Make Noise Synthesizers | September 2022

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.