:condemned: he/they. Teacher; graphic, book, & game designer; hacker; cyclist; soundmachinist. Founder of the Indie Bazaar. I want a New Good Internet more than the Old Good Internet. #ttrpg #indierpg #modularsynth #synthdiy #experimentalmusic #alteducation #retrocomputing Creator of Shock:Social Science Fiction, Mobile Frame Zero, The BLOODY-HANDED NAME of BRONZE & other games. Process: Oblique Easel art computer If you have no bio/posts, I’m not following you & might report you.
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Without it, I’d have never found my way. I taught there, too, founding its game design program curriculum, helping my fellow weirdos find their ways. You probably know about Lupita Nyong’o, Liev Schreiber, maybe Ken Burns or Lee Smolin. As a student, I worked on computer interfaces that Apple & Samsung/LG integrated into the interface you’re using now. 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You just need telecommunications to handle a flatter system of hierarchy. The important thing is: control of polities that don't have the ability to consent because of the power discrepancy. Historically, that's just always required A Guy at the top to balance Shannon entropy. And even so, the Spanish American War was obviously a war of empires over other people's polities, complete with Roosevelt on a horse. npub1dy79sr4285s8psw07kz50c97u0lt97fj0093pgcrzrmc4pdzl8es6frwgl Count Buchla This simple explanation ignores that attacking Iran is also what Hegseth, Trump, various Sauds, and their fellow shitgarglers have always wanted: a forever war for the purposes of extracting the US's value into their own pockets. This isn't just the fall of the US empire. It's canonizing the Epstein class as the primary superpower. https://mastodonapp.uk/@PoliticalCartoon/116341985179619777 npub1dy79sr4285s8psw07kz50c97u0lt97fj0093pgcrzrmc4pdzl8es6frwgl Count Buchla What’s your artistic process? 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It’s just too much. npub1dy79sr4285s8psw07kz50c97u0lt97fj0093pgcrzrmc4pdzl8es6frwgl Count Buchla @nprofile…fjwu That Sikorski boilerplate! npub1dy79sr4285s8psw07kz50c97u0lt97fj0093pgcrzrmc4pdzl8es6frwgl Count Buchla @nprofile…7j9y Here's the thing about Cyberpunk: The neon, the dehumanization, the consumer goods/guns — those are the PROBLEM in Cyberpunk. The SOLUTION is to build yourself into a person who surfs the shockwave of the future. Who builds a community of comrades who keep each other human even in our evolving shared transhumanity. The robot limbs don't sacrifice of your humanity. Commercial healthcare does. Building your body to match your soul & community to share your needs: THAT is why it's punk. npub1dy79sr4285s8psw07kz50c97u0lt97fj0093pgcrzrmc4pdzl8es6frwgl Count Buchla To expand the coda there: I was talking about my new Cyberpunk RPG in our local Android's Dungeon around 1988. The owner introduced me to my immediate new best friend, Myles. We'd go scour magazine stores together for bOING bOING, Mondo2000 and whatever was being xeroxed by RISD students. When the cover promised something by @nprofile…7j9y or Rudy, it would go under the arm immediately. This was a Cyberpunk of HOPE. We can find new ways to be people. New ways of using our minds. New kinds of art. npub1dy79sr4285s8psw07kz50c97u0lt97fj0093pgcrzrmc4pdzl8es6frwgl Count Buchla I first encountered @nprofile…usz0 in a bookstore in Italy in 1985 when I was 12. My family was there for a year, and while my Italian got OK, I'm not fluent. I was HUNGRY for English books. My family went to an international bookstore & I went to the sci fi section. I picked out Software. It had a direct impact on me. I studied Artificial Life in college, wrote about it, made RPGs about it. 2 years later, I learned it was part of a literary movement called "Cyberpunk". https://mastodon.social/@rudytheelder/116277207483248217 npub1dy79sr4285s8psw07kz50c97u0lt97fj0093pgcrzrmc4pdzl8es6frwgl Count Buchla @nprofile…fjwu Heh. I’ve been planning on painting “2.3 M” on my jacket. npub1dy79sr4285s8psw07kz50c97u0lt97fj0093pgcrzrmc4pdzl8es6frwgl Count Buchla @nprofile…n43v Can you embed components within the layers? npub1dy79sr4285s8psw07kz50c97u0lt97fj0093pgcrzrmc4pdzl8es6frwgl Count Buchla @nprofile…n43v Kevin. How long did it take you to multiply an entire circuit board’s locations by -1 npub1dy79sr4285s8psw07kz50c97u0lt97fj0093pgcrzrmc4pdzl8es6frwgl Count Buchla @nprofile…e5jr Hey, just read your article on Conway’s Life (and I can’t help but think that we discussed this at some point?)! It’s so cool, and I agree that jt should be physical. I think you might be very interested in these switches, which cost a quarter of those other ones. https://a.co/d/0aaKK6UT npub1dy79sr4285s8psw07kz50c97u0lt97fj0093pgcrzrmc4pdzl8es6frwgl Count Buchla @nprofile…98w4 I think in somehow underpowering it. Because I just tried one of those crap RPi mice and it worked for a second and then stopped with an undervolt message. But this is a power supply that powers laptops all the time, and the screen is currently on another power circuit. This calls for making dinner and watching Babylon 5 with my partner. npub1dy79sr4285s8psw07kz50c97u0lt97fj0093pgcrzrmc4pdzl8es6frwgl Count Buchla @nprofile…98w4 …and it seems the keyboard is only working in some of the USB jacks? I wonder if Inhave a bum unit here. Gonna try a different one. npub1dy79sr4285s8psw07kz50c97u0lt97fj0093pgcrzrmc4pdzl8es6frwgl Count Buchla @nprofile…98w4 currently (ha ha) it’s a keyboard and the touchscreen. npub1dy79sr4285s8psw07kz50c97u0lt97fj0093pgcrzrmc4pdzl8es6frwgl Count Buchla Hey, has anyone had issues with a #raspberrypi that can’t see USB devices other than a keyboard? I couldn’t get a touchscreen to work, but then I tried another touchscreen and a Ploopy and they don’t show in lsusb either. Related? I’m getting undervolt/overcurrent warnings, despite having two 35W power supplies running Pi and monitor. Mouse on USB is suuuper slow but fine on Bluetooth. npub1dy79sr4285s8psw07kz50c97u0lt97fj0093pgcrzrmc4pdzl8es6frwgl Count Buchla @nprofile…cu2v I live with regret that even the weakest Hör set is so much better than anything that happens in my bathroom. and I've tried making ALL KINDS of sounds in there! npub1dy79sr4285s8psw07kz50c97u0lt97fj0093pgcrzrmc4pdzl8es6frwgl Count Buchla @nprofile…29n8 The biggest thing I've learned in synthesis is Fourier. The implications are truly mindblowing. What "sounds good" because it's familiar is only a tiiiiny fraction of what "sounds good" among waveforms. Like, Overdrive pedals are described as "crunchy" or "growly" or whatever. But they add odd-numbered harmonics. And now that you know that, you can design a unique overdrive sound. npub1dy79sr4285s8psw07kz50c97u0lt97fj0093pgcrzrmc4pdzl8es6frwgl Count Buchla @nprofile…29n8 Any scale is a profound compromise with the actualities of harmonics. A440 is one octave below A880, but 1320Hz isn't on a piano keyboard. Fretless instruments (or slides, or whathaveyou) don't make this compromise, so they're good for experimental music since you're unlikely to get stuck in the realm of Classical or Blues or whatever. Synthesizers emphatically don't have this limitation unless you enforce it for your artistic purposes. npub1dy79sr4285s8psw07kz50c97u0lt97fj0093pgcrzrmc4pdzl8es6frwgl Count Buchla @nprofile…29n8 Particularly if you're just beginning, getting an intuitive understanding of what a waveform looks like when it crosses another vs. what it sounds like can be really important to conceptualizing your sounds. I don't in any way care about a tuner. Formal scales aren't interesting to me. I care about overlapping waveforms, Fourier analysis, and the shorthand of, say "saw" to say "An arbitrary number of odd harmonics". npub1dy79sr4285s8psw07kz50c97u0lt97fj0093pgcrzrmc4pdzl8es6frwgl Count Buchla @nprofile…29n8 I'm often using signals that are too slow to be able to hear, and I need to know they're doing the right thing (and sometimes if they're doing *anything*). And of course I want to know how the signals relate to one another. I also often collaborate by sharing control voltage with other artists, working together with an envelop follower, LFO, or other such compositional elements. Being able to see what they're doing and anticipate changes is important. npub1dy79sr4285s8psw07kz50c97u0lt97fj0093pgcrzrmc4pdzl8es6frwgl Count Buchla @nprofile…29n8 That thing is so cool. It's sort of the only big fancy module that calls to me. It's something I actually need all the time and can't build on my own without basically paying the same amount of money, plus the work to iterate on it. npub1dy79sr4285s8psw07kz50c97u0lt97fj0093pgcrzrmc4pdzl8es6frwgl Count Buchla That means he’s 29 here. He looks like he’s in his 40s. npub1dy79sr4285s8psw07kz50c97u0lt97fj0093pgcrzrmc4pdzl8es6frwgl Count Buchla @nprofile…2gda Given the rate at which scientific papers are retracted due to AI semiotic corruption, I'm left wanting to believe this more than ACTUALLY believing it. npub1dy79sr4285s8psw07kz50c97u0lt97fj0093pgcrzrmc4pdzl8es6frwgl Count Buchla @nprofile…f2ay 🤘🔥🤘 npub1dy79sr4285s8psw07kz50c97u0lt97fj0093pgcrzrmc4pdzl8es6frwgl Count Buchla @nprofile…f2ay Thank you for this! I'm a teacher, and a huge amount of my effort is cleansing the shame off my students who have been rigorously taught that only the product, not the practice, matters, that talent out of the gate, not the experience of process, is the value. npub1dy79sr4285s8psw07kz50c97u0lt97fj0093pgcrzrmc4pdzl8es6frwgl Count Buchla @nprofile…d0yj @nprofile…udgc Awesome! I keep basically restarting learning FreeCAD. It has the typical FOSS hostility to new users, but I keep going at it anyway. npub1dy79sr4285s8psw07kz50c97u0lt97fj0093pgcrzrmc4pdzl8es6frwgl Count Buchla Want to see a Wikipedia page that perfectly describes the FAFO experience? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley_St._Clair https://flipboard.com/@futurism/future-society-q9o43qrjz/-/a-FD2fQBb3SROAXbup0CUaFA%3Aa%3A1737388686-%2F0 npub1dy79sr4285s8psw07kz50c97u0lt97fj0093pgcrzrmc4pdzl8es6frwgl Count Buchla Your AI-generated header image makes it look like your blog is cheap shit that you didn't bother writing. Can't even tell if it is. Why would I want to put in the effort to figure it out? npub1dy79sr4285s8psw07kz50c97u0lt97fj0093pgcrzrmc4pdzl8es6frwgl Count Buchla @nprofile…tsp5 @nprofile…hf3e @nprofile…tmc6 Did they make the same mistake? npub1dy79sr4285s8psw07kz50c97u0lt97fj0093pgcrzrmc4pdzl8es6frwgl Count Buchla @nprofile…yzy8 I’d sort of assumed that’s what they’d done until I tried to figure out how to break it out. npub1dy79sr4285s8psw07kz50c97u0lt97fj0093pgcrzrmc4pdzl8es6frwgl Count Buchla @nprofile…fr89 @nprofile…yzy8 Wait…what’s that wide slot back there? I don’t remember that! npub1dy79sr4285s8psw07kz50c97u0lt97fj0093pgcrzrmc4pdzl8es6frwgl Count Buchla @nprofile…yzy8 It’s so weird that we’re stuck with the built-in USB. Of all the things you might want to just move somewhere convenient, that seems like the easiest one. npub1dy79sr4285s8psw07kz50c97u0lt97fj0093pgcrzrmc4pdzl8es6frwgl Count Buchla @nprofile…5gr5 At least you’ve got your cute outfit. That one’s just for you. npub1dy79sr4285s8psw07kz50c97u0lt97fj0093pgcrzrmc4pdzl8es6frwgl Count Buchla @nprofile…5gr5 Shit, I’d totally have offered to take you were I not in another country and having to force myself backward in time. npub1dy79sr4285s8psw07kz50c97u0lt97fj0093pgcrzrmc4pdzl8es6frwgl Count Buchla @nprofile…2pln Yeah, that part is just his usual toddler-who-has-learned-to-prevaricate noise. There are a lot of reasons. He brags about them. So. npub1dy79sr4285s8psw07kz50c97u0lt97fj0093pgcrzrmc4pdzl8es6frwgl Count Buchla @nprofile…etxu So whirrr. Much ghungk. npub1dy79sr4285s8psw07kz50c97u0lt97fj0093pgcrzrmc4pdzl8es6frwgl Count Buchla @nprofile…etxu Yeah, it was a lot of creative machine use. npub1dy79sr4285s8psw07kz50c97u0lt97fj0093pgcrzrmc4pdzl8es6frwgl Count Buchla Shane rocks three cassette decks, each loaded with a partial composition to be phased manually and imperfectly with the other tracks. #westernmasselectronics #modularsynth #eurorack https://cdn.masto.host/xenoglyphpresscom/media_attachments/files/115/850/482/339/659/528/original/6d88e6b1a7e47de5.mp4 npub1dy79sr4285s8psw07kz50c97u0lt97fj0093pgcrzrmc4pdzl8es6frwgl Count Buchla Another, more danceable set by Missy. #westernmasselectronics #modularsynth #eurorack https://cdn.masto.host/xenoglyphpresscom/media_attachments/files/115/850/476/114/410/171/original/cdc0d610491891d6.mp4 npub1dy79sr4285s8psw07kz50c97u0lt97fj0093pgcrzrmc4pdzl8es6frwgl Count Buchla Went to an incredible house show here last night with @nprofile…t4jx . Ironically, I shot their whole set sono can’t share it here. But here are a couple of clips of some of the performers! There was one more, even, that I was too mesmerized by to record. https://cdn.masto.host/xenoglyphpresscom/media_attachments/files/115/850/321/315/372/903/original/531348ab4a02fcce.mp4 npub1dy79sr4285s8psw07kz50c97u0lt97fj0093pgcrzrmc4pdzl8es6frwgl Count Buchla There’s no reason to not go straight down the line of succession. https://mastodon.social/@randahl/115849403855534021 npub1dy79sr4285s8psw07kz50c97u0lt97fj0093pgcrzrmc4pdzl8es6frwgl Count Buchla Huh. That's sooo weird. https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/115849912419950083