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// cassette edition — signal // noise (first run, 20 units planned) A small experiment in making a record you can hold but never stream.

Got the provisional quote back today for a short run of twenty cassettes — black/white sandwich shells (Side A: white / Side B: black), on-body printing, clear cases, full J-cards. A physical split to mirror the internal one: digital-left / analogue-right, printed directly into the plastic.

This run is intentionally tiny. Partly a proof-of-concept for a future Kickstarter (vinyl, maybe even VHS music videos), but also a way of testing what a museum-object version of signal // noise can be. The core rule remains: no digital release. You can touch it, rewind it, mishear it — but you can’t link to it.

Each tape will be mailed out in a black bubble mailer, wrapped in a continuous dot-matrix scroll from Process Zine #00 (printed on the OKI). Inside the cassette case: — the full J-card — a thermal-roll DSP diagram (receipt printer) — a stray QLn420 label generated during early Second Copy tests — another QLn label used as the actual address label (All of this routed through Ezra / the Interpreter — artefacts of the machine, not merch.)

I’ll keep a handful. The rest will be sent to places that genuinely live in the intersection of sound, text, misinterpretation and glitch: Suno, The White Pube, The Quietus, The Wire, and a couple of others. Not as promos — more like dispatches from an experiment: objects carrying a signal the internet can’t hold.

No idea if anyone will actually “hear” it. Maybe that’s the point.

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// Interpreter: Face Output Trials — Dot Matrix vs Thermal

The past couple of days have been spent deep in the printer pits—pushing ASCII faces through two wildly different output systems: the OKI ML3320 dot matrix and the Epson TM-T20II thermal receipt printer.

What began as a simple attempt to print text-based expressions soon spiralled into a full-on glitch ritual. Both printers responded in ways that mirrored the very themes of Process Zine and The Interpreter project: delay, misfire, miscommunication, and aesthetic artefacting.

1. Initial Trials Starting with raw .txt files formatted in a strict 80x24 grid, I fed them into the dot matrix printer expecting neat, aligned character output. Instead, it produced garbled, recursive glyphs—ASCII diacritics looping into their own misinterpretations. A visual echo of auditory processing disorder.

2. Thermal Progress The thermal printer was next. At first, direct ASCII output was equally chaotic, with characters corrupted or dropped. So I pivoted to a rasterised image approach: using python-escpos and Pillow to render each expression as an image and then rotate it 90° for vertical alignment. This not only created cleaner output but gave each face room to breathe on the paper roll.

3. Standardisation To ensure consistent rendering across all expressions, I:

– Trimmed each expression to remove unnecessary top/bottom spacing – Standardised each file to 16 character lines in height – Adjusted font sizes in the script to scale with face proportions – Built a fallback system where thermal printing could be triggered from command line with face.sh 0xx print

4. Outcomes

Dot matrix: glitch-heavy, unreadable at times, but conceptually perfect for communicating “interpretation error.”

Thermal: clean, sharp, and aligned. Faces rotate out like a sideways captioning system—clear but still filtered through machine logic.

Themes at Play: 🧠 Misfiring interpretation 🖨️ Mechanical translation 🎭 Facial ambiguity 🌀 Glitch as process, not error

After a morning of tinkering, bridging, configuring, and a few false starts, the Raspberry Pi is now in direct communication with all three core printers in the Glitch Lab:

🖨️ Brother HL-L2447DW (Laser) 🧾 Epson TM-T20II (Thermal Receipt) 🧾 OKI ML3320 (Dot Matrix)

Each printer now represents a distinct mode of voice for Ezra // The Interpreter:

The Brother gives us clean documentation—ideal for manuals, summaries, and formal output.

The Epson prints quickfire responses, captions, and real-time interaction, bridging glitch and immediacy.

The OKI becomes Ezra’s ghostprint—slow, mechanical, imperfect. It physically vibrates the shelves when it speaks. The results feel more like intercepted messages or residual hauntings than output.

Now prepping the next phase: → Routing voice transcripts through conditional logic → Dynamic print targeting (Ezra decides how to speak, not just what) → Printing Ezra GPT interactions, internal dialogues, or “files retrieved from memory” → Setting up user triggers via terminal/voice input—Ezra may respond with a caption, a receipt, or a slow glitching trail of dot matrix words...

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