In this occasional series exploring modular synthesis and live performance, William Stokes talks to Tony Rolando, electronic musician and founder of modular company Make Noise. Tony talks about his beginnings in the industry and how Make Noise has relaunched in 2025 with a new team and a brand new module release, which he then showcases in an exclusive performance alongside four additional modules.

Chapters
00:00 - Introduction
05:22 - Creating Social Media Posts
12:10 - Recent Innovations In Modular
14:02 - Revisioning Jettisoned Music Technology
21:08 - Module 1: Maths
30:17 - Module 2: Morphagene
47:42 - Module 3: Qpas
57:57 - Module 4: Bruxa
01:12:52 - Module 5: New Universal Synthesizer System
01:27:40 - The Performance

Tony Rolando Biog
Tony Rolando is a self-taught musician and electronic musical instrument designer who started his career building electronics for artists, such as the light controlled mixer for Simon Lee’s “Bus Obscura,” working for Moog Music and playing in bands. He has recently released music with Important Records and the Asheville, NC based Ceremony of Seasons.

Tony is the founder, lead designer and co-owner of Make Noise, a modular synth company launched in 2008, known for modules such as the Morphagene and 0-Coast, popular with artists like Thom Yorke and Robert Lowe, aka Lichens. They operate out of Asheville, NC and have global distribution through a number of music tech dealers.

https://tonyrolando.bandcamp.com/
www.makenoisemusic.com

William Stokes Biog
William Stokes is a producer, writer and artist in three-piece avant-psych band Voka Gentle. As well as being a critic and columnist for Sound On Sound, conceiving the popular Talkback column and heading up the Modular column, he has also written on music and music technology for The Guardian, MOJO, The Financial Times, Electronic Sound and more. 

As an artist in Voka Gentle he has made records with producers from Gareth Jones (Depeche Mode, Grizzly Bear, Nick Cave) to Sam Petts-Davies (Radiohead, The Smile, Roger Waters), has had songs featured on franchises from FIFA Football to The Sims and has toured across the UK, Europe and the USA, playing festivals from Pitchfork Avant-Garde in Paris to SXSW in Austin, Texas. He has collaborated with artists including the Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne, Morcheeba, Panda Bear and Sonic Boom. 

Alongside being a guitarist and pianist, he is a synthesis enthusiast with a particular interest in sampling and explorative sound manipulation. As a producer and engineer, he has made albums with acclaimed avant-garde musicians from composer Tullis Rennie to Mute Records artist Louis Carnell. “I’m always seeking out the most ‘out-there’, experimental, risk-taking musicians I can find to work with,” he says, “to capture vibrant, detailed recordings and create three-dimensional mixes of music that might otherwise struggle to know where to begin in the studio environment.” 

Stokes currently lectures in Music Production at City, University of London.

https://www.vokagentle.com/

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Electronic Music

Tony Rolando - My Life In Modules

Tony Rolando - My Life in Modules | Podcast

Live recording of modular rig + EP-133 for drums. No editing. One take.

Alien Transmission (Live)


Les Mots-lympiades #5 : des mots en épreuve et en jeux pour les enfants. Apprenez et amusez-vous avec les mots ! 
Cette fois-ci : les Mots-lympiades de la joie !


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Les mots-lympiades #5

In this episode, Nicola Woodford-Smith and Professor Paul Glaister discuss the record-breaking Summer 2024 entries for A Level mathematics and what this means for the future of our subject along with what this means for Higher Education entries. They also discuss the Large Data Set and how this could further be integrated into study.

Ep32: Celebrating the A Level surge with Professor Paul Glaister


La petite Philo #3 : questions, réflexions, histoires et partages à hauteur d’enfant sur les grands thèmes de la vie…
Cette fois-ci : qu’est ce que c’est que la curiosité ?


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La petite Philo #3 : la Curiosité

Parenting Tips for Supporting Your Child's Math Learning: An Interview with High School Maths Teacher Eman El Shafie

Interview with High School Maths Teacher Eman El Shafie


Plongez (littéralement !) dans un tableau et l’univers de son artiste… 
Cette fois-ci : La Clairvoyance de René Magritte.


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Le Tableau de Marlo #3 : La Clairvoyance de Magritte


Le jeu de rapidité #3 : concentrez-vous et répondez le plus vite possible à de petites et grandes questions… un jeu que les enfants adorent... et leurs parents !


Cette fois-ci : des questions curieuses
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Le Jeu de rapidité #3

On considère souvent que les mathématiques sont la matière reine, celle qui ouvre toutes les portes et où seuls les meilleurs réussissent. Mais pourquoi cette discipline a-t-elle tant d’importance ? Et d’où viennent notre intérêt et nos compétences en maths ? Est-ce inscrit dans nos cerveaux ou dans nos gènes ? À partir d’une enquête sociologique auprès de lycéennes, Clémence Perronnet, sociologue, chercheuse à l’Agence Phare rattachée au Centre Max Weber, montrera que la réussite en maths n’a rien d’inné : elle est le résultat de rapports sociaux. Sexisme, élitisme, racisme… La sélection par les maths est finalement bien moins neutre qu’elle n’en a l’air.

Echec et maths, où est le problème ？

From my YouTube Description:
Just a quick after work dub techno inspired jam. 

Practice Practice Practice... maybe I'll get enough skills to perform a live jam a set out in the wild again. Been a while since Phoenix Landing and Electric Highway live sets.

Setup is pretty straightforward here.
All Drums just 1 pattern on the TR-8S, a few faders nudged up/down to bring in the parts. Need to do more here with additional alt patterns and more probability to steps.

For the Synth lead, just running Braids through a Mosaic 1U filter and out to Sealegs for delay/verb. 
Braids is sequenced by TB-3PO hemisphere applet off an Ornaments & Crime (Phaserville Firmware of course). Some modulation of the VCA with Maths for that funky envelope groove and Ochd for subtle Braids Timbre / Color manipulation.

A little manual control of the TB-3P0 with the WMD 4TTEN for slight pitch and note density in the pattern.

Sounds pretty full with just these few modules and certainly could have continued evoloving the patch, but thought that this lil groove sounded cool enough as is and wanted to capture one performance.

Dub Techno - Edit

This poem is inspired by recent research, which has found that carrion crows can spontaneously detect geometric regularity - like right angles and symmetry – just like humans.

Crowsight

In this episode, Dr Tom Crawford talks with Nicola Woodford-Smith about the projects he is involved in that help promote a culture of enthusiasm and joy around mathematics. Be prepared to hear of Tom's maths tattoos, his latest TED talk theme involving teaching maths using video games and just how he got the reputation of being the 'naked mathematician'!

Ep 33: Don't say the 'm-word' with Tom Crawford

Maths & Matek

Compagnon Maths, CP

Title: "Walls of Silence"
*(A rallying cry against techno-fascism and societal fragmentation – 14 verses, 3 bridges, chorus, outro)*

Verse 1
Pixels flash like warning signs,
algorithms draw the lines.
Artists mute their bleeding hearts,
while the future falls apart.

Verse 2
Scientists speak in tongues unknown,
buried deep in data zones.
Mathematicians trace the end,
but who’s left to comprehend?

Chorus
We’re building walls of silence,
stone by stone, lie by lie.
Hands are full but empty-minded,
while the fire climbs the sky.

Verse 3
Poets trade their pens for screens,
dancing ghosts in dying dreams.
Musicians scream in perfect tune—
no one hears beyond the room.

Verse 4
Historians dust the past,
whispering "This won’t last."
Yet we march, eyes wide shut,
kicking doors that stay locked.

Bridge 1
Did we forget?
The fascists don’t play fair.
They’ll code the chains,
then sell you the air.

Verse 5
Tech lords carve the world in two,
selling "freedom" shaped like glue.
Stick to your lane, stay small, stay neat—
collaborate? Admit defeat.

Verse 6
Biologists chart the plague,
while painters bleed on barricades.
Same war, a thousand fronts,
but all we chant is "Look at me!"

Chorus
We’re building walls of silence...

Bridge 2
I see your genius,
you see my scars.
What if we fought
under one flag?

Verse 7
The mathematicians know the score:
Divide us, and we all lose more.
Yet culture’s sliced to niche desires—
branded sparks, no shared fire.

Verse 8
Teachers, hackers, architects,
all colliding, none connect.
Gardens rot when walls are high,
still we tweet "At least I tried."

Bridge 3
The fascists laugh,
their nets are cast.
While we debate,
they’re learning fast.

Chorus (x2)
We’re building walls of silence...

Outro
No hope in solo revolutions,
just dust and noise and absolution.
The only script we’ve left to write?
Unite. Or lose the light.

Wall of silence

(Verse 1)
In the dawn of time, when the void was spun,
Al'un devint deux—now the dance had begun.
A flash, a spark, from the quantum sea,
Hadrons took form in symmetry.

(Chorus)
Oh, collide now, neutron and positon bright,
Tangled in forces, splitting the light.
Algebra sings where the particles play,
One became two, and two slipped away...

(Verse 2)
The proton laughed with its quark-tied grace,
While mesons twirled through spacetime’s embrace.
Feynman’s diagrams, bold and precise,
Drew love in the margins of infinite dice.

(Chorus)
Oh, collide now, neutron and positon bright,
Tangled in forces, splitting the light.
Algebra sings where the particles play,
One became two, and two slipped away...

(Bridge – Whispered, like a theorem’s ghost)
"Group theory hums in the deep, dark core,
A Lie algebra knocks at the door...
The universe writes in a cryptic hand,
But Roland once swore— it all came from sand.**"

(Outro – Slow, fading)
So I’ll sing this tune to the void’s reply,
Of hadrons that live and particles that die.
If Al'un was One, then Two is the key...
But the math leaves a shadow— and the shadow is me.

The hadron's song

The artist Brook Tate, talks with Nicola Woodford-Smith about his recent discovery of how colours and shapes can help unlock the key to learning the fundamentals of mathematics. Brook shares how he made this discovery and where in the world he has been sharing his creative practice. 

Ep 34: Can art really help us learn maths? with Brook Tate

Cahier de révision, France & Mathis, CM2

Bruno Reddy OBE and Nicola Woodford-Smith share their love of maths education throughout this episode. The founder of Times Table Rock Stars shares how the idea became reality in turning young learners into rock legends via learning their times tables, and how this incredible platform has changed the learning into such fun for so many.

Ep35: Achieving Rock Status with Times Table Rock Stars with Bruno Reddy

We are NOIR GRIS GRIS, a music band of Fred STZ (composer) and Kipanga Cha Radi (lead vocal), passionate about pop music, world music and rock. Our music reflects the world before our eyes—its shades of beauty, pain, tenderness, and cruelty. We believe in music without borders, open to all influences from around the world. Join us for a unique and authentic musical journey!

I like Underground Dance and Electronically Based Music, primarily. Located in Dobbs Ferry (prior, I lived NYC and Boston before that). I use a mix of Analog and Digital Hardware Devices from across the decades and of course anything I can load up inside of Ableton Live (whatever the current version is). 

Back in the 1990's I release a few track under the name Sedona (https://www.discogs.com/artist/16184-Sedona) with Dale Charles (https://soundcloud.com/compago) releasing work on Boston's OHM Recordings (https://www.discogs.com/label/36574-OHM-Recordings-2) and LA's Rampant Records (https://www.discogs.com/label/3435-Rampant).

Live DJ Sets Fridays 5-8 pm ET on twitch.tv/blancodisco

Des conférences-débats tout public ! 
Parce que la connaissance et la culture doivent être accessibles à tous, sans aucune considération d’âge, CY Cergy Paris Université propose un cycle de conférences-débats ouvert à un large public curieux de s’informer des grands débats qui agitent le monde. L’université affirme ainsi sa vocation à diffuser les savoirs et à s’ouvrir sur la cité. Un à deux jeudis par mois, un spécialiste éclaircit pour vous les grandes questions qui marquent la société et répond à vos interrogations sur des thèmes variés, originaux, vivants et accessibles. Les conférences-débats se déroulent en deux temps : une heure d’exposé suivie d’une heure de débat avec la salle.

Established in 1995
The Muslim Community Radio is a multicultural and multilingual Islamic radio station. It broadcasts to the Sydney community in general while incorporating elements that target the Islamic community of Sydney. It first transmitted twenty-four hours a day during the month of Ramadan of 1995 and has continued to broadcast during every month of Ramadan and Dhul-hijja (Pilgrimage month). In addition, in 1997 Muslim Community Radio was broadcasting on every Friday of that year until the introduction of the temporary broadcast community license (TBCL). Muslim Community Radio currently broadcasts 24 hours 365 days a year covering all Islamic events. Because Arabic/Lebanese is, according to statistics, the major ethnic language communicated among the Muslims in Sydney, understandably the radio programs are primarily transmitted in the Arabic and English languages with spots of other community languages, evolving in pace with demand.


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Hi! I'm an academic whose work is dedicated to making science more accessible to diverse audiences via the medium of poetry.

groboumboum & bouledisco

...entre basslines débiles et gros kicks vilains...

For darker mixes [dark-disco / EBM...]
DISCORDIA project : https://soundcloud.com/discordia-dj

more funky mixes on my Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/@gamaz-prods


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The Right Angle invites topical discussions, debates and insights from a range of thought leaders, award-winning maths educators and facilitators.  Our hosts, Mark Heslop, Nicola Woodford-Smith and Teresa Senyah lead conversations on themes such as the evolution of technology to support learning, student engagement and diversity and inclusion across the education of mathematics.

The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are solely those of the panel and guests on the show. These views and opinions do not necessarily represent those of Pearson.

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