“Manipulated and processed sounds (keyboard, wind-up watch, dulcimer, cymbal, guitar, piano, field recordings) that become a warm, amorphous ambient electronica shimmer. (Gayle Brogan – Boa Melody Bar)”

“Definitive yet playful, ‘Cross’ merges interests with the outside, with the inside and throws in a dab of improv for good measure.” (hellosQuare)

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Announcing the official release of ‘Cross’, the first album from Tom Hall to include both field recordings and found sound in combination with processed instruments. Succeeding from Fluere (found sound/Story Bridge) and Floats (processed keyboard), 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.

Cross is produced by the formidable Canberra label hellosQuare and limited to 100 copies (of which many are already gone!) Be quick they’re selling fast.

Available from:
http://www.myspace.com/hellosquarerecordings
http://www.tomhall.com.au

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Had a great gig at Spectrum Project Space last Monday – my last before leaving WA. It was a small but appreciative crowd and a real pleasure to present my new set for ’08. Over the coming month I intend to develop this further with the main essence being its combination of field recordings and processed instruments, something I have kept separate in the past.

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Perth – from Kings Park

Just finished my residency with the Perth International Art Festival, AMAZING doesn’t even sum it up. I’m back in Perth now from the south coast having played a number of live performances over the weekend and have 1 more to go tonight in Perth before I leave on Wednesday.

Will speak more about PIAF in a later post when I get to Tasmania in a few days.

Playing live at PIAF event ‘Play Makers’ creating a re-composition of sounds sourced from Luthiers building instruments.

Had an amazing visit to a wind farm nearby Albany were I’m currently completing sound workshops as part of PIAF. These structures provided one of the most mesmerising experiences I’ve ever had, I felt it was to do with a combination of the surrounds that they inhabit with their monstrous size combined with their intricate and unobtrusive finish leaving them somewhat dainty looking. From this area I was also able to view the most south-western point of Australia and coastline.

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The view from my accomadation in Albany, Western Australia.

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Over in Perth, Western Australia and Albany, South Western Australia for the next few weeks as part of The Perth International Art Festival. The environment reminds me much of Tasmania although it’s probably a little drier and warmer. There is next to no humidity which is a nice change to Brisbane.

Here are a few pics taken in and around Perth. The first being at ABC radio where I partook in a live interview giving an insight into the residency I’m completing here.