Patch Point Paris Pop Up December 6th-10th 2025

Patch Point Paris Pop Up @ Motto

General Info:

📍38 Rue du Vertbois, Paris, France

📅3rd - 10th December

⏰Showroom/Shop - 15:00 - 19:00

🔎Workshops - 18:00

🎵🎶Concerts - 20:00

💵Free entrance

 

➤ Saturday - 6th December

 

◎18:00 - Workshop: Exploring Modular

◎20:00 - Concert Randy Douglas

 

➤ Sunday -  7th December

◎18:00 - Workshop: eKalimba + electronics

◎19:00 - Jam eKalimba + electronics

 

➤ Monday - 8th December

◎18:00 - Workshop: Introduction to Ciat-Lonbarde

 

➤ Tuesday - 9th December

◎18:00 - Workshop: Introduction to the Fenix II PP and Aulos

 

➤ Wednesday - 10th December

◎18:00 - Hangout Hainbach

◎20:00 - Concert Hainbach

 

Patch Point Paris Pop Up?

An excuse to squeeze as many P’s in a row as possible? (well also)! 

It came about by a conversation, and the love of a city!  

 

But really, it’s a celebration of sound, space, and how they occupy urban life. The idea was simple: what if we brought our instruments to Paris, shared them with you, taught you how they work, and then made music together?

 

Thanks to Motto, with its gallery and performance space tucked inside a bookshop, our vision comes to life. Our very first Pop Up unfolds!

 

We bring the instruments, the legends themselves: the wild, organic, almost living wooden synthesizers of Ciat-Lonbarde; the sonic beasts of Fènix that have shaped the sounds of Depeche Mode, Coil, Sonic Boom, and Aphex Twin; David Bellinger´s unique hand-built eKalimbas serving jaw dropping bass or relaxing sonic brain tickles, and even comes with a guitar output !? — touched by the hands of the Chemical Brothers, Amê, Damon Albarn, Mickey Hart, and countless other sonic explorers — Amê were early adopters on our delicate resonance masters Cyngs that echoes through continents like a gong. What else could you ask?

 

The heart of the Pop Up is: your playground, your stage, your experiment. We’ll guide you through the instruments, but the real magic happens when you take the reins. Workshops and scheduled performances create a framework, but open slots are yours—improvise, experiment, perform, and weave your own sonic threads into the collective tapestry. Together, we’ll transform the space into a living, breathing organism of sound, where every click, buzz, and pulse contributes to a shared musical adventure.

 

Think of it as more than a shop: it’s an artistic residency, a meeting place for musicians, creators, and curious minds. A free studio awaits anyone who wants to explore unique instruments, a playground for experimentation where modular systems, exotic synths, and curious hands collide.

 

Nevertheless, it is, of course, a shop — we’re bringing Patch Point to you so you can try and buy locally. All the instruments we’re showcasing can be yours, they deserve to belong to a nourishing household.

 

We’re thrilled to announce that from December 3rd–10th, 2025, Patch Point will transform Paris with synthesizers, workshops, and concerts. Come learn, explore, perform, and play—because this Pop Up isn’t just about seeing instruments; it’s about making music together.

 

To host us through this sonic journey, we are bringing the aces — the dream team: the vision behind the shop, Mr. Darrin Wiener, and two of the most obsessive and loyal users, Eric D. Clark and Hainbach.

 

HOSTS:

Eric D. Clark

 

From Sunday sermons in California to sunrise dance floors across the planet, Eric D. Clark has been stirring souls for over 40 years. A childhood piano prodigy who jumped from gospel to glitter without blinking, Eric claimed his spot behind the decks in early-80s San Francisco, pouring disco, desire, and danger into clubs like The Underground and The End Up.

By the late ’80s he had swept into Paris, spinning everywhere—from chic galleries and gay clubs to sweat-drenched jungle raves—before slipping into Germany’s underground, where he formed Whirlpool Productions with Justus Köhncke & Hans Nieswandt. Their cult hits, especially From Disco to Disco, shot them into European dance-music mythology. Soon Eric was hopping between collaborations with icons and mischief-makers alike, from Chaka Khan to TLC,Chicks on Speed , dropping solo gems along the way

Eric drifted into the art world—teaching, curating, writing, judging film festivals, acting, even introducing Sun Ra. Fashion houses tapped his sparkle too; Chanel, Fila, Louboutin, and Moncler strutted to his soundtracks, and in 2023, Pamela Anderson and Naomi Campbell glided down the runway to From Disco to Disco.

Alongside his club, art, and fashion adventures, Eric has also been part of the Patch Point family since day one—hanging out at the shop, performing at their events, and mastering the Clicker and Cocoquantus 2 with his signature curiosity and flair. In Eric’s own words:

WhAT I likE iS ThE iMMidiACY COUPlEd WiTH ThE fACT 0NE CAN'T SAVE ANYThiNG iN ThE SENSE 0f A PRESET? l0VE ThAT!

lATElY bEEN USiNG ThE "CliCkER" T0 MAKE A REAS0NAblE FACSiMilE 0f "DRACUlA DRUMS" [ThE "CliCkER" SEEMS fAR M0RE R0bUST?] SP0RAdiCAllY...

ThE "C0C0" I USE T0 MAKE "EdiTS" AS WEll AS EffECTS N'SUCh... AlS0 AS A L00PiNG ThiNGY?

At this point, it’s easier to name a venue in the world where Eric hasn’t played than one he has..

Recent years brought the Holger Czukay Career Prize, a collaboration with Mouse on Mars and Lee Scratch Perry, fresh festival premieres, roller-disco takeovers, new Whirlpool re-edits, and stages shared with giants (including Grace Jones at Montreux). Whether behind a piano, a mixer, or a cosmic idea, Eric D. Clark keeps doing what he’s always done—turning every room he enters into a disco cathedral.

https://patch-point.com/pages/artists/eric-d-clark

Hainbach

 

„Patch Point makes instruments for the fearless. Be it earth-shaking sub bass kalimbas or colorful synths you will be afraid to carry through airport security, they have the equipment for your next uncharted journey.“

From the moment he first twisted the radio dial as a child, Hainbach has been chasing the secret life of sound—those shimmering frequencies hiding between stations, between realities. Now a composer, sound artist, educator, and YouTuber based in Berlin, he transforms test equipment, tape loops, and electronic oddities into shifting audio worlds that The Wire famously called “one hell of a trip.”

Guided by a curiosity that never grew up, Hainbach coaxes music out of machines that were never meant to sing—oscillators meant for science labs, dusty signal generators, orphaned circuitry from forgotten industries. In his hands, the “unmusical” becomes transcendent, buzzing with emotion and strange beauty.

Through his widely beloved YouTube channel, Hainbach opens the doors of experimental sound-making to millions, turning esoteric techniques into playful invitations. His work as a film composer has earned awards, and his pieces for ensembles have echoed through festivals such as Witten, Gaudeamus, and Impulsfestival Halle. His software and hardware creations have found their way into studios across the globe, shaping the workflows of musicians from the underground to the mainstream.

Onstage, he tours internationally, summoning immersive soundscapes that feel equal parts laboratory ritual and dreamstate. In the classroom, he has brought his electric imagination to Humboldt University, Manchester School of Arts, Hybrid Arts Lab Dresden, MRC Copenhagen, and more.

Hainbach’s world intersected with Patch Point in a burst of circuitry and vision. His installation and one-off performance Landfill Totems, created at our Berlin location, grew into a full album and a sound library that reshaped how artists think about obsolete machines. He inaugurated the opening weekend of the Patch Point Lisbon shop with another dazzling performance, and remains one of the most devoted explorers of our instruments, we think it is safe to say that he probably has all our ever released instruments. 

Whether rewiring test equipment, sculpting resonant ruins, or guiding a global audience into the experimental unknown, Hainbach stands as one of the rare artists who can turn the detritus of technology into pure, shimmering wonder.

https://patch-point.com/pages/artists/hainbach

Darrin Wiener

Long before Patch Point existed as the glowing, buzzing sanctuary it is today, Darrin Wiener was a kid in California with an ear tuned to the strange and the beautiful. He began his music career in Seattle as an experimental electronic musician and soon linked up with multitudes of local musicians.  By the time he landed in New York, he had fallen in with Jonas and Daren—two fellow obsessives who later opened the legendary synthesizer shop Control. Together they conjured Modular Monday, a weekly rite of voltage and mischief that sparked Darrin’s love affair with synthesizers where his sonic curiosity quickly outgrew the usual tools.

Musically, Darrin has always wandered through worlds: performing solo as Plastiq Phantom and Goldwiener, joining Modest Mouse with his modular synthesizers (first as a studio conspirator, later as a full member for the recording of Strangers to Ourselves), and improvising in the studio with Mouse on Mars, Lee “Scratch” Perry, and Eric D. Clark.

Berlin, however, is where the myth truly begins. After moving there, Darrin dreamt up a small synthesizer shop dedicated to banana-plug instruments—starting with BugBrand and hand-built Serge systems - Patch Point was born. He hosted modular-nerd nights around the city, attracting a constellation of sonic explorers. One night, a certain Hainbach arrived carrying mysterious wooden instruments by Peter Blasser.

The encounter changed everything. Darrin reached out to Blasser, and soon the instrument maker himself asked a question that set the future in motion: “Do you want to build my instruments?”  FF a few years and Peter is in Berlin working directly with us on his new creations. 

Today, Darrin presides over Patch Point’s two magical outposts—Berlin and Lisbon—curating a universe of odd, beautiful, deeply alive instruments. The shops have become pilgrimage sites for experimental musicians, wanderers, and voltage mystics from around the world.

Darrin still performs: recently in Lisbon with Sonic Boom (Spacemen 3); on European stages as Goldwiener and Plastiq Phantom; and touring with Eric D. Clark as Randy Douglas, forever chasing the next spark of electricity that wants to become music.

Whether behind the counter, soldering a circuit, onstage coaxing chaos from modular systems, or nurturing a global community of sonic explorers, Darrin Wiener remains what he has always been: a builder of instruments, of spaces, of possibilities—and the quietly luminous force at the heart of Patch Point.