Published on juni 25th, 2025 | by admin

Analog Noise Machine at Festival aan Hogerwal

The Analog Noise Machine visited the Aan Hogerwal Festival in June 2025, and made the crowd swing like mad. Visitors composed their own beats on our gigantic rotating sequencer disk, which was decorated by Oxalien.

All around us international streetartists were spraying the walls and the sun hit us blazing hot! It was an amazing weekend! The Analog Noise Machine is an archaeology-art crossover project by Jobbe Wijnen, inspired partially bij the 1959 Wurlitzer Sideman (See this video by Look Mum no Computer). The first drummachines were designed as replacements for actual acoustic drums, but these experiments failed: analog electronic beats did not sound at all like drums! In 1980 the – today – iconic Roland TR-808 would perform so poorly as a commercial product that it was produced for 3 years only and was never adopted by traditional musicians. However, alternative music scenes, notably streetculture HipHip did pick up on the idea, retrieved discarded TR-808s from bins and thrift stores and used them to develop the core of what electronic music would sound like in the 1980’s and ever since.

The Analog Noise Machine is a Jobbe Wijnen project. Artwork by ‪@OxALiEN‬ www.oxalien.com. Thanks to my big inspirations Sam Battle of ‪@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER‬ And Moritz Klein ‪@MoritzKlein0‬ whose beautiful snaredrum design is likely the best module in the machine.

Want to see more? then look as the festival’s website: www.festivalhogerwal.nl More on me at www.jobbewijnen.nl Or buy me a coffee at Patreon

Met dank ook aan onze sponsor BBLTHK Wageningen www.bblthk.nl