Thom Nguyen, Mini-Residency with Make Noise Music | September 12-15, 2023

From September 12-15, Make Noise’s first artist, Thom Nguyen will be making a glorious racket at 821 Haywood Rd!

Our friends at Make Noise Music are hosting a series of mini-residencies this month. They are inviting a few favorite local artists to play with their gear, especially the brand new analog stereo oscillator, XPO.

Check out Thom’s full performance on Make Noise’s youtube channel here.

Check out the full video of all of Make Noise’s residents here.

Videos were recorded and edited by Pete Speer, interviews were recorded, shot, and edited by Walker Farrell; the recap was written and edited by Walker Farrell and also includes footage by Peter Speer and Lewis Dahm.

Make Noise Synthesizers | September 2022

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The Make Noise Pop-Up at 821 included parties, a Pop-Up Store with demos, workshops, artist Mini-Residencies, and a month-long raffle benefiting REVOLVE and the Bob Moog Foundation!

The artists Make Noise hosted for mini-residencies were Farewell Phoenix, Sleep Number, Thom Nguyen, and Sarah Louise. You can check the full video Make Noise created for their residency on Make Noise’s YouTube channel.

Make Noise also hosted workshops with Bana Haffar with O-Coast Night, Pete Speer with a DIY Reverb Workshop, and Walker Farrell with a Prismatic Oscillations workshop. All events were open to the public, except those which required advance signup.

This pop up was also the first time people will be able to buy Make Noise’s brand new stereo oscillator XPO. Also available were desktop units, modules, the new XPO t-shirt, and music made by the Make Noise Crew and Artists in Residence.

Make Noise was founded in 2008 by Tony Rolando, a self-taught electronic musical instrument designer who got started by obsessively reading amateur radio books at the public library, building electronics for artists, such as the light controlled mixer for Simon Lee’s “Bus Obscura,” working for Moog Music, and playing in bands for many years. After 3 years of isolation on a mountain top he founded Make Noise.

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Viola Spells | August 2022

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Viola Spells is a crochet wire artist who used her time as our first Artist in Residence in August 2022 to experiment with different techniques to create jewelry and figurative sculptures. Ms. Spells uses crochet wire as a medium to communicate the dual concepts of “Line” and the culture of women and also makes “protest jewelry “ to illustrate the struggle of African Americans’ lives in the United States; these pieces, called narrative jewelry, are primarily made of mixed metals with text. Raised in Asheville and educated at Allen High School in Asheville, Central University in Durham, and The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor for a graduate degree in Library Science, Ms. Spells is the owner of ZenobiaStudio in Asheville’s River Arts District and resides in Asheville with her daughter and grandson. After retiring as a children’s and regional librarian in the northeast, she received her B.F.A. In Metalsmithing and Jewelry from East Tennessee State University. We were honored and thrilled to have her join us as our first artist in residence!