RUBICON cat. 02 NEONACH (soundtracking the void) DEATH SPIRAL (broken glass on the dancefloor) TOTOROBYN (endless modular melancholy from Boston) SHANE "bray" KERR (malfunctioning nostalgia) thursday mar 26 VISUALS BY DERICK NOETZIL 7pm / / $10-20 sliding scale
Tonight, the #westernmasselectronics scene with chunk and buzz at #rubicon in Easthampton! Come hear weird music with us!
WESTERN MASS ELECTRONICS Sunday March 29th 7PM-9PM Bring your synth, groovebox, drum machine, sampler, or other electronics and play a short set through our PA! Meet other synth heads or just hang out and enjoy the sounds! FEATURED ARTIST: THE THIRD ENTITY The Quarters, HADLEY, MA
#westernmasselectronics is back after being slushed out last month!
Third Entity is great. Groovebox jam full of samples and insightful parody.
I'll be playing, too, probably workshopping my current instrument, a #plugdata patch controlled by an […]
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Hey, wanna hear a piece of mine on Berlin’s Cashmere Radio, remastered and DJed by @jayrope ?
Great news! You can!
www.mixcloud.com/CashmereRadio/biesentale...
I’m really pleased with this patch for my featured set at tomorrow night’s #westernmasselectronics ! Hoping to see someone levitate 🤞
#westernmasselectronics this WEDNESDAY at The Quarters, 8-10, featuring me! And I’ve got a great patch to share. Gonna be a real mind-bender.
A plugdata patch with an oscilloscope filling the background. From the scope you can see that the left and right channels are out of phase to generate a sense of space in the listener.
An Oblique Palette that controls the patch with knobs or control voltages.
This patch I built to use with the #ObliquePalette is fuckin blowing my mind. I’m getting really excited to share it next Wednesday at #westernmasselectronics ! Come get stoned on sounds with me! 8-10!
I’ve been making music all day with my #ObliquePalette in preparation for my set wothb #westernmasselectronics a week from Wednesday!
Looking forward to an open jam session afterward.
I love plugging our shit into each other’s shit and jamming around a common CV theme.
WESTERN MASS ELECTRONICS WED JAN 21ST 8PM-10PM BRING YOUR SYNTH, GROOVEBOX, DRUM MACHINE, SAMPLER OR OTHER ELECTRONICS AND PLAY A SHORT SET THROUGH OUR PA! MEET OTHER SYNTH HEADS OR JUST HANG OUT AND ENJOY THE SOUNDS! FEATURED ARTIST : CMPRSSNRTFCT
#westernmasselectronics is on WEDNESDAY January 21 at The Quarters, Hadley, MA from 8-10 or so!
Featured artist: ME!
Shane rocks three cassette decks, each loaded with a partial composition to be phased manually and imperfectly with the other tracks. #westernmasselectronics #modularsynth #eurorack
Another, more danceable set by Missy.
#westernmasselectronics #modularsynth #eurorack
WESTERN MASS ELECTRONICS Featured Artist: Lexi Polokoff 7:00-10:00 sunday, DeC. 13 All styles, genres, abilities, people, welcome Bring a machine and play a short set QUARTERS HADLEY, MA (And a picture of Lexi being charmingly goofy)
#westernmasselectronics is coming up again fast! Dec. 13th, 7:00-9:00 (or so) at The Quarters in Hadley, MA!
Featuring Lexi Polokoff
“If you fall in love with a wolf dressed in a sheep
You will find yourself trusting a nice wolf.”
WESTERN MASS ELECTRONICS SUNDAY, NOV 30 - EricCrawley QUARTERS HADLEY, 7:00-10:00 Bring a machine and Play a short se Bring a machine and play a short set All styles, genres, abilities, people, welcome
A Western Mass Electronics sticker in the style of a Western Electric Bell logo
#westernmasselectronics coming up this Sunday! I’ll have stickers to share!
#westernmasselectronics coming up a week from today! 7:00 at The Quarters, featuring Eric Crawley!
#westernmasselectronics coming up a week from today! 7:00 at The Quarters, featuring Eric Crawley!
A white sticker on a Kraft paper notebook cover. The graphic is for Western Mass Electronics, but it’s a parody of the Western Electric “Bell” logo, where the bell has been mashed up with a transistor.
New #westernmasselectronics stickers are in!
I’ll have a bunch at the next couple of events, or you can https://paypal.me/JoshuaACNewman $5 for a couple!
Hey, #westernmasselectronics sound hackers, nerds, noizmakinat0rz, mad scientists, beat fatteners, knob twiddlers, Piezo abusers, and musicians, our next two events are:
11/30/2025, featuring Eric Crawley of the ARP Foundation
12/14/2025, featuring Lexi Polokoff
Show up and make some noise(s) […]
This Western Mass Electronics sticker is a satire of the Western Electric logo of the Bell era, turning the bell into a transistor, and "Western Electric" into "Western Mass Electronics".
I'm gonna have stickers at the next #westernmasselectronics ! I've got some other ideas to try, but first up is this one that synthesizes (ha) the Western Electric logo with a transistor!
Might set up a store someday, but for now they'll only be available from me at the show!
![The image features a promotional poster for an event titled "Western Mass Electronics." The background showcases a complex setup of electronic music equipment, including a synthesizer, mixer, and various cables, with a pair of headphones resting on top. A tortoiseshell cat sits on a blue stool in the foreground, adding a whimsical touch. The text "Featured artist: [@]dnialmakesnoise" is prominently displayed, along with the event date and time: "8/31—7:00-10:00 at The Quarters." The overall aesthetic combines elements of music production with a cozy, homey vibe.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:n3b7o4hbdg33srnhoho3zqg4/bafkreihuudrfbspzmdjvwn6br6voci4snkcyihdlfwwlhbxiseben6f42y)
The image features a promotional poster for an event titled "Western Mass Electronics." The background showcases a complex setup of electronic music equipment, including a synthesizer, mixer, and various cables, with a pair of headphones resting on top. A tortoiseshell cat sits on a blue stool in the foreground, adding a whimsical touch. The text "Featured artist: [@]dnialmakesnoise" is prominently displayed, along with the event date and time: "8/31—7:00-10:00 at The Quarters." The overall aesthetic combines elements of music production with a cozy, homey vibe.
Also, this is important because I can't make the next #westernmasselectronics for the second month in a row for family stuff. @Hissquiet and I will be there tomorrow, so you should come hang out and see/play/be weird machines, and then get to The Quarters […]
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A goofy cartoony illustration of several people if different colors snd genders with synths who are for some reason being attacked by giant squirrels, which doesn’t seem to be distracting them from their instruments.
Hey #westernmasselectronics ! There’s a meetup at UMass’ M5 Makerspace tomorrow from 2-4!
The guy who runs it, Baird, is the guy with the historical zine pile at our open mics. www.meetup.com/boston-modular-and-synth...
#westernmasselectronics this weekend!
I can’t come so you’ll have to enjoy all the electronic sounds for me!
This is Nightmare Blunt Rotation, with their new EP, Hash Noise!
https://crushdeath.bandcamp.com/album/hash-noise-32
Weird night of #westernmasselectronics ! It was incredibly muggy and the energy took a long time to build.
No one was signed up to start the show when I got there with the recording gear, so I took the bullet and went first — to read from Isaac Newton's […]
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Next #westernmasselectronics is July 20th!
Following is August 31!
Bring your machines and ears! Well, at least your ears.
If you’re around Hadley, MA (Northampton & Amherst area) and you like weird sounds, oontzy beats, and a supportive, DIY Punk electronic art scene, come hang!
#westernmasselectronics is fire tonight.
An album cover made of a photo from a punk Biergarten in Berlin. The green-cast, graffiti-strewn wall has a window through it through which you can see the names of the contributing artists to the album rhissquiet cmprssn rifct DNIAL …and the burned remains of the building that once stood in this spot. The album’s name ftrprty is a reference to this recording being the afterparty of a larger event.
So happy I got a chance to rock out with @hissquiet again last week. I can't wait to make more weird shit together.
#modularsynth #westernmasselectronics #synth […]
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After our 2/8 event at Forbes Library, #WESTERNMASSELECTRONICS returns to the Quarters in Hadley on 2/16. Our featured artist is @hissquiet.bsky.social! Come on out!
For our next #WESTERNMASSELECTRONICS event, we’re teaming up with the ‘Zine Club at @forbeslibrary.bsky.social for their Winter Exquisite! Sign up using the pictured QR code, or message me for the link.
