CROSS Jan. 08 - Cross creates a new transition in Hall's practice. Working in a more exploratory fashion Hall has started to develop and mature his practice incorporating various methods of resynthesis to create hybrid textured compositions that occupy the ground between music and noise, sitting somewhere between ambient melodics and processed field recordings. Released on Canberra label hellosQuare.
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MOTHER Oct. 2007 - These sonic compositions complete a representation of my reaction to Hiromi Tango's project 'Mother', part of the Brisbane Arc Biennial
Recordings were taken from within, around and inside the cube that sat in Brisbane's Queen St. Mall. The cube that represents the central point for experimental project exploring the nature of collaboration between artist and audience.
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FLOATS Sept. 07 - Live recordings dealing with processed and manipulated keyboard sounds. This album was released in conjunction with my live performance for OPEN FRAME at The Brisbane Powerhouse.
Floats is an ongoing investigation into advanced methods of processing sound live.
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FLUERE April 07 - A sound album based on the STORY BRIDGE, Brisbane, Australia.
VIEW: VIDEO FROM THE LIVE PERFORMANCE OF FLUERE
LISTEN: THE STORY OF AWE RESONARE.mp3
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PERTH INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL Feb. 08 - 'Tonal Tap' Explores the pre-existent resonance of what will go on to become an acoustic instrument. Capturing the variety of processes and sonic excerpts that are part of the important process of choosing the right qualities held within various materials that help to make a unique and interesting instrument. These sonorous references often go unheard to others, usually leaving them to exist on their own in conjunction with their maker. These ephemeral moments have been documented and now make the basis for the live performance 'Tonal Tap', allowing them to exist in the present along side the finished product.
LISTEN: TONAL TAP.mp3 (inaugural live performance, 'Playmakers' PIAF '08)
'PERIPHERAL UP' PERTH INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL, Western Australia, February 2009 - These exhibited works are the outcome of a second residency at The Perth International Arts Festival. All works contain sound that has been derived from various locations in and around rural Western Australia (predominantly Albany).
These works seek to isolate the listener/viewer, abstracting them from their surrounds and comfort zone to creative a definitive listening experience. This isolation makes reference to the many peripheral environments from which the originating material was sourced.
'HANKYU' MSSR PROJECT SPACE, Brisbane, Aug. 2008 - 'Hankyu' is a live reactive A/V Installation through which the sound directly controls aspects of the imagery including contrast, opacity, direction, speed and colour saturation. Looking at ways of breaking down barriers between artist and audience, 'Hankyu' is being created and developed in real-time depending on the input from the sound and also the people within the space. Using a pre-conceived live sound scape that was created around a theme of 'progression' imagery was then used from a train ride between famous Japanese cities Osaka to Kyoto. The choice to use this image come through the linear direction the train takes and it's progressive nature allowing the same element in both mediums to create cohesion.
VIEW: HANKYU.mov
'TANGENTIAL UPRISE' INFLIGHT GALLERY, Hobart Nov. 2008 - 'Tangential Uprise' is based on peripheral spaces in and about our everyday suburban dwellings. These places/spaces/objects co-exist with us as we go about our day to day routines quite often going unnoticed to the extent that we sometimes manipulate, pollute or destroy these micro spaces, never knowing they existed at all.
Using extensive documentation of these areas, Hall created a hybrid representation of these environments through use of installation, sound, video and gestural control. Taking these spaces out of context, out of the peripherals and into the foreground, Hall hopes to bring light to these areas allowing others to engage with the micro and macro facets of these places.
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'EUPHONIA' LAWRENCE ENGLISH & TOM HALL Nov. 2008 - Recorded throughout the first half of 2008, Euphonia sees Lawrence English and Tom Hall team up to explore a range of extended processing and compositional techniques. Inspired in equal parts by the openness of Cluster's Kraut explorations, echoes of Eno's ambient works, contemporary field recording and minimal electronics, Euphonia creates a uniform sense of warmth and glow - a sonic rendering of glimpsed views from some distant, hazy horizon. Working with various instruments, analog equipment, electronics, as well as a variety of 'in the field' processes (whereby sounds created in the studio were re-recorded in various environments such as dilapidated water tanks on a farm), the record is a tempered with a sense of muted restraint and subtle variation.
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AUSTRALIAN TOUR MAY/JUNE 2010
Excerpts taken from various performances across Australia.
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'BIG SIT' METRO ARTS GALLERIES, Brisbane, March 2009 -
These exhibited works seeks to bring peripheral elements of the 'everyday' out of the subconscious and into the conscious. Taking audio and visual references from these micro and macro environments, these works are presented on a platform that is both accessible and engaging. Both visually and aurally the work references the above and below aspects in comparison to our everyday foreground (middle) awareness.
