen for the number of conductors.

Power distribution with both connectors resting in place.

You might, but probably don’t, wonder: what about the 5V line for running USB devices like Arduini and stuff? And to that, I say: thanks for reminding me.

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CMPRRSN RTFCT @joshuaacnewman.xeno.glyphpress.com.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2026

I guess I'm making a zine for the #westernmasselectronics scene because we keep finding out too late that our friends had a show. If you've performed at Western Mass Electronics, Rubicon, or one of the house parties around here, hit me up and tell me […] [Original post on xeno.glyphpress.com]

The cover of the first issue of Electric Ant, June 2026
"electronic music and weird shit from the unceded pocumtuc nonotuck land"

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CMPRRSN RTFCT @joshuaacnewman.xeno.glyphpress.com.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2026

Hey, you wanna hear me talk with other game nerds about how to represent weird fiction in RPGs? Here I am as a guest of the GM Book Club, talking with some GMs and Romie Stott, the author of the weird fiction book in question, Nothing in the Basement! We […] [Original post on xeno.glyphpress.com]

The cover of Romie Stott's book
Nothing in the Basement
as the poster for Episode 37 of the Game Master's Book Club!

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CMPRRSN RTFCT @joshuaacnewman.xeno.glyphpress.com.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2026

At grownup art camp, doing a little UX testing/teaching practice/hardware shakedown with #plugdata and an #ObliquePalette with some folks here! I’ve decided to teach future first-time tutorials with systems that make muppet sounds.

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CMPRRSN RTFCT @joshuaacnewman.xeno.glyphpress.com.ap.brid.gy · 30/05/2026

Today is #droneday! The rain is supposed to stop just as we're getting started at 2:00 at Johnny Ugly's place at 15 Cedar St., Northampton, MA! Come sign up and make sounds with us! #Westernmasselectronics is tomorrow at 7PM at The Quarters in Hadley, MA! Come make more sounds with us!

Sun, 5/31 7-10 Quarters, Hadley
WESTERN MASS ELECTRONICS
TOMORROW
Bring a machine and
play a short set
All styles, genres, abilities
: people, welcome

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CMPRRSN RTFCT @joshuaacnewman.xeno.glyphpress.com.ap.brid.gy · 27/05/2026

Beeg week coming up for #electronicmusic in Western Mass! Thursday: Rubicon at THCC, 2 Northampton St., Easthampton. Four sets: SWRM / HAITLIN / THE WORLD WIDE WEB / HARSH NOISE BOYFRIEND Saturday: #droneday at Johnny Ugly’s yard! At last check, six […] [Original post on xeno.glyphpress.com]

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CMPRRSN RTFCT @joshuaacnewman.xeno.glyphpress.com.ap.brid.gy · 23/05/2026

Just got this Befaco Instrument Interface and Timo Rozendal’s Automator (which I built from his kit at #superbooth ) into my Rad Dog #eurorack case. This case is effectively two Runglers making evolving chaos, a hand-drawn envelope/LFO, an audio […] [Original post on xeno.glyphpress.com]

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